Normal07.8 磅02falsefalsefalseEN-USZH-CNX-NONEIn the morning of November 15, 2014, the first meeting of Consultation Committee for School of Economics and Management, Wuhan University was held. The attending guests include Tang Min, Standing Vice President of YouChange China Social Entrepreneur Foundation, Chen Dongsheng, Board Chairman of Taikang Life Insurance Co., Ltd, Mao Zhenhua, Board Chairman of China Chengxin Credit Management Co., Ltd, Qian Yingyi, President of School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Yang Xian, President of School of Management, National University of Singapore, and Zhou Lin, President of School of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Professor Luo Yuting, Vice Secretary of Party Committee of Wuhan University, and Professor Shen Zhuanghai, President of Institute for Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences were invited as special participants. All of our school’s officials attended the meeting.

The first segment of the meeting was hosted by our president, Professor Xie Danyang. Professor Xie started by announcing the establishment of School of Economics and Management Consultation Committee, and expressing our gratitude towards guests who set aside time for this meeting, for their support for our school’s development. He then introduced the general conditions of our school, the process of its internationalization, and the opportunities and challenges it faces. He hoped the guests can provide new ideas and advices about our future development.

Afterwards, Professor Luo Yuting awarded letters of appointment to the attending committee members Tang Min, Chen Dongsheng, Mao Zhenyu, Qian Yingyi, Yang Xian, and Zhou Lin.

The second segment was hosted by Dr. Tang Min, chairman of the committee. Dr. Tang said, as an alumnus of our school, he was honored to be appointed a member and the chairman of the Consultation Committee, and given the chance to present advices for our school’s development. The committee members gave their detailed opinions on the regulations of the committee, and passed the regulations with unanimous approval.

During the consultation process, committee members provided many innovative and feasible ideas for the school’s future, using their perspectives from both the business world and the academic world. Regarding the influence of macroscopic economic policies and market on the school’s education programs, particularly the EMBA program, the members suggested that we may consider exploring middle-level vocational training, which is sorely needed by enterprises, and is in much greater demand by the market, compared to the high-level EMBA program which demand is relatively small. Secondly, regarding the market of education, the aggregation effect of business associations (such as the Union of Hubei Businessmen) can be tapped to help explore the market of vocational education and training for the private sector. This is a market with a huge demand for education that has yet to be fully discovered and exploited. Thirdly, in terms of education methods, the school may catch on the new MOOC revolution to create novel modes of remote education, and preemptively occupy the education market of the future. Lastly, in terms of education and training, the school may follow the national policy to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship, and provide intellectual support for entrepreneurship using the school’s advantages in personnel and knowledge. The committee members advised that our school can be more proactive in searching for new collaborations. If necessary, special research teams can be organized to better design courses specifically to address the market’s needs, and attract more enterprises and people to the continued learning courses. The members expressed the hope to put more effort into our school’s development, and make the contributions they can make.

The Consultation Committee for School of Economics and Management, Wuhan University was started in response to the Party and the state’s policiesregarding higher education, and the needs of our country’s economic growth, with the purpose to further improve the quality of our education, and allow outside members to participate in our management and optimization of governance structure. The term of a committee member is four years. The thirteen members of the first committee are distinguished entrepreneurs, researchers and alumni. They will provide suggestions for our school’s growth strategy, program system, academic research and collaborations.