The year 2026 marks the beginning of the 15th Five-Year Plan period. On March 1, the 2026 Fudan University School of Management New Year Forum was held at the Zhengli Campus. With Science as the Torch, Humanity as the String, Industry as the Soul, and Leading Change as the Ambition, top-tier researchers, luminaries from humanities and arts, leaders of advanced real economy and manufacturing, and pioneers in the academic field of management gathered together. At the dawn of the "15th Five-Year Plan," they collectively envisioned breakthroughs in cutting-edge technologies, appreciated the historical context of humanities, and engaged in thoughtful dialogue on the transformations of our time.

Science as the Torch: Exploring the Micro to Reach the Far

Jian Zhou, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Dean and Professor of Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, delivered a keynote speech titled "From Liver Cancer Prevention and Treatment to Clinical Research Result Transformation: Empowering High-Quality Hospital Development."

He is a pioneer breaking through the "forbidden zones" of liver cancer surgery, extending the scalpel into realms traditionally deemed hopeless by medical science while inheriting past wisdom. He not only led the innovation of the highly difficult "two-stage hepatectomy" (Associated Liver Partition and Portal Vein Ligation for Staged Hepatectomy, ALPPS) but also achieved numerous "world firsts" in frontier fields such as dual-graft liver transplantation and transplantation using previously discarded livers. As the Executive Chairman of the Expert Committee for Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment of Primary Liver Cancer of the National Health Commission and Co-Chair of the The Lancet Commission on Liver Cancer, he is integrating global experience to transform Chinese clinical cases into high-level evidence-based clinical data, filling in the puzzle of liver cancer diagnosis and treatment standards from a global perspective.

In his speech, Academician Zhou systematically expounded on the development history and scientific achievement transformation system of Zhongshan Hospital, particularly major breakthroughs and innovations in liver cancer prevention and treatment, including a full-chain system ranging from prevention and early diagnosis to treatment. As a global leader in liver cancer diagnosis and treatment, Zhongshan Hospital pioneered the "waste liver reuse" technology, transplanting benign tumor tissues from resected livers to other patients; completed Asia's first "two-stage hepatectomy," offering cure opportunities for patients with unresectable liver cancer; and developed the world's first 0.5 cm early diagnostic kit for liver cancer. This series of breakthrough technologies has formed a China-developed clinical model and is being promoted globally.

Yican Wu, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Academician of the International Nuclear Energy Academy, and Founder of Fenglin Nuclear Technology Co., Ltd., delivered a keynote speech titled "Sci-Tech Innovation Models and Innovation Practices in the Nuclear Technology Industry."

He ventured deep into the "no man's land" of basic research, building a solid theoretical highland on this world-class challenge. From pioneering the Chinese proposal for "neutron transport" to developing the internationally leading "Cloud-Light-Sword" (Yun-Guang-Bao-Dao) series of high-tech products, he has made nuclear technology applications truly knowable, controllable, useful, and effective. As the founder of Phoenix Nuclear, he integrates the rigor of a scientist with the boldness of an entrepreneur, leading China's nuclear technology from "following" and "running alongside" to "leading" in certain fields. Serving as chair of multiple international nuclear energy organizations, he ensures that Chinese wisdom resonates loudly in the global nuclear energy development agenda.

Focusing on the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and the current status of the nuclear technology industry in China, Academician Wu pointed out four major pain points: the disconnection in the "four-chain" linkage, insufficient internal drive, a lack of interdisciplinary talents, and a shortage of sci-tech finance and patient capital. In response, he suggested promoting systemic institutional change through "policy coordination + concrete implementation measures" to rapidly drive the transformation of achievements. He further emphasized that the nuclear industry is a cornerstone of national security. Currently, China's neutron and nuclear technology applications face critical technological bottlenecks. He looks forward to more forces joining the nuclear technology industry to support sci-tech innovation through institutional innovation, jointly promoting high-quality development.

Mei Tian, Dean and Professor of the Human Phenome Institute at Fudan University and Director of the Global Cooperation Promotion Center at Fudan University, delivered a keynote speech titled "From Genome to Phenome: New Opportunities in Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging."

From the multi-dimensional perspective of a clinical physician-scientist in nuclear medicine, her academic trajectory is a breakthrough across boundaries. She innovatively constructed new methods for nuclear medicine and molecular imaging diagnosis, systematically analyzed the complex associations between microscopic and macroscopic phenotypes, and deeply participated in the "Human Phenome" project, a future-oriented major national-level scientific initiative. With outstanding academic influence, she was elected President of the World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS) and serves as Associate Editor for two top international journals in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, continuously pushing the boundaries of the field. Leading her team at the forefront of global scientific research, she has strengthened China's voice in the global scientific community.

