On 27 October, the closing ceremony of the training programme on "Building a Data-Driven and Efficient Administrative System" for Party and government officials of Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, was held at the College of International Cultural Exchange, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. The ceremony was attended by Cai Rong, full-time organiser at the rank of division chief of the Party Committee of the College of International Cultural Exchange; Professor Xin Ge, Vice Dean of the Graduate School; Professor Feng Suwei, Vice Dean of the School of Public Administration; and all participants of the training programme. The ceremony was chaired by Rong Jun, Vice Dean of the College of International Cultural Exchange.
Before the ceremony, the programme held an expert exchange session, at which Professor Xin Ge and Professor Feng Suwei shared their views on the questions raised by the participants and held a question-and-answer discussion with them.
At the ceremony, Cai Rong congratulated the 21 participants on completing their studies. She noted that the programme sought to explain both the practices and the difficulties of Shanghai's more than two decades of digital government development, and that Ho Chi Minh City is at a crucial stage of adjusting its administrative divisions and restructuring the governance of a mega-city. She expressed the hope that the approaches to reform and the pilot measures contained in Shanghai's experience would offer a useful reference for the participants.
Li Wenfeng, head of the Vietnamese delegation, member of the Municipal Party Committee and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the city's Party and government organs, addressed the ceremony on behalf of all participants. He said that the participants had taken part earnestly in the lectures and field visits carefully designed and arranged by the University, and had thus gained a more vivid, direct and in-depth understanding of Shanghai's digital government development and urban governance. He expressed sincere gratitude to Shanghai University of Finance and Economics for its meticulous organisation and hard work, and looked forward to taking cooperation between the two sides to a higher level. Li Shixiang, Chief Representative in China of TET Education Group, then spoke.
At the end of the ceremony, Cai Rong, Xin Ge, Feng Suwei and Rong Jun presented certificates of completion to all participants in turn, bringing the training programme to a successful conclusion.
The programme was commissioned by the Organisation Department of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee and undertaken by the College of International Cultural Exchange, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and offered a rich mix of lectures, on-site teaching, field visits and exchange seminars. The College has consistently kept to the main theme of opening up higher education, actively developing multi-level and multi-dimensional international exchanges and cooperation, and contributing SUFE's strength to opening new prospects for China-Viet Nam friendship and to bringing the sister-city relationship between Shanghai and Ho Chi Minh City to a new level.
