Years on

The Master of Business Administration program was introduced in China in 1991 with only nine colleges offering MBA courses.

The item from July 12, 1999, in China Daily showed MBA students attending their graduation ceremony at Renmin University of China in Beijing.

At that time, the country only had 9,000 MBA gradu- Editor’s note: This year marks the 40th anniversary of China’s reform and opening-up policy. ates, whereas the United States trained 70,000 students annually.

Now, there are more than 200 schools offering MBA degrees across China. By the end of 2015, China had 258,000 MBA graduates, according to the Ministry of Education.

In 2002, executive MBA programs were introduced by institutions such as Fudan University in Shanghai and Peking University in Beijing.

Currently, 64 Chinese universities are authorized by the ministry to offer Executive MBA programs.

EMBA courses have come under tighter regulations since 2016 when the China National MBA Education Supervisory Committee announced all Chinese EMBA applicants are required to take the national postgraduate entrance examination.

Universities offering such programs have the power of autonomous recruitment.

Tuition fees for all MBA programs will be collected in strict accordance with regulations, according to the new rules.

It is not the first time that the government has tighten- ed EMBA regulations.

In 2014, the central government banned officials and executives of State-owned enterprises from pursuing expensive EMBA courses. About 300 million metric tons of plastic are produced every year. About half this amount is discarded after just a single use, like carrying the shopping home. Second, cook more at home. Cooking at home means fewer takeout containers.