From October 11 to 13, 2024, the 2024 Annual Conference of the Society of Management Science and Engineering was held in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. The conference was organized by the Society of Management Science and Engineering and hosted by the School of Business of Jiangnan University. Under the theme of “Management Science Empowering High-Quality Development,” the conference attracted more than 1,100 experts, scholars, faculty members, and students from over 230 universities and research institutes, including Tsinghua University, Peking University, Nanjing University, Fudan University, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.
The conference featured several sub-forums, including the Sub-forum on Discipline and Program Development, the Young Scholars Sub-forum, the Forecasting and Evaluation Sub-forum, the Transportation Management Sub-forum, the Big Data and Business Analytics Sub-forum, the Finance and Risk Management Sub-forum, and the New Industrialization and Regional High-Quality Development Sub-forum. Among them, the Forecasting and Evaluation Sub-forum was organized by our school.
The director of the Forecasting and Evaluation Sub-forum was Professor Yan Xiangbin of the University of Science and Technology Beijing and President of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. The deputy directors were Professor Wang Zhaohua of Beijing Institute of Technology and Professor Gu Wei, Dean of the School of Economics and Management at the University of Science and Technology Beijing.
The invited speakers for the sub-forum included Professor Li Xin from City University of Hong Kong, Professor Chai Yidong from Hefei University of Technology, Professor Han Xiaohua from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Professor Zheng Xiaolong from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Zhao Xi from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Professor Feng Haiyang from Tianjin University, and Professor Deng Tianhu from Tsinghua University.


Professor Yan Xiangbin chaired the sub-forum


The guest speakers delivered academic presentations during the forum.
This sub-forum promoted academic exchange and communication in the field of forecasting and evaluation research and played a positive role in advancing the development of the discipline of Management Science and Engineering.
Contributed by: Office of Scientific Research and Discipline Development
Editor: Lu Qi
Reviewed by: Huang Xiaoxia