Professor Tian discussed the development history of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, explored the application of the human phenome in the medical field, and emphasized that the human phenome is a strategic high ground and source of original innovation in the post-genomic era. She also highlighted the core status and innovative breakthroughs of nuclear medicine in modern medicine, including applications in clinical disease diagnosis and treatment, exploration of life mysteries, and biopharmaceutical R&D. Looking ahead, she pointed out that nuclear medicine, through integration with AI and molecular imaging technologies, will drive full-chain innovation from target discovery to new drug development, promoting a new scientific research paradigm integrating "Gene-Environment-Phenotype."

Humanity as the String: Singing of the Era

Xiaohong Zhou, Associate Director of the Academic Committee, Senior Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanjing University, and Expert of the Discipline Planning Review Group of the National Social Science Fund, delivered a keynote speech titled "Folk Practices and Grassroots Narratives of Chinese Modernization - From 'Feathers for Sugar' to 'World Supermarket'."

He is among the first generation of "gardeners" in the reconstruction of Chinese sociology after the reform and opening-up. For over forty years, shuttling between the study and the field, he has measured the land with his footsteps, recording the most turbulent changes in Chinese society. He has always insisted on conducting scholarship on the vast land of China. From the psychological changes of farmers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the acclaimed "Reverse Cultural Feeding" theory, he deeply discerned the subversive changes in intergenerational relations, providing a classic explanatory paradigm for Chinese society in transition. He served as the editor-in-chief of monumental works such as History of Chinese Sociology, systematically sorting out the disciplinary lineage and answering the fundamental proposition of "where Chinese sociology comes from and where it is going." His rigorous academic contributions provide deep logic for understanding the changes of the times.

Taking Yiwu's transformation from "exchanging chicken feathers for sugar" to a "World's Supermarket" as an example, Professor Zhou revealed the unique path of Chinese modernization. He pointed out that the "Yiwu Miracle" originated from the resonance between "policy inclusiveness" and "folk creativity": local governments shifted from restriction to empowerment, while grassroots people accumulated wisdom and capital through mobile commerce. This synergy of "bottom-up" and "top-down" mechanisms constitutes a core feature of Chinese modernization, demonstrating the creative tension between policy and practice.

Changyong Liao, Baritone, Dean and Professor of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and Chairman of the Shanghai Musicians Association, delivered a keynote speech titled "Cultural Confidence and Global Resonance in Chinese Art Songs."

His singing is a perfect symphony of exquisite Western bel canto techniques and the profound charm of Eastern culture. He is a singer who makes the Chinese voice heard globally, winning three international vocal competition championships within one year, establishing a new height for Chinese vocal music on the world map with an unprecedented legendary record. He is also a cultural guide making Chinese music understood by the world. As the helmsman of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, he is deeply committed to the century-old context of Chinese art songs, setting his sights on far-reaching inheritance. He led the Centenary of Chinese Art Songs series across mountains and seas, using an artistic language understood by the world to play the magnificent movement of Chinese culture in multiple countries.

Dean Liao used the development and promotion practice of Chinese art songs as an example to explain the cultural confidence and global resonance value contained therein. He pointed out that Chinese art songs, with excellent traditional Chinese culture as the core and music as a cross-cultural universal medium, are important carriers for conveying national cultural confidence and achieving civilization dialogue and resonance. Their promotion practice is a vivid embodiment of Chinese culture going global. To sing the Chinese voice on the international stage, he has led the establishment of diversified promotion platforms for many years, promoting Chinese art songs to the world through measures such as establishing research centers, holding international vocal competitions, publishing internationally universal textbooks, and creating performances integrating poetry, calligraphy, painting, and music.

Industry as the Soul: Carrying Forward the Cause

Jianliang Chen, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd. and Alumnus of Fudan SoM, delivered a keynote speech titled "The Responsibility of the Chain Chief for Pillars of a Great Power - Perseverance, Breakthrough, and Reshaping Behind Plucking the Crown Jewel."

With over a decade of perseverance, he led China's high-end shipbuilding industry from technically following to leading the world. LNG carriers are hailed as the "pearl on the crown" of the shipbuilding industry. Facing containment by international giants, he led his team to raise China’s global market share of LNG carriers from single digits to over 30%, breaking decades of international monopoly in one fell swoop. Strategizing effectively, he builds not just ships but "supply chains," leading the acquisition of the largest single order in global shipbuilding history, the "Qatar 100-Ship Program." With the foresight of a strategist, he increased the localization rate of core supporting components from 26% to over 80%, incubating independent and controllable trillion-level industrial clusters, building a solid maritime Great Wall for national energy security.

Alumnus Jianliang Chen reviewed the enterprise's leapfrog development from "ten years to grind one ship" to "delivering over ten ships a year" with "Perseverance, Breakthrough, and Reform" as the main line. This includes overcoming LNG ship technical barriers over 20 years; increasing the localization rate from 26% to 80%, driving over 130 supporting enterprises to form a trillion-level industrial ecosystem; and significantly compressing the LNG ship construction cycle through digital transformation to build a full-process intelligent production system. He stated that the localization rate will continue to increase in the future, and further layouts will be made in frontier fields such as liquid hydrogen carriers to continue leading industry development.

