On September 23, a delegation led by Alp Atakan, Dean of the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London, visited the School of Economics. Lin Ping, Dean of the School of Economics, Shi Shaobin, Executive Vice Dean, and Sun Shuqin, Vice Dean, participated in the seminar.

Lin Ping extended a warm welcome to the delegation led by Dean Alp Atakan for their second visit in a year, and fully affirmed the substantive cooperation achieved between the two schools in undergraduate talent training. Dean Alp Atakan stated that the two schools have a profound foundation for cooperation and expressed expectations for carrying out cooperation in more fields in the future. During the seminar, the two parties reached a consensus on the implementation details of the newly signed 3+M undergraduate-master integrated training cooperation agreement, and conducted in-depth discussions and exchanges on non-degree education, Sino-foreign cooperative education and other fields, hoping to promote the cooperation between the two schools to a broader and deeper level.

After the seminar, the School of Economics and Finance of Queen Mary University of London held a special promotion meeting on the school introduction and cooperation projects for undergraduates and postgraduates of the School of Economics, opened a fast-track application channel, and provided friendly university scholarships to fully support the in-depth cooperation between the two schools and the joint training of high-level talents.

Queen Mary University of London, a member of the Russell Group in the UK, is a research-oriented university with leading scientific research strength. It ranked 7th in the UK's most authoritative evaluation "Research Excellence Framework (REF2021)", 80% of its disciplines were rated as excellent in the UK teaching quality evaluation. Its majors in humanities, law, social sciences and other fields perform prominently, and it has strong strength in economics and finance.