On April 22, South China Sea Sub-forum of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2022 was held in Boao, which was hosted by the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, co-organized by the China-Southeast Asia South China Sea Research Center, the Boao Forum for Asia Secretariat, and the Wuhan University China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies.More than 200 experts, scholars and ...

Chinese Social Sciences (English Quarterly) 2022 No. 1 (Volume 46 No. 1) published the academic paperAnti-Monopoly Regulation of Digital Platformsby Prof. Sun Jin from the School of Law of Wuhan University.The article reflects the Chinese practice of digital platform anti-monopoly supervision, China's plan and its positive significance to the world.It is the result of a major project of the Nat...

The paperRobust perfect equilibrium in large gamesby Professor Sun Xiang from the School of Economics and Management was recently published in the Journal of Economic Theory, an international first-class journal in the field of theoretical economics.This paper proposes a new equilibrium concept "robust perfect equilibrium" in view of the drawbacks of Nash equilibrium in non-cooperative games wi...

In order to further promote the high-quality development of academic journals of humanities and social sciences of Wuhan University, on April 15, WHU held an expert review meeting for the evaluation and assessment of journals' social benefits. The leaders and key editors of 15 Chinese journals attended the meeting.Fang Qing, Dean of the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences of Wuhan Univers...

On the morning of April 14, 2022, the interview-style lecture "A Dialogue of Sinology and Civilization from a Global Perspective" hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study in Dialogue of Civilizations of Wuhan University was successfully held on Zoom.At the beginning of the lecture, Professor ChloeStarr reviewed her academic background, which began with the study of novels in the Ming and Qing...

The Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China recently announced the 2020-2021 National Business Development Research Achievement Award. "Research on China's export value chain improvement measures under the new trend of global industrial chain transfer", a report completed by Professor Chen Limin, Ma Ying, Zhang Bin, Gong Hong, and Associate Professor Feng Hua and Wen Xingqi of th...

​On April 13, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued the "Administrative Measures for the Disposal of Document Information in the Collection of Public Libraries". Huang Ruhua, professor of the School of Information Management of Wuhan University and deputy director of the library, presided over the project "Document Information Disposal System in Public Libraries", which is a project commi...

Recently, the National Social Science Fund Major Project "History of Chinese Religious Literature" (15ZDB069), hosted by Professor Wu Guangzheng of Wuhan University's Research Center for Chinese Religious Literature, was rated as "Excellent".At the appraisal meeting of the project, experts pointed out that the project has five major advantages: firstly, it has a profound accumulation, which has...

JihwanDo, an Assistant Professor from the Department of Mathematical Economics and Mathematical Finance of the School of Economics and Management, published his paperCheating and compensation in price-fixing cartelsin the Journal of Economic Theory, a top international journal in the field of theoretical economics. The paper examines cheating and compensatory behavior in industry alliances.In r...

Recently, Professor Zhang Lin from the School of Information Management of WHU was hired as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the internationally renowned academic journal Scientometrics.It is learnt that Scientometrics was founded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1978. It is the earliest and largest journal in the field of international scientometrics and information metrology, and it is also one o...

It was recently learned that, the list of the second round of "double first-class" universities and disciplines was announced upon the review and approval of the Expert Committee, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, and the National Development and Reform Commission and the State Council, and the list of the first round of disciplines that were given public warnings was also mad...

On March 16, a side event of the 49th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council themed "Disability Organization Empowerment and Disability Rights Development" was held both online and offline. The conference was hosted by the China Society for Human Rights Studies, and jointly organized by the Institute of Human Rights of Wuhan University, the Academy of International Law and Global Go...

On February 28, the Academy of International Law and Global Governance of Wuhan University, a national top think tank, held the 2022 Work Meeting of the Second Council. Han Jin, Secretary of the Wuhan University Party Committee and Chairman of the Council of the Academy, attended the meeting. Shen Zhuanghai, Deputy Secretary of the Wuhan University Party Committee and Council Member of the Acad...

On February 24, the Journal of Archaeological Science, a top international archaeology journal, published an articleHigh-precision U-series dating of the late Pleistocene–early Holocene rock paintings at Tiger Leaping Gorge, Jinsha River valley, southwestern China, which is the latest scientific research result of collaboration among the School of History of Wuhan University, Archaeological In...

On February 16, The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) notified in a letter that Wuhan University was approved by the Initial Accreditation Committee (IAC) and the Board of Directors, and the School of Economics and Management has officially passed the AACSB international accreditation with 5 years accreditation period.It is reported that AACSB, founded in 1916, is th...

