From March 27 to 29, 2023, Sun Zhijun, Secretary of the Party Committee of the School, Han Lili, Associate Secretary of the Party Committee, Zhou Jianghua, Director of MBA Education Center, Wang Lulu, Associate Director and Zhang Li, Director of teaching, went to Hangzhou to attend the 2023 Joint Meeting of National MBA School of Management Deans and investigated the industry-education integration base of Zhejiang University and the School of Management of Zhejiang University.

The 2023 National MBA Training School Deans Joint Meeting opened in the morning of March 28 at Hangzhou Zhijiang Hotel. This conference is sponsored by the National MBA Education Steering Committee and China Association of Academic Degrees and Graduate Education, and hosted by the School of Business Administration of Zhejiang Gongshang University. Nearly 1000 people from all over the country who are in charge of MBA training units and related personnel attended this conference.

At the meeting, Ou Baigang, researcher of Degree Management Office of Department of Degree Management and Graduate Education of Ministry of Education; Qi Yanwei, Associate Director of Degree and Graduate Education Development Center of Ministry of Education; Yang Bin, Secretary General of National MBA Teaching Committee and Vice President of Tsinghua University, Li Shanmin and Chen Fangruo, Associate directors of MBA Teaching Committee; Xu Fei and Mr. Si Zefu delivered speeches respectively, focusing on the current situation and challenges of MBA education development, high-quality development of MBA education in the new era, strategic system of MBA education and other topics. Participants of our School and MBA education executives from other colleges and universities had full exchanges on the high quality development of MBA education and other issues, jointly exploring the innovative development of MBA education with Chinese characteristics, in order to comprehensively improve the quality of MBA education.

Figure 1 Photos of the meeting

On the afternoon of March 28, Sun Zhijun and his team first visited Shihushan Robot Innovation Base, an industry-education integration base established in the street separated from the wall by the relevant colleges of Zhejiang University, and had a detailed understanding of its operation mode, training methods of industry-education integration, innovation and entrepreneurship support policies and other features. Afterwards, the research group visited the Science Park of Zhejiang University, and had in-depth exchanges with the leaders and relevant staff of Zhejiang University Holding Group and Zhejiang University Science Park Company on the development history of the Science park, school-enterprise collaborative education, entrepreneurship support fund, talent training output, scientific and technological achievements transformation and other aspects.

Figure 2 Visiting Shihushan Robot Innovation Base

Picture 3 Group photo with leaders of Science Park

On the morning of March 29, the research team visited the School of Management of Zhejiang University. Zhu Yuan, Secretary of the Party Committee and Associate Dean of Zhejiang University School of Management, Pan Jian, Associate Secretary of the Party Committee and relevant staff of MBA Education Center extended a warm welcome to the research group.

Figure 4 An investigation of School of Management of Zhejiang University

At the end of the meeting and the survey, the members of the research group expressed that they were deeply impressed by the ideas and experiences of the brother Schools and industries in MBA education, school-enterprise collaborative education, and student career development, which has important reference significance for the future work of our institute.

Provided by MBA Education Center

Edited by Zhang Li, Wang Lulu and Zhou Jianghua

Reviewed by Sun Zhijun