Weiliang Chen, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of MetaX Integrated Circuits (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., delivered a keynote speech titled "Building the Foundation of Computing Power, Strengthening Chinese Chips."

Computing power is the foundation of the digital economy, and the GPU is the core engine of this foundation. Facing the dilemma of being "strangled" in domestic high-end GPUs, he embraced the original aspiration of serving the country through science and technology, choosing to face difficulties head-on and achieving an independent breakthrough in the field of high-end computing power. In 2025, he delivered two landmark achievements. The flagship product Xiyun® C600 was released impressively, taking the lead in realizing the full-process localization of GPUs; the company successfully listed on the STAR Market, becoming the first GPU leading enterprise to IPO in Shanghai. He led the team to provide more independent and controllable computing power support for AI, data centers, and scientific computing, tearing open a path for independent breakthrough for China's computing power.

In his speech, he pointed out that computing power has become the core engine for the integrated development of the digital economy and the real economy. Supported by national strategies, China's chip industry is ushering in a critical period of moving from "following" to "running alongside" and "leading" in certain fields.

He shared the practical exploration of MetaX, launching four major product series covering AI training and inference, general-purpose computing, graphics rendering, and scientific intelligence scenarios through full-stack independent R&D of core GPU IP computing chips. The company also self-developed the MXMACA software stack, empowering thousands of industries with AI through software-hardware synergy.

Zhiping Song, President of the China Association for Public Companies(CAPC) and Chief Expert of the China Enterprise Reform and Development Society (CERDS), delivered a keynote speech titled "Reshaping the New Paradigm of Management."

Trekking through the business sea for forty years, he wrote an unreplicable history of enterprise reform. Steering China National Building Material (CNBM) and Sinopharm Group, he brought two central SOEs into the Fortune Global 500, creating industry legends of breaking through dilemmas to world leadership in different industrial fields. As an important promoter in the field of enterprise reform research, he refined practical wisdom into management philosophies such as "Three Refinements Management" and "Eight Working Methods," guiding Chinese enterprises in a profound transformation from scale expansion to quality and efficiency. He has published multiple management books such as Business Strategy, Three Refinements Management, The Effective Manager, and The Hard Truth, continuously influencing the governance and growth of Chinese enterprises.

In his speech, President Song pointed out that while China has entered a stage of high-quality development, some enterprises still follow traditional business paradigms. He emphasized that against the backdrop of the "15th Five-Year Plan", enterprises must reshape their business logic, shifting from reliance on scale, cost, and low-price competition to a new paradigm centered on innovation, value, management, and win-win cooperation. The new management paradigm should focus on "becoming stronger and better," highlighting the main business, and improving quality and efficiency, avoiding blind diversified expansion. Enterprises should achieve "value pricing" through strategies such as differentiation and branding, breaking away from low-price competition and transforming from vicious competition to benign coopetition.

Leading Change as the Ambition: Renewal of All Things

Dean Xiongwen Lu of Fudan SoM delivered the concluding speech.

He is a witness, cultivator, and pilot of the development of management education in China. With the vision and breadth of mind of "Enlightening for Truth, Pioneering for Change," he has led Fudan SoM to merge into the rolling tide of global management education, standing firmly among the world's leading business schools. He is the standard-bearer of the Sci-Tech Innovation Strategy, using the powerful voice of the times, "Sci-Tech Innovation Brings a Better Future," to reshape the management ecosystem of Chinese sci-tech innovation enterprises with management wisdom. He turned the grand blueprint of "Vision for the 22nd Century Campus" into the new landmark of the Zhengli Campus, forging a thought field integrating East and West for global management education. Standing at a new historical starting point, he proactively lays out business education and research in the AI era, dedicated to pioneering a future path for the development of management education that fits the Chinese context and moves towards the global frontier.

Dean Xiongwen Lu pointed out that the impact of the arrival of the sci-tech innovation era lies not only in the breakthrough development of new technologies but also in the deep-seated changes triggered by the industrial revolution. The paths to solving many problems no longer originate from traditional modes of thinking, nor necessarily from experts in the same field or track; they are very likely to be fundamentally disrupted by experts from different fields.

Against this backdrop, Fudan SoM actively responds to the needs of the times, supporting students and alumni to enrich their knowledge reserves and actively learn from top experts in various fields. The renewal of thought and cognition is the most important force promoting all changes, which is also the original intention of the School holding the New Year Forum.

Dean Xiongwen Lu emphasized that the development of AI achieves qualitative change after key technological breakthroughs and is rapidly replacing various positions; interpersonal relationships will transform into interactions between humans and technology. The research object of management will no longer be limited to people and production but extends to "everything." Humans must control machines with rational and ethical wisdom, establish consensus and collaboration, and jointly guard the ethical boundaries of technological development.

In the future, Fudan SoM will continue to deeply study the innovative development direction of management, comprehensively optimize the research system and talent cultivation model of management, enabling society to move toward a more prosperous, civilized, and sustainable future.

Dean Xiongwen Lu presented appreciation plaques to the forum guests.