On the afternoon of October 25th, 2019, the symposium on “the Cooperation and Competitions of Big Powers against the Background of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The China-Europe-Russia Perspectives” was held in the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. This symposium was organized by the Shanghai Association of Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies, and jointly sponsored by the Shanghai Institute for European Studies and the Shanghai Association of World History Studies. It was undertaken by the institute of international studies of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.