On April 30th, the 2025 Education Internationalization Work Committee meeting of Zhejiang Institute of Economics and Trade was successfully held. The meeting was attended by the Party Committee Secretary of the school, Lao Ciming, the President, Chen Dequan, all members of the school's Education Internationalization Work Committee, and all teachers from the International Exchange and Cooperation Center. The meeting was chaired by Vice President Lin Feng.
Lao Ciming delivered a keynote speech titled Innovation - Driven and Steadfast in Action - Embarking on a New Journey of High - Quality Internationalized Education. He emphasized that enhancing the level of education internationalization is crucial for universities to serve national strategies and enhance their international competitiveness. It is also a necessary requirement for the school to achieve its goal of becoming a high - level vocational university with Chinese characteristics, domestic first - class, and internationally renowned. He put forward four requirements for the school's education internationalization work: First, strengthen political leadership and set a new direction for reform; second, strengthen strategic thinking and explore new development paths; third, strengthen multi - dimensional collaboration and create new benchmarks for branding; fourth, strengthen mechanism support to stimulate new internal motivation. He stressed that all committee members should keep the big picture of the country in mind, take on their missions with higher positions, actively break through development bottlenecks with greater courage, and use systematic thinking to gather development synergy with more practical measures. They should always plan the school's education internationalization work within the context of national and provincial opening - up strategies, accurately grasp the historical positioning and direction of progress, and with higher positions, broader visions, and stronger responsibilities, promote the alignment of Chinese vocational education with international rules and match with global development.
Chen Dequan presented a report titled Summary of 2024 Education Internationalization Work and Work Plan for 2025. He reviewed the school's 2024 education internationalization work from aspects such as international student recruitment and training, Sino - foreign cooperative education, vocational education going global, and international cultural exchanges. He objectively analyzed the achievements and challenges faced by the school in the field of education internationalization and proposed 10 key tasks for the school's education internationalization work in 2025. He pointed out that the school is leveraging the integrated development advantages of Zhejiang's digital economy and advanced manufacturing industries, focusing on the second - round Double - High Plan construction tasks, and using internationalized education as a key driver. It is continuously deepening international collaboration in industry - education integration and striving to build a two - way integration, multi - party collaboration internationalized talent - cultivation pattern. This is actively contributing to the building of a community with a shared future for mankind and promoting regional economic transformation and upgrading.
At the meeting, Si Yinxia, the director of the International Exchange and Cooperation Center, reported on the current status of education opening - up in Zhejiang Province and the key tasks for 2025. She also interpreted and analyzed the school's overall assessment of education internationalization in the context of the 2023 Zhejiang Province Education Internationalization Development Annual Report. The meeting reviewed documents such as the 2025 International Student Recruitment Brochure, the Revised Work Plan for Party Building at the Hargharia Digital Technology and Operations Joint College of the School, and the Revised Emergency Response Plan for Foreign - Related Sudden Incidents. It also explained the adjustments to the list of members of the Joint Management Committee of the Hargharia Digital Technology and Operations Joint College and deployed related work for teachers to teach at overseas Silk Road colleges and conduct overseas visits for work and study in the current year.
