On the afternoon of May 23, 2017, professor Lian Daxiang of the university of Texas at SAN Antonio was invited to visit and give an academic report entitled "Topics in Futures Markets". A number of teachers and students attended the lecture. The report was hosted by teacher Lu Xin.

　　Lian DaXiang, California Institute of Technology, Ph.D. in economics. University of Texas at SAN Antonio Business School professor, former assistant president, director of the Center for East Asian Studies, the United States Liu Fund director, Liu Shangjian outstanding chair professor of business. Visiting professor at the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Tsinghua University, the University of Victoria, British University of Reading and Missouri University, Kansas City. He published more than 270 articles in Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Economics, etc..　

　　In this report, professor Lian Daxiang introduced the hedging role of futures market. Professor Lian first introduced the development and basic knowledge of econometrics, then summarized the definition of futures, and introduced the role of futures in hedging and reducing risks in practice.