The first academic forum and award ceremony for distinguished papers of Securities Market Herald were held on December 1, 2011 inShenzhen. Mr. Guo Shuqing, Chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission, Mr. Zhu Hongren, Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Mr. Zhou Zhengqing and Zhou Daojiong, former chairmen of China Securities Regulatory Commission, Mr. Geng Liang, Director of Shanghai Stock Exchange, and Mr. Chen Dongzheng, Director of Shenzhen Stock Exchange, attended the award ceremony and presented the awards to authors of the award-winning papers.
Founded in 1991, Securities Market Herald is a professional academic periodical on securities sponsored by Shenzhen Stock Exchange. It has been one of the core periodicals in the field of economics all through these years and has a considerable influence both academically and industrially. In order to further exert the function of capital market research platform of Securities Market Herald and promote the researches on fundamental, prospective and policy topics in capital market, the editorial office of Securities Market Herald, in cooperation with the Financial and Industrial Development Research Center of Peiking University, sponsored the first academic forum and prize-giving essay contest with the topic of “The Construction of Multilevel Capital Market in Economic Transition”.
The essay contest sponsored by Securities Market Herald was highly supported by the academic circle and the industry. 165 papers were submitted by authors from 68 colleges and universities and 27 securities companies. The fields of research in such papers covered different aspects including construction of multilevel capital market including SME board and growth enterprise market, development of capital market, innovation and regulation, development of and financial support services for SME, regulation of private enterprises and development of entity economy in capital market services, etc. Many of such papers have a high academic level with strong pertinence and reality and provide significant reference value for the deepening and promotion of construction of multilevel capital market. After preliminary selection by the editorial office of Securities Market Herald, anonymous expert assessment and comprehensive assessment, totally 39 papers were selected, including 6 papers for the first prize, 11 for the second prize and 22 for the third prize. Chen Zhengrong from Haitong Securities, Fang Junxiong from FudanUniversity, Ma Ke from Donghai Securities, Deng Kebin from Guangdong Foreign Language and Foreign Trade University, He Xiaoyang from Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Zhuang Qianhua from Huatai Securities won the first prize.
Nearly one hundred people including award-winning paper authors, guest editors of Securities Market Herald, research staff from related securities companies and funds companies, research staff and post doctorates from the comprehensive research institute of Shenzhen Stock Exchange attended the first academic forum of Securities Market Herald. Mr. Chen Hongqiao, the Vice-general Manager of Shenzhen Stock Exchange, made a speech on the academic forum. With the combination of speeches from award-winning paper authors and comments from experts, discussions and communications were made on several major issues concerning the construction of multilevel capital market in economic transition. All representatives on the forum agreed that, the forum was a major event in which the academic circle and the industry could hold face-to-face discussions on the development of capital market in our country and the economic transition of related services. It created a precious opportunity for the exchange between the academic circle and the industry.
As reported, in order to further exert the function of capital market research platform of Securities Market Herald, promote researches on capital market, consolidate and develop the achievements made in the academic forum, Securities Market Herald plans to hold more similar academic forum activities in the future.
