China lies in a critical period of comprehensively promoting high-quality economic development and ushering in a new round of high-level opening up. Chinese higher education trailblazer, Shanghai Jiao Tong University aims to be the world first-class by keeping aligned with the global pattern through open cooperation. As a result, it opens a new chapter of cooperation in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Based on its fruitful school running overseas, Antai College of Economics & Management is poised to attach parallel importance to research and teaching and well integrate Chinese and western education. On November 28, 2019, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Singapore Asia-Pacific Graduate Institute (SJTU-APGI) held the unveiling ceremony in the Theatrette Hall of the Singapore CREATE Building. To get more news about top mba programs in china, you can visit acem.sjtu.edu.cn official website.
The ceremony was witnessed 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, etc. 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, senior business leader 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 hope of SJTU-APGI to make 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 resident 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, etc.) and cooperative research projects (academic research, industry research, etc.) to strengthen mutual understanding and exchanges between China and the rest of the world in an all-round manner. Jiang 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 Jiao Tong 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 been 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. Today, Shanghai Jiao Tong University aims to be the world first-class by keeping aligned with the global pattern through open cooperation. 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.