With the company of Jinshan District Office Director Tang Weixing, on Sept. 9, prior to the 36th Teachers’ Day, Hu Weiguo, CPC Secretary-General Of Shanghai Jinshan District and Zhang Difang, Deputy Director of the Jinshan District People’s Government, came to Shanghai Petrochemical Academy to pay a friendly visit to SPA’s outstanding teacher representative Zhou Hong and to extend warm greetings and high respect to all SPA staff. Zheng Ying, Director of Jinshan Education Bureau, Gao Ju, Principal of Shanghai Petrochemical Academy and Lin Guoxin, Party Secretary of Shanghai Petrochemical Academy, attended the activity.
Hu Weiguo and his team visited School History Museum to know about the development of SPA in education and teaching, the construction of hardware, etc. in the past more than 40 years. He fully affirmed SPA’s achievements in promoting school-enterprise deep cooperation, innovating the internationalization of specialties and improving the serving capability of vocational education, etc. Hu Weiguo expressed firm support for SPA’s transformation of schooling-running mechanism and the construction of the new style higher vocational college. Meanwhile, he also gave high praise for SPA’s seizure of the opportunity to construct Shanghai Hazardous Chemicals Industry Safety Skills Training Demonstration Base which is rooted in Shanghai, strives to be a demonstration in the Yangtze River Delta and influences the whole nation at large.
At the seminar, Hu Weiguo stressed that advanced manufacturing industry is the prominent pillar of the regional economy development of Jinshan district and even Shanghai. Higher vocational education shoulders the important responsibility of cultivating a large batch of high-quality technical skilled personnel. It is sincerely expected that Shanghai Petrochemical Academy will optimize the setup of specialties, improve school-running quality, create the highland of vocational education cluster and help accelerate high-quality integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta.
SPA's leading group collectively expressed that they will strictly follow Hu Weiguo’s instruction on vocational education development and unite all staff and students of SPA to make substantive innovations, develop in a scientific way, strive to run the school which satisfies the people, make more contributions to the development of regional economy and foster more and better talent for the construction of modernization.