On May 12, a delegation of four from our college, including Vice President Wu Chunjie, Deputy Secretary Wang Ti, and Director of the Applied Statistics Master's Program Zhang Mingfang, visited Xiamen University to research the School of Economics and the Wang Yanan Institute for Economic Studies. They were received by Qiu Wangtu, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Economics at Xiamen University; Lin Ming, Professor and Deputy Head of the Statistics Department at the School of Economics and Wang Yanan Institute; Dai Pingsheng, Professor and Head of the Economic Management Statistics Teaching and Research Office in the Statistics Department; and Zhong Wei, Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of the School of Economics at Xiamen University and Wang Yanan Institute. Both sides engaged in in-depth and broad discussions on talent training, discipline construction, and personnel system development.
At the research meeting, Deputy Secretary Qiu Wangtu welcomed our college on behalf of the School of Economics at Xiamen University. Lin Ming, the deputy director of the Department of Statistics, introduced our college to the overview of the Department of Statistics at Xiamen University, including faculty strength, discipline setup, discipline planning, and featured projects in undergraduate talent cultivation.
Our institute's Vice President Wu Chunjie introduced our institute's discipline structure, undergraduatefeatured program "Bingwen Plan," etc. Director of the Applied Statistics Master’s Program Zhang Mingfang introduced the attendees to the basic overview of our institute's Applied Statistics Master’s program, including curriculum design, practical arrangements, etc. Then, Deputy Secretary Wang Ti introduced the employment situation of our institute's graduates in recent years.
Deputy Director Lin Ming stated that the statistics discipline at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics has done very well in aspects such as discipline setup and training programs, maintaining close ties with the industry, and has a wealth of resources in part-time industry mentors that are worth learning from.
Hearing about the other party's international experimental classes, "Top Talent Plan," and other excellent undergraduate programs, our college has further discussed the specific operations and training effects.
At the end of the meeting, both parties expressed that this research trip has been very rewarding, and they will strengthen contact in the future, learn from each other, and jointly promote the development of the statistics discipline.
Our institute has long been in communication and exchange with the School of Economics at Xiamen University and the Wang Yanan Institute for Economic Research. On March 22 of this year, Professor Feng Xingdong from our institute visited the economics discipline and gave a lecture titled "The Application of Distributed Regression in Big Data" for the faculty and students of both institutes.
