On the morning of May 9, 2026, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission held the launch ceremony of the 2026 Special Program for Cultivating Talent for International Organizations at the Huaxiang campus of the Capital University of Economics and Business. Zhou Li, full-time Deputy Secretary of the CPC Committee of CFAU, attended on behalf of our university upon invitation.

In his speech, Li Yi, Director of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, said that the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee attaches great importance to cultivating talent for international organizations, and that through launching this special program the Commission hopes to pool the strengths of all universities, carry out systematic design and resource sharing, and build an internationalized talent cultivation brand with distinctive capital features and demonstrative significance. Zhou Li, together with Wei Xubin, Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission; Li Jincheng, Level-II Inspector of the Beijing Municipal Foreign Affairs Office; and leaders of the other four undertaking universities, jointly launched the special program.

After the launch ceremony, Zhou Li gave interviews to People's Daily Online, China.org.cn, China Education Television and other media, highly commending the great significance of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission's platform for cultivating talent for international organizations, and saying that our university will rely on its long-established strengths in cultivating diplomatic, foreign affairs and international organization talent to provide participants with quality courses and practical opportunities in the international rules module of the training.

About 300 people attended, including heads of relevant divisions of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, heads of relevant functional departments of the pilot universities, representatives of international organizations in China, and participants from 24 universities. Ma Xinyu, Director of our Foreign Affairs Office, and Wang Jia, Deputy Director of the Department of International Law, accompanied the participation.

The Beijing Municipal Education Commission's Special Program for Cultivating Talent for International Organizations aims to strengthen the strategic deployment for cultivating talent for international organizations and advance the talent reserve work of Beijing's universities for international organizations. The program will run from May to November 2026, comprising five modules covering global governance, international rules, the functioning of international organizations, international economic and trade governance, and cross-cultural communication and leadership. As one of the five undertaking universities, our university will carry out the training for Module II, 'International Rules and Multilateral Governance Mechanisms,' from June 6 to 14 through the Department of International Law.

Foreign Affairs Office

May 13, 2026