On September 8, SDRF held the 172nd Shanghai Development Salon "From the death of Gorbachev, talk about the evolution and influence of the political and economic system of Soviet/Russia". Feng Yujun, deputy dean of the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University and director of the Center for Russian and Central Asian Studies, and Yang Cheng, executive director of the Shanghai Institute of Global Governance and Regional Studies at Shanghai International Studies University, delivered speeches and answered questions from the audience.