In the afternoon of November 3rd, 2013, Conferring Ceremony for UIBE MPA Practice Supervisors & The Forum on International Public Policies was held in Room 222, a conference room in Administration Building of UIBE. Wang Ling, Secretary of UIBE committee of the Communist Party of China attended the ceremony and issued certificates for practice supervisors which were employed. Peng Xianggang, Dean of School of Public Administration, UIBE, together with more than 10 practice supervisors, part of teachers within UIBE and graduates for MPA admitted in 2012 and 2013 attended this event.

Firstly, Conferring Ceremony for UIBE MPA Practice Supervisors. Wang Ling, Secretary of UIBE committee of the Communist Party of China made a speech and extended warm welcome to the guests, teachers and students for their arrival. Wang Ling pointed out that MPA education has such four characteristics as being professional, being practical, being innovative and being international and employing practice supervisors was due to the fact that UIBE had realized the particularity of training pattern of MPA professional talents. She emphasized that the employment of MPA practice supervisors meets the needs of reform in teaching methods and faculties in talents training of universities and colleges and practice supervisors from all governmental departments can give MPA students more professional guidance, share richer experience with them and provide them with more abundant social resources. The three major problems hampering the employment of college students are disconnection between theory and practice, disconnection between professional knowledge and vocational skills and disconnection between theoretical attainment and professional ability, all of which are also primary problems that School of Public Administration should overcome in MPA talents training. In order to give full play to the role of practice supervisors and truly improve the quality of MPA graduate training, Secretary Wang Ling put forward four requirements. Firstly, pay close attention to the occupational ethics and professionalism of students. What the supervisors need to teach the students is not only knowledge, but also how to conduct themselves, which comes first; secondly, elaborately prepare lessons and teach attentively. It is hoped that practice supervisors can teach the students cases they have truly experienced in the class and fully tap the potential of every MPA graduate; Thirdly, School of Public Administration needs to provide practice supervisors with normative and professional service work and actively build a platform where the cooperation and communication between practice supervisors can be achieved; Fourthly, all the students need to respect practice supervisors, actively contact with their practice supervisors and participate in relevant practice topics proposed by practice supervisors.



Peng Xianggang, Dean of School of Public Administration, introduced the guests at present and read the names of MPA practice supervisors employed this time. Peng Xianggang expressed that School of Public Administration will constantly create opportunities for more and more practice supervisors to participate in the work of training MPA talents, and meanwhile also expressed his sincere thanks to strong support given by practice supervisors employed this time. MPA practice supervisors employed the first time are mainly high-level leaders from the governmental institutions, including such 18 brilliant talents in the field of public administration as Yu Ning, Director of the Department of Supervision of State Commission Office of Public Sectors Reform, Liu Zheng, Director of the Department of Social Work of Ministry of Civil Affairs, Li Hongqiong, Deputy Director of the Department of Policies & Regulations of Ministry of Culture, Di Sen, Deputy Director of National Social Poverty Alleviation and Innovation Office, Zhang Renfeng, Division Director of the Department of Training and Supervision of State Administration of Civil Service and Li Ji, Deputy Director of the Department of School of Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China.



Wan Xinheng, who is the former Deputy Director of Beijing Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology and currently a Member of Standing Committee of Zhongwei Municipal Committee of the CPC and Executive Vice Mayor of Zhongwei, the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, made a speech on behalf of all the practice supervisors. Vice Mayor Wan Xinheng thanked UIBE for its trust on him and promised to do his best to serve the work of training MPA talents in UIBE. He used such key words as “affair”, “perception”, “mistake” and “team” to express his thoughts on the experiences as a governmental official and hoped MPA graduates at present can be good at and diligent in thinking, so as to achieve an organic combination of theories and practices.

Secretary Wang Ling issued certificates for practice supervisors one by one and took pictures with them to mark the occasion. The conferring ceremony was presided by Wu Chengzhong, Director of MPA Education Center of School of Public Administration.

The second agenda is “The Forum on International Public Policies”, whose theme is “Governmental Administration Innovation in Globalization”. The Forum was presided by Peng Xianggang, who briefly introduced the origin of the theme of this Forum from the professional attributes of public administration through combining current hot topics concerning comprehensive reforms made by the State Council. Combining its own work, every practice supervisor expressed his own unique understanding of governmental administration innovation from different perspectives.

Li Ji, Deputy Director of the Department of School of Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, firstly made a speech, where he from the perspective of the irreversible tendency of globalization talked about several difficult problems and challenges faced in current governmental administration, including youth problems, public claim of rights, formation of governmental resultant forces, and so on, and also put forward the idea of public policies dynamics from his own professional background.



Such supervisors as Li Hongqiong, Deputy Director of the Department of Policies & Regulations of Ministry of Culture, Zhang Renfeng, Division Director of the Department of Training and Supervision of State Administration of Civil Service and Di Sen, Deputy Director of National Social Poverty Alleviation and Innovation Office all made a keynote speech. The issues that those keynote speeches covered were comprehensive and wide. The viewpoints expressed by those supervisors were novel, including such issues as the transformation of governmental functions, institution structuring, and mode of organizational administration, team or personnel quality, social macro policy adjustment, opening wider to the outside world, cultural industry innovation and malfunction of governmental regulation.



At last, Peng Xianggang, Dean of School of Public Administration, made concluding remarks. He said, “You have brought the latest information of every ministry and commission, which lets us feel that the pace of national reform is that close to us and also makes us feel the intensity of pace of reforms made by every ministry and commission, and meanwhile also provide many frontier issues for School of Public Administration to achieve future subjects development.”