With the normalization of the epidemic, the long-term survival and sustainable development of enterprises have become an important foundation for the stability of the national economy. "Ensuring the security of the industrial chain and supply chain" has also been mentioned multiple times in the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Supply chain reform is increasingly highlighting its important role and core value in the transformation and upgrading of the entire industry and the high-quality development of the national economy. While embracing the development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of Things, digital twins, and AR/VR, enterprises are also facing global supply chain challenges brought about by the pandemic. How to bravely break free from constraints, actively innovate and change, and explore new development formats relying on new era, new vitality, and new engines has become a topic of common concern for all industries around the world.

Seizing the pulse of current events and empowering industrial innovation, the MBA Education Center of Zhejiang University and the Global Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management Master's Program (GMSCM) of Zhejiang University McGill University held the "2022 Global Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management Forum" on November 13, 2022, aiming to provide an open and healthy platform for everyone to deeply explore the ideas and ways of long-term survival and leapfrog development of enterprises, seize opportunities, and resolve difficulties, Under the dual test of opportunities and challenges, we will steadily move forward and take it to the next level.

At the beginning of the forum, Ms. Du Jian, Director of the MBA Education Center at Zhejiang University, delivered an opening speech. She pointed out that in the current global business landscape that is undergoing changes, both national macro strategies and micro needs of enterprises are accompanied by strong demands for transformation and upgrading. The forum is held at the right time. How to improve the flexibility and resilience of enterprise supply chains, relying on emerging technologies such as 5G, the Internet of Things, big data, and artificial intelligence, Building a new type of networked ecological supply chain and ensuring its stability and security is a highly concerned issue for government, industry, and academia.

Professor Shou Yongyi, the Chinese director of the GMSCM project at the School of Management of Zhejiang University, welcomed the guests and classmates present. He recalled that since the first session of the GMSCM project was launched in 2013, relevant forum activities have been held every year based on the industry hotspots of that year. Each forum invites industry experts to exchange and share with everyone, which is a very valuable and free knowledge dissemination and sharing, As the 10th anniversary of the GMSCM project in 2023 approaches, Teacher Shou hopes that both the project itself and forum activities can become an open platform, providing opportunities for non peer enterprises and individuals to exchange ideas and collide. While exploring new eras, new vitality, new engines, and new developments, she also hopes to gain new hope.