Glasgow conference hosts first CEA fellowship awards

The CEA annual conference was held at the University of Glasgow from 5 to 7

August 2025, on digital transformation and economic structural change.

The association reports more than 200 participants, from China, the United

Kingdom, France, Ireland and South Korea. Some 140 papers were discussed across

28 parallel sessions, and the conference held a job market session for the first

time.

A separate gallery post published by the association on 8 August 2025 gives the

figure as more than 150. Both are the association's own counts and neither is

reconciled here; the higher figure is used in this report because it accompanies

the fuller account of the programme.

The opening was addressed by the principal of the University of Glasgow, Anton

Muscatelli, the dean of the Adam Smith Business School, Graeme Roy, and the 2024

CEA president, Mi Zhifu. Editors and board members of several international

journals presented their titles, and Dong Yizhe, the incoming editor-in-chief of

the association's journal, the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business

Studies, set out his plans for it and presented several awards.

The conference established and conferred the association's fellowship for the

first time. The fellowship is the association's highest honour, recognising

scholars who have contributed substantially to the association and to research

on the Chinese economy. The board resolved unanimously to elect 14 scholars to

the inaugural cohort.

A roundtable sponsored by the Bank of China discussed Chinese economic growth and

the internationalisation of the renminbi. The conference dinner was held at the

Grosvenor Hotel.

The CEA board met during the conference, where Mi Zhifu reported on the previous

year. Among its decisions was the election of Shi Yukun of the University of

Glasgow as the association's 37th president.

Based on the association's original WeChat report of 19 August 2025.