In middle October, the 8th Overseas Young Cadres Training Group organized by the Shanghai Party Institute (SPI) No. 5 Branch visited Australia for an eight-week training session.
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At the beginning of the training session, the trainees paid a visit to Greg O’Neill, the president & CEO of La Trobe Financial, and senior executives of departments of the group, who introduced their respective job duties to them. Then they visited Australia China Business Council and Confucius Institute, where they were briefed on Australian society and economy and prospect of China-Australia relation by Mr. ZHU Guozheng, Professor Pradeep Taneja from University of Melbourne, and other persons. An atmosphere of warm friendship prevailed during the visits.
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The training session also carried out several exchange activities. In these activities, the pension system of Australia was discussed and Sam Sicilia from Hostplus Pension briefed the trainees on the history, status quo and investment strategy of Australia's pension funds. Fund managed by Hostplus Pension exceeded AUD 16 billion's for over 1.1 million beneficiaries. David Haynes from Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees introduced the pension system of Australia, and Peter Fleming, founder of Menroc, and Troy Tonkin from FRESHLIME, the business mergers and financial services marketing in Australia.
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During the session, senior executives from La Trobe Financial gave several lectures to the trainees on accounting, audit, asset investment, requirements for financial services license in Australia, framework of tax revenue of Australia, fringe benefit tax, consumption tax, etc. Mr. Stephen Lawrence summarized the case studies of business loan and appointed other relevant persons to brief the trainees on the measures taken by Australia in promoting China-Australia cooperation.
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Attaching great importance to the training session, La Trobe Financial not only organized informative educational exchanges with broad perspectives and study tours of various forms, but also managed to be thoughtful in their arrangement of working conditions and living services, which was touching and impressive to the trainees.
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All trainees of the training session said that they valued this training opportunity and strove to fit in with the working and living environment of Melbourne and made active exchanges to build and maintain a good overall image for the training group and leave a good impression to the concerned financial enterprises in Melbourne while learning financial knowledge in a down-to-earth manner and effectively improving their English.
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