On June 9, the China Forum under Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy and the Institute for Reform of State-Business Relations (IREE), based in Brazil, jointly organized the opening ceremony and the first session of the webinar: The Role of Political Parties in Modernizing Governance and Public Management, in which political party leaders and scholars from the two country exchanged views on the topic of “Modernizing State Governance: Practices and Experience of Political Parties.”

On May 20-21, 2021, a closed-door conference titled ‘China Today and Tomorrow’ was held by the China Forum under the Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University, in cooperation with the Academy of Contemporary China and World Studies and the Ditchley Foundation. The event, which was an online/offline gathering of more than 100 participants, engaged different perspectives from politics, academia, media and business.

On April 28, 2021, Professor YU Hongjun, former Vice Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, former Chinese Ambassador to Uzbekistan and a China Forum Expert, gave a lecture themed “China and the World amid the Great Changes” to over 200 students at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), sharing his insights on the relationship between China and the rest of the world and the strategic choices of China’s neighbors in times of unprecedented changes as well as on how to identify and respond to such changes.

On April 26, 2021, the project “CPC History Lectures” was launched by the CPC Committee of the China International Chamber of Commerce for the Private Sector (CICCPS) in collaboration with ten national civil society organizations in China. Professor YU Hongjun, former Vice Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a China Forum Expert, was the inaugural speaker of the lecture series, addressing a 150-strong audience on “The Evolution of the Landscape of World Political Parties and Foreign Relations of the Communist Party of China.” Mr. WANG Yanguo, Secretary of the CPC Committee of CICCPS, presided over the event.

​On April 26, 2021, Green Development & Cooperation: Global Joint Efforts and Pathways to Carbon Neutral was jointly held by the China Forum under Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy, Hainan Green Finance Research Institute, and Central University of Finance and Economics, bringing together more than 10 heavyweights from academia and industry at home and abroad, including China Forum Secretary General Mr. ZHANG Lirong and Executive Committee Member Professor HAN Hua.

On April 25, 2021, the Green Development Forum and the Seminar on The Road to Carbon Neutrality (Domestic Sub-Forum) was held in Beijing by the China Forum under Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy, Hainan Green Finance Research Institute, and Central University of Finance and Economics, bringing together over 50 heavyweights from government, academia and industry.

On March 27th, a seminar to celebrate the centennial of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was jointly organized by the Shanghai Academy of Global Governance and Area Studies of Shanghai International Studies University and the China Forum under the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University.

From March 16 to 19, the China Forum under the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University conducted a thematic research trip in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, on the strategy of driving international growth of local enterprises and NGOs.

On March 5, 2021, CISS’s China Forum Expert TANG Xiaoyang joined a closed-door roundtable themed “Vaccine Diplomacy and the New World Order” held virtually by the UCLA Center for Middle East Development (CMED). Tang is an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at Tsinghua University. The session was part of CMED’s conference series on “Current Challenges Facing the Middle East.”

On January 15, 2021, CONIJAC (The International Youth Congress of Africa and China) initiated a virtual conference under its Understanding China, Building Africa program, where Professor DING Yifan, China Forum Expert and Fellow at the Institute of World Development under the Development Research Center of the State Council of China, spoke on new dynamics of world development.

In the extraordinary year of 2020, COVID-19 has taught us that we, as humanity, share one future together. We have come to realize the importance of solidarity and cooperation among the world’s youths. Against this backdrop, the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), China held the 4th Annual Conference of Global Youth Dialogue 2020.

On December 26, 2020, China Forum of the Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University, held its Year-End Review Meeting and the Seminar on International Communication, gathering its Vice Chair Eric X. Li (via videolink) and more than 20 members for discussions. Secretary-General ZHANG Lirong took stock of the institution’s achievements in 2020 and proposed its vision for 2021. In 2020, China Forum organized over 60 international seminars, published 35 articles in foreign media, and delivered 44 short videos, 10 podcasts and four original columns with 49 issues.