On the afternoon of May 12, in order to promote the implementation of this year's foreign aid training projects, deepen cooperation and exchanges, and improve the quality of foreign aid training, our college held the project cooperation exchange meeting on the theme of "Economic and Trade" for foreign aid training with Trade and Investment Promotion Department of the Council for the Promotion of International Trade Shanghai（CPIT Shanghai）. Chen Wei, Vice Dean of our college and Deputy Director of the MOFCOM Training Base for International Business Officials (Shanghai), Chen Hong, Director of Trade and Investment Promotion Department of the Shanghai Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Deputy Director Di Rong, and related personnel from both sides attended the meeting.

At the meeting, Vice Dean Chen Wei and Director Chen Hong first  introduced the attendees of the meeting, and conducted in-depth  exchanges and discussions based on the business situation of both  sides. Dean Chen said that foreign aid training, as an important  strategic deployment to serve the country and regional economic and  trade development, has certain similarities and wide cooperation space  with the Trade and Investment Promotion Department of the CPIT Shanghai.  He hopes that the two sides can take the foreign aid training as an  opportunity to deepen the cooperation and explore the construction of a  long-term cooperation mechanism. Zhou Dejiang, Director of the Training  Project Department of our college, gave a detailed introduction of  the Base's overview, the effectiveness of its foreign aid training work  and the requirements for implementing foreign aid training projects.

Director Chen Hong introduced the history and business scope of the  Trade and Investment Promotion Department of the CPIT Shanghai. Although  the Department has a short history, as the operator of the Shanghai ODI  Promotion Service Center and the Shanghai B&R Comprehensive Service  Center, it has achieved great success in helping local enterprises go  global and serving Shanghai’s B&R bridgehead construction. CPIT  Shanghai is also the leader of the African Committee of the Chamber of  International Commerce Shanghai(COIC Shanghai), which has accumulated a  wide range of external communication channels and networks.

Both sides expressed their hope that starting from this exchange  meeting and this year's economic and trade themed foreign aid training  projects, they can not only strengthen the cooperation in training  course resources and teacher team building, cloud visits, cloud  exhibitions, international forums, enterprises going global, etc., but  also further explore the possibility and implementation way to carry out  more in-depth cooperation with African countries and B&R countries.  It is hoped that they can strengthen mutually beneficial  cooperation, build and share the same frequency, so as to jointly serve  and promote the national B&R construction.

Written by: Shi Xiaomei

Photos by: Hong Xingzhi

Reviewed by: Chen Wei