In the afternoon of April 28^th,at the invitation of the economic development research center and the department of economics, Dr. Alfred Schipke, chief representative of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) in Beijing, delivered a speechat our schoolunder the theme of “RMB Internationalization: Development &Perspects”. Before the speech, Xie Danyang, Dean of our school, metDr. Alfred Schipke in the school’s VIP lounge. Mr. Xie stressed theimportance of training local government officials and discussed with Mr. Alfred the possibility of cooperation between our school and the IMF on training local government officials. The meeting was cooperative and practical.

The speech officially began at 14:30 inclassroom B127 of the school building. The classroom was filled with more than 120 people, including senior undergraduates, postgraduates, and PhD students from the school’s economics, finance, and global economy departments, alongside over 20 foreign students from Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America.

Mr. Schipke’s speech lasted for more than 2 hours. After the speech, many students felt there was so much more to discuss and so they talked directly with Mr. Schipke, while some students even asked to take a picture with him. The Chinese students commented unanimously that they had learned a lot from Mr.Schipke’s speech. Some foreign students echoed the same impression and expressed their desire to attend more high-level symposiums of this kind.