The Second Forum of Building Chinese Independent Knowledge System in Business Administration Discipline Alliance Held

The second forum "Developing New Quality Productive Forces and Promoting High-Quality Enterprise Development," on building a Chinese independent knowledge system in business management disciplines, was held at Renmin University of China on April 21, 2024.

Lin Shangli, President of Renmin University of China, and Liu Jingzhen, Secretary of CPC Committee of China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) and Chairman of Sinopharm, delivered opening speeches. Zheng Shuiquan, Deputy Secretary of CPC Committee of Renmin University of China, presided over the opening ceremony.

Lin Shangli Delivers a Speech

Liu Jingzhen Delivers a Speech

Zheng Shuiquan Presides Over the Opening Ceremony

In the keynote session, six guests presented new topics, directions, achievements, and insights from their respective fields. They elaborated on how to build an independent knowledge system in business management disciplines to serve technological innovation, talent innovation, and industrial innovation, thereby driving the development of new quality productive forces and promoting high-quality development of enterprises.

Liu Qiao, Dean of Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management, delivered a keynote report titled "How Business Management Research Promote the Development of New Quality Productive Forces."

Liu Jingzhen delivered a keynote report titled "Developing New Quality Productive Forces Based on Local Conditions to Steadily Advance High-Quality Development."

Yi Jingtao, Dean of Renmin Business School, delivered a keynote report titled "Constructing a Chinese Independent Theory of Multinational Corporations."

Bai Changhong, Dean of Nankai Business School, delivered a keynote report titled "Happy Enterprises: Practical Wisdom and Knowledge Creation from Pioneering Enterprises."

Feng Gengzhong, Dean of Xi’an Jiaotong University’s School of Management, delivered a keynote report titled "Learning from the Past to Build the Future: Constructing an Independent Knowledge System in Management Disciplines."

Xie Xiaoyun, Executive Associate Dean of Zhejiang University’s School of Management, delivered a keynote report titled "The Endless Frontier: Technological Innovation, Modern Industrial Systems, and Business Management."

The forum also featured the first release of achievements in “Building a Chinese Independent Knowledge System in Business Management,” showcasing original theoretical contributions from eight alliance member institutions. Zhang Jin, Associate Dean of Renmin Business School, presided over the achievement release session.

Zhao Jing, Associate Dean of Renmin Business School, chaired a closed-door meeting where alliance members discussed revisions to the alliance’s charter, collaboration content, operational mechanisms, and future development plans.

In the afternoon, three parallel sub-forums were held, which are Academic Forum on New Quality Productive Forces and the Digital Economy, New Quality Productive Forces and Independent Knowledge Systems – Case Teaching and Development Seminar in Chinese Business Management and 2024 (Second) Forum on Building World-Class Enterprises.