September 14, 2009 saw a welcome ceremony held for SOE's new undergraduate, graduate and PhD students of this year at the lecture hall of SUFE Administration Building to celebrate a new academic beginning for those promising talents of the future.     SOE Party Secretary Lin Cheng, Executive Associate Dean Yonggang Hu, Associate Dean Jijun Xia, Vice Party Secretary Weidong Yang, Assistants to Dean Qinyue Zhang and Xinyu Qi attended the ceremony and delivered welcome speeches to the 181 undergraduate and 112 graduate students. A brief introduction to ...

On May 26, a seminar on talent cultivation hosted by Prof. Chunrong Ai, Executive Associate Dean of the Institute for Advanced Research was held at SOE. Prof. Jijun Xia, Associate Dean of SOE and all the faculty members of the Quantitative Economics Teaching-Research Section attended the seminar.  The discussion at the seminar centered on curriculum design, teaching syllabus, talent cultivating mode, source of student, etc. for the undergraduate, graduate, and unified master-PhD program respectively. Faculty members attended exchanged their views and put forward constructive advice on how...

    On the afternoon of September 18, 2008, a welcome ceremony for the new undergraduate, graduate and PhD students of this year was held at the lecture hall of SUFE Administrative Building to celebrate a new academic beginning for those promising talents of the future.       The ceremony began with SOE Associate Dean Hu Yonggang’s warm welcome and instructive address to the fresh students. Prof. Hu gave a brief introduction to the past and present of SOE, and expressed his sincere hope that all the freshmen could become economic talents featuring a go...

    Recently, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Finance released the list of 2007 Talent Cultivation Pattern Innovation Project Experimental Areas, with SOE’s National Fundamental Economic Talent Base Project getting the permission to set up. This will greatly promote the all-round innovation of teaching concept, cultivation pattern and management mechanism in the 11th Five-Year Plan of SOE to build up an innovative cultivation system for talent growth and higher training quality.     As one of the teaching quality construction projects of the Minist...

    Professor Zhu Ronglin, Researcher of the Development Research Center of the State Council (former Shanghai Institute Director) and a member of NDRC Regional Planning Expert Advisory Team came to SOE at 7:00 p.m. on April 16, 2008 and delivered a speech titled “Right Thinking—Forerunner of Academic Research” at Room 701. Dr. Zhong Hongjun, Assistant to the Dean of SOE, presided over the speech attended by plenty of faculty members and students.     Centering on the “essential and dynamic role of thinking”, Prof. Zhu talked about the intellect...

    2008 US Mathematical Contest in Modeling has recently closed with SOE 2004 undergraduate of International Economics, Xu Bo, and his team members Deng Rufeng and Liu Yanwu winning the first place.     MCM, initiated in 1985 and co-sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and the US National Security Agency, is an annual international mathematical modeling contest for undergraduates to deal with practical problems in production and research.  Presently, MCM result has been taken as one of t...

    On March 13, the assessment expert team headed by Professor Zhu Ronglin of Shanghai Municipal Government evaluated and approved the Economics Innovation Platform construction of SUFE. Participants included officers from Shanghai Financial Bureau and Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, SUFE President Tan Min, SUFE Vice President Wang Hongwei and principals from SOE and other departments.       During the meeting, President Tan Min gave an introduction to the background and general progress of SUFE EIP construction, followed by SOE General Part...

    Vice President of the University of South Queensland and Dean of the Business School, Professor Allan Layton visited SOE on October 29, 2007 and gave a lecture titled “Reflections on the Role of Australian Economic Policies at the Juncture of the 20th and 21st Century” at the lecture hall of the SOE administration building. As one of the series of lectures jointly organized by IAR and SOE for the 90th Anniversary of SUFE, this lecture serves for the students to better understand the history and development of Australian economic policies, as well as the challenges they are...

    Professor Mallory Starr, President of the US Asian Cultural Academy, visited SOE on October 31, 2007 and gave a lecture titled “Dynamic Thinking on Communication and Implementation” at the lecture hall of the SOE administration building. As one of the IAR series lectures jointly organized by IAR, SOE and SIBA for the 90th Anniversary of SUFE, this lecture was chaired by Professor Yu Wei, Associate Dean of IAR.      Starting with two humorous pictures and a vivid analogy, Professor Mallory Starr talked about different internal and external responses of ...