On October 30th and 31st, 2008, "Five Areas of Cross-strait Development Forum – Chinese Businessman Management Forum " was held in Jinan University as one of the series of activities for celebrating the 10th anniversary of Jinan University School of Management. The forum employs "carry forward the Chinese culture, cultivate Chinese businessman leaders, serve Chinese businessman society" as its theme focusing on three aspects: "Chinese businessman culture", "Chinese businessman education" and "the Chinese regional cooperation and development for School of Management". This forum creates a broad space to communicate and cooperate for the global Chinese businessman management education. The event invited the Dean of School of Management and some well-known Chinese entrepreneurs from Guangdong, Fujian and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, five areas of cross-strait to participate. Dean of STU Business School Professor XU Zongling and Foreign Affairs Project Assistant XU Xiaojing were invited to take part in the forum.
In the morning of Oct. 31st, the President of Jinan University Prof. HU Jun delivered a welcome speech in the opening ceremony. Then the Vice-Chancellor of Xi'an Jiaotong University Prof. XI Youmin, Taiwan Yuan Ze University Prof. GU Siming, the Dean of School of Management, Jinan University Prof. LI Congdong, Canadian York University Schulich School of Business Prof. Tan Jinsong made a wonderful speech respectively. The Dean of Shantou University Business School Prof. XU Zongling made an analysis about two issues: "How can School of Management meet the demand of enterprises for management talent in the context of globalization " and "the development of School of Management in mainland should follow the path of Europe and the United States or just go its own way" in the round-table forum whose theme was around the "Chinese businessman culture", "Chinese businessman education" and "the Chinese regional cooperation and development for School of Management". She also introduced the situation of reform and development about Shantou University Business School and proposed to adopt the way of strategic alliances to form regular visits and communications for students and teachers among Schools of Management and co-build a case library, etc. so that School of Management can form resource sharing and so as to promote inter-School cooperation and development.
