The 2022 annual academic conference of the Shanghai Association of International Trade (SAIT) and Seminar on Building a New Development Pattern and Strategic Upgrading of the International Trade Center, hosted by SAIT and SUIBE, organized by the International Business School and Institute of International Business of SUIBE, kicked off online on November 19th.
Professor Wang Rongming, SUIBE president and vice president of the China Association of International Trade (CAIT), delivered an opening speech at the conference. He said that the conference, themed “Building a New Development Pattern and Strategic Upgrading of the International Trade Center”, matched China’s reform and opening-up strategy in the new era and the local economic development goals of Shanghai. He wished the conference a complete success and hoped that the association would continue to play its due role as an academic platform for strengthening communication and cooperation with experts in foreign economy and trade from all over the nation as well as from brother colleges in China, so as to make new and greater contributions to the construction of university disciplines, the rapid development of China's commerce, and the promotion of Chinese modernization.
Professor Huang Jianzhong from SUIBE, president of SAIT, presided over the keynote speech session. Quan Heng, Party secretary and researcher of the Shanghai Academy of Social Science, gave a keynote report entitled Triple Pressure and the Upgrading of Shanghai as an International Trade Center. Besides, experts from SUIBE, Fudan University, and Tongji University gave keynote speeches at the conference. Guests invited to the forum gave speeches and had in-depth discussions on the path of strategic upgrading of Shanghai as an international trade center, whether the RCEP rule of accumulation of origin helps stabilize the industrial chain, whether the China International Import Expo (CIIE) promotes domestic industrial upgrading through the interplay between selective and structural import, whether a unified domestic market and cumulative rules of origin help reduce the probability of anti-dumping, and how to view the new problems brought about by counteracting the triple pressure through international trade.
Translated by Wang Yajuan
