The Master of International business aims to cultivate talents that meet the potential needs of future world. Future professionals in international business are supposed to excel in international perspectives and entrepreneurship. Both international students and Chinese students, studying in the master program of International Business at Wuhan University, provide an international community on campus to develop international business teams.

In order to strengthen professional qualities and cross-cultural communication skills of student majored in international business, and enhance the innovative entrepreneurship abilities of both international and Chinese students at Wuhan University, a series of lectures, with the theme of “Innovation” Shares the World, “Career” Leads the Future, opens in November. The first lecture involves international digital trade and its guest speakers shared experiences in national competition, demonstrated examples of successful teams with members from various disciplines and called for collaboration of young talents from various fields.

Ms. Guo, Associate Professor of the Economics and Management School, instructed the first-prize team in the Third National College Students' Digital Trade Comprehensive Skills Competition. She highlighted the importance of ambition, not just about personal career aspiration, but also the expansion of international horizon. To achieve the ambition, teamwork and permanent learning are the two essential abilities, which can be practiced through academic opportunities as competitions. While individuals might be talented, it is difficult to succeed alone. Being part of a team and learning how to be a reliable team member or leader is crucial. Prof. Guo encouraged attendees to meet each other, to form teams, and to collaborate on projects. Moreover, while a degree is valuable, it alone does not guarantee success in the job market. Instead, one's ability to learn and adapt to new situations is also crucial. Prof. Guo encouraged attendees again to practice teamwork skills and continuous learning abilities through competitions and diverse extra-curriculum activities.

Li Wen’an, leader of the national First Prize Winner team in the Third National College Students' Digital Trade Comprehensive Skills Competition, came to share his stories about how to win in a competition, how to get a desired position in job market, and how to begin a professional career with his partners. He emphasized the advantages of the platform provided by the University to explore, to make mistakes, and to ultimately succeed, highlighting the value of learning from attempts during study at Wuhan University.

Li shared that, when noticed the track for international students in the Third National College Students' Digital Trade Comprehensive Skills Competition, he was not confident, as his major was not digital trade. Although he was once frustrated, he didn’t give up. He organized a team, which is both multidisciplinary and multilingual, and he himself kept learning knowledges needed in digital trade. In the competition, his team fully made use of its advantages and won the first prize.

Li found a great job after graduated, but he said actually he had failed for many times. At the beginning, he was not successful in applying for internships, he was always getting rejected. But he learned actually from these failures, and became better at dealing with interviews, and also discovered his self-advantages. Finally, he succeeded in getting more and more internships, which were the most helpful for his job hunting and his development of a professional career.

During internship, Li got market insights that leads to his own career. He found many Chinese digital media products, such as games or TV series, wanted to enter Southeast Asian markets, but failed to adapt locally. Li realizes that he knows both Chinese products and Southeast Asian markets, so he opened a digital media company, with his teammates in the competition. They have so many advantages, multilingual, multicultural, multidisciplinary, to start a successful international business, and actually their starting point of such a professional career is the teamwork they have gone through at Wuhan University.

After having listened to lectures, students presented had a face-to-face communication with two guest speakers. The discussion involved how to apply for internship internationally, how to prepare for getting a job offer abroad, and how to prepare for next competition and find teammates. Several students majoring in International Business and International Law were attracted to compete in the Forth National College Students' Digital Trade Comprehensive Skills Competition.

The lecture provided a platform for students to strengthen their cross-cultural communication skills and professional competitiveness. It is believed that the theme activity of “Innovation” Shares the World, “Career” Leads the Future will help students to better prepared to participate competitions in international business, enter international job market, and begin their international business careers.

Editor: GAO Shengqi

Review: GUO Lin，LIU Cheng