On June 9, 2026, Guan Guihai, Executive Vice President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS), Peking University (PKU), traveled to Shanghai to attend the international academic symposium "The 25th Anniversary of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO): New Missions and New Contributions to Global Governance," where he delivered a speech on the impact of the SCO's enlargement on the SCO's institutional development. The symposium was jointly hosted by the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS), the Shanghai Association for International Studies, and Shanghai Association for Russian, East European & Central Asian Studies. Participants included representatives from the SCO Secretariat, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, as well as more than 20 Chinese scholars.

Editor: Li Fangqi