On the afternoon of October 11, the Opening Ceremony for Class of 2020 International Students of Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance was held in the Lecture Hall, Laboratory Center, Pudong Campus. Over 200 international students from over 60 countries attended the ceremony.

Fang Shoujiang, Dean of the School of International Exchange, delivered an ebullient speech, extended a warm welcome to all international students, introduced the development history, specialty advantages, management, services and international student societies of our university, and urged all international students to take full advantages of the resources offered by the school to learn Chinese language, Chinese culture and inter-cultural communication competence, to know better about Shanghai and China, and to become the envoys of friendship for inter-cultural communication.

Representatives of faculties and international students made speeches respectively, enabling new international students to have a better understanding of the study, life and services in the university. Afterwards, the list of Winners of International Student Scholarship of Shanghai Municipal Government in 2016 was announced.

In recent years, Lixin has made greater efforts to promote our university and to recruit more international students. By far, there are 600 international students of all years and all types, including over 300 undergraduates, in our university, ranking the top among all 39 universities which recruit international students in Shanghai.