On March 25-26, 2023, the 1st Executive Council and 1st Committee Meeting of the Digital Intelligence and Finance Working Committee of the Belt and Road and BRICS International Alliance for Skills Development (hereinafter referred to as "the Committee") was held in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. More than 180 people attended the meeting, including Liu Zhenying and Xue Xinghua, the directors of the Committee, Qi Guijie and Zhao Lisheng, the executive directors, councilors, members and representatives, etc. The presidents, deans, directors of academic affairs, professional teachers and participants from more than 110 universities and colleges focused on the theme of "China's Standard and International Leadership: Promoting the Internationalization of Colleges and Universities" and made presentations, exchanges of achievements, and discussions on the topic. More than 110 school presidents, deans, teaching directors, professional teachers and participants focused on the theme of "Chinese Standards and International Leadership to Promote the Construction of Internationalization Achievements of Universities", and carried out activities such as thematic reports, exchanges of achievements, and pre-registration of internationalization achievements of universities.
The meeting was co-chaired by Dean Qi Guijie of Shandong University Business School and Dr. Ruixue Li, Assistant Dean of Shandong University of Finance and Economics School of Accounting.
Dr. Liu Zhenying, Director of the Committee, Head of the Skills Development Group of the BRICS Business Council (China), Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Belt and Road and BRICS International Alliance for Skills Development, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Organizing Committee of the BRICS Skills Development and Technological Innovation Competition, Director of the Belt and Road and BRICS Training Center for Skills Development and Technological Innovation of the China Association for Science and Technology, and President of the Xiamen BRICS Institute of Skills Development and Technological Innovation for the Future, made a keynote report on the theme of "Leading BRICS+Education with Chinese Standards"; and Mr. Xue Xinghua, Director of the Committee, Founder and CEO of CloudAccounts Network Technology Ltd. attended the meeting and gave a speech.
图:刘振英主任致辞
In Director Liu Zhenying's report and speech, he first introduced the BRICS Business Council Skills Group, the Belt and Road and BRICS International Alliance for Skills Development, the BRICS Business Council's Skills Development Outcome Design for 2017-2022, and the continuation of the BRICS Skills Development and Technological Innovation Competition with competition instead of training.
According to him, the Belt and Road and BRICS International Alliance for Skills Development is an important outcome endorsed by the Preparatory Committee for the BRICS Supreme Leaders' Meeting in 2017, filed with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, and approved by the BRICS Business Council, with more than 1,560 member organizations. Under the alliance, the Creators Alliance, the Digital Intelligence and Finance Working Committee and the Transportation Vocational Education and Skills Development Working Committee have also been established.
Dr. Liu introduced in detail the five outcome designs proposed by the Chinese Skills Group during China's presidency of the BRICS in 2022, which mainly include: setting up the BRICS Skills Standardization Working Committee to formulate vocational skills standards and issue skills certificates; carrying out cooperation with BRICS Future Skills Training Bases to cultivate skills talents; establishing the BRICS Distance Lecture Hall on Skills Development and Technological Innovation to carry out theoretical and technical seminars and skills training; building the Xiamen BRICS Institute for Future Skills Development and Technological Innovation, implementing the design of the BRICS Skills Group and providing support services; and conducting the BRICS Vocational Skills Competition and the Skills Development and Technological Innovation Competition. These five outcomes have been included in the BRICS Business Council Annual Report 2022, which was submitted to the top leaders of the five countries.
In 2023, the Alliance and the BRICS Skills Group are focusing on international project cooperation to implement the five outcome designs on a case-by-case basis. Dr. Liu welcomed teachers and students to learn about and participate in the internationalization projects corresponding to the above five outcome designs, especially the concrete actions in the development of future skills curricula and the development of international group standards. He asked member institutions to make good use of the international and domestic resources of the Committee's platform, to work under the framework of the Alliance, to further enrich the connotation of the Alliance with concrete projects and achievements, and to become the most distinctive and dynamic branch of the Alliance.
He also emphasized in the end that the committee should have a big pattern, big feelings, and integrate the little work into the grand blueprint of great country diplomacy and Chinese rejuvenation, so that the financial talents, as the participants and leaders of the construction of the Belt and Road, can add bricks and mortar to the rise of the great country!
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Mr. Xue Xinghua, Founder and CEO of CloudAccount Network Technology Co., Ltd. then delivered a welcome speech. He pointed out that the purpose of the committee's establishment is to truly explore and establish the 1+1+N model of combining industry and education internally, in the hope of enhancing students' practical skills, cultivating cutting-edge talents with an international outlook in digital intelligence and finance, helping students to be fully employed, and forming various standards of digital intelligence and finance education leading the BRICS countries and even the international world; externally, it is hoped that it can promote diversified and facilitate international cultural exchanges and Externally, we hope to promote diversified, international cultural exchanges and transnational cooperation, and international academic innovation and technological progress.
