On the afternoon of March 5, 2025, the Business School held the First Session of the Business School’s Excellent Academic Forum Lecture Series in 2025 in the Conference Room 615 of Bishop, South Road Campus, Central University of Finance and Economics. The lecture invited Lei Jiasu, professor of the Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, and director of the Research Center for Chinese Enterprise Growth and Economic Security, Tsinghua University, as the keynote speaker. The lecture was presided over by Professor Lin Song, Dean of the Business School. More than 20 professors, doctoral students, master's students and undergraduates participated in this activity.

The topic of Professor Lei Jiasu's lecture is "The underlying logic of the formation of new quality productivity and the response of university business". The lecture consists of three parts: First, science driven technological innovation is the fundamental source of the formation of new quality productivity; Second, the innovation driven by active science must have institutional innovation and the cultivation of related innovation ecological environment; Third, to cultivate new quality productivity, universities need to achieve this through curriculum setting and new discipline cultivation. In his share, Professor Lei listed many cutting-edge scientific and technological innovation cases, including Huawei and other enterprises. His unique insights and profound explanations make complex theories vivid and easy to understand.
After the sharing, the professors and students actively participated in the discussion, and Professor Lei Jiasu warmly answered everyone's questions, which further promoted the more in-depth academic exchanges between each other.
The "Excellent Academic Forum" is an academic exchange platform established by the School of Business to fulfill the mission of "Contributing New Knowledge of Management". It gathers cutting-edge ideas and innovative viewpoints from home and abroad around the cutting-edge theoretical issues and organizational development difficulties in the discipline of business administration and Chinese enterprise management practice, so as to explore Chinese solutions for China's social and economic development.