On July 19, the second E-commerce Innovation and Development Forum organized by the Glorious Sun School of Business and Management was held in DHU. More than 150 e-commerce teachers from colleges and universities across the country attended this online forum, which was divided into two sub-forums: “E-commerce Talent Training” and “E-commerce Research Frontiers”. Participants jointly discussed the characteristics and trends of e-commerce talent training and research under the new situation, and shared their experiences.
Vice President Shu Huisheng, one of the attendees of the forum, welcomed the experts for their attending and briefly introduced the construction progress of DHU’s e-commerce major after it was selected as a national first-class undergraduate major. Twelve experts from nationally renowned universities, such as Renmin University of China, Sun Yat-sen University, University of International Business and Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing Jiaotong University, and Donghua University, respectively gave a keynote speech on the topic of the innovative ideas in e-commerce talent training and emerging research hotspots in industry development.
Professor Yao Weixin, a teacher of DHU and a member of the E-commerce Professional Teaching Steering Committee of Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education, presided over the opening ceremony of the forum. Participants included Lin Wenwei, party secretary of the Glorious Sun School of Business and Management and Yang Shuai, deputy dean of the School.
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Under the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, a powerful e-commerce and logistics system has guaranteed people’s lives during quarantine. The various e-commerce models that emerged during the epidemic have demonstrated the important role of e-commerce in satisfying consumption, ensuring employment, stabilizing growth, and supporting innovation. It also shows that e-commerce can help all industries to transform traditional operating models, accelerate structural adjustments and improve management level. Held in this context, the forum aims to gather the wisdom of well-known experts and scholars across the country, jointly discuss the frontier development of e-commerce, improve the quality of e-commerce talent training, and promote the ecological integration of e-commerce and other industries, so as to increase China’s influence and voice in digital globalization.