The 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022) was held on April 22-24, 2022 as a virtual conference due to the growing concerns over the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19), and in order to protect the well-being of our attendees, partners, and staff as our number one priority. The meeting goes around the network communication and recent research achievements in the field of information security, from institutions of higher learning, scientific research institutes, enterprises and institutions at home and abroad experts, professors, scholars, engineers and so on to provide a share professional experience, expand the professional network, face to face to new ideas and show the research results of the international platform, Exploring key challenges and research directions in this field, with a view to promoting the development and application of theories and technologies in this field in universities and enterprises, as well as establishing business or research connections for attendees and seeking global partners for future ventures.

This scientific event brings together more than 400 national and international researchers in humanities and social science research. On top of the local participants coming from different national universities, international participants are also registered from different countries, namely Italy, Spain, Jordan and Japan. During the conference, the conference model was divided into three sessions, including oral presentations, keynote speeches, and online Q&A discussion. In the first part, some scholars, whose submissions were selected as the excellent papers, were given about 5-10 minutes to perform their oral presentations one by one. Then in the second part, keynote speakers were each allocated 30-45 minutes to hold their speeches.

In the second part, we invited four professors as our keynote speakers. Prof. Xiangyang Zhang, Institute for Open Education, Suqian University, China performed a speech: Accommodating the Leadership in the Future of Education and Research: from Open Education to Open Science. And then we had Assoc. Prof. Marcus T. Anthony, Beijing Institute of Technology (Zhuhai), China. He presented an insightful speech: A critical futures studies perspective on sensemaking and embodiment in the digital society. Assoc. Prof. Joanna Rak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. She delivered a wonderful speech: Weakening Neo-Militant Democracies in Crisis-driven European Union. Prof. Augustin F. C. Holl, our finale keynote speaker, from Xiamen University, China. He presented an insightful speech: Global Archaeology and the Interdisciplinary Imperative: The Case of Austronesian Expansion. Their insightful speeches had triggered heated discussion in the third session of the conference. Every participant praised this conference for disseminating useful and insightful knowledge.

The proceedings are a compilation of the accepted papers and represent an interesting outcome of the conference. Topics include but are not limited to the following areas: Education, Social Sciences and Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies and more related topics. All the papers have been through rigorous review and process to meet the requirements of International publication standard.

We would like to acknowledge all of those who supported ICHSSR 2022. The help and contribution of each individual and institution was instrumental in the success of the conference. In particular, we would like to thank the organizing committee for its valuable inputs in shaping the conference program and reviewing the submitted papers.

The Committee of ICHSSR 2022