The year 2021 was a particularly important year in China's modernization process. Facing the severe and complex international situation, the arduous and heavy tasks of domestic reform, development, and stability, especially the severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the resilience and innovation capacity of Chinese cities face a major test, and the economic development of Chinese cities also requires profound transformation. At the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the first year of the 14th Five-Year Plan, the start of the new journey of building a modern socialist country, and the intersection of the "Two Centenary Goals," high-quality urban development and coordinated regional development have put forward new requirements for research on China's urban economy.
On October 29, 2020, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee passed the "Recommendations of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Goals for 2035," proposing to "improve the system and mechanisms for regional coordinated development, build a territorial spatial layout and support system for high-quality development," "lead and create new demand through innovation-driven and high-quality supply," and "reasonably determine urban scale, population density, and spatial structure to promote coordinated development of large, medium, and small cities and small towns." Against this backdrop, after discussion among all initiating units, it was decided that the Economic Research Journal, Peking University School of Urban and Environmental Studies, and the Urban Development and Land Policy Research Center of Peking University-Lincoln Institute will jointly host the 4th China Urban Economists Forum on November 27–28, 2021. The theme of this forum is: High-Quality Urban Development and Regional Coordinated Development in the New Era.
This forum was jointly initiated in 2017 by the Institute of Financial Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the School of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University, the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, the School of Economics at Nankai University, the Antai School of Economics and Management at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the Economic Research Magazine. Each year, the initiators take turns hosting the forum, aiming to build a high-level academic exchange and cooperation platform for experts and scholars in the field of urban economics, and to become an annual academic event in this field.
This forum is now open to accepting submissions from a wide range of scholars.
I. Topic Selection (Including but Not Limited to)
1. High-quality urbanization and theoretical innovation in urban economics
2. New Development Pattern and Urban Transformation and Development
3. COVID-19 pandemic, economic globalization, and urban economic resilience
4. High-quality urban development and coordinated regional development
5. City size, urban system, and urban network
6. Climate Change and Sustainable Urban Development
7. Urban land, housing, and urban finance
8. Coordination between metropolitan areas, urban agglomerations, and regions
Submissions should be original, unpublished works, comply with academic standards, and be written in both Chinese and English. For Chinese writing style, please refer to articles published in Economic Research; For English writing styles, please refer to articles published in American Economic Review. To facilitate anonymous review and contact, author information (name, workplace, mailing address, contact phone number, email, etc.) should be listed independently on the first page of the essay.
Authors should send the electronic version of their essay (DOC or PDF format) to: csjjlt2021@163.com by September 30, 2021. Please indicate the email subject as "Fourth China Urban Economists Forum Essay Call—First Author's Name", and the electronic file name should be "Main Title of the Essay — First Author's Name". Failure to meet the above requirements will affect the essay evaluation.
The forum organizing committee will organize experts in the field to form an academic committee to review all submissions. The first author of the selected paper will be invited to serve as the official representative of this forum. Invitations for papers selected and forum participation will be sent to authors by November 10, 2021. This forum will also select several outstanding papers, which, after approval by the editorial office of Economic Research, may directly enter the journal's anonymous review process.
Participants in the forum are responsible for their own transportation and accommodation expenses. Non-first authors of selected papers may participate in this forum after application and with the organizer's consent. Forum is exempt from review and conference fees; Working meals are provided by the organizers.
For details, see the Economic Research website: www.erj.cn, as well as the official website of the Peking University-Lincoln Institute Urban Development and Land Policy Research Center: www.plc.pku.edu.cn, and the WeChat public account: "Peking University Lincoln Center."
Contact person: Teacher Zhao
Phone: 010-62756535 ext. 611
Email: csjjlt2021@163.com
