On December 20th, to implement the important deployment of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) on “carrying out a series of research on major theoretical and practical issues of the state-owned economy, and continuously systematizing and rationalizing them, to provide theoretical and intellectual support for the promotion of state-owned enterprise reform and development”, as well as the work requirements of the Research Center of the SASAC on “the management experience of world-class state-owned enterprises applied in cases, teaching materials and classrooms”, Wu Changqi, Dean of the School of Management of Shandong University, led a team to China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) to exchange and discuss relevant cooperation matters.
Zhu Xiaogang, Deputy General Manager and Senior Engineer of the CCECC, welcomed Dean Wu and his team and introduced the development and achievements of the CCECC. Dean Wu expressed his congratulations on its achievements in building a world-class enterprise. The two sides had an in-depth discussion on the implementation of the “three-in” (applied in cases, teaching materials and classrooms) work of SASAC’s world-class enterprise cases, reached a consensus on the cooperation to complete the development of SASAC’s cases of first-class state-owned enterprises, as well as the development of case studies and other cooperation matters, and formed a preliminary intention to carry out long-term strategic cooperation.
Before the meeting, Zheng Jun, Chief International Business Expert of the CCECC and President of China Civil Engineering Construction Institute, and Zhang Lei, Vice President of the Institute, accompanied Wu Changqi and his team to visit the exhibition hall, and highlighted the history, global layout and current development of the CCECC.
The exchange deepened the cooperation between the two sides and had a positive effect on strengthening the case study of the School, broadening the teaching and training paths and improving the specialized school running level.
Cai Di, Professor of the Department of Leadership and Organizational Management of the School and Director of the Management Case Study Center of Shandong University, and researchers Jin Shuaikang and Yuan Yue participated in the activity.
China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) is one of the four foreign economic enterprises that first entered the international engineering contracting market in China, and is now the leading overseas enterprise under China Railway Construction Corporation Limited, a Global 500 company. Starting from the construction of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway in the 1960s, which was China’s largest foreign aid project, the CCECC has been operating in more than 110 countries and regions, with its business covering a wide range of fields such as engineering contracting, design consulting, railway operation, etc. It is the mainstay of the central enterprises to implement the Belt and Road Initiative and one of China’s leading enterprises in the foreign contracting industry, and has been selected as one of the world’s top 250 international contractors for 20 consecutive years. The CCECC has successfully implemented a large number of high-quality projects that are famous both at home and abroad, among which, the Nigerian Abuja-Kaduna Railway is the first overseas railway with Chinese standards, Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway is the first cross-border electrified railway project with the whole industry chain of China Railway overseas, Turkish Ankara-Istanbul High-speed Railway is the first high-speed railway built by a Chinese enterprise overseas, and Algerian East-West Highway is the largest single road project implemented by Chinese enterprises overseas.
