CUFE Business School Successfully Organizes a Parallel Sub-forum on "Supply Chain Security and High-quality Development”

On September 28, 2024, the “High-end Forum on Overall Development and Security” sponsored by the Central University of Finance and Economics was held in Beijing, and CUFE Business School undertook the parallel sub-forum on "Supply Chain Security and High-quality Development”. The guests discussed the issues such as supply chain resilience, supply chain strategy, deep integration of real economy and digital economy, supply chain security, trade barriers and global supply chain competition around two main themes, i.e. "Supply Chain Resilience and High-quality Development" and "China's Supply Chain Security and Resilience". Teachers and students from Central University of Finance and Economics, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Renmin University of China, Nankai University, Beijing Normal University, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing Foreign Studies University and Beijing University of Technology, experts from the Institute of Comprehensive Transportation of the National Development and Reform Commission, and corporate representatives of YTO Express Group, totaling more than 50 people, attended the parallel sub-forum. The sub-forum was chaired by Professor Liu Xiaoyuan, deputy dean of the CUFE Business School.

Professor Lin Song, dean of the CUFE Business School and director of the MBA Education Center, delivered an opening speech, and expressed warm welcome and sincere gratitude to the leaders, experts and professors who attended the meeting and the parallel sub-forum. He introduced the development history and current situation of the supply chain management specialty of the Business School, and pointed out that the supply chain management specialty of the Business School developed rapidly and achieved remarkable results, which was one of the important measures to comply with the national strategic needs and industrial development trends. Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) is the first "double first-class" university in China which offers the supply chain management specialty. Since the offering of the supply chain management specialty in 2019, it has continuously increased its investment in teaching and scientific research to promote specialty construction and discipline development. The supply chain management specialty has been approved as a national first-class undergraduate specialty construction site, and has been in the forefront of the undergraduate supply chain specialties nationwide. In 2024,  the joint application submitted by the Business School and the School of Mathematics with regard to the "Supply Chain Management-Economic Statistics" Dual Degree Compound Talent Cultivation Program was approved. Based on the national development strategy and actual needs, this program gives full play to the comparative advantages of the disciplines, builds a new mechanism for cross-type talent cultivation in an innovative way and deeply integrates supply chain management and economic statistics, to cultivate the "Supply Chain Management+Economic Statistics" composite talents that place equal attention to both theories and practices for the country, to promote the upgrading of the supply chain digitalization and to develop new quality productive forces. In the past two years, in the direction of the Supply Chain Management discipline, the Business School made important breakthroughs in the publication of papers in global high-level journals, such as UTD24, and in the building of consulting service capabilities. We hope that this forum could contribute more wisdom to the modernization of the country and the safe development of the industrial and supply chains.

Dean Lin Song Delivered a Speech

Professor Yan Nina from the Department of Supply Chain and Operations Management of the Business School presided over the keynote speeches in the first stage.

Professor Song Hua, director of the Strategic Supply Chain Management Research Center of the Business School of Renmin University of China, shared his views on the topic of "Building Social Ecological Resilience and Promoting the Development of New Quality Productive Forces". He introduced a series of recent industry supply chain policies and the background of their introduction, analyzed the connotation of the development of new quality productive forces, re-examined the dimensions of the resilience of the industrial and supply chain, and  shared the relationship and realization path between social ecological resilience construction and supply chain resilience and security from the perspective of productivity and production relations.

Wang Ming, director of the Institute of Comprehensive Transportation of the National Development and Reform Commission, shared his views on the topic of "Supply Chain Strategies and Tactics in China’s Modernization Transformation". He emphasized the close cooperation between practical research and theoretical research, and put forward higher requirements for supply chain security and improvement from the perspective of modernization construction.

Professor Chen Xiangfeng from the School of Management of Fudan University discussed the issue of promoting supply chain security and high-quality development through deep integration of real economy and digital economy. He pointed out the main problems faced by supply chain security and high-quality development, emphasized the supply chain research and practice with stability, security, high value and green as the management focus, and emphasized the deep integration of real economy and digital economy to create new quality productive forces, thus achieving efficiency improvement, credit enhancement, appreciation and intelligence enhancement.

Presided over by Professor Yan Nina

Professor Song Hua’s Speech

Wang Ming’s Speech

Professor Chen Xiangfeng’s Speech

Professor Dai Hongyan from the Department of Supply Chain and Operations Management of the CUFE Business School presided over the keynote speeches in the second stage.

Professor Zhou Weihua from the School of Management of Zhejiang University exchanged views on the topic of "Research and Practice of Multi-level Perishable Goods Supply Chain System Management". First, he started with the China-US Supply Chain Dialogue Summit to explain supply chain security and resilience. Then, he introduced the research and practice of the multi-level perishable goods supply chain system. Taking blood products (platelets) supply chain and retail fresh food replenishment as examples, he introduced the latest research results as well as practical applications.

Professor Niu Baozhuang from the School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology shared his views on the topic of “Supply Chain Competition and Cooperation Management Considering Trade Barriers and Digital Resilience”. He provided a detailed introduction to the main content and scenarios of global trade frictions, emphasized the inevitable trend of digital resilience operation, shared several explorations in the field of cross-border supply chain resilience and security, and provided future research directions.

Presided over by Professor Dai Hongyan

Professor Zhou Weihua’s Speech

Professor Niu Baozhuang's Speech

Professor Gao Yongling and Associate Professor Lu Jizhou from the Department of Supply Chain and Operations Management of the Business School presided over the roundtable forum. The attending guests actively participated in interaction, and conducted in-depth discussions and exchanges on topics such as topic selection, multi-center co-governance supply chain management, business model innovation, and China-Africa cross-border supply chain management and practice.

Presided over by Professor Gao Yongling

Presided over by Associate Professor Lu Jizhou

Roundtable Forum Exchange

Finally, Professor Liu Xiaoyuan, deputy dean of the Business School, summarized the results of this meeting and expressed sincere gratitude to the attending experts and guests for their support.

Chen Jinliang, deputy dean of the Business School, Associate Professor Qian Cheng, director of the Department of Supply Chain and Operations Management, Professor Liu Xiaohong and other teachers participated in the preparation and organization of the meeting and the forum.

This seminar discussed the key to supply chain security and provided strong support for the development of security and resilience of China's industrial and supply chain. The CUFE Business School will actively contribute more to the promotion of China’s industrial and supply chain from multiple dimensions such as student training, specialty construction, academic research and practical application.