From June 13th to 14th, 2017, the Sino-US Logistics Education and Research Cooperation Forum was held in BWU. This conference is jointly sponsored by the China-US Logistics Federation and Beijing Wuzi University. It aims to build an international discussion and exchange dialogue platform for experts in the logistics education and academic circles in China and the United States. Lay a path of communication and cooperation. Participants in this forum included representatives from universities and enterprises in China and the United States, with a total of more than 300 participants.

Vice President Dr. He Mingke said in opening speech that this high-level dialogue platform will provide the participants with extensive information, forward-looking views, and opportunities for in-depth exchanges and learning with experts and scholars at home and abroad to jointly analyze the two countries. China's urgent need for cooperation in logistics personnel training and logistics supply chain research, to explore the cooperation and exchange model between China and the United States in logistics education and research.

Raul Dunham, executive vice president and director of the China-US Logistics Federation, said that at present, whether in academic or commercial fields, logistics has undergone a gradual evolution from logistics management to supply chain management. Moreover, supply chain management has evolved from a relatively simple labor-intensive process to today's complex global network management. At the same time, the latest research results of industrial engineering and operations research have also been applied to deal with supply chain and logistics. This shows that the transformation of logistics education in universities to supply chain education has become a trend.

(Deputy Dean and Professor Hulls, Rhode Island University Business School)

The dean and professor of the School of Business at Rhode Island University, Professor Hulls, addressed the topic of how American higher education responds to the development of logistics and supply chains and the opportunities for cooperation between Chinese and American logistics education.