On Oct. 10, Mr. Zhang Xinsheng, President of International Union for Conservation of Nature, Chairman of China Association for International Exchange, Secretary General of ECO (Guiyang) Forum Global, and former vice minister of Education, paid a visit to SISU Songjiang campus. Mr. Jiang Feng, Chancellor of SISU, accompanied him on the visit.
During this visit, President Zhang had a deep discussion with experts from different schools about how to develop international education, how college students should participate and promote ecological civilization construction and how to build an international forum with Chinese characteristics.
President Zhang visited ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Laboratory of SBM, where he watched a teaching experiment presentation. Later, President Zhang came to You side Cafe, founded by student entrepreneurs, and listened to an introduction on the established and development of business programs in SISU. He also talked with SBM faculty members students, exchanged his view on learning and student development.
President Zhang looked back at history of SISU's leading exploration in integrated talent cultivation and commented favorable that SISU has made many good tries on training unique talents. He put forward a problem worth thinking: why people with better foreign language abilities can also be good at many other industries during the thirty-year revolution process? He thinks that besides generation characteristics, understanding culture and value of one country, having critical thinking, having good writing, analyzing, communication, negotiation , inspiring, organizing and public speaking skills are also important relevant. He thinks SISU's professional foreign language education is an important part of liberal education, which can help to pave a way to training talents in culture stratification during undergraduate courses and then developing the ability and patience. Foreign-oriented schools need to keep innovating boldly, lay a solid foundation, value experiments, keep on humanistic education, develop compound subjects and train superior talents with deep humanistic qualities and superb expertise.
He also raised several suggestions for SISU development. He suggested that SISU should make good use of geographical advantage of Shanghai, the most internationalized city in China, and Yangtze River Delta, the most market-mined area. SISU should also make use of the location to realize the collection of logistics, population, information flows, financial flows and resource flows. And lastly, SISU should extend the meaning of Wai, that is, strengthening integrated education programs and training international, innovative, and leading talents.
President Zhang also exchanged his view with SISU faculty on of the ecological civilization and beautiful China
Prof. Feng Hui, Director of Office of President’s Office, Prof. Fan Zheng, Dean of SBM, Prof. Zhang Yugui, Dean of School of Economics and Finance, and Prof. Guo Shuyong, Dean of Institute of International and Diplomatic Affairs, participated in this visit.
