On April 26, the 2025 Joint Management Committee Meeting for Sino-Foreign Cooperative Education at Sunwah International Business School (SWIBS) of Liaoning University (LNU) was held online and offline at the Puhe Campus. The meeting was attended by Yu Miaojie, President of LNU and Director of the Joint Management Committee, who delivered an opening speech. Also present were Huo Chunhui and Yan Hai, Vice Presidents of LNU, Ian Thomas, representative of De Montfort University (DMU), and Song Na, representative of the Hong Kong Sunwah Group.
On behalf of LNU, Yu Miaojie extended a warm welcome to all members and representatives of the Joint Management Committee attending the meeting. He expressed gratitude to DMU and the Hong Kong Sunwah Group for their care, support, efforts, and contributions to the university’s cooperative education endeavors. He pointed out that, as one of LNU’s Sino-foreign cooperative education institutions, SWIBS has played a significant role in advancing the university’s internationalization efforts. Since its establishment in 2004, the school has gone through 21 years of development. Notably, since the launch of the Sino-British dual-degree program in 2023, the school has undertaken numerous innovative initiatives in institutional development, quality management, and student engagement. Through the joint efforts of all three parties, the school has made steady progress in talent cultivation, teaching reform, scientific research, and social services, achieving remarkable growth. It has nurtured a pool of internationally competitive, interdisciplinary talents for Liaoning and the broader Northeast region, built a high-caliber faculty team, and established a distinctive banner of international education for LNU. He emphasized that, at present, Sino-foreign cooperative education faces both opportunities and challenges. The school must seize the opportunities, take proactive measures, further deepen collaborative partnerships, and work closely with its counterparts to cultivate even higher-quality, innovative and globally competent talents.
Huo Chunhui pointed out that the year of 2024 was pivotal and fruitful for the school. The school successfully completed the Ministry of Education’s evaluation of Sino-foreign cooperative education and the undergraduate education and teaching assessment, while steadily advancing the "4+0" cultivation model and achieving phased results. These accomplishments would not have been possible without the care and support of DMU and the Hong Kong Sunwah Group. In 2025, the school should further refine its distinctive educational features, leverage cooperative advantages, and expand collaborative fields. By pursuing international business school accreditation as an opportunity, the school will continuously seek new breakthroughs in teaching, research, and international cooperation, striving to build itself into a high-level international business school.
During the meeting, members and representatives of the Joint Management Committee reviewed the work report delivered by Wang Xiaohui, Dean of SWIBS at LNU, and attended the unveiling ceremony of the school’s Quality Control Center. The committee deliberated on and approved several key agenda items, including resolutions on changes to committee membership, financial budgets and final accounts, teaching award and scholarship budgets, summer internship and practical training plans, as well as reforms to the academic curriculum.
Senior officials from the Planning and Finance Department of LNU, along with members of the leadership team of SWIBS, attended the meeting.
