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Officials ready for training at Harvard
"The training sessions at Tsinghua and Harvard, which are complementary, have turned out to be tremendously helpful in upgrading the skill levels of officials," he said. "We'd like to work together to ensure even better-quality courses in the years ahead." Sun Xiaoyu, vice-minister of the State Council Development Research Centre, yesterday confirmed programme partners have yet to finalize the discussions on future collaboration after their first partnership runs its course next year. The training mission arranges for Chinese mayors and other high-level government officials to attend a six-week crash course at Tsinghua University focusing on the key economic and social issues in China. They will then spend another five weeks at Harvard for instruction, training and local site visits to government agencies and business enterprises. Herman B Leonard, a professor of Public Management at KSG, said: "We believe
the programme has helped our participants form a more comprehensive and
strategic view of China's challenges and opportunities - and of how they can
better face those challenges and take advantage of those opportunities."
Programme candidates are usually high-ranking local and national government
leaders under 45 years of age. A majority of the participants are men, but this
year's class is comprised of more women than ever before, Xue said, without
specifying numbers.
With the case study method of instruction, the classes are designed to help
Chinese officials think about governance challenges in an increasingly
international and market-oriented economy, Ellwood said.
Many participants say they have benefited from having the opportunity to see
how their counterparts around the world have addressed challenges similar to
those they are facing.
Shi Meilan, an official with the National School of Administration, who
participated in last year's training, said that although she had read about
public administration case studies before she went to the US, it was what she
learned at the Harvard campus that was really impressive.
"There are many things that you just couldn't learn from textbooks," she told
the Southern People weekly. "I think the case study method should be
disseminated in China's administration institutes."
Funding for China's Leaders in Development Programme
comes from private donors. |
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