On December 22, 2025, the School of Management invited Professor Wang Shouyang, Academician of The World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries (TWAS), and Liu Meng, Special Research Associate at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), to deliver special academic lectures in Lecture Hall 402 at the Youyi Campus. The lectures were entitled Key Issues to Note for National Science Foundation Project Applications and Industrial Centrality and Pro-poor Growth in the Context of the "Dual Circulation" Development Pattern respectively. The event was presided over by Professor Che Ada, Dean of the School of Management, and attended by faculty and student representatives of the entire school.

Liu Meng first addressed the practical problems of factor income imbalance and unbalanced regional development caused by the division of labor under economic globalization, pointing out that the new "Dual Circulation" development pattern provides an important opportunity to advance pro-poor growth. She noted that traditional research on the Dual Circulation suffers from the pain point of inconsistent measurement criteria for internal and external circulations. To this end, she innovatively nested China's provincial input-output tables with the World Bank's global data based on China's customs import and export data, realizing a unified-caliber measurement of multi-dimensional data. In terms of core methodological innovation, Liu Meng elaborated on the optimization process from network centrality in management science to industrial centrality in economics, accurately depicting the differences in the intensity of inter-industrial linkages. Regarding the concept of "pro-poor growth", she combined trade division theory to propose an institutional transformation path of replacing horizontal competition with vertical governance, and constructed a growth supply chain to realize the development logic of "expanding the cake first and then distributing it rationally". At the end of the lecture, Liu Meng engaged in an interactive exchange with the faculty and students on issues such as data integration methods.

Subsequently, Academician Wang Shouyang focused on the core points of national science foundation project applications and provided highly practical guidance for the faculty and students based on his rich experience in fund evaluation and management. First, he systematically introduced the differences between the National Social Science Fund (NSSF) projects and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects. The NSSF emphasizes a broad and comprehensive approach and must be closely aligned with national policy orientations, while the NSFC advocates a focused and cutting-edge approach that centers on specific scientific problems and key technological breakthroughs. He particularly pointed out that the precise refinement of scientific problems is the key to the success of NSFC project applications. For the writing of application proposals, Academician Wang put forward a series of practical suggestions: the references should balance timeliness and pertinence; NSFC applications should systematically sort out the cutting-edge issues of research in top international and domestic journals, while NSSF applications should highlight the connection between national policies and guidelines and the research of domestic peers.

The lectures by the two experts focused on the frontiers of academic research and the practical aspects of scientific research project applications respectively, with content that combines theoretical depth and practical value, arousing extensive resonance and in-depth thinking among the faculty and students present. This academic lecture not only brought the latest research results in the fields of economics and management science and valuable experience in project applications to the faculty and students of the School of Management, but also built a high-level academic exchange platform, which is of great significance for improving the school's scientific research level and academic atmosphere.

Lecturers' Profiles

Wang Shouyang is an Academician of TWAS, an Academician of the International Academy of Systems and Cybernetics, a Distinguished Researcher of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), a recipient of the Ministry of Education's Major Talent Program and the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He serves as Director of the Research Center for Forecasting Science, and also as Editor-in-Chief, Executive Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member of 12 European and American academic journals. He has served/holds concurrent positions as Executive Deputy Director of the Department of Management Science at NSFC, Secretary of the Party Committee and Vice President of the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS, Dean of the School of Economics and Management at UCAS, Dean of the School of Entrepreneurship and Management at ShanghaiTech University, President of the Systems Engineering Society of China, President of the International Society for Knowledge and Systems Sciences, Vice President of the International Society for Global Optimization, Vice President of the International Association of Financial Risk Management, Executive Director of the International Institute of Forecasters, Executive Director of the Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Association, Member of the Evaluation Committee for the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Member of the Disciplinary Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, and Member of numerous expert committees of government departments such as the National Development and Reform Commission.

Liu Meng is a Special Research Associate at UCAS and holds a PhD in Economics from Southeast University. She presides over 5 projects including the National Social Science Fund and the Jiangsu Provincial Social Science Fund projects. She has published 40 papers in CSSCI, SSCI and SCI journals such as People's Daily (Theory Edition), Journal of Management Sciences in China, China Industrial Economics and Management World; many of her papers have been fully reproduced in Xinhua Abstracts and Renmin University of China Newspaper Reprint Materials, and she was selected as a Top 1% Highly Cited Scholar by CNKI. In addition, a number of her policy consulting reports have been commented on by national and provincial ministers, and some of her policy recommendations have been adopted by government departments.

(Composed by Li Fuying; Reviewed by Jia Ming)