The national student competition of economics research that held by Agricultural Bank of China and First Financial Daily was ended at night of 15th September in Weilun Building of Tsing Hua University. The students delegation from SEM got outstanding performance among top 11 universities, with “a research on Taobao village in Zhejiang Province” ranking top 6 and wining the third prize. It’s also the first time for SEM students win excellent awards in public welfare research competition jointly held by enterprise and medias.
The SEM research team is consisted of 8 undergraduate students who are Caoge Zheng, Ruochun Zhao, Yujing Wang, Rui Jiang, Huan Gao, Zenan Huang, Hongkun Cui and Fengtong Cui. In June this year, the team has won out from almost 1000 participating teams with creative topics, rigorous planning and valid social effects, stepping into top 21 successfully and finally obtaining initial fund of 10 thousand RMB.
This summer vacation, the students team totally visited more than 200 commercial tenants and 300 “Taobao Villagers” from four Taobao Villages in Yiwu City ZheJiang Provice, also obtaining massive and valuable data materials through participating related meetings held by E-business association of Qingyanliu Village and Subsidiaries of Alibaba Corporation. When coming back to school, they summarized industry development status and the unique operation mode of Taobao Village, making a deep analysis on prospects and problems of Taobao village industry by combing their own professional economics knowledge, finally forming a research report of 60 thousand words. The students also showed their practice achievements in the whole school through the way of holding career talks which caused a heated discussion in all students.
In the final round competition, the students showed their research achievements by SPACE economics analysis, which got acclaim and approval from judging committee members including famous economist Jianhai Cao of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the director of CCTV finance channel Xie Gao, the vice manager of Agricultural Bank of China Pei Liu, the charger of First Financial Daily and other famous experts. The economist Jianhai Cao pointed that SEM students’ investigation data is powerful and the conclusion is convincing. Through four hours’ fierce competition, the SEM student delegation and other 5 teams from Tsing Hua University, Zhongshan University, Xiamen University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Capital University of Economics and Busineess finally won the honors of national top 6 teams.
