On February 20, 2025, the Management Science Department of the National
Natural Science Foundation of China held a kickoff meeting and academic seminar
on the "15th Five Year Plan" strategic planning of the discipline of management
science and engineering in Guangzhou. The conference was hosted by the School of
Management at Sun Yat sen University. Academician Ding Lieyun, Director of the
Management Science Department of the Natural Science Foundation of China, and
Vice Director Liu Zuoyi attended the conference and delivered speeches. Vice
Director Wu Gang presided over the opening ceremony.
Director Ding Lieyun pointed out in his speech that the National Natural
Science Foundation of China attaches great importance to discipline strategic
planning. The "15th Five Year Plan" period is a key stage for serving the
country's scientific and technological self-reliance and supporting modern
governance. Discipline planning work needs to be based on the "three early"
requirements of "early planning, early initiation, and early implementation",
and scientifically layout with systematic thinking and forward-looking vision.
To formulate disciplinary plans, it is necessary to comprehensively summarize
the development of the 14th Five Year Plan, adhere to the "four orientations",
adopt rigorous scientific methods, and carry out disciplinary strategic work
with a research attitude, providing solid basis for planning.
Vice Director Liu Zuoyi introduced the core requirements of discipline
planning, pointing out that discipline planning must be centered on serving the
strategy of building a strong country through science and technology, fully
implementing the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee
on scientific and technological innovation, based on the functional positioning
of the Science Fund, and implementing the latest reform spirit of the Science
Fund. In the face of the disciplinary transformation opportunities brought by
artificial intelligence technology, management science and engineering
disciplines need to re anchor their development direction and explore emerging
interdisciplinary fields.
This conference invites 28 experts and scholars from various fields of
management science and engineering from higher education institutions and
research institutes across the country to participate, divided into three parts:
thematic presentations, free speeches, and group discussions.
In the thematic presentation session, Professor Wang Fan, the person in
charge of the "15th Five Year Plan" strategic planning for the discipline of
Management Science and Engineering and a professor at Sun Yat sen University,
reported on the discipline plan, mainly focusing on the development trends of
the discipline, the current situation of the discipline in China, the status of
the discipline from an international perspective, and the opportunities and
challenges for the development of the discipline in the digital age. Professor
Yu Yugang, the person in charge of the "14th Five Year Plan" strategic planning
for the discipline of management science and engineering and a professor at the
University of Science and Technology of China, summarized the "14th Five Year
Plan" discipline planning and proposed suggestions for top-level design,
handling the relationship between divergence and concentration, and establishing
a quality assurance system.
In the free speech session, attending experts actively spoke and provided
suggestions around the "15th Five Year Plan" discipline planning, covering key
areas such as research team building, scientific and technological achievements
display, discipline strategic positioning, planning direction expansion,
exploration of major breakthrough points, institutional mechanism reform, and
coordination with other disciplines.
In the group discussion session, attending experts freely discussed topics
related to the "15th Five Year Plan" discipline planning, condensed topics
related to the forefront of discipline research and key funding areas, and made
group summary reports. Through in-depth exchanges and discussions among
attending experts and scholars, this conference has gathered collective wisdom
and formed a preliminary framework for the "15th Five Year Plan" discipline
planning, guiding the subsequent discipline strategic planning work of
management science and engineering.
Experts and scholars from various fields of management science and
engineering from universities and research institutes across the country, as
well as relevant staff from the Management Science Department of the National
Natural Science Foundation of China, attended the meeting.