In the evening of June 25th, the delegations from New Zealand Consulate-General in Chengdu came to our college to share some information about ‘the Belt and Road’ Initiative in New Zealand and opportunities for future investment and immigration. The delegations were led by Alistair Crozier, the Consul-General of New Zealand in Chengdu. Wu Peng, the deputy dean of Sichuan University of Business School, attended the seminar. Mr Wu, on behalf of the school, welcomed the delegations.
Today’s seminar mainly consisted of three speeches.
To start with, Alistair Crozier gave a brief introduction of New Zealand and the relationship between New Zealand and China.
The next speech was about economy and investment by Zhang Chenghui, the investment director of trade and development bureau of New Zealand Embassy in China. After Q&A to arouse everybody’s attention, she introduced the bureau and the economic conditions in New Zealand, giving detailed information about three pillars of economy and top-three trade partners. Next, she talked about the strategy of ‘Intelligent Country’ and international investment policy. In addition, she took some successful investment as examples to show the promising opportunities for future investment.
The next speech about education was delivered by Felix Ye, the senior director of education department of New Zealand Embassy in China. As an introduction, he shared his experience of studying home and abroad. He introduced our ordinary images of New Zealand, the current status and tendency of international education in New Zealand, the similarities and differences between Chinese educational system and New Zealand’s. And he clarifies the project-based learning with many examples to show the core value of learning by doing and engaging. Furthermore, he employed some data to demonstrate the advantages of studying in New Zealand. At the end of his speech, he recommended a program of pursuit for a PHD.
The final speech was about immigration by Hu Junling, the chief representative of New Zealand immigration department in China. He shared the history and current conditions of Chinese immigration to New Zealand, the advantages of immigrating to New Zealand and some programs.
In the end, students and delegations exchanged opinions about some questions and issues. In short, the seminar was informative, helpful and inspiring.
