In order to promote the cooperation between SPA and Jinshan Industrial Zone, to further meet the people's demand for high-quality vocational education, and to meet enterprises’ needs of high-quality laborers and technical personnel, after a friendly consultation ,SPA and Jinshan Industrial Zone officially signed the campus strategic cooperation agreement on March 28, 2017 in SPA.
Leaders and guests attending the signing ceremony included Zheng Ying, deputy director of Jinshan District Education Bureau, Xue Mei, deputy director of the vocational education department, Wang Xiangtian, general manager of Shanghai Xin Xinjinshan Industrial Investment and Development Co., Ltd., Tang Lianhui, deputy general manager, and Cao Feng, general manager of Zhang Jiang(JinShan Park) Talents Service Platform, leaders and executives from related departments and enterprise; Gao Ju, Principal of SPA, Lin Guoxin, Party secretary of SPA, Huang Hanjun, vice principal, Sun Shuguang, chairman of School Union, parent representatives from Parents Committee of SPA, some middle-level leaders , teachers and students representatives, etc. The signing ceremony was presided over by Li Yajuan, deputy director of SPA' s Party Committee Office.
Stepping on a Win-Win Road Hand in Hand
At the beginning of the ceremony, principal Gao Ju delivered a warm welcome speech. On behalf of SPA, he first extended a warm welcome to the leaders and guests attending the signing ceremony, and expressed his heartfelt gratitude to the superior authorities who have long supported the development of SPA and the leaders and corporate executives of Jinshan Industrial Zone. He pointed out that this signing ceremony is a most important step for SPA to strengthen the integration of production and education, promote school-enterprise cooperation, and actively respond to the Party Central Committee and the State Council on the development policy and spirit of vocational education. It is a key deployment to achieve the goal of “more than 90% of vocational schools and industry enterprises become close partners by 2020” in the 13th Five-Year Plan of Shanghai Vocational Education. It is also the foundation of vocational schools to improve the quality of personnel training and social service capabilities. Next, the two parties will actively have in-depth exchanges and collaborations by setting up enterprise title classes, jointly formulating talent training programs, and carrying out dual-system talent training models. At the same time, in the on-the-job training of enterprise employees, both parties will also try to find out effective measures to improve the professional quality and skills of employees.
After a brief introduction to Jinshan Industrial Zone, Wang Xiangtian said that he is full of expectations for campus strategic cooperation. He mentioned that Jinshan Industrial Zone is the main battlefield for the realization of an “Industrial District”. It is becoming a new highland for the development of Shanghai's advanced manufacturing industry and becoming a national economic and technological development zone. Shanghai Petrochemical Academy is a national key secondary vocational school and a National Model School of Education Reform and Development in Secondary Vocational Schools. For a long time, it has firmly promoted the school-enterprise cooperation, work-study combination, and continuously improved the quality of personnel training, and cultivated batches of high-quality laborers and technical personnel for enterprises and have made great contributions to local economic construction. He hopes that in the future cooperation, we must bear in mind the six key words of “emphasis, effectiveness, and sustainability”. The school, industrial zone, enterprises, teachers and students should spare no efforts to promote the in-depth cooperation between the two sides.
Promoting Regional Development Through a Strong Alliance
At the signing ceremony, Gao Ju, on behalf of Shanghai Petrochemical Academy and Tang Lianhui, on behalf of Jinshan Industrial Zone, jointly signed the School & Industrial Zone Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement.
Zheng Yu, on behalf of the District Education Bureau, clearly stated that the government will fully support this strategic cooperation. She mentioned that during the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” period, Jinshan District focused on realizing the economic and social development goals of “Three Jinshans” (Entrepreneurial Jinshan, Livable Jinshan, and Harmony Jinshan).Therefore, the government has made the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” for education reform and development. Moreover, it is clearly stated in the plan that in the development of vocational education, the government is striving to take a series of measures to support the development of vocational education.
Zheng Ying hopes that the cooperation between the two sides will promote the establishment of a better education mechanism that meets the needs of social development, enhance the vitality of school education, and form a “Jinshan Experience” in the education reform pilot; on the other hand, she hopes that SPA can provide practical support for the development of Jinshan Industrial Zone by delivering more excellent talents and giving more intellectual support to build Jinshan District into one of the leading innovative industrial zones.
After the signing ceremony, the representatives of the two sides and the parents from family committee also visited the campus of SPA. What the visitors saw left them a deep impression: beautiful campus, clean and spacious classrooms, quiet and pleasant study environment, various community activities, training rooms with modern and advanced facilities, the campus's rich cultural atmosphere, etc. After the visit, representatives from the company were full of confidence in future cooperation between SPA and the enterprise. They all expressed their strong desire to further communicate and establish a specific cooperation model to effectively promote the win-win development of both school and enterprises.
The signing ceremony of this co-construction marks that Shanghai Petrochemical Academy and Jinshan Industrial Zone will carry out all-round and multi-level cooperation and exchanges, which is of milestone significance. We believe that the cooperation between the two sides will certainly promote the transformation and upgrading of Jinshan's new industrialization, meet the local people’s needs for high-quality vocational education, and cultivate more high-quality workers and technical talents for enterprises.