Such topics are always popular in China. I surfed some university's BBS, websites and found that many univeristy's "....Forum"s at PhD level or even higher have too many topics such as "how to learn ... very well", "The new development in ...". They love methodological issues more than the contents, probably looking for some shortcut to beat the market.
For econometrics, one needs to have a solid background in Statistics, need to have a good teacher(s), have good textbooks, needs to be able to program,have access to high quality database.Of course work hard.
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