The Nanjing National Science and Technology University Humanities Celebrity Lecture Series ushered in the speech of the famous economist Lin Yifu

On the afternoon of December 3, 2021, the South China Science University Lecture Hall and the 171st lecture in the Humanities Celebrity Boutique Series welcomed Lin Yifu, a famous economist, dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics of Peking University, and honorary dean of the National Development Institute. He opened the content of "China's future development under the unprecedented changes in a hundred years" for the majority of teachers and students.

At present, it is time for in-depth study and implementation of the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Therefore, this lecture has also become the study group (expanded) of the Theoretical Learning Center of the Party Committee of SUSTech. Li Fengliang, Secretary of the Party Committee, and other members of the leadership team of the University, the Municipal Party Committee Organization Department, the 11th Circuit Guidance Group on Party History Learning and Education of the Municipal Party Committee, the First Circuit Guidance Group on Party History Learning and Education of the Municipal Education Bureau of the Municipal Party Committee, the representative of the Municipal Education Bureau, the person in charge of the grassroots party organization of SUSTech, the person in charge of the department, the center and the functional department, and the students and some teachers and students of the school's first youth cadres training class attended the lecture. First Research Building Lobby4The venue was full of seats for 00 people, and even dozens of people stood and listened to the lecture.

Yifu Lin Lecture Poster

In the course of the lecture, Lin Yifu used a wealth of cases and detailed data to analyze from an economic perspective why the world has undergone "unprecedented changes in a hundred years", and why China should propose to build a new development pattern. He said that this year is the year of the founding of the Communist Party of China100The anniversary is also the beginning of China's "14th Five-Year Plan" and the beginning of a new journey towards the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The major changes that have not occurred in a century are mainly caused by the rapid development of China. China's rapid development has continued to expand the scale of the economy, resulting in major changes in the entire world pattern. The "unprecedented change" in the world also depends on China's continued development to enter a new, peaceful and stable pattern. Lin Yifu pointed out that in the face of the unprecedented changes in the world in a century, we have the most complete real economy in the world's supply chain, have the advantage of latecomers in traditional industries, and can also use the introduction of digestion and absorption as a source of re-innovation. In the context of the fourth industrial revolution and the new economy characterized by artificial intelligence, big data and the Internet, the R&D cycle of product technology is shortened, and investment is mainly in human capital. China has the richest human capital in the world and the largest single market in the world, so it has the advantage of changing lanes and overtaking in the new economy. As long as we continue to make good use of China's comparative advantages in the future, and continuously solve the problems encountered in the development process, adhere to the direction of market-oriented reform and opening up to the outside world, continue to build a good and effective market, while playing a positive role in the government, and keep up with the improvement of hard infrastructure and soft systems, China will certainly achieve national rejuvenation, and will also be able to build a "community with a shared prosperous human destiny". Finally, Lin Yifu encouraged the teachers and students of Southern University of Science and Technology to exert their scientific research talents, strive to answer the "Qian Xuesen Question" with practical actions, seize the advantages of China's latecomers and the advantages of changing lanes and overtaking, turn this advantage into a reality, help China achieve a high level of scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance, and contribute to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the reconstruction of the world peace pattern.

Lin Yifu Lecture Live

This lecture was hosted by Li Fengliang, Secretary of the Party Committee of SUSTech, and the subsequent interactive session was hosted by Chen Yuehong, President of the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences and Director of the Center for Humanities and Sciences, who summarized the lecture. An hour-long question and discussion session, with a warm atmosphere, free questions and answers, wise exchanges, and continuous applause. Economist, Acting Vice-Chancellor Jin Li, Vice-Chancellor and General Manager Lu Chun, Acting Vice-Chancellor and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Yang Xueming, Dean of the School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Foreign Academician of the Australian National Academy of Engineering Liu Ke, Director of the Department of Finance Wang Shuxun, participating teachers and administrative department managers, and classmates in the lecture series of humanities celebrities, etc., actively focused on "When can Chinese people win the Nobel Prize in the field of economics", "What impact does the COVID-19 pandemic have on China's future economic development", "How can Shenzhen maintain high-speed economic growth", "What are your suggestions for the future career choices of young people in the new era", "How do you view the ‘Thucydide Trap’ in economic development", etc., asked enthusiastically, Lin Yifu patiently answered the questions. The teachers and students at the meeting said that Professor Lin Yifu's lecture, with a big vision and great feelings, closely combined with the current international and domestic situation, was clear, logical, detailed and vivid, which contributed to a deeper understanding of the general secretary's major assertion of "unprecedented changes in a hundred years" and the reasons for the major strategic decision of building a new development pattern, and better understood the prospects for China's economic and social development and the bright future of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It gave the Nanke people the power of thought, the direction of action and the passion for struggle.

Chen Yuehong presided over the lecture to ask questions and make a summary

The SUSTech Humanities Famous Famous Lecture Series is a general theory course held by the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences. Chaired by Chen Yuehong, President of the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences and Director of the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, it invites well-known scholars from the domestic humanities (including literature, history, philosophy, media, cultural history, academic history, etc.) to participate in thematic lectures and discussions on issues such as knowledge horizons, academic significance, domestic and foreign research status and cutting-edge hotspots in related disciplines, so that students can understand the cutting-edge knowledge progress and research standards of humanities at home and abroad, expand their horizons and methods, appreciate the academic style of domestic first-class humanities scholars, and thereby feel the spiritual charm of the humanities, opening the door for in-depth study of various humanities courses in the future.2018Since its inception in 2000, it has been popular with SUSTech undergraduates. So far, more than 100 lectures have been given. This lecture by Professor Lin Yifu is the 171st lecture.

Text: Chen Jinsong

Photograph by Zhang Xiaoyan

Note: Part of the text of this article originates from the "Famous economist Lin Yifu talks about the future development of China under the unprecedented changes in the past century", which is hereby acknowledged.