The Business School Held the Opening Ceremony for Its 2023 Experimental Class of Entrepreneurship Management

On September 17, 2023, the Business School held the opening ceremony for Its 2023 Experimental Class of Entrepreneurship Management. The opening ceremony was attended by entrepreneurship mentors for the Experimental Class of Entrepreneurship Management, such as Chen Ronggen, Chen Yujie, Song Zhenjun, Sun Fengchuan, Yang Yingbo, and Zuo Haiying, as well as alumnus Huang Yeyong from the Experimental Class, Deputy Director Li Ji from the Academic Affairs Office of Central University of Finance and Economics, Associate Dean Chen Jinliang from the Business School, and faculty members Zhou Weizhong, Lin Song, and Song Chen of the Business School. All students enrolled into the Experimental Class of Entrepreneurship Management in 2022 and 2023 participated in the event. Professor Ge Jianxin from the Business School chaired the conference.

During her opening remarks at the ceremony, Deputy Director Li Ji conveyed her sincere well-wishes to the Experimental Class of Entrepreneurship Management. She emphasized the school's commitment to supporting the class's growth and development, and expressed her eagerness for the students to flourish and reap the rewards of their entrepreneurship education. In his speech representing the Business School, Deputy Dean Chen Jinliang highlighted the importance of entrepreneurship education in the school's mission to cultivate talent. He also looked forward to achieving significant teaching results in the development and growth of the 2023 experimental class. Professor Ge Jianxin then detailed the teaching tasks for the current semester for both the 2022 and 2023 classes, urging the 2023 students to actively engage in class development and contribute to the class's success. During the meeting, the entrepreneurship mentors had an in-depth discussion on their past teaching experiences with the Experimental Class of Entrepreneurship Management and the talent development of the 2023 class. They all agreed on the accomplishments made by the experimental class in teaching and looked forward to more profound exchanges and diverse offline activities with the students in the upcoming semester, with the goal of advancing the Experimental Class of Entrepreneurship Management.

During the opening ceremony, the students from the 2022 Experimental Class of Entrepreneurship Management performed a play about entrepreneurship, illustrating how a startup team designs solutions to face difficulties. In the subsequent ice-breaking activity for the 2023 class, all teachers and students in attendance created a collaborative painting, bringing the event to a climax.

The Business School has a strong foundation for developing entrepreneurship education. In 2004, the Business School established the Entrepreneurship Pioneer Class across all majors in the university. Building on the foundation of previous efforts, the Business School launched the 3.0 version of entrepreneurship education, the Experimental Class of Entrepreneurship Management, in 2022. The entrepreneurship education at the Business School has yielded a series of influential outcomes both domestically and internationally. These achievements have earned the School various honors, including the National Teaching Achievement Award (Second Prize), the Ministry of Education/Ministry of Finance Innovation Experimental Zone for Talent Cultivation Models, the Chinese College Students’ KAB Entrepreneurship Education Base under the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, the Beijing Municipal Excellent Teaching Team, the Beijing Municipal Demonstrative On-Campus Innovation and Practice Base for Institutions of Higher Education, the Ministry of Education's Virtual Teaching and Research Office, and the Beijing Municipal Excellent Undergraduate Course for Institutions of Higher Education. The opening ceremony served as a chance for the teachers and students of the experimental class to reunite and brainstorm innovative models to entrepreneurship education, kicking off the new semester's teaching activities for the experimental class.