On the afternoon of December 11th, 2021, the 2021 SIES Annual Conference and “the Symposiumof Retrospect and Prospect on the European Union and the China-Europe Relations” were held in the East China Normal University. As part of the 2021 Important Academic Events of the Shanghai Federation of Social Sciences, this conference and symposium were hosted by the Shanghai Institute for European Studies (SIES), organized by the Center of European Studies and the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies of the East China Normal University, and jointly sponsored by the Center for European Union Studies of the Shanghai International Studies University. Prof. Men Jing, Director of the Center for European Studies of the East China Normal University, presided over the session of annual working report presentations of SIES. During this session, addresses were presented by Prof. Xu Mingqi, President of the SIES and Prof. Liu Jun, Deputy Dean of School of Politics and International Relations of the East China Normal University. Then Dr. Yang Haifeng, Secretary-General of the SIES presented the working report and financial statement on behalf of the Council of SIES. Dr. Cao Ziheng, Supervisor of the SIES, presented a supervisor’s working report. It was decided on this conference that the 7th assembly of all members of the SIES would be held on a specific date in accordance with the articles of incorporation of the SIES and the regulations of the Shanghai Federation of Social Sciences. After the presentations of working reports were two sessions of academic discussions anchored by Prof. Yang Fengmin, Director of the Institute of European Studies of the East China University of Science and Technology, and Professor Ye Jiang, who is from the Center for European Studies of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies. Keynote presentations were made by Prof. Ding Chun, Dr. Wang Le, Prof. Zhang Yinghong, Prof. Yu Nanping, Prof. Zheng Chunrong, Prof. Xin Hua, Prof. Xu Mingqi, Prof. Men Jing, Associate Prof. Hu Chunchun, and Prof. Shang Yuhong. Their presentations were commented by Prof. Fan Jun, former Vice President of the East China Normal University, and Prof. Wu Yikang, who is from the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
