MBA Education Management Center, UCAS

Recently, the Ministry of Education (MOE) announced the results of the Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scientific Research in Colleges and Universities (Humanities and Social Sciences), SEM was honored with two awards, Prof. Jingli Chou's work "Academic Libraries and New Publishing" won the First Prize in the category of Libraries, Intelligence and Literature, and Prof. Hongbo Duan 's paper "Assessing China's efforts to pursue the 1.5°C warming limit" won the first prize in Economics.

Academic Libraries and New Publishing, published by the National Library Press in 2021, is the final research result of the key project of the National Social Science Foundation "Study on the Impact of New Publishing on Academic Libraries". The book deeply analyzes the impact of various new publishing models on academic libraries, the composition and evolution of the elements of the academic communication ecosystem, the ecological relationship between academic libraries and publishing, the development of academic libraries under the perspective of the ecosystem. It clarifies the relationship between academic libraries and new publishing from the perspective of ecosystem, and then elaborates on the impacts of digital publishing, open publishing, data publishing, and semantic publishing on academic libraries, proposing that under the influence and pushing of the new publishing model, academic libraries should accelerate the reform in the resource construction mode, promote the transformation of the service mode, implement the reorganization of the business management organization, strengthen the construction of core competence, participate in the publishing and publishing services, and build a new ecology of academic libraries under the new publishing model. 

"Assessing China's efforts to pursue the 1.5°C warming limit", published in 2021, is the first research article published in Science by Chinese scholars as the first author in the field of social sciences (including economics and management). The paper establishes a multi-model comparison framework by integrating well-known domestic and international comprehensive assessment models, and for the first time investigates China's long-term low-carbon transition path under the temperature-control targets of the Paris Agreement. The paper points put possible future near-zero emission pathways for carbon and non-carbon, analyzes the potential emission reduction contributions of different emission factors, depicts the structural evolution of the energy system under a zero-carbon or low-carbon scenario, performs a cost estimation of complete decarbonization of the economy, and discusses the potential consistency of the 1.5°C temperature-control target with the carbon-neutral target. Through multi-model comparisons, the paper obtains many important findings of cross-model consistency, and also identifies the main sources of uncertainty that generate the results, which is of significant significance in improving the reliability of China's emission reduction strategies and policy formulation, as well as promoting the development of integrated assessment modeling theory. 

The Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scientific Research in Colleges and Universities (Humanities and Social Sciences) is set up by the Ministry of Education. It is awarded once every three years, and has been the most credible and influential award in the field of the humanities and social sciences in China since it was first set up in 1995.

（By Haijuan Wang）