Onthe evening of October 21, Beijing time, the "Sustainable Financial Development" forum hosted by our university was successfully held. The forum was conducted both online and offline, and Vice President He Ying presided over the forum. Sun Yi, Chief Operating Officer of Everbright Securities Hong Kong, Xiao Benhua, Member of He Ying Studio at Decision Consulting Research Base of Shanghai Municipal People's Government, and Victor Zimba, Finance Director of Zambia Financial Intelligence Center made keynote speeches. Chen Wei, Executive Vice Director of the College of International Education of our university, and 70 participating officials from the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Botswana, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Venezuela, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and other 11 countries attended the forum.

On the evening of October 15,2021(GMT+8), the Opening Ceremony for "Ministerial Workshop on Financial Strategy in Developing Countries" hosted by Ministry of Commerce and organized by MOFCOM Training Base forInternational Business Officials (Shanghai) was held online. Ms. He Ying, Vice President of our university and Mr. Fang Meng from Division of Foreign Economic Cooperation of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce attended the opening ceremony. This Ministerial Workshop is thesecond online workshop held by our university this year. In the new development stage of the "Dual Circulation" under the post-epidemic era,the changes in the global economy and markets have brought huge challenges to the development of countries around the world. The Workshop aims to promote exchanges and cooperation between countriesin the field of financial strategy, and provide China's experience to improve their financial strategy capabilities.

On the afternoon of October 14, Chen Xiaofeng, deputy secretary of our university’s party committee, led a delegation including Yuan Mingyu, Director of the Finance Department, Li Shuang, Deputy Director of the Personnel Department, and Fei Chen, Deputy Director of the Logistics Department, to the College of International Education and MOFCOM Training Base for International Business Officials (Shanghai) to conductresearch and exchanges. The meeting was presided over by Chen Wei, ViceDean of our College and Deputy Director of our Training Base. Members of the leadership team and relevant representatives of our College attended the exchange meeting.

On the morning of October 12, 2021(GMT+8), the Opening Ceremony for "Seminar on Infrastructure Construction in Latin American Countries" hosted by Ministry of Commerce and organized by MOFCOM Training Base forInternational Business Officials (Shanghai) was held online. Ms. Liu Beimin, Researcher with Division of Foreign Economic Cooperation of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce and Mr. Dai Ying, Vice Dean ofthe College of International Education of our university attended the opening ceremony.

On the evening of September 30, 2021(GMT+8), the “Seminar on Trade Facilitation Cooperation for Belt and Road Countries” hosted by the Ministry of Commerce of China and undertaken by MOFCOM Training Base forInternational Business Officials (Shanghai) of our university held an online closing ceremony. Han Bo, Project Director of the Free Trade ZoneUnited Development Co., Ltd., and Dai Ying, Vice Dean of the College ofInternational Education of our university attended the ceremony.

On the evening of September 29(GMT+8), the Forum on Green City Development was successfully held by our university. The forum was conducted both online and offline, and was hosted by Vice President He Ying. Luo Zhisong, Chief Economist of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, and Chen Lei, Director of the Standard Quota Management Office of the Shanghai Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Management Committee delivered speeches successively. Pan Haixiao, Professor of Urban Transportation Research Institute of Tongji University, Wang Lei, Dean of Design Management Institute of China Construction Eighth Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd., Huang Hao, Senior Engineer of Shanghai Urban Construction Design and Research Institute (Group) Co., Ltd., and Mona Farrag, Chief Urban and Regional Planner of the Land Planning Bureau of the Ministry of Egyptian housing, public utilities and Urban and Community Affairs, also delivered keynote speeches in turn.

On the evening of September 23, 2021(GMT+8), the Opening Ceremony for " Ministerial Workshop on Urban Planning and Construction for DevelopingCountries" hosted by Ministry of Commerce and organized by MOFCOM Training Base for International Business Officials (Shanghai) was held online. Ms. Shen Weilai, Deputy Director of Division of Foreign EconomicCooperation of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce and Mr. Chen Wei, Executive Vice Dean of the College of International Education of our university attended the opening ceremony.

On the evening of September 22, 2021 (GMT+8), the closing ceremony for "Seminar on Financial Management for Latin America, the Caribbean and South Pacific Countries " hosted by Ministry of Commerce and organized by MOFCOM Training Base for International Business Officials (Shanghai) was held online. Mr. Fang Meng from Division of Foreign Economic Cooperation of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, and Mr. Chen Wei, Vice Dean of the College of International Education of our university attended the ceremony.

On the evening of September 17,2021(GMT+8), the Opening Ceremony for " Seminar on Trade Facilitation Cooperation for Belt and Road Countries " hosted by Ministry of Commerce and organized by MOFCOM Training Base for International Business Officials (Shanghai) was held online. Ms. Liu Beimin, Researcher with Division of Foreign Economic Cooperation of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce , and Mr. Chen Wei, Executive Vice Dean of the College of International Education of SBS attended the opening ceremony.

On the afternoon of September 16th, Zhang Jin, Vice President of Shanghai Open University, led a delegation including Weng Zhuhua,Dean ofthe International Exchange College and Xu Hongzhuo, Deputy Director of Academic Education Office, to our university to conduct research and exchanges. He Ying, Vice President of our university, Chen Wei, executive vice dean of college of international education, Dai Ying, vice dean of college of international education and relevant representatives attended the exchange meeting.

On the evening of September 15, 2021 (GMT+8), the closing ceremony for "Seminar on Currency and Bank Management for French-speaking African Countries" hosted by Ministry of Commerce and organized by MOFCOM Training Base for International Business Officials (Shanghai) was held online. Mr. Fang Meng from Division of Foreign Economic Cooperation of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, and Ms. Dai Ying, Vice Dean of the College of International Education of our university attended theceremony.

On the morning of September 9, 2021(GMT+8), the Opening Ceremony for " Seminar on Financial Management in Latin America, Caribbean Countries and South Pacific Region " hosted by Ministry of Commerce and organized by MOFCOM Training Base for International Business Officials (Shanghai) was held online. Ms. Liu Beimin, Researcher with Division of Foreign Economic Cooperation of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce and Mr. Dai Ying, Vice Dean of the College of International Education of ouruniversity attended the opening ceremony.