On the afternoon of October 22, Professor Wei Zhou from ESCP Business School, who also serves as the Director of the MSc in Big Data and Business Analytics program, visited the Business School. The meeting was attended by Ma Jingbo, Party Secretary of the School; Liu Weiwei, Vice Dean; Li Ying, Director of the General Administrative Office; as well as faculty representatives. The meeting was presided over by Liu Weiwei.

Ma Jingbo highlighted that the School is leveraging the latest round of comprehensive higher education reforms to align with regional industrial needs. Efforts are being intensified to advance international collaboration and recruit overseas high-end talent, injecting new momentum into the School's high-quality development.

Liu Weiwei outlined the School's cooperative models with international institutions and expressed optimism for future collaboration with ESCP in areas such as faculty and student exchanges and joint curriculum development. Meng Chenli, Director of the Professional Degree Education Center, and Xie Wei, Director of the Internationalization Office, presented updates on the proposed ESCP Visiting Program and short-term exchange agreements.
During discussions on graduate education, Professor Zhou shared insights into ESCP's diversified assessment mechanisms across its programs, offering international perspectives to optimize the School's graduate cultivating systems.

This exchange reinforced the strategic partnership between the two institutions, yielding substantive progress in joint international talent cultivation and overseas research project implementation, laying a robust foundation for future collaboration.

Prior to the meeting, Zhao Laijun, Dean of the Business School, met with Zhou Wei to discuss long-term cooperation initiatives, including joint doctoral training and faculty-student exchange programs with ESCP.
Translated by Wei Xin
Reviewed by Liu Weiwei

