Top 2024 academic topics unveiled

List examines key issues that have been major areas of public discussion in the past year, Fang Aiqing reports.

The Renmin University of China in Beijing and the Shanghai Federation of Social Science Associations jointly released the top 10 academic topics in Chinese philosophy and social sciences for 2024 on Monday.

The list includes theoretical studies on Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, further deepening reform to advance Chinese-style modernization, new quality productive forces, contemporary interpretations on traditional Chinese ethical thoughts, and research on the construction of an education power.

It also involves China's demographic structural changes and high-quality development of the population, the country's history of unification, world China studies, as well as the Global South and the evolution of the international order.