From November 10th, 2015 to November 14th, 2015, as a distinguished expert involved in one of the major foreign training assistance programs organized by Ministry of Commerce of PRC and the first program to “Go global”, Dr. Zou Weikang from School of Public Administration was invited to go to Mauritius to give lectures for senior civil servants of Ministry of Civil Servants of the country and ambassadors of Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Republic of Mauritius.

             

The topic of the lecture and training that Dr. Zou did for senior civil servants of Mauritius was Program Management and Monitoring from the Perspective of Public Sectors. Totally there were more than 60 trainees attending the lecture and training, including senior civil servants from over 10 major functional departments of the central government and local governments of Mauritius. In the lecture, Dr. Zou used many latest and international program management cases to analyze and discuss their significance of universal reference. Meanwhile, he also combined China’s reform practices and beneficial experience and consciously inserted many Chinese elements and successful program management cases such as the construction of National Center for the Performing Arts and Bird’s Nest. In addition, Dr. Zou bought plenty of teaching props in China before going to Mauritius and prepared a lot of videos and instructional games for the lectures. The use of these videos and games for teaching achieved very good teaching effects, greatly motivated the sense of participation and learning interest of trainees and built a good and relaxing atmosphere for interacting.

The special lecture on Issues concerning International Financial Cooperation under China’s “the Belt and Road” strategy that Dr. Zou gave for the ambassadors, commercial counselors and diplomats of Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Republic of Mauritius covered such aspects as origin, development and significance of China’s “the Belt and Road” strategy, prospect of international financial cooperation under the background of China’s “the Belt and Road” strategy, especially the important role that Chinese financial institutions play. Moreover, Dr. Zou discussed the significance of offshore finance to the future of China’s “the Belt and Road” strategy with the ambassadors in allusion to the important position and role that Mauritius has in China’s “the Belt and Road” strategy, and was invited by the ambassadors to design relevant derivative cooperation topics and research programs.

The lectures gave by Dr. Zou this time were highly praised by Ministry of Civil Servants and the ambassadors of Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Republic of Mauritius and exerted good international influence. The lectures to a certain degree did win local civil servants’ further recognition of China and many trainees expressed that they want to go to China for visiting, receiving further education and learning. Meanwhile, the lectures were also thought highly of by the accompanying officials from Ministry of Commerce of PRC. Ministry of Commerce of PRC expected to further develop and apply this special teaching mode regarded as a typical case in its foreign assistance training programs and invited Dr. Zou as a distinguished expert to further participate in relevant foreign training and teaching programs organized by Ministry of Commerce of PRC.