On January 8, CIWTO, the Globalization research center of Tsinghua University, D&C Think and Rockcheck Research Institute, jointly held a symposium on "The Evolution of Global Economic and Trade Landscape and China's Economic and Foreign Trade Strategy". The symposium was composed of two sessions focusing on two major topics respectively. One is the opportunities and challenges that China faces after RCEP is signed, and the other is the evolution of global economic and trade landscape after Biden’s inauguration. Professor Tu Xinquan, Professor Li Yang, Professor Zhou Nianli and Assistant Professor Du Yingxin attended the symposium. Professor Tu Xinquan and Professor Li Yang gave speeches on these two topics respectively.

Other experts that attended the symposium include Li Yong, Deputy Director of the Experts Committee of the China Association of International Trade (CAIT); Zhang Jianping, Director of the Centre For Regional Economic Cooperation at China’s Ministry Of Commerce; Chen Fengying, Former Director of the World Economy Institute of China's Institute of Contemporary International Relations; Gong Jiong, Professor of Economics at UIBE; Li Wei, Professor at School of International Relations of Renmin University of China; Su Qingyi, Senior Research Fellow at Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS); and Yuan Youwei, Deputy Director of External Affairs of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE).