Coincide the anniversary of the 111th anniversary of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology,at 9 o'clock in the morning on October 28th,on the Hujiang lawn with a hundred years of history,Mr. Gu Jiaxuan, inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of Commerce, and Mr. Cui Jun, Editor-in-Chief of Northeast Asia Economic Research Magazine, unveiled a red hijab for the "Institute for China Neighboring Economies (ICNE)" of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.ICNE, which has been fostered by the School of Management for 10 years, was registered by the Ministry of Education as a“country and regional research center”in July this year.The opening ceremony of the International Cultural Park in North Campus now indicates that the research platform will open a new chapter.

Prof. Liu Ping, the Vice President of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, expressed his warm congratulations and expressed his earnest expectations for the rapid improvement of the academic work of the Institute for China Neighboring Economies.Professor Wei Jingfu, the founding director of ICNE, said that in the near future, the focus of the economic research in ICNE is to focus on the “One Belt and One Road” economic structure in the two regions of Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia.Taking the well-known research institutions of sister universities as an example, we will soon integrate the academic strengths of the applied economics disciplines in the school and strive to develop into a well-known international academic research think tank,serving the Yangtze River Delta and even the surrounding economic and trade cooperation fields.

Special guests from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Laos National University, Japan’s Hiroshima University of Economics, and Edogawa University in Japan, as well as some of the leaders of the school’s international exchanges and science and technology departments, and some teachers and students of the School of Management witnessed the birth of Institute for China Neighboring Economies.After the unveiling ceremony, China’s Peripheral Economic Research Center also signed a strategic cooperation agreement and a postgraduate internship base agreement with Shanghai Free Trade Lianfa Co., Ltd..