On the afternoon of December 27, 2018, Shanghai MICEE Institute held the postgraduate mid-term review at Meeting Room 1013, Xingjian Building, Yanchang Campus, concluding successfully. This was a special report meeting held by the Institute to further improve postgraduate training quality, strengthen training process quality control, and implement the mid-term review requirements of Shanghai University's Graduate School and School of Communication Studies. To ensure review effectiveness, the Institute notified all students of the review documents from the university and school, and asked everyone to prepare in advance. Professor Zhang Min, Executive Dean of Shanghai MICEE Institute and PhD supervisor at Shanghai University, presided over this review activity. Attending faculty included Associate Professor Gao Ming, Associate Professor Zhao Jinquan, Lecturer Luo Yeyun, Lecturer Fang Qian and other professional supervisor team members. Except for two students on overseas exchanges, all current PhD and master's students participated in the special report meeting.

The special report meeting consisted of three main parts: 1) Class 2016 master's and Class 2017 professional master's students reporting to the review team on dissertation progress, academic paper publications, academic literature reading, participation in academic conferences, with focus on dissertation progress after approval; 2) Class 2017 master's and Class 2018 professional master's students reporting on dissertation topics, academic paper preparations, literature reading, conference participation; 3) Class 2018 master's students reporting on specialized course selections, professional research progress; all grades submitting mid-term review forms, academic activity cards and other supporting materials. The review took the form of student presentations and faculty reviews, with process contents documented. The faculty gave improvement suggestions based on the presentations and completed review conclusions.

The mid-term review is an important part of postgraduate training, an overall inspection of postgraduate research learning and research work after enrollment, focused on testing the progress of specialized dissertation research after approval. The degree dissertation is an academic paper of certain scale with innovative insights independently written by postgraduates based on theoretical learning and professional practice. It concentrates the ability to independently conduct research, and serves as an important basis for evaluating whether postgraduates meet graduation criteria and can obtain their degrees. The mid-term review, especially necessary guidance from the collective supervisor review team at this stage, is greatly beneficial for improving dissertation quality and smoothly going through the pre-defense next semester.

The exhibition industry is a leading modern service industry with holistic and strategic strengths, needing large numbers of high-quality, compound talents. As an emerging interdisciplinary field progressing together with intellectual property, modern logistics, cultural industry, art market, public diplomacy and more, exhibition studies is part of the pressing needs for national prosperity and rejuvenation. As a municipal key national university, Shanghai University thrives on, progresses from and excels at innovation. Its exhibition program offers a full range including bachelor's, master's and PhD, currently possessing leading advantages among over 300 exhibition institutions nationwide. As a national exhibition research base jointly built by government ministries and Shanghai, Shanghai MICEE Institute focuses on independent third-party research, high-level talent cultivation and exhibition research think tank building. It has always valued organizing postgraduate student participation in national and local exhibition projects, participating in compiling and publishing the "Exhibition Blue Paper: Evaluation Report on Domestic and Foreign Exhibition Industry Dynamics" (2012, 2016, 2018), and actively exploring new models for cultivating mid-to-high level talents.