Recently, XJTU Professor Bian Yanjie of the School of Humanities and Social Science won the IACMR Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award in 2020. IACMR, International Association for Chinese Management Research, acknowledged in an official notice that Professor Bian Yanjie is among those who made the most significant contributions to China's management field, and that he is a pioneer in the studies of Guanxi, social networks and social inequality in China. In the past 30 years, Professor Bian's name appeared multiple times in lists of Elsevier Chinese Most Cited Researchers.