In this regard, he put forward his expectations and requirements for the work of the Committee: the core work of the Committee should be in line with the needs of the education sector and the industry; all members of the Committee should be firm in their goals, work with one heart and one mind, make concerted efforts, utilize their wisdom and strengths, and actively carry out the work of the Committee, so as to jointly promote the healthy and long-term development of the Committee, and endeavour to enhance the Committee's social influence and appeal; and the Committee should accumulate more and better results of the integration of the international industry-industry-education fusion of MICCFI, and promote the "China Experience" in the field of education of MICCFI to the BRICS countries as well as to the whole world.
Focusing on the theme of internationalization construction of colleges and universities, this conference invited Prof. Sun Shanxue from School of International Education of Beijing Foreign Studies University, Prof. Qi Guijie, Dean of Business School of Shandong University, and Prof. Zhang Baozhong, Dean of Zhejiang College of Business and Technology, to make an introduction to the internationalization path and share their experiences.
图:山东大学商学院戚桂杰院长作报告
President Qi Guijie's report systematically summarized the exploration and achievements of internationalization of Shandong University and Shandong University Business School, which inspired the members deeply. In recent years, Shandong University has formulated the internationalization route of "based on Japan and Korea, highlighting Australia, developing Europe and the United States, and exploring the Belt and Road countries", and has invested a large amount of resources and achieved remarkable results in the internationalization of cooperation networks, internationalization of talents, internationalization of scientific research cooperation platforms and projects, as well as major international cooperation of talents. Shandong University Business School's overseas joint program with Australia, which started in 2012, has cultivated a lot of senior applied financial talents with internationalized background, and many students have gone to the world's leading universities in the United Kingdom and the United States for further study after graduation, and many of them are engaged in banking, investment, securities and other related work in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and so on.
图:北京外国语大学孙善学教授作报告
In the face of the current extremely complicated international situation and the continuous surge of "anti-globalization" wave in some countries, the internationalization of higher education in China is in a period of wavering and confusion. Professor Sun Shanxue shared his important thoughts from four aspects under the title of "Internationalization of Higher Education: Starting a New Game in a Changing Situation". He proposed to build the world's important talent center and innovation highland, and focus on forming the comparative advantage of talent competition; to promote the "Belt and Road" education action; to deepen the friendship and mutual trust with the neighboring countries and the integration of interests; and to actively participate in the global education governance, enhance China's education discourse, and accelerate the establishment of the national qualifications framework. Prof. Sun's report is far-sighted, with detailed comparative data, typical cases and clear conclusions, providing instructive and constructive opinions for the internationalization work of institutions.
图:浙江商业职业技术学院张宝忠院长作报告
Prof. Zhang Baozhong shared the characteristics of Zhejiang Commercial Vocational School in "going out" with the title of "Exploration and practice of "going out" of vocational education based on culture and skills". Based on the advantages of business and vocational education, the university builds internationalized school-running resources, explores the path of internationalized school-running, serves the construction of "Belt and Road", and promotes Chinese language education for international students based on "Chinese language+vocational skills" by opening overseas Chinese cooking skills training courses, cooperating in the construction of the Spanish Chinese Cuisine College, and promoting the Chinese language education for international students based on "Chinese language+vocational skills". Through the mode of "Chinese + vocational skills", we have cultivated a large number of Chinese culture communicators and Chinese storytellers in Nepal, Spain and Canada, who understand China, recognize Chinese culture, have excellent vocational skills, good qualities, and share the same heart and mind. The internationalization construction of Zhejiang Commercial Vocational College is very distinctive and accomplished, which is worth exploring and learning from brother colleges and universities.
To promote the internationalization process of institutions, it is necessary to have top-level design, medium- and long-term planning, as well as landing grasp. 26th afternoon, the curriculum experts from Financial Future (Beijing) Education Technology Co.
图:财智未来产品总监梁波作报告
图:北京知链周博作报告
图:上海踏瑞朱营作报告
After the meeting, some delegates went to visit the Digital Intelligence Enterprise Cloud Account Network Technology Co.
图:委员们参观访问数智化企业云帐房公司
The meeting released the Commission's Statute, which was considered and adopted by the Commission's First Standing Council. The draft statute was adopted in principle at the inaugural meeting of the Commission on November 6, 2022, and was formally released at this meeting after the Belt and Road and BRICS International Coalition for Skills Development improved the formulation of some articles.
