Telling the world about “China in the Past Decade”, the first round of Chinese think tank lectures was officially launched

In order to celebrate the 20th CPC National Congress, a series of 13 lectures entitled “Telling the world about ‘China in the Past Decade’” were officially launched on the evening of July 4, 2022 in Beijing. Organized by Chinese think tank - Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China (RDCY) , 13 well-known Chinese scholars will deliver a series of lectures, focusing on the rule of law, economy, finance, politics, diplomacy, global governance and other dimensions. Media from home and abroad is also invited to present China's development in various fields in the past decade since the 18th CPC National Congress, which aims to provide the world with academic materials of China's changes in the past decade.

Wang Yi, vice president of Renmin University of China (RUC), delivered an important speech at the opening ceremony. Wu Xiaoqiu, former vice president of Renmin University of China, director of the China Capital Market Research Institute (CCMRI) at Renmin University of China and first-class professor of finance, made the first lecture on “China's Capital Market over the Past Decade”. Nearly 20 Chinese media including Xinhua News Agency, CGTN, People's Daily, China Daily, China News Service, China Review News, China.org.cn, China Youth Daily, Jiefang Daily, Beijing Daily, Guancha.cn, Shenzhen TV and so on and more than 10 overseas media including TASS, Rossiya Segodnya, Globo and so on followed the conference online and on-site. About 500,000 people watched the live broadcast simultaneously. Wang Wen, executive dean of RDCY hosted the launching ceremony and the first lecture.

Wang Yi

Wang Wen

In his opening speech, Wang Yi said that Renmin University of China is an important research center of philosophy and social sciences in China, and RDCY is a key think tank platform of the campus, which is more dedicated to answering the questions of “what is going on in the world” and “where is mankind going?”

Wu Xiaoqiu then gave the first lecture with the topic of “China Capital Market in the Past Decade”. He said that the lecture series is very important, and a systematic, comprehensive, profound and rational summary of the achievements of the past decade will be of great significance to our future.

“A major milestone is the introduction of a registration-based initial public offering (IPO) system, which signifies that China's capital market is taking the market-oriented turn,” the country vowed to carry out the system in a decision adopted at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 2013. It was first piloted at the sci-tech innovation board at the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2019. It helped improve the transparency of China's capital market and spur innovation and growth potential of listed companies, making the equity market more investment-worthy and paving the way for further opening of the capital market, said Wu. To tilt financing more in favor of smaller companies and innovation-powered ones, China launched the sci-tech innovation board in 2019 and the Beijing Stock Exchange in 2021 in supplement to the blue chip-dominant main boards of the Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses.

"China will eventually be home to a top financial center of the world," said Wu. To achieve this goal would require better transparency, rule of law, the long-term credit of the RMB, and stronger listed companies, he said.

As a new type of think tank with Chinese characteristics, RDCY will invite 13 scholars from RUC to deliver a series of lectures with the theme of "Celebrating the 20th CPC National Congress", which will be held every week or two until October 2022. The topics of these lectures are as follows:

Huang Wenyi, Dean of China Law School, Renmin University of China, will give a lecture on “The Rule of Law in China over the Past Decade”. Yang Guangbin, Dean of School of International Studies, Renmin University of China, will talk about “Chinese Political Science in the Past Decade”. Zhuang Yumin, Dean of School of Finance, Renmin University of China, will sharing with “China's Banking Industry in the Past Decade”. Wang Guogang, First-class professor of School of Finance, Renmin University of China, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, will give a lecture on “China's Finance in the Past Decade”. Jin Canrong, Professor of School of International Studies, Renmin University of China, will talk about “China's Diplomacy in the Past Decade”. Li Wei, Professor of School of International Studies, Director of the Center for Economic Diplomacy of Renmin University of China, will deliver a speech on “China's Economic Diplomacy in the Past Decade”. Liao Qun, Chief Economist of RDCY and Global Governance Research Center of Renmin University of China, will talk about “China's Economy in the Past Decade”. Qin Xuan, Dean of the Academy of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Renmin University of China, will give a lecture on “China's Theoretical Innovations in the Past Decade”. Lan Hong, Director of Eco-finance Research Center, Professor of Environment School at Renmin University of China, will share her research outcomes about “China's Green Finance in the Past Decade: Policy, Instrument, Market Development”. Zheng Xinye, Dean of School of Applied Economics, Renmin University of China, will give a lecture on “China's Energy Economy in the Past Decade”. Liu Shouying, Dean of School of Economics, Renmin University of China, will talk about “Rural China in the Past Decade”. Wang Wen, Executive Dean of RDCY, will deliver the last lecture with the theme of “China and Global Governance in the Past Decade”.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, this is a new important lecture series launched by RDCY after those of “Great changes unseen in a century”, “Green Finance”, “A New Understanding of the United States”, “An In-depth Understanding of China” and “Carbon Neutrality”. And this is the largest university lecture series with the theme of “China in the Past Decade”.