On May 15, the signing ceremony of strategic cooperation agreement between Fehorizon and Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University was held at Fehorizon Plaza in Shanghai, attended and witnessed by Mr. Kong Fanxing, Chairman, Executive Director and CEO of Fehorizon. The Agreement was signed between Mr. Wang Mingzhe (Executive Director and CFO of Fehorizon) and Dame Professor Madeleine Atkins (President of Lucy Cavendish College and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University) on behalf of the two parties.

Through strategic cooperation, Fehorizon will further enrich the paths to top universities of the world for graduates of Horizon Education, introduce advanced education ideas and quality overseas education resources from world-class universities, and cultivate elite talent capable of contributing to the society, making scientific innovations and competing in the international arena. Meanwhile, Fehorizon will also give play to its “finance + industry” advantages, contribute to the continuous development of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University, and help it to cultivate a new generation of talent with entrepreneurship and cultural tolerance facing the world.

Before the signing ceremony, the two parties had an exchange. CEO Kong Fanxing extended a warm welcome to the party of Dame Professor Madeleine Atkins. He said that Cambridge University is one of the world’s most time-honored universities, also recognized as one of the best institutions of higher education in the world today, with high academic status and widespread influence. Taking the signing of this strategic cooperation agreement as an opportunity, CEO Kong expressed hopes for continuing to expand interactions between Horizon Education and elite overseas universities like Cambridge University, enrich Horizon Education’s heritage, improve the connotations of school running, and keep consolidating the characteristics of integrated operations at home and abroad, so as to create more opportunities for the students of Horizon Education to enter world-famous universities.

Dame Madeleine expressed her heartfelt gratitude to CEO Kong for the warm reception and full of confidence for the future cooperation between the two parties. She remarked that to open up the gate of Cambridge University to more excellent young men is the DNA of Lucy Cavendish College, which boasts the most diversified sources of students in Cambridge University. Here, students from the world become the future leaders and innovators obviously needed by economy and society. Lucy Cavendish College is happy to reach strategic cooperation with Fehorizon and share its vision and development direction. She looks forward to strengthening communication and collaboration between the two parties, to cultivate more talent with international vision, creativity, entrepreneurship and leadership.

The ceremony was also attended by leaders including Xu Huibin (Assistant President of Fehorizon and General Manager of Strategy Center and Horizon Education), Wei Jianmin (Deputy General Manager of Horizon Education), Hao Linliang (Senior Director of Fehorizon’s Finance Center and CFO of Horizon Education), Li Zixin (Director of Student Development Department of Hong Wen School’s Shanghai Campus), Jo Ryan (Development Director at Lucy Cavendish College), Ma Nan (Head of Asian Affairs at Cambridge University Development and Alumni Relations Office), etc.

Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University

Established in 1965, Lucy Cavendish College has become a formal college of Cambridge University since 1997. It is named after Lucy Cavendish, who campaigned the reform of women’s education, with the original intention being fighting for opportunities of higher education for young women after the Second World War. Today, it remains devoted to expanding opportunities for young people around the world to receive education at Cambridge University. At present, it is among the colleges with the most diversified sources of students in Cambridge University. With students of different skin colors and cultural backgrounds from over 80 countries around the world studying and living here together as well as a balanced gender distribution of students, Lucy Cavendish College owns the influential group of international students and alumni in Cambridge University.

Horizon Education

Adhering to the tenet of “ Student-Centered, Integration of East and West, Elite Education,” Horizon Education is devoted to creating the most characteristic quality education system in China. Currently, it has established Qingdao Campus and Shanghai Campus of the HONGWEN School in Qingdao and Shanghai respectively, with The National Mathematics and Science College as its sister school in Coventry, resulting in an innovative school-running mode of integrated operations at home and abroad. So far, Horizon Education has sent nearly 30 outstanding students to Cambridge University, and 90% of its high school graduates have gone to the world’s Top 100 comprehensive universities and top professional institutions of art, hotel management, etc. Thus, its high-quality school-running philosophy have been widely recognized.