The School Successfully Held the International Summer School on Digital Economy

From June 30 to July 10, 2025, BNUBS successfully held the "International Summer School on Digital Economy", with nearly 300 undergraduates and international students from the School participating. This is the third session since the first summer School with the theme of "digital economy" was held in 2023.

The courses of this summer school consist of three parts. The first part is a series of lectures on cutting-edge issues in digital economy. The keynote experts include Li Sanxi, Associate Dean of BNUBS, and Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor of Renmin University of China; Xie Danxia, Tenured Associate Professor of the School of Social Sciences of Tsinghua University and Deputy Director of the Laboratory of Data Elements and Digital Technology; Shen Yan, Ant Chair Professor of the National School of Development at Peking University and Deputy Director of the Research Center for Digital Finance; Jiao Hao, Distinguished Professor of Beijing Normal University and Director of the Department of Digital Economy and Management; Zhou Nianli, Researcher of the China WTO Research Institute of University of International Business and Economics and Consulting Expert of the National Digital Trade Expert Working Group. The course themes are Fair Competition in Platform Economy, General Theory of Digital and Artificial Intelligence Economy, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Finance and High-Quality Development, Strategic Innovation in the Digital Economy Era: Theoretical Logic and Practical Frontiers, and Characteristics and Trends of Global Digital Trade Governance respectively, covering important fields of digital economy such as platform competition, artificial intelligence, digital finance, digital management, and digital trade. Zhang Xun, Vice Dean of the Research Institute and Director of the Social Sciences Division of Beijing Normal University, and Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor, attended the event and delivered a speech. Through the above cutting-edge lectures, students are guided to comprehensively understand the current development trend of digital economy and stimulate their enthusiasm for in-depth study and research on digital economy.

The second part is the undergraduate internship practice and academic forum. On the afternoon of June 30, the School held the first undergraduate internship practice forum, and on the afternoon of July 3, the 11th undergraduate academic forum. Through these activities, various links in the training of top-notch innovative talents are improved, and students' abilities in internship practice and academic research are effectively enhanced.

The third part is the course on econometric methods. From July 7 to 10, Wanyuan Yuan, Tenured Associate Professor of the University of Toronto and econometrician, was invited to give an online course on econometric methods. Focusing on the issue of causal identification in regression analysis, Professor Wan introduced various estimation methods and key assumptions in a simple and in-depth way, laying a solid foundation for students' future study and research.

Contributed by Department of Economics

Edited by Xu Minbo

Reviewed by Jiang Jie