On June 19, the Seminar for Senior Executives in Indian State-owned Enterprises (Phase II), organized by No.5 Branch of Shanghai Administration Institute (SAI), came to a successful end with all the courses finished.
On the closing ceremony, enthusiastic talks with satisfactory evaluations were delivered by representatives of the relevant parties of the program involved in, who also expressed expectations in the earnest. This marked No.5 Branch reached a new height in organizing international cooperation project.
Compared with the program of the preceding year, this one, which was initiated with a joint effort with the Indian Institute of Public Administration, featured many highlights. The first one was the higher ranks of trainees. The 22 trainees, senior executives on the group level with a higher quality and higher field of view, and stronger communication capabilities, came from large state-owned enterprises covering industries of oil, coal, electrical power, shipping and electronics of India. The second one was their more eager thirst for knowledge. All the trainees with important managerial positions assumed strict self-control. With a keen interest in the information about China’s economic development, legal environment, operation model of the state-owned enterprises and many other aspects, they took an active part in the exchange of ideas in and out of class. The enthusiasm towards study they showed was well beyond expectation. The third one was a more optimized curriculum. More adequate preparation was made for this phase of the seminar program on the basis of the pilot Phase I. The leadership of the Institute attached great importance to the program. In an attempt to provide the program with the most potent support from the whole Institute, Mr. ZHENG Dongyan, Vice President of the No.5 Branch, specially summoned up the departments and divisions of External Affairs, Teaching. Logistics, etc, to well-discuss and deploy various pieces of work of organization, coordination and guarantee. The International Communication and Training Office, as the division for direct organization work, made elaborate planning beforehand, offered considerate services in the duration of the program, and carefully summed up the experience afterwards in an effort to go all out to ensure that every piece of work concerning the seminar was implemented in a perfect way. Other relevant departments of the Institute played an active role in collaboration and coordination. The teaching staff also enjoyed favorable comments from the trainees on their worthy teaching performance. The three field investigations, in which they experienced the competence and friendliness of the large enterprises in Shanghai, intensified the effect of the program.
Shanghai is now dedicated to the construction of a scientific innovation center with a global influence. Enterprises will be playing a major part in it and is the main force that drives the city’s economic development. With an intensified degree of economic opening up and international cooperation, there will be an increasing number of enterprises to go global, which will integrate into the large arena of the world economy, step onto the great stage of international competition and become trailblazers of international industries. This process will need the support and devotion from all walks of society.
A small window as it is, the training program should be endowed with a value of its own so that it can interconnect China with other parts of the world and contribute to the development of Shanghai by means of achieving integration in communication and scoring win-win outcomes in mutual encouragement.

