Deputy Mayor Chen Yujian Meets with Alex Birks, CEO of ATHE
On November 6, Chen Yujian, Deputy Mayor of Shanghai and Secretary of the Minhang District Party Committee, met with Alex Birks, CEO of Awards for Training and Higher Education (ATHE), and his delegation.Both parties conducted in-depth exchanges on Shanghai's progress in building itself into an international economic center, financial center, trade center, shipping center, technological innovation center, and further cultivation in human resource service industry, as well as the latest developments and strategies of the ATHE and the PTA-ATHE project and Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects globally and in Shanghai.Li Wei, Deputy Director-General of the Shanghai Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau; Lin Hua, Second-Class Inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau and Director of the Human Resources Market Management Office (International Cooperation and Exchange Office); Yang Xin, Deputy District Chief of Minhang District; Zhang Ningyong, Director of the District Party Committee Office; Shen Ping, Secretary of the Party Committee of the District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau; Zhang Xiong, Secretary of the Party Committee of South Hongqiao; Peng Xiufeng, General Manager of South Hongqiao; and other officials accompanied the meeting. Zhang Cheng, head of ATHE's China office and CEO of Chinarencai, also participated in the meeting. ATHE, Awards for Training and Higher Education, is a professional education accreditation body approved by Ofqual, the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation in the UK. It has over 200 learning centers in 35 countries, including the UK, China, India, Pakistan, and the UAE. ATHE manages programs such as PTA-ATHE, AI and etc. PTA-ATHE Payments and Tax Agents refers to professionals specialized in personal income management (payments management, private wealth management) and related tax administration. Currently, it includes ATHE regulated qualifications of Extended Diploma for Payments and Tax Agents, ATHE Diploma for Payments and Tax Agents (Finance and Taxation Management), ATHE Diploma for Payments and Tax Agents (Human Resource Management), as well as ATHE endorsed certificates of CCPA (Skills for Payments and Tax Agents) Level 1/2/3. In China, both the first group standard of "International Payroll and Tax Service Specification" and the local standard of Shanghai, "Payroll and Tax Service Specification," approved by the Shanghai Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau and the Shanghai Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, specify that professionals engaged in payroll and tax services should hold a PTA-ATHE certificate.