Major Academic Activities

Major Academic Activities

From 2007 to 2012, the annual cross-strait regional science seminar was jointly held by the Association and Taiwan Regional Science Society.Since 2013, this seminar was formally merged into Asian Regional Science International Conference. 

In 2007, International Conference on Sino-Japanese Regional Science was jointly held by the Association and Applied Regional Science Association of Japan. 

Since 2010, on the basis of International Conference on Sino-Japanese Regional Science, annual International Seminars on Asian Regional Science were held six times successively in Beijing, China, Kitakyushu, Japan, Hua-lien in Taiwan Province, China, Seoul, South Korea, Harbin, China and Sendai, Japan. 

In 2009, the Association and relevant societies in South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines co-sponsored Asian Association for the Urban and Regional Study (AAURS) which held the International Seminars on Asian Urban and Regional Study respectively in Seoul, South Korea, Nanning in Guangxi Province, China and Bangkok, Thailand. 

Since 2012, the Advanced Training Course on China Regional Economy for Young Scholars is offered every year. Since 2010, the National Development Annual Meeting on Urban Management Discipline is held every year. 

In 2016, cooperated with Peking University, Nankai University, Tsinghua University, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing- Tianjin- Hebei Region’s Collaborative Development and Innovation Center of Hebei University of Economics and Business, School of Government and Beijing Development Institute of Peking University, the Association launched theannualnewyear forum of urban policies and management in China. 

In 2017, the first International Symposium on space data science was held, and the famous professor of space econometrics at home and abroad was invited to explain and discuss the frontier theory of spatial econometrics. In addition, International Conference on Developing Countries Regional Science, International Conference on Spatial Economics, International Seminar on New Economic Geography, International Advanced Workshop on Regional Science/ Spatial Economics, National Advanced Training Course on Regional Science for Teachers and China Regional Development Forum were held from time to time.