The University of Manchester China Centre, has won the award of "Evergreen brand · The Most Valued Brand of Business Education 2020", which is undoubtedly a recognition of its contribution to the promotion of higher education and business exchanges between China and the UK in the past twelve years.

Ms. Sherry Fu, Founding Director of The University of Manchester China Centre has been recognized with award “Swan Award · China Business Education Leader of the Year 2020”.

This Forum gathered many first-class business school deans, well-known scholars, experts and enterprise representatives to discuss the major achievements of China's business education reform, exchange practical experience of education innovation oriented to artificial intelligence and digitalization, explore the development prospects of business education, and witness the announcement of several grand annual awarding lists.

Facing the impact of the outbreak, China has been leading the economic development. In order to build a safe, controllable, resilient and resilient economic system, the country must focuses on boosting internal development, stabilizing the base of economic development with the co-movement and intelligence brought by digital transformation, before seeking for new development.

At the award ceremony, Ms. Sherry Fu, Founding Director of UoM China Centre said: "with the support from all walks of life, China Center has achieved remarkable achievements after twelve years of development. During the special period under the influence of the epidemics, The University of Manchester China Centre never forgets its original aspiration and becomes the promoter and leader of the digital education revolution in the future. We firmly believe that the future development of China Centre and The University of Manchester in China will be more brilliant and will contribute more to the relationship between China and the UK and the global talent development. "

Besides, Ms. Sherry Fu noted, Alliance Manchester Business School and The University of Manchester China Centre particularly need to take on more social responsibilities while the global economy is under turbulence. Right after, Ms. Fu presented keynote speech upon below topics.

The responsibility of business schools in the post-epidemic era

Business schools have always been leaders in promoting society transformation and business and social innovation, which thanks to our close ties with industry and other institutions, our socially influential research results, and our rich experience in educating future leaders. In 2020, we need to work closer to meet the challenges brought by covid-19. In this difficult period, business schools should take proactive measures, establish partnerships and collaboration. We should be the beacon of hope and optimism to set an example for others.

After the outbreak of coronavirus, led by the Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester and relevant departments and organizations in the UK and around the world have formulated a series of economic recovery policy plans. In depth investigation and research are carried out from different perspectives, such as organizational behavior, social economy, public health system, labor policy, science and technology and finance, and the research results are transmitted to another 4000 cities around the world through the international partnership with global resilience cities network (grcn), so that more people can think about how to deal with the epidemic challenge.

INVOLVE - No barriers, No boundaries

With 12 years of development,   The University of Manchester China Centre has established the future mode of   learning. Our Manchester Global MBA students do not study at a fixed campus   but fly to different learning centres across the world.

Business schools should have social responsibility to   share development. Currently, business schools must remain open. This autumn,   The University of Manchester China Center set sail against the wind, ushered   in the further expansion of the center scale and the comprehensive upgrade of   teaching facilities, so that the "Online + offline" blended   learning mode can be carried out more smoothly. In the future, we will be   committed to bringing more part-time courses to China, which further benefits   the working professionals in China.

After the ceremony, Ms. Sherry Fu was interviewed by the host and shared her thoughts and vision on the development business schools as well as The University of Manchester China Centre in the post-epidemic era.