The US-based Harvard Business School (HBS) will expand its recruitment of outstanding Chinese students in the near future, Kim B. Clark, president of the school, said Tuesday in Shanghai.

The business school will also set up a regional research center in the hinterland of China, according to Clark.

Clark said that the school's aim is to create a large alumni network in China, and through the web, introduce its world-class management theories into the country and recommend typical cases on China's economic growth and business development to the rest of the world.

In the near future, an HBS Global Leadership Forum will be staged by the school in Shanghai, a financial hub of east China and a representative of the dynamic Chinese economy. It will be the first time for the HBS to launch the forum on the Chinese mainland.

According to Clark, nearly one sixth of the HBS' 200-plus faculty have made China their research subject. He hoped that the upcoming forum will bring the HBS closer to China, allure more outstanding Chinese students and enterprises to the HBS and discover and train teachers from the mainland for the American school.

Over 200 students from China have become masters of business administration at the HBS, including 99 who graduated from 1999 to2004, according to Clark.

It is reported that the HBS has provided, in cooperation with the prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing, EMBA lessons for Chinese students.

(Xinhua News Agency June 18, 2004)