Discover how China’s innovation leaders are building competitive advantage—and learn what lessons can accelerate growth, innovation, and transformation in your own market.
Through direct access to leading companies, innovation ecosystems, investors, and industry experts, participants gain firsthand insights into how China is reshaping AI, electric vehicles, robotics, and advanced manufacturing—and what these developments mean for global business.
China has become a global force in industrial innovation. This immersive executive program helps leaders understand how China builds sectoral leadership, where partnership opportunities exist, and what can only be learned by being on the ground.
Learn how Chinese companies turn ideas into products, products into ecosystems, and ecosystems into competitive advantage—and identify practical lessons for your own organization.
Explore partnership, investment, sourcing, and technology opportunities across China's innovation landscape.
See how China's leading companies compete through speed, scale, customer focus, and continuous innovation.
Develop a clearer view of emerging technologies, supply-chain shifts, and evolving global competitive dynamics.
Separate the aspects of China's innovation model that can be adapted globally from those that depend on uniquely Chinese market conditions or ecosystem dynamics.
Translate insights into practical next steps through a personalized China Industrial Opportunity Memo.
China is no longer only a market or manufacturing base. It has become one of the world’s most dynamic innovation ecosystems.
From AI and robotics to electric vehicles and advanced manufacturing, Chinese companies are redefining how products are developed, deployed, and scaled. For global leaders, understanding these changes is increasingly essential.
This program provides firsthand exposure to the companies, ecosystems, and operating models shaping the future of global industry.
The most valuable learning comes from seeing how companies innovate, manufacture, scale, and compete in real time.
Participants gain firsthand exposure to:
This level of understanding cannot be fully captured through reports, market analysis, or virtual meetings alone.
Together, these three innovation hubs provide a comprehensive view of how China is transforming industries through AI, mobility, advanced manufacturing, and ecosystem-driven innovation.
Each module combines faculty sessions, executive dialogues, company visits, investor discussions, and peer learning to help participants connect observation with action.
Throughout the program, participants compare China’s innovation leaders with global counterparts to understand what drives competitive advantage and which lessons can be applied across markets.
Examples may include:
Through CKGSB’s faculty, alumni network, industry experts, investors, and corporate partners, participants gain access to perspectives and conversations that are difficult to obtain through conventional business visits.
The program prioritizes executive exchanges, closed-door discussions, and practical business dialogue over showroom tours.
Faculty-led sessions, industry insights, executive speakers, and case discussions.
Company visits, factory tours, executive dialogues, innovation ecosystem visits, or institutional briefings.
Investor salons, executive networking, alumni events, reflection workshops, and peer learning sessions.
Participants learn to assess both opportunities and risks, including supply-chain dependencies, regulatory considerations, compliance requirements, IP concerns, geopolitical dynamics, and localization challenges.
Designed to help participants translate insight into action.
Dr. Xiang Bing is the Founding Dean and Dean’s Distinguished Chair Professor of China Business and Globalization at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). Under his leadership, CKGSB has evolved from a fledgling school to one of the most influential business schools in China with a global reputation since 2002.
Professor of Economics, CKGSB; Associate Dean for Asia & Oceania; Director of the Case Research Department; Director of the Big Data Economics Research Department. PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan. Research focus on macroeconomics, industrial policy, and global trade. Advises Chinese and multinational firms on industrial policy, supply-chain reconfiguration, and China-related geopolitical risk.
Professor of Accounting, CKGSB; Academic Director of the MBA Program; Academic Director of the Executive Education Programs. PhD in Accounting from the University of Texas. Research focus on management accounting, organizational transformation, and executive education design. Brings a CFO / board-level governance lens that complements the program's industrial strategy focus.
Format: Three modules, four days each (12 days total)
Locations: Beijing, Shanghai & Hangzhou
Language: English
Class Size: Approximately 20–35 participants
Learning Format: Faculty sessions, executive dialogues, company visits, workshops, and peer learning
Participants may join the full 12-day journey or select individual modules based on their interests and priorities.
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) is China's first faculty-governed, privately-funded business school. It has more than 50 world-class faculty members, most of whom were tenured at top global schools such as Michigan, Duke, Wharton, and Yale. CKGSB's influential student and alumni network represents the best, brightest, and most influential leaders in China, with more than half at the Chairman or CEO level.
CKGSB has nurtured 151 unicorn companies since its inception. It has a vision of developing a global ecosystem that nurtures the next generation of breakthrough innovation. More than 4,500 global executives have participated in CKGSB programs offered in English and other non-Chinese languages since 2009.
CKGSB Alumni lead one-fifth of China's most valuable brands.
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