At the invitation of Prof. Kenji Yokoyam, President of Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools (AAPBS) and Vice President of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU), Wensheng He, Dean of LUSM attended AAPBS 2019 Academic Conference held at Beppu, Janpan between May 14 and 17, and delivered a keynote speech on “Challenges and Opportunities for China's Responsible Management Education: Experience from Western China”. Dean He introduced the basic situation of business management, characteristics of business models, challenges and problems faced, reform and adjustment ideas and plans adopted by business schools in western China in order to meet the future development trend, which aroused strong interests and heated discussions among the guests. After the speech, the participants raised many questions about the management practices of Chinese companies. Dean He gave feedbacks and responses with three guests from the National University of Singapore, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). Before the end of the conference, Dean He, on behalf of LUSM, was authorized by the AAPBS Secretariat to host the next academic conference in Dunhuang, China in May 2020.

AAPBS is a business education union established in October 2004 by 17 well-known universities in the Asia-Pacific region, including Tsinghua University and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). It currently has 133 member schools. As one of the founding members of the AAPBS, LUSM has been actively participating in various conferences and important events hosted by the association, strengthening interaction with leading business schools and management schools in the region, and through learning their advanced ideas and practices of business education, promote and strengthen the ability and level of connotation development of LUSM, laying solid foundation for its first-class discipline construction and talent cultivation, while continuing to develop and expand the international cooperation network.