The Global Chinese Real Estate Congress (GCREC) will hold a Doctoral Forum during the 2025 annual conference. The forum is set for July 25, 2025 in Beijing, with the aim of providing doctoral candidates with an opportunity to communicate with renowned scholars in the real estate field about their academic research and career planning.
Doctoral candidates who are scheduled to defend their dissertations in 2025 are welcome to participate in this forum. An interested doctoral candidate must be recommended by their primary academic advisors, and submit their completed or soon-to-be-completed doctoral dissertations (in Chinese) before May 31, 2025. The Congress will strictly enforce this deadline, and any papers not submitted before the deadline will not be considered. Please send the paper to Ms. Liu at the forum secretariat (E-mail: hanglung_cre@tsinghua.edu.cn). Each scholar is limited to recommending one doctoral candidate at most.
This forum specially establishes the "2025 Best Real Estate Doctoral Dissertation Award". The forum's committee will conduct a preliminary selection of all doctoral dissertations submitted. Doctoral candidates who are shortlisted in the preliminary round will be invited to present their doctoral dissertations at the Doctoral Forum and proceed to the final selection. Doctoral candidates presenting at the forum will have the opportunity to dine with the members of the GCREC board. The forum committee will select one to two winning papers based on the performance in the forum presentations. The winning papers will be awarded during the GCREC 2025 Annual Conference, with a total prize of 10,000 RMB.
Doctoral candidates attending the forum will present their stheir paper content and research plans. Experts and scholars will provide comments on their research and offer guidance for their future career planning. The Doctoral Forum welcomes all other students and members to attend the forum in person, but please note that dinner service will not be provided.
