as well as many senior managers and project management experts from State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA), IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec Corp.), etc. Precious project management experiences were shared onsite. Attendees expressed appreciation to the Congress in that it let them have a glance of advanced PM conceptions and inspired them in their work.
From the statement in the government paper “Outline of the National Medium and Long-Term Talent Development (2010-2020)” that China is going to cultivate professional talents on project management, it is clear that China has raised the importance of project management professional cultivation to a strategic level, knowing that project management plays an essential role in economy development. To contribute to that goal, PMI has been striving for training more Project Management Professionals (PMP?) for China and promoting utilizing our global recognized project management standards in projects. Currently there are in China over 900,000 people received PM training, and PMPs more than 50,000 (China has become the country with the most PMPs aside from the United States). Many of these PMPs took positions in a variety of China’s mega projects such as Gas Pipeline from Sichuan to China Eastern Region, Guangzhou Asian Games and so on, and played their parts in the success of these projects.
In order to provide the latest updates in the world of project management, PMI (China) is going to hold the third Congress on 15 and 16 September, 2012 in the China National Convention Center in Beijing. As the Congresses was held before, this time we also will prepare for you the most resourcef