On 5^th January, "The First Meeting of the Seventh General Assembly of the Shandong Association for World Economic and Trade Research and the Forum on High-Quality International Economic and Trade Development in the New Era" organized by the Shandong Association for World Economic and Trade Research and hosted by Qilu Institute of Technology, was held in Jinan. The event was attended by Zhang Yanming, President of the Shandong Association for World Economic and Trade Research; Ma Shuzhong, a distinguished professor at Zhejiang University and Director of the China Institute for Digital Trade; Fang Hui, a distinguished professor and Dean of the School of International Economics and Trade at Shandong University of Finance and Economics; Liu Qinglin, a professor and Director of the Institute of World Economics at Shandong University; and Zhang Yuming, Director of the Small and Medium Enterprise Research Institute at Shandong University and Dean of the School of Business at Qilu Institute of Technology.