SMU launches SMU China in Shenzhen to develop Asia-ready expertise and join the Greater Bay Area with Singapore and Southeast Asia

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Shenzhen [China], October 27: Singapore Management University (SMU) launched SMU China in Shenzhen on 22 October within the presence of Guest of Honour Ms Low Yen Ling, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Energy, Trade and Industry and Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, Singapore. SMU China is the University’s first centre in China; it extends SMU’s regional presence past Southeast Asia, complementing its centres in Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.

At the launch ceremony held at Raffles Shenzhen Hotel, additionally attended by Ms Cindy Wee, Consul-General of Singapore in Guangzhou, the University introduced 4 memoranda of understanding (MOUs) to attach the Greater Bay Area with Singapore and Southeast Asia via analysis, expertise and enterprise.

The MOUs are with: ‘Go Global’ Global Service Centre; Shenzhen Foundation for International Exchange and Cooperation; CIIC International Business Development Co. Ltd.; and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Shenzhen. (Please check with Annex 1 for extra particulars.)

Why Shenzhen, why now

In his welcome remarks, SMU Chairman Mr Piyush Gupta mentioned that Asia helps to form the following part of world progress, and universities that aspire to know and contribute to Asia’s future should be current the place that change is going down. Shenzhen, he famous, brings collectively main know-how firms, analysis establishments and entrepreneurs. It can also be related to the Greater Bay Area, China and the worldwide financial system, making it a pure base for SMU’s engagement with China.

‘SMU China will likely be a gateway into China and a bridge to Southeast Asia,’ mentioned Mr Gupta. ‘Physical presence issues. Universities can not totally perceive altering economies and evolving societies from a distance. Being on the bottom permits us to hear extra intently, study extra deeply and contribute extra meaningfully,’ he added.

The timing displays SMU’s maturing relationships in China and rising two-way curiosity between China and Southeast Asia. More Chinese enterprises want to Southeast Asia, whereas many Southeast Asian companies want to China and the Greater Bay Area. SMU China will assist organisations on either side perceive one another’s markets, methods and methods of working.

Building on long-standing ties

The new centre builds on relationships developed over a few years. SMU collaborates with 60 universities in China and has 7,000 alumni in China. Fudan University and Zhejiang University are amongst its strategic companions.

In Shenzhen, SMU runs joint Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) programmes with Peking University HSBC Business School and CUHK, Shenzhen. SMU’s different joint DBA companions in China embrace Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.

Since 2011, greater than 850 SMU college students have interned with over 350 firms in China. About a fifth of SMU’s Asia-focused analysis is on China.

SMU China, helmed by Mr Victor Huang as its Country Director, is a part of SMU’s community of abroad centres, alongside SMU Indonesia, SMU Thailand and SMU Vietnam. It delivers on SMU2030, the University’s five-year strategic plan, which commits SMU to deepening its presence in key Asian cities.

SMU China will join, create and contribute

SMU President Professor Lily Kong summed up the centre’s position in three phrases: join, create and contribute. SMU China will join organisations in China and Southeast Asia, turning partnerships into internships, jobs, govt improvement and enterprise relationships. It will create alternatives for college kids to know China from inside China. And it’ll contribute by bringing what SMU learns in Shenzhen again into its school rooms, case research and analysis. SMU already teaches greater than 30 case research on Chinese enterprises.

‘SMU brings collectively administration, the social sciences and know-how. What we care about most is getting ready people who find themselves Asia-ready: who don’t merely learn about Asia, however can work throughout it, understanding its markets, its methods and its individuals,’ mentioned Prof Kong. ‘The Greater Bay Area wants such expertise, and so does Southeast Asia. That is why we’ve come to Shenzhen, and why we intend to remain for the long run.’

The launch programme, which was attended by about 250 visitors, comprising college and {industry} companions, donors, alumni, employees and college students, additionally featured a panel dialogue themed Connecting China and ASEAN: Building a Double Gateway for Innovation, Talent and Opportunity, with Ms Low; Dr Xu Zhihao, CEO of Geely Technology Group, a member of the SMU International Advisory Council China and an SMU alumnus; and SMU Provost Professor Alan Chan. The audio system explored the subject via the lenses of coverage, enterprise and academia, together with how Chinese enterprises can increase into Southeast Asia via Singapore and what universities add to that bridge. The dialogue was moderated by Associate Professor of Strategic Management Cyndi Zhang, who can also be Academic Director of SMU’s Chinese EMBA programme.

