Entrusted by the Training Center of Chinese Academy of Governance, the Seminar of Political Parties’ Youth Leaders from African English-speaking Countries was held at Shanghai Administration Institute (SAI) for advanced studies on Mar. 20. The seminar consisted of 13 intermediate and senior officials from four countries, including Ghana, Liberia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.

   On the morning of the same day, Provost MEI Lihong, accompanied by the heads of the Foreign Affairs Division and External Training Division, warmly received the seminar members and took a group photo with the trainees. The seminar specially invited JIANG Haishan, former vice-president of China Executive Leadership Academy in Pudong, to deliver a lecture in English on ‘Theories and Practices of the CPC in the Construction of Strengthening Its Governing Capability’. He had in-depth discussions with the trainees in such aspects as the why, main contents and tasks, and historical experience with regard to the CPC’s construction of strengthening its governing capability.

    On the afternoon, trainees came to neoBay-Global Innovation Community, where they paid a visit to internally incubated enterprises including the ones for 3D-printing and tailored suits, learning about how neoBay gives play to its agglomerative advantages over scientific technology, specialized talents, information, platform, resources and capital so as to improve entrepreneurial environments, promote crowd entrepreneurship, optimize the environments for innovation and boosting public innovation, and attract students, schoolfellows and young teachers at domestic and overseas higher-learning institutions to start a business and cultivates technology-based startups by building a complete entrepreneurship service platform and an ecological system of growth cultivation.

    The trainees all said that the seminar provided a good platform for their interaction and communication, making them benefit a lot from the completed course and rendering precious learning materials, they would share and exchange what they learned with others after returning home, and they believed that the experience would be a good reference for their work. In addition, they sincerely hoped they would have a chance to visit China and Shanghai again.