Signing Ceremony between Shenzhen Futian Government and
Tsinghua SEM Held, to Jointly Establish Shenzhen Institute of Economics and
Management (Futian), Tsinghua University
On
September 26, 2020, Futian District Government in Shenzhen, China and School of
Economics and Management, Tsinghua University (Tsinghua SEM) have signed to
cooperate in developing the Shenzhen Institute of Economics and Management
(Futian), Tsinghua University. It will propel high-quality development of the
District as well as talent cultivation for Shenzhen and Guangdong-Hong
Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), and also marked a historical event in the
development of Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (SIGS).
CPPCC
member SONG Hai, administrators from Shenzhen and faculty from Tsinghua have
attended the signing ceremony, including HUANG Wei, District Mayor at Futian
District, BAI Chong-En, Dean at Tsinghua SEM and GAO Hong, Executive Dean at
SIGS.
As
CHEN Yubo, Associate Dean at Tsinghua SEM, hosted the ceremony, HUANG and BAI
signed the cooperation agreement on behalf of Futian Government and Tsinghua
SEM.
Prior
to the ceremony, Futian Government and Tsinghua SEM have discussed on further
introducing top talents in humanities and social sciences domestically and
abroad, fostering high-end talent cultivation, strengthening strategic
decision-making consultation and cooperation, promoting the construction of
innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, accelerating the application of
scientific and technological achievements, and jointly building Shenzhen
Institute of Economics and Management (Futian), Tsinghua University.
As
a leader of Chinese higher education, Tsinghua SEM has taken the lead in
obtaining top-level accreditation of AACSB and EQUIS in management, and ranks globally
high in personnel training, scientific research, social influence and
international exchanges.
In
December 2018 and January 2020, Shenzhen Government and Tsinghua University have
already signed two strategic cooperation agreements, which have been realized
by the latest signing and put into action.
According
to the plan, the institute will focus on these following tasks: First, basing
on the Shenzhen and GBAs needs in high-quality development and gradually
developing PhD, Masters, EMBA, Executive Education programs; Second, telling
the Shenzhen stories and establish a think tank authority; Third, gathering
top talents in Futian; Fourth, building training programs for innovative
management in SIGS, and give full play to the role of the Tsinghua SEM in
innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. Both the local government and the
School will endeavor to provide a benchmarking project for higher education, a
successful example of cooperation in education, and a vivid case for urban
university.
The
official establishment of Shenzhen Institute of Economics and Management
(Futian), Tsinghua University will not only help Tsinghua SEM to contribute to
the development of Shenzhen and GBA, but also help Futian to gather high-end
industries and attract top talents.
Futian
District, as the administrative, financial, cultural, commercial and
international exchange center of Shenzhen, has preliminarily formed a modern
industrial system of "finance + technology + culture". In order to
build an urban higher education that grows with the city, Futian District has
strengthened its comprehensive cooperation with top oversea universities in
recent years, promoting the "high-end and extensive" urban university
mode in which universities and the city can develop together and industry can
integrate with research, and adding new impetus for Shenzhen to evolve into a
Greater Bay Area core city.
In
the future, Futian District and Tsinghua SEM will continue to cooperate in
building a high-value platform for Beijing-Shenzhen integration, Shenzhen-Hong Kong
cooperation, integration of industry and research and communication among
alumni, while escorting Futian, Shenzhen and GBA to achieve high-quality
leap-forward development.
Administrators
in Futian District, faculty at Tsinghua SEM and more than 200 Tsinghua Alumni have
attended the ceremony.
After
the ceremony, Tsinghua SEM held a Shenzhen alumni event. YANG Bin, Vice
President at Tsinghua University, delivered a video speech. Alumni
representative MENG Man, associate District Mayor at Futian District, and
founder of TCL, LI Dongsheng, attended the event and congratulated on the
cooperation.
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