31 business elites from across the globe have been admitted to the Senior Executive Program for China after strict selection by Tsinghua SEM, China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS), and Harvard Business School (HBS). The opening ceremony of the program was held at Tsinghua SEM on June 15, 2008, attended by SEM Associate Dean Yang Bin, Associate Dean Xia Donglin, Faculty co-chair of CEIBS Senior Executive Program for China Professor Zhou Dongsheng, Faculty co-chair of HBS Senior Executive Program for China Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Director of Tsinghua SEM EDP Center Xue Lei, and some of the program faculty from Tsinghua SEM Zheng Yuhuang, Wang Kun.

The Senior Executive Program for China is developed and taught by the best faculty from Tsinghua SEM, China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS), and Harvard Business School (HBS), like renowned Chinese economist Professor Wei Jie, and Professor of HBS Robert S. Kaplan, the author ofThe Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action. Faculty members for the program are distinguished academicians, skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, award-winning authors, and experienced entrepreneurs in their respective fields. The program focuses on case study. Nearly 1/3 of the cases used in the courses are Chinese corporate cases developed jointly by faculty from the three schools partcicularly for the program, including China Commerce Bank Case, Lining Company Case and Digital China Case.

It was the fourth intake of the program since it was launched in 2006. The participants of the new class are all from senior executive level of their companies, representing diverse industries such as IT, energy, finance & investment, real estate, furniture, manufacturing, service industry, media, electronics, pharmaceutical industry etc.. The program includes three modules which are held in Beijing, Shanghai, and Boston respectively. After ceremony, participants have begun their first module study which will run for eight days at Tsinghua. The second and third module studies will be accomplished respectively in CEIBS (Shanghai) and Harvard (U.S.) in October and December.