On December 4, the first Zhexun Cup National Student Public Management Decision Making Competition finals successfully concluded online. The competition is organized by Jinan University, co-sponsored by Shaanxi Higher Education Society, Hubei Administrative Management Society, Shanghai Public Policy Research Society, School of Administration of Jilin University and Guangxi University Public Management Teaching Guidance Committee, and hosted by School of Public Administration/Emergency Management of Jinan University, with full technical support from Shanghai Zhexun Information Technology Co. The competition is a nationwide professional competition for undergraduates majoring in public administration. The competition provided a good platform for universities to accelerate the construction of new liberal arts and national first-class majors, improved the professional level of students in various disciplines of public administration, actively developed innovative talents in public administration, and guided students to pay attention to the hot issues of public administration in China. Participating in the finals were 66 teams from 65 universities, including Northwestern University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Shandong University, Jilin University, Sun Yat-sen University and Sichuan University. The team consisting of Zhang Weijia, Zhao Ziyue and Liu Yahan, undergraduate students of year 2020 of Public Administration, won the first prize, and teacher Xie Yuan and Zhu Shuicheng won the Outstanding Instructor Award.
Award List
The finals included three sessions: public management proposal design, public management decision making exercise, sandbox confrontation and team defense. In the final round, three students from our school calmly coped with the competition, and under the guidance of Teacher Xie Yuan and Teacher Zhu Shuicheng, they successfully advanced to the final defense session after two sessions of public management solution design and sandbox confrontation. In the defense session, three students from our college showed the results of the sandbox exercise and discussed the problems of urban management in combination with theories. The content of the defense was well received by the expert judges and finally won the first prize.
Teams in the public management decision making exercise sandbox confrontation
Teams in the defense
Prof. Xie Yuan coaching the team during the competition
This competition is a breakthrough and change from the traditional public management case competition in terms of form and content. In the competition, the participating teams use the systematic thinking of mathematical and scientific modeling and the comprehensive application of their professional knowledge to deal with and solve the practical problems encountered in the process of public management. The competition not only increased students' in-depth understanding of public management expertise, cultivated their ability to think systematically, but also enhanced their knowledge of teamwork and team spirit, strengthened the communication, learning and cooperation between our college and major universities, broadened the horizons of participating teachers and students, accumulated valuable experience, and laid a good foundation for participation in the next national competition. It also created an opportunity to promote the teaching reform and development of the Department of Public Administration and to improve the level of practical teaching.