Participants unanimously agreed that internationalization is not only a necessary way for universities to move towards the world and excellence, but also an important way to improve the quality of higher education development; internationalization is an important part of the process of building world-class universities and first-class academic disciplines; and foreign exchanges and internationalization of schooling are an important part of the high-quality development of vocational education. Based on the advantages and experiences of internationalization of the alliance and the development needs of China's digital financial education, the Working Committee of Digital Intelligence and Finance should seize the time and earnestly implement the set goals, so that each work plan and arrangement and deployment can be efficiently carried out, and a perfect answer sheet can be submitted by the end of the year!
图:秘书长赵珊发布2023年委员会工作计划及国际化成果建设项目
At the meeting, on behalf of the Committee, Ms. Zhao Shan, Executive Vice Chairman and Secretary General of the Committee and General Manager of Caixin Future (Beijing) Education Technology Co., Ltd. released the 2023 work plan, the key work promotion plan and the design of rights and interests of the Committee's members, and at the same time initiated the pre-enrollment of 8 internationalization achievement construction projects.
The eight programs launched under the framework of the Belt and Road and BRICS International Alliance for Skills Development include standards development, teaching materials development, school-in-school factory projects, future technical skills base construction, skills competitions, horizontal cultivation projects, BRICS Lecture Hall international exchanges, and elite teacher training programs, etc. These programs are designed around the promotion of the internationalization of the institutions, and they are rich in content, pragmatic and practical, and they can help the construction of internationalization achievements of the institutions at different levels and through different channels, so that the institutions can participate in the programs in accordance with the basis of their own internationalization and their personalized needs.
Some participants expressed their affirmation of these eight objectives and tasks, thinking that they are in line with the national policy guidance and have great market demand, especially for higher vocational colleges and universities of finance and economics, which can help them broaden their horizons and familiarize themselves with international advanced cutting-edge finance and economics technology and skills; strengthen the internationalized mode of operation of higher vocational colleges and universities of finance and economics and cultivate internationalized technical and skillful talents; facilitate the internationalization of higher vocational colleges and universities of finance and economics in terms of their teaching standards, talent cultivation and competitions; and highlight the internationalization of cooperation in the cultivation of human resources and education, and push forward internationalization changes in the curricula system and the mode of cultivation of human resources and talents in higher vocational colleges and universities of finance and economics in China.
图:委员会一届一次常务理事会召开
The Standing Council of the Commission held in the afternoon of March 25 was chaired by Prof. Zhao Lisheng, Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission.
He pointed out in his speech that China's vocational education should not only be based on the realistic foundation of higher vocational education and the basic national conditions, but also accurately meet the international market demand and steadily promote the internationalization process of higher vocational education. On the one hand, we should actively disseminate the distinctive school-running achievements of China's vocational education in the international arena, especially share the experience of China's vocational education development with developing countries, and help China's vocational education to go out of the country and into the world; on the other hand, we should study and learn from the school-running practices and development experiences of vocational colleges and universities of applied technology in developed countries of foreign vocational education, and place China's vocational colleges and universities into a broader international environment, and On the other hand, we should learn from the practice and development experience of vocational colleges and universities of applied technology in developed countries, and put our vocational colleges and universities in a broader international environment, so as to improve the quality of our education.
He also recognized the achievements of the MJFWC since its establishment a few months ago, especially in the development of member units, the Union approved 443 members from 277 member units for the first time in November last year, and nearly 100 members from nearly 30 units applied for membership before the meeting, which showed that the institutions in the field of finance and economics in the field of MJFWC have been participating in the committee's work actively and enthusiastically.
图:常务副主任委员赵丽生主持常务理事会会议并作重要讲话
He hoped that the member institutions of the committee could make use of the resources of this platform to promote the implementation of internationalization projects, and strive to launch professional standards, curriculum standards and teaching resources with Chinese characteristics and international influence in a relatively short period of time, so as to lay a solid foundation for the higher vocational colleges and universities to enter into the new round of the national "Double Higher Education Program" smoothly.
图:会议为到会委员单位代表颁发了会员单位证书及常务理事、理事和委员证书
On the afternoon of March 26th, the 1st Standing Council and 1st Plenary Meeting of the Digital Intelligence and Finance Working Committee of the Belt and Road and BRICS International Alliance for Skills Development (BRICS) successfully completed all the agendas and came to a successful conclusion.
Under the leadership of the Belt and Road and BRICS International Alliance for Skills Development, it is believed that the Committee will achieve fruitful results after implementing its tasks one by one, and will lead the change of education and industry in China, and gradually influence and promote the talent cultivation and skills development of the Belt and Road and BRICS countries!
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