On the 1^st of April, CEIBS’s Ding Yuan (Vice President and Dean), Li Yuanyuan (Director of MBA Admissions and Career Development Centre), and Li Xiaozhou (Deputy Secretary-General of CEIBS Education Development Foundation) led a CEIBS MBA student delegation to visit Sanpower Group. Sanpower’s Chen Xiaoyang (Vice President), Cui Chunlan (Senior Assistant President of HR Affairs and Executive Vice President of Sanpower Management Academy), and Gao Jing (Assistant President and General Manager of Health and Ageing Service Strategic Management Centre) also attended the event. Both parties signed the CEIBS MBA international student summer internship agreement and held the International Student Practice Base’s inauguration ceremony.

Nearly 20 international students from 11 countries visited Sanpower Family, Brookstone Concept Store and Senior Care Command Centre and learned about its development and overseas M&A activities.

In recent years, Chinese enterprises have deepened the domestic market and opened up overseas markets as well to achieve rapid development and promote the growth in demand for international management talents. To further promote communication and long-term cooperation between Sanpower Group and CEIBS, both parties reached a strategic partnership agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Sanpower will serve as an International Student Practice Base for CEIBS, who in turn will provide Sanpower with international talent based on their requirements.

Cui Chunlan presided over the exchange and signing activities. At the signing ceremony, Ding Yuan introduced CEIBS as a world-class business school and stated that its mission is to contribute to the internationalization of Chinese enterprises. The strategic partnership with Sanpower will further deepen CEIBS’s strategic “China depth” positioning. It is also expected that more students will act as bridges for an ongoing exchange between Chinese enterprises and international markets.

Chen Xiaoyang shared details of Sanpower’s global operation and strategy implementation. He talked about business development and Sanpower’s internationalization, using the acquisition of overseas enterprises such as Brookstone, House of Fraser and Hamleys as examples. He said that it is necessary to introduce and integrate good organisational structures, operation modes and talent incentive systems for overseas enterprises to better define and create the future and to change and contribute to the international development of Chinese enterprises more generally. Meanwhile, he said that Sanpower’s internationalization requires international talent. Therefore, Sanpower looks forward to working closely with CEIBS to jointly promote the globalisation of Chinese enterprises, and it welcomes the addition of outstanding students from CEIBS in its ranks.

CEIBS alumna Gao Jing gave an outline of Sanpower’s strategic programme in the field of health. She said that in the areas of biotherapeutics, hospitals and ageing services, Sanpower Group will build a health industry ecosystem that aims to “bring hope by offering medical services to people and providing ageing services to the elderly”. Meanwhile, she also shared details of Sanpower’s international development process and management practice. Her speech won high praise from the student delegation present.

Finally, CEIBS students had an exchange with relevant heads of Sanpower on issues such as business, management and personnel training. Sanpower also presented them with memorable gifts.