For the seventh time since August 2014, the Course had been offered at St Edmund Hall. A group of 33 faculty members in Business Administration, Public Health, Cyber Security, and other related academic disciplines from Sichuan University had attended the summer course at the 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, as well as Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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, with a total of 13 Oxford academics participating in the Course.