Innovative integration of industry and education! Taicang launches China's first Sino-German dual vocational education industrial park
On May 30, the founding conference of the Sino-German Dual Vocational Education Industrial Park and the third Sino-German Industry-Education Integration Innovation Ecological Exchange Conference were held in Taicang. Entrepreneurs, teachers and experts from the industrial and vocational education fields of China and Germany , focusing on the theme of "Integrating the industrial and educational forces of China and Germany to promote the development of new productive forces", we discussed the vision of vocational education and planned a new chapter of cooperative development. Hao Zhiqiang, director of the Education and Examination Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Yan Yan, director of the European Division of the International Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, Chen Jianli, deputy editor-in-chief of Reference Newspaper, and Xu Huadong, deputy secretary of the CPC Taicang Municipal Committee and Mayor, attended the conference.
Hao Zhiqiang said in his speech that Taicang, as a model city for promoting Sino-German cooperation, has shown admirable foresight and execution in the field of vocational education. "Taicang's successful practice not only provides valuable experience for the reform of vocational education nationwide and even globally, but also provides a vivid case for us to deepen the integration of industry and education and promote the organic connection between the education chain, the talent chain, the industry chain, and the innovation chain. Hope In its talent training work, the Sino-German Dual Vocational Education Industrial Park strives to create a new ecology integrating industry and education, create a resource transformation base for diversified co-construction and sharing, and build a talent training system that connects the industrial chain, in order to accelerate the new industrialization of the Yangtze River Delta region. Accumulate talent momentum.”
Xu Huadong said in his speech that the establishment of the Sino-German Dual Vocational Education Industrial Park marks a new level in Taicang’s dual education practice. "We will take this opportunity to persist in reform and innovation, continue to increase policy supply and investment, and strive to build a higher-level and higher-level technical and skilled talent training system. We will adhere to the integration of industry and talent, and solidly promote the integration of industry and education, Cooperate with schools and enterprises to explore and develop a one-stop service platform for dual-system talent management that accurately matches industrial parks, enterprises, and talents. We will adhere to the people-oriented approach, continue to optimize the vocational education ecology, attract more young people to receive vocational skills education, and provide high-quality economic and social services. Quality development provides stronger talent protection.”
In his speech, Xia Jian'an, CEO of the German Center in Taicang, praised Taicang's dual-system vocational education practice and looked forward to further deepening exchanges and cooperation with Taicang in terms of dual-system talent training and industrial development.
The unveiling ceremony of the Sino-German Dual Vocational Education Industrial Park was held on site, and the industrial park was promoted and policies released. It is reported that the planned construction area of the industrial park is 320,000 square meters. After completion, it can train 5,000 high-standard skilled talents every year. It will become an integration of skills training, examination certification, teacher training, industry-education research, international education cooperation, talent reserve and other functions. The industry-education development complex meets the diversified needs of enterprises at different levels and types.
According to reports, the training direction of the Vocational Education Industrial Park focuses on Taicang’s industrial characteristic layout, and gradually expands to different types of work in areas such as intelligent manufacturing and new energy vehicle core parts, allowing the dual education service industry to transform and upgrade and become a characteristic industrial cluster. Talent "reservoir". At the same time, the Vocational Education Industrial Park will also focus on the dual-education service industry and dual-education industrialization to attract more related companies to settle in, forming a "strong magnetic field" for the industrial chain and creating a vocational education industry cluster.
At the meeting, the signing ceremony for key projects of the Sino-German Dual Vocational Education Industrial Park was held, and more than 20 cooperation projects including cooperative school projects, corporate training center projects, and dual education and training institution projects were settled; Sino-German New Energy Vehicles in Taicang, Suzhou The parts and components intelligent manufacturing industry-education consortium was established, and the dual campus of Suzhou Jianxiong Vocational and Technical College was opened. Jianxiong College has established a dual campus of Jianxiong College in the Sino-German Dual Vocational Education Industrial Park, taking solid steps towards establishing a dual university with Chinese characteristics.
Keynote speeches and roundtable dialogues were also held on site. Industry representatives such as Bosch, Hora, Phoenix, China Automotive Technology and Research Center, and experts and scholars such as Ma Xin, a foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering and chief scientist of the Science and Technology Innovation Institute of the Civil Aviation University of China, shared their experiences in Sino-German dual education and the integration of industry and education. Wonderful cases and valuable experiences will be used to jointly discuss and promote in-depth cooperation and innovation between China and Germany in the fields of vocational education and industry-education integration.
The founding meeting of the industrial park was hosted by the Taicang Municipal People's Government and hosted by Taicang High-tech Zone and China Small and Medium Enterprises Association.
