In early April 2019, the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) received an official notice from the China Scholarship Council that the school of law has been approved as one of the first batch of “International Organization Reserve Talent Training Project” for three years. Under this project, UIBE Law School will make full use of its close cooperation with the Law School of the University of Lucerne in Switzerland, and send students to this school for study or training and to major international economic organizations for internships or employment in order to serve the national strategic needs.

UIBE and UIBE Law School attaches great importance to this project. Professor Shi Jingxia, dean of UIBE Law School and Professor Gong Hongliu, vice-dean of UIBE Law School took charge of the preparation work in person. With strong assistance from the school’s leader, the enrollment and employment department, the foreign affairs department and Ms. Tian Tian, senior coordinator of foreign affairs of UIBE Law School, they carefully wrote the project approval report and prepared the declaration materials with comprehensive and detailed evaluation. After the preliminary examination and receiving the preliminary approval from the China Scholarship Council, Dean Shi Jingxia went to Changchun to defend the project in person, expounding the historical mission of UIBE Law School to serve the national strategy of cultivating high-end foreign-related economic and trade legal talents, recent achievements and project planning, etc., which were highly recognized by project experts and made the project successfully approved.

For a long time, UIBE Law School has taken the training of high-level foreign-related economic, trade and legal talents as its mission.. In recent years, special attention has been paid to the cultivation of reserve talents in international organizations, and remarkable achievements have been made in exploring various training modes. Since 2016, eight graduate students (10 times) have successfully interned or worked in major international economic organizations such as WTO, UNCITRAL, UNIDO and WIPO. The approval of this project will further promote the new development of talent training in UIBE Law School.