A class for top managers of Indian state-owned enterprises was run at SPIs No. 5 Branch for five days from June 20 to June 24. It was a subject-based training class held in the third consecutive year by SPIs No. 5 Branch for Indian trainees. The class was organized by Indian Institute of Public Administration, and the 14 trainees mainly came from Indian major state-owned enterprises in such industries as coal, electric power and shipping in India, and most of them acted as CEOs in those enterprises. The class intended to achieve in-depth understanding about how the state-owned enterprises in emerging economies, including China, could play their main force and backbone roles and how the management could lead and promote the reform of such enterprises, and deal with financial crises and globalization.

    To meet the requirements of trainees from India, SPIs No. 5 Branch carefully designed courses, and invited experts and scholars to involve in in-depth discussion and communication on such subjects as economic reform, corporate management, roles of state-owned enterprises and human resources strategy, which made a class with vigorous thinking and heated discussion. Trainees involved themselves in active interaction with teachers and showed great interest in China and Chinese enterprises. Through four site investigations and studies, the training class focused on the most typical companies showing the industrial development of China as followed: Shanghai Waigaoqiao No.3 Power Generation Co., Ltd., which presented the most advanced coal-fired power generation technology in the world, Shanghai Pudong International Container Terminals Limited, which was one of the terminals with comparatively high technological elements in China, Baosteel Co., Ltd., which was the most modernized iron & steel conglomerate with an extremely large size, Kouzidong Mine Lot in Fuyang City, Anhui, where trainees paid a study visit and were extremely impressed, as what trainees saw there was a giant and sparkling upside-down bowl rather than the scene of any coal or any black and dirty things people always imagined when thinking of coal mines, but only with anfractuous but well-organized coal pipes, main shaft towers into the sky and well-planned pathways and buildings among green trees and beautiful flowers which made the place like a garden, and where trainees were also extremely impressed on the grant size, the huge investment, the highly advanced technologies, the huge yield and good efficiency of the project, which all together just overturned the trainees traditional image of a  coal mine .

    During the training, Ms. Roma, Head of the trainee delegation and professor of Indian Institute of Public Administration, said that the journey to Shanghai gave her a very good impression, and she was amazed at the rapid development and changes of Shanghai. She hoped that they could continue to make use of this platform of training classes to facilitate both the coming of more Indian state-owned enterprises and the “going out to India”by Chinese state-owned enterprises.