Introduction

Institute for China Neighboring Economies (hereinafter referred to briefly as ‘ICNE’) , based on two disciplines: Applied Economics and International Business Studies for University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST), was filed as the “Country and Regional Research Center”with approval of Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (MOE of China) in June, 2017. The main objects of academic research include 10 countries in Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia, which are Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Mongolia, Russia, Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

Since its inception in 2007, ICNE has actively cooperated with domestic and foreign university research institutions such as Kunming University of Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Okayama University, J.F.Oberlin University,Chulalongkorn University,National University of Laos and other national ministries, and carried out many basic research work in the two key directions of greater Mekong sub-region cooperation (GMS) in Indo-China Peninsula and the development of Tumen river basin in Northeast Asia. The provincial and ministerial-level research projects from the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology, national development and reform commission undertaken by ICNE , has resulted in more than 100 papers published and published academic monographs such as The Regional Economic Studies of Great Mekong River Industrial & Trade Cooperation under GMS Mechanism, A Study on the Economic and Trade Relations between China and Japan in ASEAN, The Tumen River Region Economic Development Research, ECB's Unconventional Monetary Policy: Theory, Effect and Prospect and other academic monographs, and Forum on GMS Mechanism (Da Nang 2008), Conference on the Northeast Asia and the Tumen River Basin Development (Yanji, 2013) , ‘Economic Separation and Reconstruction of International Supply Chain--Seminar on World Economic Trends in the Post-Pandemic Era’ online international forum (Shanghai 2020)  and so on. ICNE organizes international academic conferences jointly with cooperating units every year, which significantly broadens the communication channels for teachers and students.

Accumulatively from ICNE to go out more than 100 applied economics, international business and logistics engineering and other directions of master's graduates, he or she by virtue of outstanding professional ability and unity and upward spirit of cooperation by the financial, trade and consulting industries popular.

May 2021