On the afternoon of August 17, Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and his delegation, accompanied by Chinese Ambassador to Fiji Zhou Jian, Chinese government’s Pacific Island Affairs Special Envoy Qian Bo, Fijian Ambassador to China Li Zhenfan, Zhejiang Provincial Foreign Affairs Office Director Gu Jianxin, and Yiwu City Mayor Ye Bangrui, visited Yiwu Industrial & Commercial College (YWICC). They toured the International Entrepreneurship Park, the cross-border e-commerce live streaming studio, and other practical bases to learn about the school’s external cooperation and e-commerce talent cultivation. School leader Li Changzu and Vice President Fan Yao accompanied them for inspection and exchange.
Li Changzu warmly welcomed Sitiveni Rabuka and his delegation, expressing that the school welcomes Fijian youth to participate in entrepreneurship and innovation practices at our school. The school will rely on the International Entrepreneurship Park to carry out international students' innovation and entrepreneurship education and practice, fully supporting entrepreneurship incubation and contributing to youth exchanges between China and Fiji.
The person in charge of the School of International Education reported on the school’s history, scale of talent cultivation, and its unique educational path of “establishing the school, honoring the city-school collaboration”. Four Fijian youths were invited to participate in the 2024 “Run with Yiwu—Global Youth Entrepreneurship Training,” engaging in dual-creation practice at our school’s International Entrepreneurship Park and off-campus innovation and entrepreneurship bases. The Fijian participants shared their training experiences and gains via video.
The delegation detailed their understanding of the school’s work in international student entrepreneurship incubation, cultural exchange, volunteer services, and international communication at the International Entrepreneurship Park. They watched live cross-border e-commerce broadcasts by Chinese and international entrepreneurial teams and had a cordial exchange with international student representatives and multilingual cross-border e-commerce live streaming mentors from the School of Foreign Studies.
Since 2007, over 13,000 international students from 112 countries have been enrolled and trained in our school, with 24% of international graduates achieving entrepreneurship in Yiwu and other Chinese cities. It has hosted two Sino-foreign cooperative education programs: Sino-New Zealand International Business and Sino-Italian Product Art Design. The Moroccan Yiwu Business School, Yiwu Silk Road School (Malaysia), and Yiwu Silk Road School (Morocco) have been included in Zhejiang Province’s “Belt and Road” Silk Road School program. YWICC has become a strong support for the region’s national opening-up strategy and “Belt and Road” construction.
