Xiamen workshop examines artificial intelligence and the digital economy

The Chinese Economic Association UK/Europe and Xiamen University held a two-day

workshop on artificial intelligence and the digital economy, together with a

forum on economics education in China, at Xiamen University on 27 and 28 December

2025.

The workshop was organised jointly by Xiamen University's Gregory and Paula Chow

Institute for Studies in Economics, its Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in

Economics and its School of Economics, the association, and the digital economy

committee of the China Development Strategy Research Society.

Fourteen invited speakers gave keynote reports over the two days, on artificial

intelligence governance, digital economic transformation, financial technology

innovation and new forms of financial risk control.

A roundtable on 28 December brought the visiting specialists together with

teaching staff from Xiamen University's economics departments to discuss how

economics education in China should develop, how talent is trained and how

disciplines should intersect as teaching becomes more digital.

The workshop was hosted by Xiamen University's Macroeconomic Research Centre, a

key research base of the Ministry of Education, and by the Xiamen University and

Chinese Academy of Sciences Basic Science Centre for Econometric Modelling and

Economic Policy Research.

The opening session on the morning of 27 December was chaired by Li Shumin, vice

chairman of the China Development Strategy Research Society and executive

director of its digital economy committee. Addresses were given by Hong Yongmiao

of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of Xiamen

University's Chow institute, Shi Yukun, chair of the association, and Zhou

Yinggang, dean of Xiamen University's School of Economics and of the Wang Yanan

Institute.

Shi Yukun set out the association's history, its academic standing and its

exchange and cooperation work, and underlined its role in improving public

understanding of the Chinese economy and in supporting research on China's

high-quality development. He said the decision to run the research workshop

alongside the education forum was intended to use Sino-European academic exchange

as a route to developing younger scholars. Zhou Yinggang recalled that Xiamen

University had co-hosted the association's annual conference in 2023.

Based on the association's original WeChat report of 28 December 2025.