Nankai University has signed a cooperation agreement with Chey Institute for Advanced Studies to cohost the “Tianjin Forum 2021”. Following the forums in 2015, 2017 and 2019, Tianjin Forum 2021 is scheduled on October 16-17 in 2021 in Tianjin.

This year’s theme of the forum is “Meeting New Challenges: Assisting Urban Development and Governance with Science and Technology”. The forum includes six sub-forums and two round-table talks. Famous scholars, business professional, and experts in other fields worldwide will be invited to the event. The participants will focus on emerging management issues, exchange experience and ideas to seek possible solutions to improve city and regional governance with evolving technologies and to promote multi-disciplinary collaboration on urban and regional development and governance research.

(Reported by Tao Lei and Huiling Guo, translated and edited by Nankai News Team and Yao Zhang)