Jointly hosted by the Complex Scientific Management Branch of the Chinese Society of Technology Economics (CSTE), the School of Management of Jilin University and the Institute of Science and Technology Policy and Management Science, the High-end Cloud Forum on Complex Scientific Management was held on June 20th, 2020 and themed upon “Stabilize Development Under Uncertain Conditions”. Well-known experts and scholars from Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, North China Electric Power University, Hangzhou Dianzi University and Jilin University attended the forum to exchange their views on stabilizing China’s development under the attack of COVID-19 pandemic, through live-streaming reports and interacting with the audience. The cloud forum was joined by over 600 teachers and students across China.
With its main venue set in the School of Management of Jilin University and Fan Xuemei, Deputy Dean of the school as its host, the cloud forum was opened by the remarks of Professor Li Beiwei, Dean of the School of Management and Vice President of the Complex Scientific Management Branch of the CSTE. In terms of complex scientific management (CSM), six special guests dissected the stabilization of development under uncertain conditions, offering their ideas and suggestions from different fields and perspectives.
Xu Xusong, professor of Wuhan University and President of the Complex Scientific Management Branch of the CSTE, delivered the first report titled “Using CSM’s Integrative Thinking to Contemplate the Strategic Importance of Stabilizing Development”. From her point of view, the integrative strategic thinking of CSM is a thinking system based on CSM’s perception of the Internet era. This system integrates systematic thinking, cross-border thinking, reverse thinking, structured thinking, and multi-dimensional thinking, rendering it a combination of science and art, an innovative thinking with both scientific and artistic features. This integrative strategic thinking of CSM enables her to profoundly analyze the strategic importance of stabilizing development. She concludes that stabilizing development is to help people realize the better life they yearn for in socioeconomic development, a vision proposed by President Xi. Professor Xu pointed out the strategic importance of stabilizing development in five areas: secure people’s safety by powering the country with innovation; improve people’s health through environmental protection; protect people’s livelihood by facilitating employment; create favorable living conditions for the people by promoting harmonious coexistence with entrepreneurial spirit; and boost people’s sense of happiness by cultivating them with fine culture.
Professor Niu Dongxiao from North China Electric Power University, Vice President of the CSTE and Chang-Jiang Scholar Professor, shared his opinions on innovating service of electrical energy that drives economic development under the impact of the pandemic. He believed that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in great loss, due to its impact on economic development at home and overseas. As economic recovery is listed as a top priority, electrical energy will play a critical role in guaranteeing economic development. The Report on the Work of the Government 2020 set a strategic goal of ensuring stability on six fronts and security in six areas, based on which Professor Niu explained the challenges in electronic energy faced by socioeconomic development during the pandemic and where they originated from. Adopting theories of CSM, technology economics, and energy economics, Professor Niu offered countermeasures for stimulating economy by innovating service of electrical energy, exploring solutions while targeting actual needs.
Professor Hu Xiangpei from Zhejiang University, Chang-Jiang Scholar Professor and Winner of The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, presented a report on his research of goods allocation in the robot-moving mobile shelf system based on the complex network. After introducing the evolution of the robot-moving mobile shelf system, he commented on existing opportunities and challenges, followed by an analysis of the complexity of goods allocation in the system. As for solutions to the allocation problems, he proposed to integrate the weighted k-shell decomposition and the decomposition-clustering approach from network clustering.
Professor Chen Taoyong from Hangzhou Dianzi University, Dean of the Zhejiang Research Center of Information Technology & Economic and Social Development (RCIESD), and Vice-President of Chinese Association of Quantitative Economics (CAQE) talked about boosting “new development” and “new infrastructure” with the thinking of CSM. As mentioned in the speech, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee highlighted the need to accelerate the construction of new infrastructure (e.g. 5G network and data center) in its meeting held on March 4th, 2020. The Report on the Work of the Government prioritizes new infrastructure and new urbanization initiatives and major projects, which not only boost consumption and benefit the people, but also facilitate structural adjustments and enhance the sustainability of growth. Being a complex economic system, the new infrastructure has obvious uncertainties, rendering CSM thinking indispensable for the enhancement of its role in stabilizing investment, driving up demands, exerting its multiplier effect, and empowering high-quality development. Attention should be paid to three features of the new infrastructure: first, use its self-organization feature to enhance its integration, innovation and synergetic development with industry; second, take advantage of its dynamic feature to strengthen the two-way promotion and dynamic development between the new infrastructure and the application requirements; third, its self-adaptation can be used to build an ecological system where the new infrastructure empowers the stabilization of investment and development.
Professor Wang Zongjun, Vice President of the CSTE and Dean of the School of Management of Huazhong University of Science and Technology expressed his thinking on the economic development in different regions in terms of security and stability under the pandemic. Professor Wang dug deep into the opportunities and challenges in economic development after the pandemic, centering on the roadmap for economic development, industrial transformation and upgrade, development of private enterprises, talents cultivation and regional development in various regions. Suggestions were provided on how to differentiate strategies of “stabilizing economy and securing growth” according to local economic and social conditions.
Professor Chen Jin from Tsinghua University, Chairman of the Technical Management Professional Committee of the CSTE, Winner of The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and Chang-Jiang Scholar Professor, delivered a keynote speech on integrative innovation based on his thinking of CSM. In the speech, he mentioned that the functioning strategy of driving development through technological innovation derives from our own history, culture, social institutions, development path and reality. With the advancement of Chinese innovative practice, value output of international governance, and confidence in Chinese culture, our theoretical researchers continuously seek and launch theoretical systems of innovation paradigms with Chinese characteristics. These systems arise a range of innovation, from self-dependent, comprehensive and synergetic innovation, to peaceful, anti-poverty and meaningful innovation, and then to integrative innovation. The integrative innovation is rooted in general Chinese thinking and CSM. It breaks free from the western thinking pattern which focuses on individuals and parts. Based upon Xi Jinping thought on scientific and technological innovation, the integrative innovation inherits the advantages of Eastern philosophy and traditional Chinese culture. It will provide important knowledge and intellectual increment to China’s innovative governance,. It will power the building of scientific and technological innovation, the cultivation of world-class innovative enterprises, and global innovative leadership during China’s peaceful rise.
In the last session, highly professional answers were given by the experts through their active discussion on questions raised by the audience, concerning stabilizing development under uncertain conditions from the perspective of CSM. The audience participated in the interaction session in an active manner though they cannot be in the same room with the experts, contributing to the forum’s vibrant atmosphere. In her concluding speech, Professor Xu Xusong appreciated the importance of the forum and congratulated on the complete success of this high-end cloud forum on CSM, which further upgrades the influence, research and practice of CSM.
