On 15 October, the "SWUFE–CUEB Doctoral Bilateral Academic Forum," jointly hosted by the Research Institute of Economics and Management (RIEM) of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) and the School of Finance of Capital University of Economics and Business (CUEB), was successfully convened at RIEM, SWUFE. The forum comprised an opening ceremony and three parallel sessions, at which faculty and doctoral students held in-depth discussions on topical and frontier themes including biodiversity, executive characteristics, environmental attention, green innovation, climate risk, low-carbon transition, and financial stability.

Huang Lin, Vice Dean of RIEM, attended the forum and delivered a welcome address. Professor Huang began by extending a warm welcome to Professor He Feng of CUEB and his delegation. She emphasized that the bilateral forum constitutes an important platform for academic exchange, and expressed the hope that it would serve as a bond for deepening mutual learning and injecting fresh intellectual momentum into disciplinary development. Subsequently, Professor Zhang Dayong, Director of the Institute of Carbon Neutrality and Climate Finance at SWUFE, and Professor He Feng of the School of Finance at CUEB each introduced their respective research teams and research orientations, and jointly expressed the hope that this forum would mark the starting point for sustained, close bilateral exchange.

In the parallel sessions, six academic presentations were delivered in turn on the relevant frontier topics, each commented upon by young scholars from the two universities, with lively on-site interaction. In terms of thematic design, the forum first focused on biodiversity governance at the firm level, with the relevant studies examining the influence of green-oriented executives on corporate biodiversity information disclosure and the formation mechanism of corporate biodiversity risk perception in the context of smart cities. The discussion then extended to corporate climate strategy and executive characteristics, investigating the effect of top management team regulatory focus on corporate climate innovation. At the macro and regional levels, research approached from a biodiversity perspective to analyze the relationship between ecological civilization construction and local government environmental attention. At the household and financial levels, the forum addressed, respectively, the impact of extreme temperature shocks on household green and low-carbon transition, and the association between urban climate risk governance and bank asset quality. Taken together, these studies conducted multi-level discussion centered on biodiversity conservation, climate risk response, and green and low-carbon transition, with firms, governments, households, and the financial system as the multiple actors involved.

The forum engaged in thorough discussion around the six papers, providing an important opportunity to broaden doctoral students' academic horizons, stimulate their vitality for research innovation, and deepen inter-university and interdisciplinary academic exchange and cooperation, thereby supporting innovative development in discipline building and talent cultivation. At the close of the meeting, the participating experts systematically reviewed and summarized the research outcomes of the forum. The convening of this forum further deepened the academic ties between the two universities in the fields of economics and management, established a high-level academic exchange platform for young scholars, and holds positive significance for advancing frontier research in the relevant disciplines and for inter-university cooperation.