From November 11 to 12, the 4th Annual Conference of University Intellectual Property Information Service Center Alliance and University Intellectual Property Information Service Seminar was held online. Wu Ping, Vice President of Wuhan University attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.Wu Ping pointed out that intellectual property work is an important indicator that reflects the ...

On November 6, the "First Yangtze River Culture Seminar" opened in Wuhan Yangtze River Civilization Hall at the Wuhan Natural History Museum. With the theme of "Inheritance and Innovation of Yangtze River Culture in the New Era", the conference explored ways to expand, protect, inherit and promote the Yangtze River culture.Twelve well-known experts from Tsinghua University, Nanjing University a...

Recently, the Chinese Academic Journal (CNKI) and the China Scientometrics and Bibliometrics Research Center jointly released theChinese Academic Journal Impact Factor Annual Report (Humanities and Social Sciences 2021 Edition), which is hosted by the Ministry of Education and sponsored by Wuhan University. The academic influence ofEconomic Reviewis steadily increasing.The Academic Journal Clou...

The 2021 Annual Meeting and Academic Symposium of the Chinese Institute for History of the World War II was successfully held from October 30 to October 31. The conference adopted a combination of both online and offline mode. Group discussions were conducted according to different themes, and a total of 65 experts and scholars gave speeches in four groups and 11 sessions at the conference.(The...

From October 29th to 30th, the 6th International Forum on Boundary and Ocean Studies was held at Wuhan University. The theme of this forum is "Belt and Road Cooperation and Research on Border Sea Issues".More than 40 scholars from Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands, Canada, Brazil, Japan, mainland China and Hong Kong in the fields of history, international law, econo...

On October 28th, the series of roundtable events "Expectation of China's Image in the Eyes of Others" by the Institute for Advanced Study in Dialogue of Civilizations, Wuhan University kicked off. The theme of the first roundtable event was "The Image of China and Its Shaping through the Dialogue of Civilizations". Wu Genyou, Dean of the Institute for Advanced Study in Dialogue of Civilizations...

The first phase of the 2020 United Nations Biodiversity Conference, and the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) was successfully held in Kunming, China from October 11-15. The theme of this conference is "Ecological Civilization: Building a Community of Life on Earth Together".Professor Qin Tianbao, director of the Research Institute of Environme...

Recently, theChinese Language Situation Annual Report 2020edited by Professor He Lin, deputy director of the National Institute of Chinese Language Matters and Social Development from the College of Chinese Language and Literature in Wuhan University, was published by Science Press. This is one of the series ofArchives of Chinese Language Situationpublished by the National Institute of Chinese ...

On September 25, 2021, "The 40th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Research Institute of Environmental Law of Wuhan University and the High-end Forum of Chinese Environmental Law (Science) Facing the New Era" was held at Wuhan University.On October 12, 1981, the Research Institute of Environmental Law was formally established. It was the first institution in the Asia-Pacific region that s...

Recently, the English academic journalChinese Journal of Environmental Law, which is sponsored by the Research Institute of Environmental Law of Wuhan University and co-published with the world-class academic publishing house Borui, was selected into the Scopus citation database. This is another important progress made by the Research Institute of Environmental Law after theJournalwas officiall...

The publication ofYangtze River Civilization,which was edited by Feng Tianyu, a senior professor of the Humanities and Social Science of Wuhan University and director of the Academic Committee of the Yangtze River Civilization Archaeology Institute of Wuhan University, is another major scientific research achievement of the Yangtze River Civilization Archaeology Institute of Wuhan University.Th...

On August 19, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism issued the "List of the First Batch of Pilot Units for the Construction of Think Tanks in the Culture and Tourism Industry". Only 19 units nationwide were selected, and the National Institute of Cultural Developmentin Wuhan University was on the list.The person in charge said that the National Institute of Cultural Development in Wuhan Universit...

On August 24, the international academic journalJournal of Archaeological Science: Reports(collected by A&HCI) published online the latest scientific research results of the School of History of Wuhan University and the Yangtze River Civilization Archaeological Institute of Wuhan University.The title of the thesis is "Compositional study of household ceramic assemblages from a Late Neolithic (5...

Professor Yang Hua'sRe-study of Ancient Ritualswas published by the Commercial Press. This book contains 19 articles with a total of more than 300,000 words. The content includes the theoretical issues of ancient ritual studies, the issues of unearthed documents and ancient rituals, the relationship between ritual and law, and the evolution of ritual systems. This batch of articles has been pub...