On September 29, CUEB hosted the launch of theBlue Book: China International Taxation Development Report (2026) and the 2nd International Taxation Frontier Forum. The forum was hosted by the National Research Base for Tax Law (Beijing Philosophy and Social Sciences Research Base). Sun Ruibiao, President of the China International Taxation Research Institute (CITRI), member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and former Deputy Commissioner of the State Taxation Administration; Geng Xianjia, Member of the Party Committee and Editor-in-Chief of Social Sciences Academic Press; Hao Ruyu, former Deputy Director of the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee of the 11th and 12th National People’s Congress and Chief Expert of the National Research Base for Tax Law; and Liu Ying, Party Secretary of CUEB, attended the event and delivered speeches.

On behalf of CUEB, Liu Ying extended warm welcome and sincere gratitude to the experts, scholars, faculty and students present at the forum. She remarked that on the occasion of the CUEB’s 70th anniversary andin the first year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, the university is reflecting deeply on its mission of the era and has posed three key questions: first, how to embrace the AI era; second, what historical mission CUEB should undertake in building China’s independent intellectual system in philosophy and social sciences; and third, how to deliver a historical response to the transformation and development of New Liberal Arts within the capital’s higher education landscape, against the backdrop of the transformative development of New Engineering, New Liberal Arts, New Medicine and New Agriculture.

Liu Ying stated that the university is striving to build a highland for the research and interpretation of Xi Jinping Thought on Economics, to foster a disciplinary ecosystem characterized by “classified development and interdisciplinary integration”,and to strengthen four major clusters—economics, management, science & engineering with interdisciplinary programs, and arts & law. The university is building a digital-intelligence experimental platform for interdisciplinary studies and empowering talent cultivation through digital-intelligence transformation and internationalization, as it presses forward toward its goal of becoming a first-class finance and economics university meeting capital standards, with Chinese characteristics and international renown. She expected that experts and scholars would continue to support CUEB’s development, and wished the base greater high-quality research outputs, contributing more Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to the country’s high-standard opening-up and the optimization and upgrading of the global tax governance system.

At the event, Cao Jingtao, Director of the National Research Base for Tax Law at CUEB, released the International Taxation Blue Book: China International Taxation Development Report (2026), and introduced its research concept, background, main content and future research agenda. Professor Zhao Shubo of CUEB, Li Yonghai, Dean of the School of Public Finance and Taxation at Lanzhou University of Finance and Economics, and Xu Liwei, Associate Professor of the School of Economics at Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, presented research findings on tariff policy developments in major countries, international tax administration cooperation, and tax policy incentives for innovation, respectively. Li Ping, Deputy Director of the Research Institute of the State Taxation Administration, commented on the findings.

In the keynote session, Li Wanpu, Vice President of the China Taxation Society; He Yang, Director of the Academic Journal Press at the Central University of Finance and Economics; Li Jingyi, Vice Dean of the School of Public Finance and Taxation at Dongbei University of Finance and Economics; Zhang Li and Cheng Xiaomeng, Associate Professors of the School of Public Finance and Taxation at CUEB; and Dong Guoyun, Chairman of Hargent Tax Consulting Co., Ltd., delivered keynote speeches on topics including tax-related information reporting by platform enterprises, the adaptability of AI to international taxation, cross-border income tax policies, anti-tax avoidance policies, tax support for high-standard opening-up, and tax services for Chinese enterprises going global.

Also attending the launch and forum were scholars from relevant universities, representatives from the tax system, practitioners from professional institutions, and faculty and student representatives from CUEB’s School of Public Finance and Taxation.