In 1978, the Chinese government embarked on an economic reform and adopted an open-door policy for its economic development. The goal of the economic reform was to transform its central planning economy into a market economy. This reform has since led to significant changes in the macro and micro economic system which, and in turn, have challenged the management system based on central planning economy in China. Therefore, the Chinese government faced an important task to train managers with management knowledge based on a market economy. In order to meet this need, since 1978, the Chinese government has set up a number of management training centres with the help of several foreign countries. One of them was the China Management Training Centre at Chengdu (CMTCC) , which was under the sponsorship of the Chinese government and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). This Centre's mission was " to serve the management education needs of state-enterprise management personnel, government personnel involved in management of economic affairs, and township and village enterprise managers, in Sichuan and throughout Southwest and Northwest China" (Proposal for CMTCC, Ph III, 1990, p.1). According to the joint agreement between the two sides, the Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC), on behalf of the Canadian government, was responsible for sending Canadian instructors to teach at China Management Training Centre on a temporary basis. The selected instructors would design the courses, recommend the textbooks and reading materials, and deliver the courses in English at the Centre. The Chinese side would take responsibility for enroling trainees, providing logistical services, translating the reading materials into Chinese versions and offering interpretation services for the Canadian instructors in the classes. The first training program began in the fall of 1984. Since then, the China Management Training Centre at Chengdu has offered 26 management training programs. The success of these training programs could have an important effect on the economic reform in China. Therefore, it was important to study the CMTCC and assess the impacts of the training programs. The purpose of this research is to study the nature and operation, and examine the impacts of the CMTCC training programs on the trainees.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.26288 |
| Date | January 1994 |
| Creators | Lai, Zong Fang |
| Contributors | Lin, Jing (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Faculty of Education.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001431451, proquestno: MM99911, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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