The 60th “Frontier Lectures in Economic Law” of the Law School of Renmin University of China, jointly organized by the Law School and Beijing Society of Economic Law, was held in Classroom No.401 of the Law School on the evening of March 8, 2018. The lecture, which took “Issues of Basic Economic Law Theory in the Construction of a Modernized Economic System”, was given by Professor Wang Mengzhou, a famous economic law expert at the Law School of Renmin University of China, Professor Xi Yuemin, Head of the Economic Law Department of CASS Law Institute, and Professor Ye Shan from the Law School of Peking University and attended by about 200 students and teachers from the Law School of Renmin University of China as well as by some graduate students of the Law Faculty of CASS Graduate School.

　

In the lecture, Professor Xu Mengzhou analyzed the relation between modern economic system and basic theory of economic law in China in the following five aspects: understanding Chinese economic law on the basis of understanding Chinese economic system; improving the ontology of economic law by relying on the modernized economic system; constructing the legal theory of market regulation under modernized economic system; and constructing the macro-control legal theory of modernized economic law system.

　

In his speech, Professor Xi Yuemin analyzed the scientific connotation of and ways of improving modernized economic system and economic law theory in light of the strategy of “implementing new development ideas and constructing modernized economic system” put forward by Party Secretary-General Xi Jinping in Part Five of his report to the Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Professor Ye Shan gave responses to the views on the relevant issues put forward by Professor Xu Mengzhou and Professor Xi Yuemin in their speeches, and put forward her own unique opinions on these issues, pointing out that the research on these issues from the interdisciplinary perspective of economy and law would provide new thinking mode and research methods for the deconstruction of the modernized economic system and the improvement of economic law theory in China. After the lecture, the three lecturers answered the questions raised by the audience.