On 26th and 27th September respectively a marketing session was delivered by Prof. Elaine Ferneley in Shanghai and Beijing. Both groups of audience enjoyed a talk on the ever so popuar social marketing topic. Elaine shared her expertise in a condensed one-hour session and interacted with the group on matters of using online marketing tools.

Supply Chain Management is fundenmental subject that attracts students to choose from an extensive list electives. With this in mind, China centre hosted a workshop taster for more than 30 students, alumni and perspective students on 21st September.

Half an hour by train from Shanghai, Suzhou has been a close neighbour with a great base of industrial MNEs established there. On 7th September, China Centre invited Mr. Paul Taaffe to bring a session of Operations Management workshop taster to Suzhou Professionals. 

On Wednesday 7th September 2016, China Centre had a full house of maketing as well as non-marketing professionals joining Professor Peter Naudé on an interetsing session on business-to-business marketing. Sharing valuable experience with the group was Ms. Ailleen Wei, alumna and marketing expert. The session welcomed nearly 40 attendees.

On the afternoon of 10th Dec. (Saturday) 2016, Allen Mao is our Global MBA alumnus as well as the founder of China Centre Continue Study Club. He has extensive experiences in multinationals, and is now Director of Strategic Planning & Business Development of a startup company. He initiated an event on the topic of Complex Sales Strategy and Practice, attended by around 50 alumni. 

How to be successful during your mid-age’s career crisis? Have you met career development’s glass ceiling in your organization? Or are you already tired in your expert sector? On the evening of 1^st December, Charles Gao, Director of Signium Greater China, an experienced recruitment expert as well as our alumnus, shared with us this interesting topic.  As with the specific topic, this event is only for those alumni with over 15 years of working experiences and who are interested in understanding and brainstorming on the topic. The evening event of a working day was attended by over 20 alumni, which showed a big interest among our alumni.

On the evening of 2^nd Nov., China Centre was delighted to have Ruth Mountain, Global Careers Manager for Manchester Business School to deliver a speech on ‘How to Develop an Effective Job Search Strategy’.

On the evening of 1^st Nov., the China Centre was delighted to have Damir Kazykhanov, CEO & Founder of Global Startup, as well as our Alliance Manchester Business School alumnus, to deliver a speech on global innovation and entrepreneurship.

30^th Oct., UoM China Centre held ‘First UoM China Women in Leadership Forum’, the first big event in Beijing since its rename and inauguration ceremony back in end of September. The forum will be held in series in the future, targeting on various topics surrounding women in leadership. The first event focused on women’s entrepreneurship, and was held in the context of rising women leadership and entrepreneurship nowadays.

29^th Oct. was Halloween Day. UoM China Centre hosted a Beijing Alumni Gathering. We have a large number of Beijing based alumni that the Centre has been continuously taking good care of. The Gathering was held to celebrate both the Halloween Day and more importantly the inauguration of the UoM China Centre. The inauguration ceremony had been held end of September in Shanghai during the China visit by President and Vice Chancellor Prof. Dame Nancy Rothwell. 

On evening of 25th October (Tuesday) 2016, the University of Manchester China Centre was delighted to invite two guest speakers to talk about new trend and technology in healthcare industry. Mr. Geng PAN, Co-Founder of Invision Health, talked about VR (Virtual Reality) in healthcare industry. Mr. Tony Zhang, Founder & Chief Consultant of BizPro International LLC, shared his thoughts on multichannel marketing.

16^th Oct., Professor Stuart Hyde visited the UoM China Centre. A special opportunity for conversation between our alumni and the Professor was arranged. During the sit-down talk, our alumni raised various questions, ranging from his expertise, the different studying methodology between China and the UK, to the school development in general. Before the talk, Professor Hyde also joined some study groups during their workshop, introducing about the school’s development and understanding their study experiences.  

Consultancy is at the heart of the full time MBA in Alliance Manchester Business School. On 9^th Oct, Dr Phil Galvin, Associate Director MBA Consultancy, visited the China Centre and gave our alumni a speech to showcase how the Consultancy provided by Manchester MBAs during the last four months of the Full time 18 month MBA programme can assist companies in real life. MBA Consultancy is a very important part of and throughout the MBA study in AMBS. It fully shows how original thinking is applied.

On 29 Sep. early morning, China Centre held a Breakfast Networking Session. It was held in the context of three workshops running in parallel. Every workshop was held continuously for three days, and the breakfast session was held on the first day. Though it was quite early in the morning and started from 7:30am, there were still quite some alumni registered and turned out.

The Alumni Autumn Reception was held on 06 Sep. at the China Centre. Students from global centres also joined in over their workshops for - Doing Business in China, and Investment and Portfolio Management. Over 30 alumni participated in the reception. This was a good mixture of MBA alumni with different cultures and backgrounds. This is also the first time that we were able to engage full time MBA students to participate in alumni activities at China Centre and with our Global MBA alumni.

On Friday evening of 02 September 2016, China Centre was delighted to have Simon Zhou again, one of our outstanding alumni, to facilitate the whole leadership journey. We were also honored to have invited Mr. Peter Lee, Managing Director of Ab Ovo China, to share with us his experiences on leadership. Peter Lee was also the Vice Chairman of Transport Group of European Union Chamber of Commerce China from 2001 to 2005, and the Chairman of Pricing Index Group of Shanghai Shipping Exchange during 2002-2004. This time, the leadership was focusing on ‘Empowerment’, which is the competency on ‘leading manager’.

30 July, University of Manchester China Centre was delighted to have invited Timo Lei, senior Manchester Business School alumnus, to share with us his experiences on Fundraising and Valuation for startups.

On 23 July, Saturday, China Centre Innovation and Startup Club organized a workshop on Decoding Innovation from Israel. The workshop guided alumni to explore the secret of innovation. Brainstorm, practice, and discern on Israel's innovative tools for China's scenario applications.