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high-quality economic development and ushering in a new round of opening
up to the world at a high level. Chinese higher education trailblazer,
Shanghai Jiaotong University aims to be a first-class institution by
aligning with the global trends through open cooperation. As a result,
it opens a new chapter of cooperation in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
Based on its fruitful efforts overseas, Antai College of Economics &
Management is poised to attach parallel importance to research and
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On
November 28, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Singapore Asia-Pacific
Graduate Institute (SJTU-APGI) held the unveiling ceremony in the
Theatrette Hall of the Singapore CREATE Building. The ceremony was
attended by a number of celebrities, including Hong Xiaoyong, Chinese
Ambassador to Singapore, Education Counselor Kang Kai, Lim Khiang Wee,
Executive Director of the National Research Foundation of Singapore,
President Tan Eng Chye, Vice President Freddy Boey of National
University of Singapore, Jimmy Hsia, Dean of the Graduate School and the
forthcoming Vice President of Nanyang Technological University, Timothy
Clark, Governor of Teaching Affairs of Singapore Management University,
and Tan Thiam Soon, President of Singapore Institute of Technology.
SJTU Party Secretary and Chairman of University Council Jiang Sixia
attended the ceremony, unveiled the SJTU-APGI and gave a keynote speech.
Ceremony attendees also included Hu Hao, Member of the Standing
Committee of the SJTU Party and Publicity Minister, Wang Yaguang, Dean
of the Graduate School, Luo Peng, Director of the International
Cooperation and Exchange Office, Cheng Jiaojie, Director of the
Development Liaison Office, Chen Fangruo, Dean and Liu Shaoxuan, Deputy
Dean of Antai College of Economics & Management, to name a few. The
event was chaired by SJTU-APGI Dean Peng Yinghong.
Hong Xiaoyong,
Chinese Ambassador to Singapore, delivered a welcome speech. Jiang
Sixian and Hong Xiaoyong jointly unveiled the SJTU-APGI. The first batch
of SJTU-APGI honorary directors are four moguls, namely Wu Jiong, a
well-known alumni of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Li Yixian, Chairman
of Singapore Business China, and senior business leaders Wu Xueguang and
Guo Kongfeng. Singapore’s Emeritus Senior Minister and former Prime
Minister Goh Chok Tong and Singapore ’s Education Minister Ong Ye Kung
sent written congratulatory letters on the occasion in hopes of
SJTU-APGI making greater efforts for the Sino-Singapore cultural
integration and future social development.
To coincide with the
formal unveiling of SJTU-APGI, Antai Asia-Pacific Center, SJTU-APGI’s
first education entity, was formally established. Antai Asia-Pacific
Center will have permanent residents from Antai College of Economics
& Management. It hopes to expand the scale of Singapore's existing
MBA programs, and provide more education and consulting services to
entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia and countries along the Belt and Road.
Asia-Pacific Center will actively provide a variety of teaching projects
(full-time degree cooperative education, high-end market training,
study abroad and more) and cooperative research projects (academic
research, industry research and more) to strengthen mutual understanding
and exchanges between China and the rest of the world in an all-round
manner.
2.jpgJiang Sixian gave a keynote speech entitled
Composing a New Chapter on Open Cooperation and Creating the Future of
Higher Education. He pointed out that Shanghai Jiaotong University is
one of the fastest growing universities in China since the reform and
opening up. Reform and innovation is an inborn trait of Jiao Tong
University. In recent years, Jiao Tong University's international
reputation has continuously improved. The friendly cooperation between
Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Singapore's higher education community
has enjoyed a profound history and boasted fruitful results. The
unveiling and development of SJTU-APGI is not only a continuation of a
series of fruitful work carried out in Singapore by Antai College of
Economics & Management, but also the opening of a new journey for
education cooperation. In the future, under the leadership of
SJTU-APGI's excellent management team, the newcomer is bound to get
better and better, and the bilateral education cooperation will be more
promising.
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