On December 20,2021, Beijing Institute of Technology Chinese and foreign family enterprise joint research center and family enterprise magazine jointly organized "2021 China-Europe small and medium-sized enterprises / family business forum: innovation entrepreneurship and cooperation development". Deputy secretary of Beijing institute of technology Qin Zhihui gave a speech on behalf of the school. The Chinese embassy in Austria technology counselor lei FengYun, and deputy secretary of China SME international cooperation association zhang XiaoHui attended the forum and made a speech. Professor Pei Rong, director of the family enterprise joint research center of the school of management and economics, Professor Zhang ji-hai, Professor Meng Fanchen, Associate Professor Wang HuaiYu and Dr Wang GangBo shared their views. The meeting strictly complied with the latest epidemic prevention requirements, and adopted offline and online methods. The offline conference venue was Room 240, the main building of Beijing Institute of Technology. The online conference was held by ZOOM, and the whole process was simultaneous translated to ensure smooth online and offline communication.

The forum was funded by the "Belt and Road" International Science and Technology Organization cooperation platform construction project for China Association for Science and Technology in 2021.