-- China's education and financial investment usher in an era of cross-border capitalization
Shenzhen September 26, 2016 -- The amendment of the Law on the Promotion of Private Education is imminent, the reform of education supply side is further accelerated, and the merger and integration of listed enterprises and for-profit schools is accelerated. Under various new financial financing modes, such as education real estate investment fund, education IPO, school assets securitization, education trust, education fund, education insurance, education credit, overseas education finance, China's private education has accelerated its collectivization, financialization and internationalization trend, and the huge education curriculum covering 200 million students and 20 million teachers in China has accelerated its marketization and financialization. How to Realize the deep integration of Chinese education and capital to Promote the development of education innovation? How does the capital circle leverage the new blue sea of the trillion scale education financial market?
China's first education industry capitalization research center was established
On September 24th, with the support of the government financial Office, the participation of banks, securities, trust, investment and other financial institutions, and the support of domestic and overseas universities, the first research Center for the capitalization of education industry in China (hereinafter referred to as the "Research Center") was formally established in Shenzhen Research Institute of Peking University and South China Normal University. At the same time, it launched the curriculum standards of Chinese culture C-STEM education and the cultivation of new teachers, started the cultivation of outstanding leading talents of Chinese education capitalization, and declared that the first cross-boundary cooperation between the government, finance, investment, education and international education industry has opened a new milestone in the application research of education industry capitalization and the research and development of educational financial products. Enter a new era of cross-border cooperation in the financialization of education.
Wu Yingmin, Vice President of Chinese Society of Education and President of Guangdong Provincial Association of Principals of Primary and Secondary Schools; Liang Yudong, partner of Internet Education Industry Investment Fund; Chen Xianzhong, Secretary General of Shenzhen Banking Association; Wang Jiachang, director of Impact Investment Center of Shenzhen Institute of Peking University; Wang Hong, Director of Basic Education Training and Research Institute of South China Normal University; Emil, President of Ivy League Education Association China y Hu, head of financial innovation departments of China Construction Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, China CITIC Bank, Bank of Shanghai, Ping An Trust, representative of Hang Seng Securities Research Institute, Hong Kong Fok Yingdong Foundation, China Intangible Cultural Heritage Foundation, As well as dozens of well-known public schools and international school principals, such as well-known professionals in education, finance, investment and foundations, attended the press conference, witnessing this moment of joint innovation of cross-border financial capital in Chinese education and a new era of innovation in education business jointly created by Chinese financial institutions.
In the next few years, the market scale of China's education industry is up to trillions of yuan, and it will become the largest and fastest growing education industry market in the world, which undoubtedly provides a broad market development space for the capitalization of China's education industry.
Wu Yingmin, Vice president of Chinese Society of Education, President of Guangdong Provincial Association of Primary and Secondary School Principals, and lead founder of the Research Center, introduced that the Education Capitalization Research Center established under the foundation governance model will gather high-quality professional resources and talents from the global education, industry and financial capital circles to jointly explore and promote the diversified capitalization of China's education industry. In particular, the professional theoretical system to promote the capitalization, collectivization and international development of China's private education industry, promote the marketization and financialization of Chinese quality education courses (including STEM courses) and facilitate the trading and promotion, promote the establishment of the value evaluation system of educational investment, and carry out the practice and case study of the demonstration project of educational financial products. China's Top 100 educational projects (schools and courses) and China's Top 100 educators (principals and teachers) by annual investment value were released. This is the first time for China's education field to select and display high-quality educational resources and outstanding talents for the capital circle, and the innovative value and cross-border cooperation are of great significance.
Liang Yudong, partner of Internet Education Industry Investment Fund and co-founder of the Research Center, said that the research center will integrate diverse social capital and education to achieve deep integration, and gradually explore the establishment of a cross-border cooperation and industrial win-win mechanism involving diverse capital in the fields of government, enterprises, finance, investment and education, and form a unique educational financial product. To promote the capitalization of China's education industry, especially private education, education curriculum marketization, and internationalization of education market, including supporting the development of education export along the Belt and Road. The Research Center has officially set up bases in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and is speeding up the establishment of bases in the United States. The research Center will gradually set up bases in Shanghai, Beijing and other national and global special industry-university-research funds.
Wang Jiachang, director of the Impact Investment Center, co-founder of the Center, and head of the center's Shenzhen base, introduced that with the support of the government's financial sector, the Peking University Shenzhen Research Institute and financial associations including the Shenzhen Banking Association formally jointly established the financial innovation Research Center to jointly promote new financial innovation including science and technology, people's livelihood and so on. Education is the most important component of people's livelihood and a huge blue ocean industry with the greatest potential for innovative growth of financial capital. Education Assets Research Center Shenzhen Base will incubate and develop a group of cross-border financial innovation products and cross-border cooperation models in the field of education, such as IPO, asset securitization, investment and merger, trust, fund, credit, insurance, etc. for financial investment institutions in Shenzhen and even the whole country in the mode of industry-university-research capital, and cultivate leading talents in China's education assets. Will become Shenzhen and even China's financial investment institutions financial innovation practice new industry business driving engine.
Wang Hong, director of the Basic Education Training and Research Institute of South China Normal University and co-founder of the Research center, who is in charge of the Guangzhou base of the Research center, said that the Guangzhou base of the research Center will focus on cultivating leading Chinese education talents and key teachers who can meet the international standard certification under the capitalization of education. The establishment of China's C-STEM curriculum standards, course intellectualization (IP) and IP capitalization output, the establishment of China's C-STEM curriculum global trading and promotion and course capitalization product trading platform, promote China's education group and international development, promote China's cultural education curriculum to go global, promote China's education reform and innovation.
Emily Hu, president of Ivy League China and co-founder of the Research Center, who is in charge of the preparation of the U.S. base of the Research Center, said that with more banks, trusts, funds and other Chinese financial investment institutions, To promote the joint establishment of the Research Center in the United States, including Stanford University School of Education and authoritative education resources, to introduce the world's advanced education standards, certification, evaluation system and supporting education training and curriculum system (including STEM courses) to the Chinese education circle, and to serve as an American base for Chinese culture to go to the world with international curriculum. This has the far-reaching value of promoting Chinese education to go abroad in a sustainable and long-term way and promoting educational cooperation and exchanges with the United States and the world.
