On November 16, 2018, the Guangdong Provincial Silk-Road Entrepreneurship Education and International Accreditation Seminar was successfully held in the Third Meeting Room of GDUFS Baiyun Mountain Campus. The exchange was hosted by the Silk-Road Entrepreneurship Education Network and organized by GDUFS SoB. Over 30 representatives from ten institutions, including South China University of Technology, Jinan University, South China Normal University, South China Agricultural University, Shantou University, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, Guangzhou University, and Dongguan University of Technology, attended. The meeting was presided over by Professor WANG Zhongming, President of the Silk-Road Entrepreneurship Education Network, AMBA China Regional Head, and senior professor at Zhejiang University.

Professor WANG Zhongming introduced the origin of the Silk-Road Entrepreneurship Education Network and described this development platform from multiple dimensions, such as curriculum development, entrepreneurial competencies, country-specific business, multilateral exchanges, collaborative research, seminars, and base networks. He also updated attendees on the network’s latest collaborative progress. Subsequently, each representative introduced the progress of innovation and entrepreneurship education at their respective institutions.

Professor Andrew Lock, Chairperson of the Silk-Road Entrepreneurship Education Network and Chair of the AMBA International Accreditation Advisory Board, expressed his gratitude in his speech to the Department of Education of Guangdong Province and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. He noted that entrepreneurship education in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative is a great opportunity for business schools, as it can facilitate the organization of thematic series events and help business schools find suitable partners at home and abroad. Professor Lock believes that in this new era, entrepreneurship education requires not only cultivating students’ entrepreneurial spirit, but also conducting scientific research to support entrepreneurship. In addition, he introduced the upcoming Business Graduates Association (BGA) accreditation by AMBA aimed at business schools. The BGA plans to use Guangdong’s universities as pilot institutions to explore cooperation with Guangdong’s economics and management schools, and also to create a new platform for inter-institutional exchange.