The Silk Road Business School is a “cross-border” higher education platform initiated by the International Cooperation Center of National Development and Reform Commission (ICC-NDRC). Aiming to serve China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the platform is committed to establishing 100 Silk Road Business Schools in 65 countries with a population of 4.4 billion and a total economic capacity of $22 trillion along the Belt and Road, and also to cultivate versatile cross-cultural management personnel on international capacity cooperation under the multi-cultural background.
Unveiling ceremony of Sanya Silk Road Business School
Sanya Silk Road Business School is co-established by Sanya University and ICC-NDRC. It is the first initiating institution for the Silk Road Business School and also the first one for the global Silk Road Business School. Based on Hainan International Tourism Island, Sanya Silk Road Business School develops bilateral cooperation and exchange with countries and regions in the South China Sea and Southeast Asia in educational research and talent cultivation and school-and-enterprise collaborations.
Development Opportunity
With the connection of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the strategy of the countries along the Maritime Silk Road and the Pacific Ocean, China has signed agreements with dozens of countries in international capacity cooperation and free trade zone in order to increase foreign investment. Various measures have been made to gradually expand China’s cooperation with countries in the Southeast Asia, such as China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, China-ASEAN interconnection capacity cooperation, collaborations on accelerating China-Laos and China-Thailand railways projects, China-Myanmar land and water transportation, and the establishment of infrastructure, namely economic zones, industrial parks, investment zones and traffic network in Lancang-Mekong countries.
Cao Wenlian, Director General of ICC-NDRC addressed that the collaboration with Sanya University was a successful example
With the development of economic integration, the growth of international capacity cooperation has created regional collaborative conditions for global Silk Road Business School. Multinational companies have been increased significantly. Objectively, a lot of professional personnel with no language barrier and familiarizing customs, history, culture, laws and regulations of countries along the Belt and Road will be needed.
Educational Philosophy
The Silk Road Business School combines the advanced teaching resources at home and abroad to build a professional team. Currently, the school has created a teaching team with a high degree of internationalization and professional ability.
In the teaching plan, the general training course for global business studies, professional special course and internship on project of school-and-enterprise cooperation will be offered to students. Meanwhile, “social work” credit will be set up and foreign language or study team for professional course will be established to strengthen students’ skills and ability in foreign language communication, planning and organization.
In school, students shall accept at least one-semester theoretical study in other global Silk Road Business School or the partner school for international cooperation in education, or participate in teaching practice in the host country’s cooperation project platform. With this teaching plan, students strengthen their intercultural communication competence and business practice ability.
Development Prospect
Currently, Sanya Silk Road Business School has joined hands with ESSEC Business School, Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College (NBCBC) and Sindh Madressatul Islam University in cross-border cooperation. At the same time, with the benefit of multinational resources and the emphasis on the integration of industry, education and research, Sanya Silk Road Business School provides personnel and intellectual support for reginal economic and social development.
The Education Department of Hainan Province’s report on the signing ceremony of the cooperation between SU and NBCBC
With the purpose of building a new commercial civilization and promoting the transformation of the achievements, Silk Road Business School spreads China’s new experience on economic development and educational achievements on business study and also brings in the up-to-date knowledge on global business education. That forms a win-win situation for China’s economic development and multilateral collaboration on business education research.
Sanya Silk Road Business School will join hands with international counterparts to jointly enhance the educational quality and overall competitiveness, boost the development plan and economic development on Hainan International Tourism Island, and make contributions to China’s Belt and Road Initiative.