Recently, the National Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences announced the list of approved major projects of the National Social Science Fund of China (NSSFC) for 2025. The project "Research on Dynamic Risks Faced by China's Overseas Assets and Countermeasures" led by Prof. YAN Haifeng from the University was successfully approved. This marks another breakthrough for ECUST in the field of philosophy and social sciences research, further enhancing the university's academic and social influence in management and other research areas.
ECUST List of 2025 Major Project of National Social Science Fund of China
The Major Project of the National Social Science Fund of China is the highest-level, most generously funded, and most authoritative project category in China's philosophy and social sciences field, representing the national top standard in humanities and social sciences research. Adhering to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the 2025 major projects of the NSSFC focus on major theoretical and practical issues that provide academic support for advancing the Party's theoretical innovation and Chinese-style modernization, as well as major basic theoretical issues that play a key role in the development of philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics and the construction of an independent knowledge system of Chinese philosophy and social sciences. The projects aim to produce landmark research achievements with significant academic innovation value and cultural inheritance significance, strive to serve the strategic needs of the Party and the country, promote knowledge innovation, theoretical innovation, methodological innovation and application innovation, and prosperity and develop philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics.
Introduction to the Project
In response to the central government's requirement of "realizing positive interaction between high-quality development and high-level security", especially "strengthening the early warning, prevention and control, and protection systems and mechanisms for overseas interests and investment risks", the project "Research on Dynamic Risks Faced by China's Overseas Assets and Countermeasures" addresses this major national strategic need. Centering on reducing the dynamic risks of China's overseas assets, the project constructs an overall framework of "geopolitical risk events—asset vulnerability—comprehensive response strategies", clarifies the laws and mechanisms of the "multi-source concurrent—dynamic evolution—cascading amplification" dynamic risks faced by China's overseas assets amid changing geopolitical relations. By developing new paradigms, new theories and new tools, and applying systematic thinking, the project explores the establishment of a multi-level comprehensive and coordinated resilient governance mechanism and institutional policy design covering "national—industrial—enterprise" levels. It aims to break through the traditional static risk paradigm, achieve comprehensive, dynamic and systematic response to the dynamic risks of China's overseas assets, and enhance the security of China's overseas assets.