A group of 32 faculty members in Economics, Public Administration, International Relations, and other related academic disciplines from Sichuan University had attended the two-week summer course at St Edmund Hall. The Course comprised 24 academic sessions, and offered a total of 36 hours of lectures and discussions on various frontier topics in Economics and Public Administration.

It was organised and supervised by Prof. John Knight, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall in the University of Oxford, and managed by Ms Helen Chen, Administrative Director of the Oxford Chinese Economy Programme.