On the evening of June 10, 2018, Xue Lan, Vice President of the Chinese Society of Administration and Management, member of the National Invited Committee for Strategic Consultation and Comprehensive Review, member of the State Council's Expert Group on Emergency Management, senior professor of Liberal Arts at Tsinghua University, Dean of School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University (SPPM), and co-Director of the Institute of Sustainable Devleopment Goals of Tsinghua University (TUSDG), delivered a speech titled The Fourth Industrial Revolution is Coming. More than 1,000 audience members attended the lecture, while more than 200,000 netizens watched the online broadcast outside the venue.

This speech was warmly reflected by the audience and reported by many media. People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily Online, Xinhua Net, Xinhua Net Sike, China Youth Daily, PLA Daily, Outlook Weekly, People's Political Consultative Conference Daily, Beijing TV, the Paper and other media reporters were present to participate in the activities of the forum; Tencent video, Netease News, PhoenixTV, Sohu Thousands of Sails live, Toutiao, CIBN HD film and television, CIBN Culture China and other network platforms on the activities of the online synchronous live.