On December 26, the 2025 Zhejiang Provincial Seminar on the Development of Silk Road Institute was held in Taizhou. Relevant officials from Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education, Zhejiang Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce and Zhejiang Provincial Foreign Affairs Office attended the event, alongside delegates from 68 undergraduate and vocational colleges across Zhejiang. Zheng Yali, Vice President of Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, together with leading administrators from the School of International Education and Studies and International Exchange and Cooperation Department, was invited to the seminar.

Participants conducted extensive exchanges concerning the standardized development, sustainable development and quality-and-efficiency improvement of Silk Road Institute. Chai Zhixian, Dean of the School of International Education and Studies at Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, delivered a presentation on behalf of undergraduate institutions. He elaborated on Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics’s explorations and practical experience regarding its Silk Road Institute in Kazakhstan. Through developing an open cooperation network and adopting the “Platform+Project” operation model, the overseas college has comprehensively advanced programs covering enterprise overseas training, joint talent cultivation, area studies as well as people-to-people and cultural exchanges.

In recent years, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics’s Silk Road Institute in Kazakhstan has targeted supporting Zhejiang’s development into a province featuring high-level opening-up. Leveraging Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics’s strengths in finance and economics disciplines, the college has launched a series of special training programs covering digital trade, international taxation and transnational accounting for Zhejiang-based enterprises going global, benefiting more than 300 corporate managers and staff members in total.

(Correspondent: Jiang Wei; Editor: Che Peng)