On July 15, 2025, the signing ceremony for strategic cooperation between Beijing Service Bureau for Diplomatic Missions(BDS) and Capital University of Economics and Business(CUEB) was held at the Xianhe Hall of Beijing International Club. Party Secretary and Director General of Beijing Service Bureau for Diplomatic Missions Zhou Xisong, Member of the Party Committee and Deputy Director General Zhang Chi, Deputy Party Secretary and President of Capital University of Economics and Business Wu Weixing, Deputy Party Secretary Ouyang Qin attended the ceremony.

Signing Strategic Cooperation Agreement

Zhou Xisong pointed out that BDS serves as a public institution for diplomatic services with a long history, shoulders important political missions, and plays an indispensable part of the system of major-country diplomacy with the Chinese characteristics. Over the past 63 years, BDS has built and run more than 1.7 million square meters of diplomatic service carriers, managed thousands of Chinese employees working in different embassies in China, forming a complete industrial chain for diplomatic and foreign affairs services and providing comprehensive high-quality services to over 400 embassies, international organizations and foreign medias in China. Currently, BDS is in a critical period of reform and transformation, and we believe that talents and scientific measures will be strategic choice to achieve further development. BDS is willing to comprehensively strengthen cooperation with universities such as Capital University of Economics and Business, to implement the talent strategy with high quality, to built a talent pool for diplomatic services, to introduce high-level graduates, to conduct  cutting-edge research projects and to carry out the staff training. We also hoped that BDS can provide its contribution to the national major strategies, the development needs of the capital in new era and the talent cultivation of universities, so as to jointly support major-country diplomacy in the new era.

Wu Weixing said that as a key municipal university rooted in Beijing and serving to the capital, CUEB attaches great importance to establish a strategic cooperative relationship with BDS. CUEB hopes that by taking this opportunity, the bilateral cooperation will be further deepened in the areas of serving national strategies, building and developing the capital’s international exchange center, as well as cultivating high-quality talents equipped with an international perspectives, innovative spirit and sense of social responsibility. Together with BDS, CUEB aims to support the building of Beijing's function as an international exchange center, jointly explore an innovative model of integrating higher education with industrial development, and shoulder the era's mission of serving the overall situation of national diplomacy.

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Beijing Service Bureau for Diplomatic Missions

July 16, 2025