Topic: How to Advance Research on the History of Reform and Opening-Up: Taking the Third-Front Construction as an Example

Time: December 5, 2025 (Friday), 2:30 PM
Venue: Huiwen Building, Room 1600
Speaker: Xu Youwei

• Second-tier Professor, Department of History, Shanghai University

• Deputy Secretary-General and Executive Council Member, China Third-Front Construction Research Association

• Deputy Director, Shanghai University Research Center for Third-Front Construction

• Chief Expert, National Social Science Fund Major Project “Compilation and Study of Materials on the Small Third-Front Construction”

Speaker’s Research Profile

Professor Xu Youwei specializes in the study of the Small Third-Front Construction. He has served as chief editor of works such as Oral History of Shanghai: The Small Third-Front Construction and Archives and Research Integration of the Small Third-Front Construction in New China. He has published nearly one hundred papers and essays in journals including Social Sciences in China (English Edition) and Historical Research, with many of his works reprinted by Xinhua Digest, Chinese Social Sciences Digest, and RUC Reprinted Materials.

He has organized five national academic symposiums on Third-Front Construction, and has participated extensively in planning films, documentary productions, photography exhibitions, memorial hall exhibitions, and museum projects related to the Small Third-Front Construction.

Hosted by:
School of Marxism, Shenzhen University
Shenzhen University Center for the Study of Reform and Opening-Up History

December 2, 2025