On May 23rd, our school held the Alibaba Group 1688 Industry Tutors Appointment Ceremony. VIPs attended the meeting were as the followings:

Min Fan, General Manager of Public Affairs of Alibaba 1688;

Hongfei Yue, Director of Public Affairs of Alibaba 1688;

Jun Tao, CPC Secretary of the School of Information Management, Wuhan University;

Qian Dai, CPC Deputy Secretary of the School of Information Management, Wuhan University;

Min Zhang, Director of the Department of Digital Economy and Intelligent Business;

Weiwei Yan, Deputy Director of the Department of Digital Economy and Intelligent Business;

Associate Professor Nan Wang and Associate Professor Jindong Qin, Associate Researcher Yang Liu, and student representatives of the school participated in the event. Min Zhang presided over the appointment ceremony.

Jun Tao said in his speech that as a leading enterprise in the field of digital economy, Alibaba Group has a significant leading role in technological innovation and industry development. Appointing industry tutors is an important measure for the school to promote the collaborative education of industry - university - research - application. It is hoped that with the practical experience of industry tutors, students can be helped to grow into compound talents with both theoretical literacy and practical ability. The school will provide strong support for this cooperation and fully guarantee the implementation of the school-enterprise collaborative education mechanism.

Qian Dai introduced the resumes and achievements of the two industry tutors. She pointed out that Min Fan and Hongfei Yue have been deeply engaged in industrial digitization, supply chain innovation, cross-border e-commerce and other fields for many years, and their rich industry experience will bring cutting-edge perspectives and practical guidance to the teachers and students of the school. As the talent training experimental field of the school, the Department of Digital Economy and Intelligent Business carrying out industry tutor cooperation activities is a useful exploration and important measure to implement the school's "1+1+1" talent training model.

In the appointment ceremony session, Jun Tao issued industry tutor appointment letters to Min Fan and Hongfei Yue, and student representatives presented the school badge souvenirs of Wuhan University to the two industry tutors.

In the special lecture, Min Fan first expressed the sense of honor and responsibility as an industry tutor, emphasizing that she will effectively help students grow. By sharing her personal campus life and career development experience, she vividly explained the importance of the in-depth combination of "ability and knowledge" education on the school side and "vision and insight" education on the industry side. At the same time, she encouraged students to embrace changes, continue to learn, and deal with the social division of labor changes brought about by the current AI technology with a positive attitude.

Hongfei Yue emphasized in the special lecture that digital economy and intelligent business, as China's "national fortune level" professional fields, have broad development prospects in cross-border e-commerce and industrial belt digitization. He deeply analyzed the closed-loop logic of "industry-production-technology", reminded students to pay attention to the excavation of new needs and new scenarios, and encouraged students to cultivate an international vision and seize the opportunities of the times.

In the free discussion session, the teachers and students of the school had a warm exchange with the two industry tutors. In response to the questions such as career direction selection and personal ability training put forward by the teachers and students, the two tutors gave detailed answers combined with their own experiences.

The industry tutor appointment ceremony marks that the Department of Digital Economy and Intelligent Business has taken another solid step in implementing the important work arrangements of the school such as industry-education integration and school-enterprise cooperation. In the future, the Department of Digital Economy and Intelligent Business will continue to expand the team of industry tutors, innovate the talent training model of "school-enterprise cooperation and industry-education integration", and cultivate more high-quality talents with innovative spirit and practical ability for industry and society.