SMU China is positioned in China Resources Tower in Nanshan District (often known as the Spring Bamboo or Chunsun), Shenzhen’s hub for know-how and enterprise. It will likely be SMU’s principal level of contact in China for potential college students, universities and organisations, and can introduce companies increasing into Southeast Asia to SMU’s centres in Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. In doing so, it strengthens SMU’s position as a gateway between Asia and the world.

Enclosures

1. Welcome remarks by Mr Piyush Gupta, Chairman, SMU

2. Speech by Professor Lily Kong, President, SMU

3. Speech by SMS Low Yen Ling

4. Annex 1: MOUs introduced on the launch ceremony

Press launch re SMU China launch_with Annex 1.pdfSpeech by SMU Chairman at launch of SMU China_final.pdfSpeech by SMU President at SMU China launch_final.pdf

About Singapore Management University 

Singapore Management University (SMU) is Asia’s premier international metropolis college on the nexus of administration, social sciences and know-how. Established in 2000, the University’s imaginative and prescient foregrounds its DNA in driving improvements, transcending boundaries and reworking lives. SMU’s mission is to nurture a neighborhood of unbiased lifelong learners and alter brokers, allow world-class researchers to handle societal challenges, harness partnerships to function gateway between Asia and the world, and remodel lives to create sustainable futures. 

Recognised for its award-winning pedagogy, SMU’s interactive, collaborative and practice-oriented schooling prepares graduates to be agile, adaptive and able to create significant impression throughout enterprise, authorities and society. SMU graduates are persistently ranked among the many most employable in Singapore, and command one of many highest imply beginning salaries. 

SMU provides a future-oriented suite of undergraduate, postgraduate skilled and postgraduate analysis programmes via six faculties and two faculties: School of Accountancy, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, School of Economics, School of Computing and Information Systems, Yong Pung How School of Law, School of Social Sciences, College of Integrative Studies, and College of Graduate Research Studies. Their programmes embrace multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary pathways that replicate the advanced challenges of right now’s world. 

SMU’s analysis is rigorous, high-impact and interdisciplinary, addressing globally related points from an Asian perspective. Its school additionally collaborates with main researchers, universities, {industry}, authorities and neighborhood companions to advance information, form coverage and apply, and ship real-world options. 

Located within the coronary heart of downtown Singapore, SMU’s metropolis campus strengthens its strategic linkages with enterprise, authorities and the broader neighborhood, enabling the University to show concepts into motion and create impression the place it issues.

Annex 1

Memoranda of Understanding introduced on the launch ceremony

At the launch, SMU introduced Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with Go Global (a complete worldwide service platform operated by Shenzhen Huitong Global International Services Co., Ltd.); the Shenzhen International Exchange and Cooperation Foundation, CIIC International Business Development Co., Ltd. and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. 

The collaborations span joint analysis and educational trade, pupil internships and employment, management improvement, enterprise internationalisation and connectivity between Shenzhen and Southeast Asia.

They purpose to strengthen SMU’s presence, networks and alternatives in China. Signed alongside the launch of SMU China, the MOUs replicate the University’s dedication to deepening its ties and collaboration with China, and broadens its engagement throughout schooling, {industry} improvement, expertise and innovation.

1.  Go Global

Collaboration Areas: Strengthen Southeast Asia-Nanshan/GBA connectivity, together with {industry} and enterprise engagement, pupil initiatives and internships, management improvement, educational exchanges, and assist for enterprise internationalisation.

2.  Shenzhen Foundation for International Exchange and Cooperation (SFIEC) 

Collaboration Areas: Connect SMU’s Singapore and abroad centre community (in Bangkok, Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City) with Shenzhen, protecting enhancing enterprise innovation and internationalisation, internet hosting delegations and exchanges, organising studying journeys and thought management occasions, SMU-X experiential studying initiatives and broader ASEAN-Shenzhen engagements.

3.  CIIC International Business Development Co. Ltd

Collaboration Areas: Facilitate pupil alternatives in China, notably academic-industry trade, internships, graduate employment, profession gala’s/recruitment actions and associated assist.

4.  CUHK (Shenzhen) 

Collaboration Areas between SMU School of Accountancy and CUHK (Shenzhen) School of Management and Economics: Joint analysis and educational exchanges, together with analysis collaborations on social media and technological developments in monetary markets, co-development of analysis proposals and funding functions, and subject experiments throughout Asia.  The MOU shall additionally facilitate short-term exchanges of analysis school and PhD college students between each establishments, with entry to related analysis amenities, seminars and educational actions.

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