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The Great Hall of the People Witnesses a New Step in China's Reforms
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January 22, 2002 Beijing, China -- In a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Jan. 18, Dean Joseph S. Nye of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Minister Sun Xiaoyu of the Development Research Center of China's State Council and Minister Chen Qingtai, Dean of the Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management launched a new program to help prepare Chinese government officials to face the ongoing challenges of China's national reforms. This international collaboration between the Asia Programs at the Kennedy School’s Center for Business and Government, the DRC and Tsinghua will bring 60 high ranked local and central government officials to Beijing and Cambridge for an Executive Public Management Training Program. This first-of-its-kind effort will enhance the abilities of Chinese officials to develop new public management strategies and analytical skills as they navigate through a rapidly changing government-private sector relationship. China's universities have been asked to develop their own programs in public administration and the Kennedy School's outstanding faculty and staff will have the chance to aid in that task. As Ira A. Jackson, the Director of the Center for Business and Government notes, “The program is in a league of its own and represents an
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opportunity to construct a new paradigm for institutional collaboration.” Collaborative interaction between officials from local and national government institutions in China and an international faculty will be the linchpin of this endeavor. After an intensive six-week session in Beijing, the participants will travel to Cambridge for five weeks of instruction, training and local site visits to government agencies and business enterprises. Participants will expand their knowledge base on questions of the utmost public concern to government leaders and their constituents and cultivate practical skills in public management. They will be learning the case study method of instruction from the case authors themselves and will have the opportunity to engage Harvard faculty and the larger academic and business communities in Cambridge on a personal level. The US-based costs of this program have been generously underwritten by Amway (China), which understands the important role that good governance in the public sector will play as China continues its integration into the world. Chinese government officials are challenged to work with and channel the benefits of the rapidly changing private and public spheres for the good of the entire nation. This program will help to give them the tools they will need to meet those challenges and take advantage of new opportunities. -Kate Dodson |
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