Release Date: November 19, 2024
Translated by Deng Bo & Zhang Dengchuan
Good news has emerged from the recently concluded 14th National POCIB Foreign Trade Competence Competition (Autumn Session). The team from the School of Foreign Studies and Trade of our university secured remarkable achievements, winning three National Team Grand Prizes and six Outstanding Instructor Awards. Among the 30 participating students, 11 obtained First Prizes, 12 claimed Second Prizes, and 7 received Third Prizes—resulting in a 100% personal award rate. This accomplishment represents another outstanding performance, following the impressive results of the 2024 Spring Session.
According to reports, this competition drew participation from 310 universities, 992 teams, and 9,920 contestants. During the event, the total online duration reached 155,605 hours, 115,624 transactions were completed, 1,834,539 business documents were prepared, and 1,690,718 business correspondences were drafted.
It is reported that the competition is organized by the China Institute of International Trade and is known as the "Foreign Trade Marathon." During the event, participants are required to complete two modules on the competition platform: the POCIB Comprehensive Practical Training Module for International Trade Professional Skills and the Digital Trade B2B Module. These modules cover multiple key aspects: they include the negotiation process of international trade sales contracts, English correspondence writing skills for inquiries, offers, counteroffers, and acceptance; they also involve the details and applications of core trade terms and payment methods, as well as price calculation for import and export goods, methods for cost control and profit expansion, and the finalization of international trade sales contracts. Additionally, the modules cover basic skills for import and export business fulfillment, the preparation and application of major import and export documents, and various cross-border e-commerce foreign trade processes on the Digital Trade B2B e-commerce platform—such as store registration, product listing, transaction negotiations, order drafting, order fulfillment, and marketing activities.
The competition takes international trade simulation training as its core method. By integrating on-the-job training of foreign trade enterprises with practical teaching in relevant institutions, it aims to drive the teaching reform of integrating theory with practice in national foreign trade and economic institutions, accelerate the process of cultivating highly skilled and practical talents in these institutions, elevate the talent cultivation level of foreign trade and economic institutions to a new stage, and build a platform for mutual exchange, learning, and common progress among national foreign trade and economic institutions.
The School of Foreign Studies and Trade attaches great importance to cultivating students' practical abilities. It vigorously advocates the teaching reform integrating theory with practice, increases investment in software and hardware construction as well as faculty team development, and has introduced a series of incentive policies—all to encourage professional teachers to actively carry out competition-driven learning activities. The school has also specially established faculty guidance teams for various competitions to guide students in training, which has helped achieve a series of encouraging results. Moving forward, the school will continue to further promote disciplinary competitions, use more outstanding results to advance disciplinary development, and thereby contribute to the high-quality development of the university and the construction of a distinctive first-class application-oriented university.
