On the afternoon of March 14th, CIDEG academic salon NO.161 was held in room 302, SPPM, Tsinghua University. The salon invited Liu Shenglong, Associate Professor of SPPM, Tsinghua Univeristy, to deliver a keynote speech on "Foreign Direct Investment and Total Factor Productivity in China - Based on Panel Data of China in Prefecture Level". ZHU Junming, Associate Professor of SPPM, GAO Yuning, Associate Professor of SPPM and YAO Xi, Assistant Researcher at the Institute of World Economics and Politics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences acted as commentators at the salon.