Surajit Mitra, Vice Chancellor of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Visited SPA
On May 29, 2015, Doctor Surajit Mitra, Director and Vice Chancellor of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, visited the School accompanied by First Secretary Kavia of Indian Embassy in Beijing. Dean Fan Libo greeted them and had an in-depth discussion on future cooperation. Doctor Mitra’s travel to China was mainly to explore cooperative opportunities and attend the international certification annual meeting by AACSB in Shanghai.
Doctor Mitra and Dean Fan introduced to each other the general status of their schools. Indian Institute of Foreign Trade was founded in 1960s, specialized in master education on foreign trade and business administration, and has exerted great influences in career development training, WTO research and human resources research. Both sides have exchanged opinions on popular topics of China’s economic development, such as New Normal, One Belt and One Road and AIIB. They also discussed about increasing labor cost and productivity improvement of the two countries’ economies and made comparisons. They reached many agreements on those topics
They agreed to explore the possibilities of carrying out comparative research on some public policy field, and to develop the training project of “deal with China in Idea”. Both sides are decided to seek more cooperative opportunities withing the strategic frame of “One Belt and One Road”.
