On the morning of November 23rd, our school held a symposium for retired school leaders in the Multi-function Hall of the Conference Center, sharing the development of the school and long-term planning of the new higher vocational education with them, and listening to their opinions and suggestions on the development of the school. Gao Ju, Party Secretary of our school, presided over the meeting. All school leaders attended the symposium.
Gao Ju expressed warm welcome and heartfelt thanks for the arrival of the retired school leaders, and then reported on the development of school undertakings in recent years, focusing on the new higher vocational construction scheme of the school. He pointed out that the school adheres to the indomitable, confident and hardworking seagull spirit, focuses on the characteristics of running the school, makes breakthroughs in vocational education, and greatly improves its social service ability. In the construction of new-type higher vocational education, the school will focus on nine tasks: cultivating talents, professional construction, curriculum reform, teaching staff, training base construction, school-enterprise cooperation, informationization, internationalization and governance system, highlight the characteristics of "new-type higher vocational education, modern chemical industry, integration of production and education, international vision", and build a specialty group system with modern chemical industry as the leading role, new energy and new materials and intelligent manufacturing as the two wings, and safety and emergency management as the support.
President Chen Xiaobin gave a welcome speech. He pointed out that the retired school leaders dedicated their youth and strength to the development of the school wholeheartedly, made brilliant achievements, and paved the way for today's continued progress. 2022 is the year of connecting the past and the future in the history of school development. With the approval issued by the Shanghai Municipal Government in May, Shanghai Petrochemical Academy, which witnessed the 44-year development of the school, was officially renamed as Shanghai Modern Chemical Industry Vocational College in August. The school achieved a leap-forward development from secondary vocational school to higher vocational school. In the future, the new leadership team of the school will lead all the cadres and teachers to strengthen their confidence and cheer up their spirits, take professional construction as the leading role, teacher construction as the core, system construction as the guarantee, and do a good job in characteristic construction, so as to lay the foundation for the creation of a new high-level and distinctive higher vocational college. He hoped all the retired school leaders can feel free to give advice and valuable opinions on the construction and development of the school.
Not only Zhang Liangcai and Zhang Jinquan, who founded the first Shanghai Secondary Technical School and the first Shanghai Secondary Technical Vocational School, respectively, but also many retired Party secretaries and principals, such as Yao Shugen, Guo Weiyi, Feng Bo and Yao Songfang, who had gone through the merger and development of the two schools, as well as other leaders, such as Zhou Jianyuan, Hu Changzhen, Zhou Weigang, Wang Mingfu, Xiong Haibin, Zhang Wei and Li Pingqing, who worked hard together, attended the symposium. They are the entrepreneurs and pioneers of the school's continuous reform and development. The development of the school is engraved with their dedication to the cause.
The atmosphere of the symposium was cozy, and the retired leaders reviewed the arduous and passionate process of the school in its first and second venture. At the beginning of the foundation of the school, they carried forward the entrepreneurial spirit of self-reliance and hard work, worked day and night, and made concerted efforts to lay a solid foundation for the later development. During the second pioneering period, faced with the reform and merger of the two schools and the unprecedented changes from the planned economy to the market economy, the leaders of the school carried forward the pioneering spirit of forging ahead, took the lead in overcoming difficulties, and resolutely took a new road of school-enterprise cooperation, which not only resolved the survival crisis of the school, but also greatly enhanced the reputation of the school. Looking back, never forget our initiative aspiration; Looking to the future, we have full of confidence. The retired school leaders spoke highly of the new leadership team, fully supported and praised the orientation of the school's third venture and the school's development strategy, and hoped that the leaders of the college will carry forward the indomitable, confident and hardworking seagull spirit, bear in mind the cultural heritage of hard work and dedication, and strive to create a new situation for the third venture.
While sharing the excitement and joy of the school's leap from secondary education to higher education, the retired school leaders offered suggestions for the future reform and development. From keeping up with the needs of the times, cultivating innovative ideas and daring ability to paying attention to the persistence of running the school with characteristics, from the inheritance of the spirit of entrepreneurship to the pursuit of first-class higher vocational college in China, from teachers' familiarity with the front line of production and management to persisting in the deep cultivation of the integration of production and education, the retired school leaders expressed their strong confidence in the bright future of the school with one constructive suggestion and opinion after another, and they are full of expectations and passion for the school.
In 2022, our school achieved a great leap from secondary vocational education to higher vocational education, which is a new milestone in the development history of our school. The ideas and suggestions of the retired school leaders at the symposium guided and strengthened the direction of the future development of the school once again. We will seize the opportunities, make plans meticulously, pool teachers’ talent and strength, inject vitality and dynamism, promote the development of school undertakings with tenacity, hard work, bravery and fortitude, and serve the regional economic and social development with greater characteristics and advantages of the new development stage of our school.