British Leeds University Confucius institutes for Business held opening ceremony on 28th December; it is the third Confucius institutes for Business in Europe, the other two are Confucius institutes at University of Copenhagen and Confucius institutes at University London School of Economics and Political Science
British Leeds University Confucius institutes for Business held opening ceremony on 28th December; it is the third Confucius institutes for Business in Europe, the other two are Confucius institutes at University of Copenhagen and Confucius institutes at University London School of Economics and Political Science
The Confucius Institute was jointly built by Leeds University and University of International Business and Economic in Beijing, China, which was aimed at taking use of each of the two universities’ disciplines advantages and close business relationship with China to spread Chinese culture and promote Business Chinese, and to offer Business Chinese Culture and etiquette training for transnational corporations with intention of investing in China and England local corporations as well as providing Chinese corporations’ investment strategies with guidance, so as to promote business trade between England and China.
On the opening ceremony, students from Confucius institute at Leeds University sung the songs, and gave Drama performances in Chinese, and performed Pavane, the Chinese folk dance.
Chinese president of Confucius institute for international business at Leeds University was associate professor Wang Bo from UIBE, and British president was Peter Buckley, the international business professor of Leeds University and Director of International Business Center, he was also honorary member of British 48 groups club, and Yangtze River scholar and honorary professor of UIBE.
Before attending the opening ceremony, delegation of UIBE including President Shi Jianjun together with chairman of British 48 group club Stephen Perry, British Chairman of Youth ice-breaker Club Daniel Jacoel and Club members, had super to discuss and exchange ideas on strengthening build business talented teenagers communication mechanism, promoting business trade between China and UK and so on .