On October 26, held by the Management Science Department of NSFC, the 2019 Mid-term Exchange Meeting of Special Project——the Research of Key Issues in the National Macro Strategies was held in Beijing.

HOU Zengqian, deputy director of NSFC, DING Lieyun, director of the Management Science Department of NSFC, YANG Liexun and LIU Zuoyi, both deputy directors of the Management Science Department of NSFC, REN Zhiguang and CHEN Zhongfei, project director and director of mobile project of Office Ⅲ respectively, and WANG Huiguo of Office Ⅲ attended the meeting. Guiding experts invited by the meeting include: Researcher GUO Kesha from Huaqiao University, Prof. LAI Desheng from the Party School of the CPC Central Committee, Prof. WANG Pengfei from Peking University, Prof. XIONG Xiong from Tianjin University, Prof. LIANG Zheng from Tsinghua University, and XU Ce, Director of Development Strategy and Planning of the National Development and Reform Commission Associate researcher, Associate Prof. TANG Zhihao from Audit Office Electronic Data Audit Division, and Senior Economist JIAO Xiaoping from Center for Government and Social Capital Cooperation, Ministry of Finance.

At the launching ceremony, Academician HOU Zengqian explained to the experts and scholars attending the project four types of scientific issues encouraged by NSFC: Encouraging exploration and highlighting originality; focusing on cutting-edge and innovative approaches; demand-driven, break through the bottleneck of issues; common orientation and cross financing. HOU then introduced the six mechanisms established by NSFC to encourage the research on the four issues: a scientific issue condensing mechanism oriented to major national needs and the frontiers of science worldwide; a major project establishment mechanism, coalescence mechanism of fruit application, interdisciplinary integration mechanism, and multiple investment mechanism. Finally, HOU hopes that on the basis of the project, the participating experts and scholars can put forward scientific, clear, and high-quality policy recommendations that can support the development of the 14th Five-Year-Plan.

After that, the eleven research groups participating in the special project respectively reported their research progress and had a lively Q&A and discussion with instructing experts.

WANG Qing, director of the Chinese Finance Research Institute of SWUFE, on behalf of the research team, reported on the research progress of the project titled "Audit Monitoring and Early Warning of Macroeconomic Risks under the Big Data Environment". WANG emphasized research results and policy effects of the project from three parts: tracking and analysis system of the real estate, research on the operation of industry development, and the risk analysis framework of macro economy. The instructing experts highly evaluated project teams and hoped that they can further optimize the subject in consideration of the risk analysis framework, audit work model upgrading, etc.

Finally, researcher LIU Zuoyi, deputy director of the Management Science Department, made a concluding speech. The mid-term exchange meeting was a great success.