On the afternoon of November 21, the 2025 Jiangsu Overseas Chinese Enterprise Recruitment Fair for "Belt and Road" International Students, themed "Understanding China, Feeling Jiangsu", was held at the Gymnasium of Wuxi College, Jiangnan University. Hosted by the Jiangsu Provincial Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and the Wuxi Municipal Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, nearly 400 international students from 8 universities across the province and 54 Jiangsu overseas Chinese enterprises engaged in on-site exchanges and negotiations. More than 40 international students from our university enthusiastically signed up and actively participated in this special recruitment fair.
Two-way communication fully embodies the spirit of "extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits". At the recruitment fair, there were crowds in front of each enterprise booth. International students actively inquired about job requirements and submitted resumes. Wahidullah Sangar, an Afghan master's student from our university's Business School, spoke on behalf of the international students, stating that international students are cultural envoys and natural bridges along the Belt and Road. They can not only "bring in" excellent products from their respective home countries but also "take back" advanced knowledge learned in China. This two-way communication is a vivid manifestation of the spirit of "extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits".
This recruitment fair is the second edition following the successful first edition held last year, and has become another new vehicle for the provincial Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese to serve the Belt and Road Initiative. The event organized and released more than 700 overseas positions, including traditional positions such as sales, administration, translation, finance, foreign trade, and human resources, as well as newly added R&D positions in machinery, electronics, software, new energy, automation, and big data, which better align with the transformation and upgrading of Jiangsu's "going global" enterprises.
Jiangnan University (Jiangnan University)
Nicknamed "Jiangda", it is located in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, co-built by the Ministry of Education and the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government. It is a key construction university included in the national "Double First-Class" initiative, "Project 211", and the "985 Project Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform". It has been selected for the national "111 Plan", "2011 Plan", Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program, Excellent Agriculture and Forestry Talents Education and Training Program, National Project for Building High-Level Universities (Publicly Funded Graduate Students), National College Students' Innovative Experiment Program, National College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program, and National New Engineering Research and Practice Project. It is a member of the High-Quality Resource Sharing Alliance for High-Level Industry-Characteristic Universities and the Belt and Road Food Education and Technology Alliance for Universities, a National College Students' Cultural Quality Education Base, and one of the first batch of universities' scientific and technological achievement transformation and technology transfer bases.
Jiangnan University traces its roots to the Sanjiang Normal School founded in 1902, and has gone through development periods such as National Central University and Nanjing University. In 1952, the Department of Food Industry of Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) was formed by relevant departments and disciplines from the former Nanjing University, Fudan University, Wuhan University, Zhejiang University, and the private Jiangnan University. In 1958, the entire department was relocated east to Wuxi and established Wuxi Institute of Light Industry. In 1962, Wuxi Textile Institute was merged into Wuxi Institute of Light Industry. In 1995, it was renamed Wuxi University of Light Industry. In 2001, Wuxi University of Light Industry, Jiangnan College, and Wuxi Education College merged to form Jiangnan University. In 2003, the Wuxi Campus of Donghua University was merged into Jiangnan University.
