University of International Business and Economics
In its history of half a century, there appeared many known scholars and professors: Chen Tao, Song Wenjun, Shen Daming, Zhang Xiongwu, Zhao Run, Jiang Xindao, Xiao Tianyou, among others.Prominent among them: Shi Guangsheng as the ex-minister of Foreign Trades, Song Hai, now the vice provincial governor of Guangdong Province, Cao Weizhou, the deputy Secretary-General of the National Standing Committee of People’s Congress of China, Guo Li, the deputy director of the Hong Kong Liaison Office of China.Currently, there are more than 3,100 foreign students from 126 countries and regions studying at the University of International Business and Economics.There is a major academic building at the northwest of the site, which used to belong to the China Institute of Finance, named Boxue (博学楼).Apart from the sports areas, there is a Chinese garden (south side), a bird cage, and a pond dubbed the "Back Sea" (see Houhai) by students.Recently, there has been an influx of Western European (Finland, France, Germany, Italy) and North American students.Since 1998, the UIBE and Reims Management School have created a Franco-Chinese undergraduate program CESEM.Other dual diplomas partners are Paris-based business school ESCE and Cardiff University.UIBE is one of the first universities in China to launch an international student program taught entirely in English.