From June 10 to 11, Lu Yue, a faculty member at CIWTO, was invited to attend the 2017 Annual Meeting of The Chinese Economists Society at Nanjing University and gave a presentation entitled "Global Value Chain Embeddedness: The Paradox of Catch-up Firms in Learning and Captivity", in order to further strengthen the connection and communication of CIWTO with the international frontier academic research. Dr. Lu Yue had in-depth discussion with domestic and overseas experts and scholars at the meeting on the topic of global value chain.

The Chinese Economists Society (CES) was established in New York on May 26, 1985, and holds annual conferences to promote scholarly exchanges among its members. It aims at promoting China's market-oriented reform and opening-up policy, promoting economic interaction between China and the world, promoting foreign economists to participate in the studies of the Chinese economy, and promoting the development of Chinese economics. Currently, CES has more than 700 members in academia, government, multinational corporations and financial service organizations in the United States, Asia, Europe and Canada, and other regions.

Translator: FENG Yani Revisor: HOU Jingnan