Guo Yong: Tsinghua University to continue championing the development of government and economics as an emerging field of study
The following is a summary of Guo Yong's keynote address to attendees at the Seventh Annual Conference of Government and Economics held at Tsinghua University, Beijing, on June 7, 2025. Dr. Guo is the Deputy Secretary of the CPC Tsinghua University Committee.
On June 10, 2025, the Seventh Annual Conference of Government and Economics, co-hosted by the Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE) along with Tsinghua University's School of Social Sciences and the Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking (ACCEPT), was broadcasted online. The Deputy Secretary of the CPC Tsinghua University Committee, Guo Yong, who serves concurrently as Professor at the university's School of Public Policy and Management, delivered a keynote address to attendees at the conference.
Guo Yong fully affirmed the unremitting efforts made by ACCEPT since its establishment at Tsinghua University in 2018, with the research institute providing a high-level platform for academic exchanges aimed at summarizing relevant theoretical research and practice, as well as playing an important role in promoting the development of the field of government and economics. He expressed that the successive establishment of research centers for government and economics at the Central University of Finance and Economics and Zhejiang University is indicative of the fact that this emerging discipline has gained increasing recognition and support within the academic community. After successfully holding the inaugural Government and Economics Training Workshop in 2024, this year's workshop will be co-organized by Tsinghua University together with other partnering universities, further demonstrating Tsinghua's positive model and facilitative role within this field of academic research. In 2021, the Journal of Government and Economics was successfully established as an international English-language academic journal, and with the vigorous support of leading scholars in the field of economics at home and abroad, including five Nobel laureates in economic sciences, ACCEPT has now obtained approval to launch the Chinese Journal of Government and Economics this year, initiating a whole new platform to further promote academic exchanges within this field.
Guo stated that Tsinghua University would continue to champion the development of the discipline of government and economics and relayed his hopes that the institute will persist in its efforts within the area of academic research to serve China by promoting its major national strategies and its establishment as a leading country in the education domain. He further expressed his wish that ACCEPT would continue giving full play to the key advantages of basic research and the coordinated development of academic disciplines, while sustaining its support for the formation of China's own independent knowledge system, providing the world a means through which to appreciate the significant example of China's economic development more comprehensively and objectively, as well as contributing the strengths of Tsinghua towards the development of economics as an academic discipline around the world.
