On July 18, the University of Science and Technology Beijing held the establishment ceremony for its new Business School of Science and Technology at the Xiong'an International Hotel, alongside the SEM 45th Anniversary Development Conference.
The event brought together more than 100 representatives from 46 universities and 32 enterprises, including three academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and senior officials from the Xiong'an New Area.
Lei Yang, Deputy Director of the Xiong'an New Area Management Committee, said the new school aligned with Xiong'an's goal of building a global innovation highland and a model of high-quality development. The New Area would provide comprehensive support in policy, space, and funding, Yang said.
Zhaoping Lv, President of USTB, said the establishment of the school was a forward-looking move to transform traditional business education and seize the high ground of future business education.
The Business School of Science and Technology would integrate innovation chains, industry chains, capital chains, and talent chains to support new quality productive forces, Lu said.
Lei Yang, Xiaoping Xu (USTB Party Secretary), Zhaoping Lv, and Wei Gu, Dean of the new school, jointly unveiled the plaque for the school. The university signed industry-university-research cooperation agreements with China Mineral Resources Group, BAIC Group, BBMG Corporation, Nanjing Iron and Steel, and Hangzhou Hikvision.
A book titled Forty-Five Years of the School of Economics and Management at USTB (1981-2026) was also released. The accompanying Science-Business Innovation Forum featured keynote speeches from 18 university presidents and deans on AI-driven business education.
