Time：Nov. 17, 2023

Source: News Center

Authors: DU Mingcan, LIAO Huang

Translators: LI Junxi, LI Yingqi

In the 25 years since JNU established its Management School in 1998, it has evolved into what it describes as the cradle of Chinese business talents. Its over 40,000 alumni from more than 100 countries and regions – nearly 40% of them from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese communities – are scattered worldwide. The school has a reputation as the largest base for cultivating business talents from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese communities. The school has received international accreditations from the Association of Master of Business Administration (AMBA), the Business Graduates Association (BGA) and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). In addition, it has initiated educational programs for overseas Chinese, as well as contributing to the Belt and Road Initiative and the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

The school celebrated its 25th anniversary on Nov. 11. After over a century of heritage and growth, the business disciplines at JNU have achieved leapfrog progress, said JNU Party Secretary Lin Rupeng. Nurturing business studies has remained JNU's steadfast commitment from the very beginning.

Former JNU President Hu Jun, the school's first dean, said, The enduring vitality of the century-old business disciplines is primarily supported by the educational philosophy of 'applying knowledge to practical use and conducting pragmatic education.'

(The opening of the Management School's Huiquan Building in 2007)

The introductory course Basic Financial Accounting has been offered since 1925, when Pan Xulun, the father of modern Chinese accounting, founded the accounting major at JNU. In 2018, the accounting teaching team led by Prof. Song Xianzhong, now JNU's president, was selected for the first group of teacher teams established in a national initiative following the principles and spirit of Huang Danian, a renowned Chinese strategic scientist and geophysicist – another breakthrough for the team after its approval as a national-level teaching team project in July 2010. At the end of July 2023, the teaching team for Basic Financial Accounting won first prize in the second National Higher Education Teachers’ Teaching Innovation Competition.

(The teaching team)

In addition to Basic Financial Accounting, the Management School offers a range of high-quality courses, including Risk Assessment Virtual Simulation Experiment for High-Tech Manufacturing Enterprises in the Context of Trade War, Principles of Management, Human Resource Management, Introduction to Circulation, and Entrepreneurship Fundamentals. These nationally recognized courses cover various majors within the school.

Today, the school boasts one national-level experimental teaching demonstration center and three national-level teaching teams. It has developed over 10 national and provincial first-class courses. All undergraduate majors offered by the school have been recognized as national-level first-class professional programs for construction.

Over the last five years, 63 Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese students have received exam-free recommendations for postgraduate study. More than 100 have found employment in the Greater Bay Area. More than 10 have started businesses and established companies on campus, and 150 have won awards at the provincial level or above.

The Management School covers a wide range of disciplines. In addition to attaching great importance to the cultivation of talents at all levels, the school offers auch professional degrees as Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Accounting (MPAcc), Master of Audit (MAud), Master of Engineering (ME) and Master of Engineering Management (MEM). It also holds a variety of training courses and workshops.

Standing for a long time in from of the Management School building, Ye Huiquan, a 1993 alumnus, declared JNU his second home. In 2007, he donated 15 million yuan to construct this building, which was later officially named the Huiquan Building. 

(The Huiquan Building)

In Hezhang County, Guizhou Province, Liang Anli, 2014 alumna from Hong Kong, spent five years implementing the Flower Field in the Sea of Clouds project, building a flower planting base. As of December 2022, the poverty alleviation project had benefited 3,937 households, increasing their total income by more than 13 million yuan.

(Liang Anli working at the flower-planting base)

(International students in the Management School)

To date, the Management School has signed cooperation memorandums with 16 universities overseas to carry out international academic cooperation and student exchange programs in 11 countries in Asia, Europe and South America. Among them are Poland, Finland, Greece, Thailand, Chile and other partner countries of the Belt and Road initiative.

(The AACSB Initial Accreditation Peer Review team visiting JNU in 2022)

Since 2007, the school has sponsored 12 Chinese New Generation Entrepreneurs programs, training more than 500 Chinese entrepreneurs from more than 50 partner countries in the Belt and Road Initiative. Since 2015, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Camp has been held every year, cultivating more than 300 elite Chinese managers from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Nearly 200 grassroots party members and cadres from Guangdong, Jiangsu and overseas Chinese Federation systems have been trained, improving the service level in overseas Chinese affairs.