On March 13th, 2018, the work conference was held in the new semester and hosted by Professor WU Xinbo, Director of the Center for American Studies and Dean of the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University.

Director WU summarized and commented on the major academic, consulting and decision-making achievements made by the researchers in 2017 and then briefed on the overall 2018 work plan and relevant arrangements. At the conference, Professor WU put forward the key emphasis at work: endeavoring to keep up the academic researches, consulting and decision-making tasks with a sound momentum of development, expediting the compilation and publication of the Series on the United States and the World in the 21st Century, building the personnel layout of part-time researchers, seeking out theopen-ended platform construction of academic researches, striving to deepen the various innovative accomplishments, carrying out positive international cooperation, promoting people-to-people and cultural exchanges as well as enhancing the capacity of academic researches and consultation. 

The researchers attending the conference presented the academic research & work plan respectively and conducted in-depth exchanges and exploration on issues such as the developmental ideas and objectives of academic researches and the new-round of development as one of the key research institutes of humanities and social sciences at universities nationwide in 2018. On the basis of constructing new-type and specialized think tanks, the Center for American Studies at Fudan University will establish the talents exchange platform, deepen the transformation of scientific research achievements, integrate the discipline construction with building think tanks to further the development of undertakings in an all-round way.