On August 18, Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education announced the List of the First Batch of International Talent Training Brand Major Construction Projects of Colleges and Universities in the ‘14th Five-year Plan’ (Su Jiao Ban Wai [2021] No. 2) and the e-commerce major of our university was successfully selected.
The construction of international talent training brand major in colleges and universities is an important measure to promote the opening of education during the '14th Five-year Plan' period in our province. The project aims to guide and support the university to carry out Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools and mutual recognition of Chinese and foreign credits by relying on advantageous specialties, promote the participation of teaching and scientific research personnel in international cooperation and exchanges, accelerate the cultivation of high-level international talents with a global vision and pay attention to the international compound talents and international organization talents “the one-field expert with multiple skills and one professional with multiple abilities”, and foreign-language professional and managerial talents urgently needed by the construction of the Belt and Road, strengthen the recruitment and training of outstanding international students, and enhance the international competitiveness of higher education talents cultivation in our province.
Jiangsu Province plans to select and build 100 provincial brand majors for international talent training in colleges and universities in two batches. 50 projects will be selected and approved respectively in 2021 and 2022, and the projects construction cycle is 4 years. The first batch of 50 majors were approved with more than 200 applied majors from more than 140 colleges and universities in the province for selection. After expert reviewed, defensed and publicized the selection organized by the provincial Department of Education, 35 majors in undergraduate colleges and 15 majors in higher vocational colleges finally were approved in the first batch of key projects.
In recent years, our university has actively implemented the education opening-up project, built a multi-channel international exchange and learning platform for students' international training, and constantly enriched and improved international education resources. Under the situation of normalization of COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control, we actively promote online international training, open high-level online courses and accelerate the cultivation of international talents with international vision and international competitiveness.
The university will build overseas college of e-commerce and logistics and South Africa e-commerce innovation and entrepreneurship center with the Humanistic and Cultural Exchange Project and Mingcai Gongfu School Project of China foreign cultural exchange center of the Ministry of Education as the carrier, and build the e-commerce major into a high-level international talent training brand major leading the domestic higher vocational education; combined with the construction task of double colleges and universities, we will continue to improve the depth and breadth of international talent training and continuously improve the international running level of the university.
