On the evening of November 16, the opening ceremony and the first lecture of the Investment Promotion and Scientific Investment Manager Seminar of Shanghai International School of Chief Technology Officer (hereinafter referred to as CTO School) of East China Normal University × Lin-gang Innovation Management Institute of were successfully held online. This seminar was tailored by CTO School for Lingang Group's investment promotion and scientific investment manager cultivation. The seminar included online general education courses and offline seminars. The online courses included two modules: Geopolitics and China's Economy and Carbon Neutralization. Professor He Jiaxun, Executive Dean of CTO School, and Li Gang, Executive Dean of Lin-gang Innovation Management Institute, addressed the opening ceremony respectively. The ceremony was presided over by Liang Wenwen, director of the CTO School's executive education department. After the opening ceremony, the first part of the seminar was officially started, and Professor Kong Xiang, Vice Dean of the School of Urban and Regional Sciences of East China Normal University, was specially invited to bring a wonderful first lecture to the students.
Opening ceremony
In his speech, President He introduced the curriculum design ideas of the seminar from the perspective of the school running concept, positioning, and advantages of CTO School. He pointed out that the report of the Twentieth National Congress proposed that the trinity of science and technology, education and talents is the core keyword of CTO School's executive education. Li Gang, Executive Dean of Lin-gang Innovation Management College, delivered a speech, expressing his gratitude for the careful preparation and the strong support for Lin-gang Group's education and training work of CTO School, and hoping to deepen the cooperation between the two sides through this course and build a higher level of industry education integration platform.
The first module lecture
Professor Kong Xiang, Vice Dean of ECNU’s School of Urban and Regional Science, gave a wonderful lecture
The first lecture of the seminar was the theme course of Global Economy and Trade and Sino-US Conflict delivered by Professor Kong Xiang, Vice Dean of ECNU’s School of Urban and Regional Sciences. Professor Kong focused on the following four aspects: Sino-US economic and trade conflict; Theoretical analysis of the evolution mechanism of industrial division under globalization; Reflection on the changes in the global economic and trade pattern; The reflection and enlightenment of attracting investment in the post epidemic era.
In the lecture, Professor Kong guided everyone to think: From the perspective of economic and trade relations, is the Sino-US conflict inevitable? Is it possible for China-US economy and trade to decouple? He analyzed this problem from three aspects of theory, practice, and operation, and gradually promoted it to the core content of this course: In the era of globalization, the development of the international industrial division of labor is an important basis for understanding contemporary global economic and trade relations. From the perspective of the evolution mechanism of the international division of labor, the agglomeration of the processing and manufacturing industry to China is inevitable, and the transformation and upgrading of the processing and manufacturing industry is an internal requirement. Therefore, he believed that the economic and trade conflict between China and the United States was inevitable. The complete decoupling of China-US trade should be a historical process. COVID-19 has had an important impact on economic globalization and the international division of labor and has also made the evolution of economic and trade relations face pressure from external factors, which has had a complex impact on the global economic and trade pattern and the Sino-US conflict. He suggested that students could reflect on the optimization path of attracting investment from the new trends of the global division of labor system and economic and trade pattern changes.
Interactions
Students actively asked questions
After listening to Professor Kong's wonderful lecture, Li Xiting, the investment promotion project manager from Lingang Pujiang International Science and Technology City, asked: What impact will the China-US leaders' meeting bring to the domestic economy? What further impact will it have on the investment promotion of Lingang Group?
In this regard, Professor Kong believes that a leaders' meeting between China and the United States is better than not meeting. The two countries should pay attention to ways and means of cooperation in high-tech fields. On investment promotion, he put forward three suggestions: first, the right choice is the best, not necessarily the most advanced one. Second, we should give full play to China's special advantages as a major developing country and create conditions for new products to meet the market needs of different developing countries. This can also reflect the special concern of Porter's national competitive advantage theory on demand factors. Third, pay attention to accurately grasp the connotation of international rules and strive to optimize China's business environment.
So far, this online seminar opening ceremony and the first module lecture have achieved complete success.