On January 13, Tsinghua University held a symposium for academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, as well as Distinguished Professors of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Qiu Yong, secretary of the CPC Tsinghua University Committee, delivered a speech. Li Luming, president of Tsinghua University, presided over the symposium. Also in attendance were Guo Yong, deputy secretary of the CPC Tsinghua University Committee, Wang Hongwei, vice president of Tsinghua University, and more than 30 academicians and Distinguished Professors of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

During the symposium, a conferment ceremony was held for the fourth cohort of Tsinghua University's Distinguished Professors of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. The title is the highest academic honor conferred by the University upon faculty members in the field of philosophy and social sciences. Chen Jian from the School of Economics and Management and Li Daokui from the School of Social Sciences were selected for this distinguished honor.

Chen Jian, born in April 1962, is a professor at the School of Economics and Management. He received his PhD in Systems Engineering from Tsinghua and currently serves as the director of the University's Research Center for Contemporary Management, a key research base in the humanities and social sciences designated by China's Ministry of Education.

Professor Chen is an expert who has been granted special government allowances of the State Council and a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He leads an Innovation Research Group funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and has served as a leading role in more than 50 research projects granted by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Professor Chen also holds several prominent academic leadership roles, including Secretary-General of the Ministry of Education's Educational Steering Committee for Management Science and Engineering, Secretary General of the Discipline Evaluation Group (Management Science and Engineering) of the State Council's Academic Degrees Committee, Vice President of the Society of Management Science and Engineering of China, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering.

As an internationally recognized scholar, Professor Chen has published over 200 academic papers in leading journals in China and abroad, including Management Science. His honors include the Fudan Prize for Eminent Contributions to Management Science and the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor Award.

Li Daokui, born in December 1963, is a professor at the School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University. He holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and is a recipient of the special government allowances of the State Council.

Professor Li currently serves as Co-President of the Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics and as Director of the Institute for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking at Tsinghua University. He has held numerous influential public and academic leadership roles, including member of the 11th and 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), member of the Standing Committee of the 13th CPPCC National Committee, and member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People's Bank of China. He has also served as President of the Chinese Economists Society, Founding Dean of Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University, and the inaugural Chief Economist of the New Development Bank of the BRICS countries.

Professor Li's research focuses on synthesizing China's economic thought and development experience, advancing an indigenous economic knowledge system, and promoting the theoretical framework of government and economics. He is the author of several influential books, including Economic Lessons from China's Forty Years of Reform and Opening-up and The Germany Model for The Chinese Economy.

His honors include the First Prize of the Outstanding Achievement Award for Research in Institutes of Higher Education issued by the Ministry of Education.

Source: Tsinghua University

Editor: Ren Zhongxi