May 17，2025 – The Third China Economic Policy Evaluation Forum was successfully held on the Liulin campus of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE). The event was co-sponsored by the Institute of Quantitative & Technical Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the School of Public Finance and Taxation.

Professor Xie Hong, Deputy Party Secretary of the university, delivered the opening address. She briefly introduced the university’s recent achievements in discipline-building, talent cultivation and research innovation, and outlined the progress made in developing the discipline of public finance. “Rigorous evaluation of major economic policies is a key lever for improving national governance,” she noted, expressing the hope that participants would focus on frontier issues in policy assessment, share findings and exchange ideas so as to contribute wisdom to China’s high-quality development and to the construction of an independent Chinese knowledge system in economics.

Researcher Zhang Youguo, Deputy Director of the Institute of Quantitative & Technical Economics, CASS, spoke on behalf of the organizers, warmly welcoming and thanking all attendees. He looked forward to deeper cooperation with peer universities and research institutions to jointly explore theoretical frontiers and practical pathways in economic-policy evaluation.

In the  keynote speech session, professors Li Ming (University of International Business and Economics), Bai Junhong (Nanjing Normal University), Lu Shengfeng (Wuhan University) and associate professor Li Haonan (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics) delivered inspiring presentations on their respective topics.

The forum featured 12 parallel sessions. About 150 scholars, teachers and students from Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and other institutions attended the forum. They presented their latest research and engaged in in-depth discussions under the themes of macro policy, taxation policy, technological innovation, household consumption, industrial development, opening-up, unified market, regional development, digital economy and green & low-carbon development.

During the “Meet-the-Journal” session, editors from the Journal of Quantitative & Technical Economics and Journal of China Economics exchanged views with participants on manuscript selection and submission procedures.