The 2022 Shanghai University Business Elite Challenge International Trade Professional Competition, sponsored by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, co-organized by the commercial industry committee of the China Council for the promotion of international trade, and organized by Shanghai Normal University, was held online on May 14, 2022. Fifty-one teams from 17 universities including University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai University, Shanghai Normal University, Donghua University, Shanghai Ocean University and Shanghai Second Polytechnic University participated in the competition.
The event was conducted in the form of online competition for the first time. After the fierce competition in the two sessions of “online cloud Exhibition” and “online business negotiation”, as well as the review of the exhibition business plan and electronic booth map submitted in the early stage, four participating teams of our school finally won three second prizes and one third prize, and our school won the best organization award.
Vice president of the BS of USST, Zhang Zheng, attended the event and announced each award at the closing ceremony as an awarding guest. Professor Luo Fang, head of the Department of International Economy and Trade, and the faculty of the department, Tang Qiao, served as the judges of the product launch and business negotiation respectively. Tang Qiao was also invited to comment on the business negotiation at the closing ceremony.
Under the careful guidance of the instructor team of the Department of International Economy and Trade, the students of our school overcame all kinds of inconveniences caused by the epidemic and carefully prepared for the competition in their spare time. In this special period of the Covid-19, instructors and students should not only complete the normal teaching and learning tasks, but also overcome difficulties together under the condition of strict compliance with the epidemic prevention and control requirements, and use the limited equipment in the existing isolation conditions to guide and polish the entries for the competition online, breaking through the early “offline product launch + offline business negotiation” mode, explore the new mode of “online cloud product release + online business negotiation”, and finally show a solid international trade professional quality, fluent English expression ability, appropriate business etiquette and excellent team cooperation and cooperation spirit in the cloud competition, simulate and display the international trade scene in the digital era, and show that our students fully practice the concept of AACSB certification of the BS, have the courage to innovate and practice. Through “promoting teaching and learning through competition”, the students’ comprehensive quality has been improved and their innovation ability has been cultivated.
Translator: ZHEN Yu
Reviewer: LIU Pengfei
