Before the holiday, Shanghai MICEE Institute held a postgraduate mid-term review at the conference room 302 of Building No.3, East District, Baoshan Campus. It was a special report meeting held by the Institute to further improve postgraduate training quality, ensure graduation dissertation quality, and implement the mid-term review requirements of Shanghai University's Graduate School and School of Communication Studies. Professor Zhang Min, Executive Dean of Shanghai MICEE Institute and PhD supervisor at Shanghai University, presided over the meeting. Attending faculty included Associate Professor Hai Kuo, Associate Professor Wang Yang, Lecturer Luo Yeyun, and Lecturer Fang Qian from the Institute's supervisor team. All current master's students of the Institute participated in the special report meeting.

Before the on-site presentations, Professor Zhang Min re-emphasized the procedures and requirements for mid-term review according to the university and school requirements, expounded on the importance of innovation in dissertation writing, and urged students to devote full efforts in writing to ensure solid dissertations, in-depth research topics, and high-quality completion of degree dissertations on time. This report meeting focused on Class 2018 master's students and Class 2019 professional master's students reporting on their degree dissertation research progress, academic literature reading, academic conference participation, academic paper publications, and research project participation, with the key being relevant students' degree dissertation research progress and problems encountered. The presentations proceeded with students' individual PPT presentations, supervisor evaluations, and Q&A. All meeting contents were recorded by the on-site secretary.

A total of 17 students presented at the meeting. The presentations showcased a wide variety of topics, including research on celebratory operation mechanisms focusing on fashion trends, research on festival communication mechanisms focusing on traditional culture, research on communication mechanisms of specific exhibitions, and research on online performance communication mechanisms under the special circumstances of the pandemic, among others. The faculty supervisor team affirmed the students' presentations while also providing pertinent modification opinions from multiple perspectives such as research ideas, paper framework arrangements, research methods, theoretical tool selections, etc. based on the specific presentation contents and current difficulties faced, encouraging the students to overcome difficulties and concentrate efforts on high-quality dissertation writing.

The mid-term review is an important part of postgraduate training and dissertation writing. On one hand, through student presentations, supervisors can gain an in-depth understanding of students' research competence and keep abreast of their research topics, while it is also an important opportunity for students to demonstrate research results in stages, learn from each other, and make progress through exchanges. On the other hand, the dissertation is an important reflection of students' research competence and outputs during postgraduate studies, and the mid-term review plays a crucial role in supervising and guiding their dissertation writing, holding great significance for further deepening and improving their research. Through on-site communication, guidance and urging, the supervisor team helped clarify students' research difficulties, provided suggestions tailored to the realities of their research topics, and ensured guarantee for high-quality and timely completion of graduation dissertations by all students.

The exhibition industry is a strategic, holistic modern service industry serving communication and cooperation between China and the world. It is currently experiencing robust new development in China. Exhibition studies as a discipline actively follows and continuously explores, integrating and developing together with the exhibition industry. As a municipal key national university, Shanghai University's exhibition studies offers a full range of programs including bachelor's, master's and doctorate. In March 2020, it successfully obtained approval as the first specially-set up new interdisciplinary undergraduate major by the Ministry of Education, and currently possesses 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 highly values the cultivation of mid-to-high level talents, strives to combine theory with practice, actively organizes postgraduate student participation in national and local exhibition projects, and continuously improves capabilities in discovering, analyzing and solving problems as well as the level and horizon of research-based learning.