On October 16, the National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences announced that the School of Economics and Management at USTB had secured three projects under the 2026 National Social Science Fund.
The three grants include one general project, one youth project, and one general project in education, reflecting the breadth of the school's research disciplines across management, education, and information economics.
Mianzhi Yang will lead the general project on evaluating research and development input and output on evaluating digital and intelligent technology-enabled R&D input and output in state-owned enterprises.
Rui Yan will lead the general project in education on the influencing factors, formation mechanisms, and prevention strategies of new forms of academic misconduct in universities in the context of generative artificial intelligence.
Jinran Zhu will lead the youth project on strategic information transmission and moral hazard in information intermediary platforms.
The National Social Science Fund is China's flagship competitive grant program for research in philosophy and the social sciences. The grants are expected to support the school's research in digital governance, higher education integrity, and platform economics in the coming years.
