In order to further deepen the cooperation between the Open University of China (OUC) and Dongbei University of Finance & Economics (DUFE), to upgrade the quality of the jointly built Business administration major, and to show the fruitful results of two decades of cooperative operation, a seminar on the construction of the cooperative major between the OUC and DUFE was held in Dalian, Liaoning Province on 20 November 2020.
Those attending the seminar included secretary of the Party Committee Xia Chunyu, president Lu Wei, and vice president Fang Hongxing from DUFE, and Jin Degang, secretary of the Party Committee and president of the OUC, vice president Li Linshu, and former vice president Yan Bing of the OUC, as well as leaders and teachers related to the building of the cooperative major from the two universities.
Jin Degang pointed out that the two universities have kept moving forward through a number of hardships and made fruitful achievements over their 20 years of cooperation, making an example for cooperation between the OUC and regular institutions of higher learning. In the future, the OUC and DUFE will deepen cooperation in more extensive fields from the perspectives of disciplinary and major construction, teacher team building, scientific research, and the building of an endeavour culture to meet the requirement of “building a high quality education system” proposed at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Congress of the CPC. In this way, they will work together to build a new future for quality development and open a new chapter for win-win cooperation.
Xia Chunyu said that the sincere cooperation between the universities not only enabled students of open and distance education to share teaching resources from regular institutions of higher learning but also promoted the reform and updating of DUFE in terms of its education concept, teaching method, teaching approach, and teaching contents. A total of 460,000 people have been admitted to the cooperative major, 288,000 of them have graduated, and 31,000 of them have got bachelor’s degrees, cultivating a large batch of outstanding primary-level management personnel.
President Zhang Chuang from DUFE’s School of Business Administration and Liu Zhimin, head of the OUC’s Faculty of Economics and Management, reviewed the cooperative achievements of the Business Administration major and looked into the further development of future cooperation. The two parties conducted exchanges on the construction of the major and its talent formation model, course resources, and online courses, and held in-depth discussions on cooperative projects for courses in innovation and entrepreneurship.
Jing Degang and Lu Wei signed an agreement to renew the cooperation on behalf of their respective universities, marking a new stage in their cooperation. In the future, the two universities will carry out in-depth cooperation on a series of projects, including postgraduate education in the business administration major, the training and development of teachers and teaching teams for the OUC business administration major, making contributions to quality course teaching resources in business administration for shared benefits, and innovative and entrepreneurship education.
By OUC