Online seminar "One Strip and One Route Initiative: opportunities in Cuba-China collaboration", organized between the Higher School of State and Government Cadres and the Shanghai Institute of Administration

On November 8, from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Cuban time, and from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., Beijing time, the Seminar "One Strip and One Route Initiative: opportunities in Cuba-Cuba collaboration" was held virtually. China”, “an exchange organized jointly between the Higher School of State and Government Cadres (ESCEG) and the Shanghai Institute of Administration (SAI). The opening speeches and presentation of the seminar were given by the Rector of the ESCEG, Dr. C. Mercedes Delgado Fernández and the Executive Vice President of the Shanghai Administration Institute (SAI), Mei Lihong. Due to the importance of the issue for Cuba, several of the representatives of the Working Group of the One Belt and One Road Initiative, coordinated by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, were summoned to participate. The seminar presentation was made by Dr. Haibin Niu, Director of the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies and the Shanghai Institute of International Studies (SIIS). Dr. Niu joined SIIS after receiving his Ph.D. in International Relations from Fudan University in 2006. He is also Deputy Secretary General of the Chinese Association for Latin American Studies. His current research work focuses on international development cooperation. He was a visiting scholar at BPC (Brazil), Stellenbosch University and SAIIA (South Africa), GW, FES NY Office & CSIS (USA), GIGA (Germany) and Pacific University (Peru). He worked at the Shanghai Municipal Government Foreign Affairs Office (2010-2011) and the China International Import Expo Bureau (2018). The collaboration between the Higher School of State and Government Cadres and the Shanghai Institute of Administration began with the signing, in June 2016, of the first Memorandum of Understanding for exchanges and cooperation in training, scientific research and technical assistance in public policies and business. And from that date to the present we have developed, every year, exchanges on highly relevant topics for the preparation of public administration and business system cadres and professors from cadre training institutions throughout the country. The Rector of the ESCEG expressed her most sincere gratitude to the Shanghai Institute of Administration for maintaining this close collaboration with the Higher School of State and Government Cadres and extended the most sincere congratulations to the sister People's Republic of China for the conclusion successful, on October 22, the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.