Recently, the "Forty Forum on Chinese Political Economy·2026" was held at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Experts and scholars from universities and academic institutions across the country gathered together to share the latest insights into contemporary Chinese political economics from multiple perspectives.
The "Forty People Forum on Chinese Political Economy" was established in 2018 and has been successfully held for seven sessions so far. This forum is co-sponsored by the Institute of Economics of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and the China Political Economics Annual Conference, and hosted by the Political Economics Research Office of the Institute of Economics of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
"Shenzhen Bao'an to Shanghai Hongqiao is likely to become the busiest route this year." Based on a case study of industrial cooperation between the Yangtze River Delta and the Greater Bay Area, Tang Jie, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), found that the cross-regional industrial logic has shifted from "final product sales" to "intermediate product division of labor and collaboration," forming an inter-embedded "R&D-manufacturing" network. He took BYD as an example. This car company founded in Shenzhen has made full use of the industrial chain advantages of the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta, connecting the industrial chain and innovation chain collaboration of many cities and companies. While promoting the improvement of the Yangtze River Delta's new energy vehicle manufacturing capabilities, it has accelerated Shenzhen's more specialized production and research and development, and has achieved world leadership in the research and development and application of core components represented by electric drives, batteries and electronic controls, as well as intelligent driving technology. "Building a unified national market not only requires unblocking logistics, eliminating barriers, and reducing trade costs, but also improving regional specialization efficiency to cross the threshold of division of labor. In the future, we should rely on standard co-construction and platform diffusion to promote the industry from 'selling to the whole country' to 'chain to the whole country,' and achieve a win-win situation in the deep division of labor." Tang Jie said.
