SMU Vice Provost (Undergraduate Matters and Student Development) and Professor of Accounting Pang Yang Hoong praised the inaugural SMU-Peeli Rural Entrepreneurship Programme as a special pilot initiative that equipped students “with a global business perspective as well as an innovative and entrepreneurial mind-set”. The inaugural SMU-Peeli Rural Entrepreneurship Programme was jointly organised by SMU and Jiangsu Tao Shing Pee Education Foundation. The programme was concluded on a high-note in SMU recently where three out of six student groups from China and Singapore secured funding from the judging panel for their start-ups after a business plan competition. Associate Prof Pang said that SMU was proud to contribute to this meaningful initiative to empower Tao Students so that they could further influence the wider society.