On the afternoon of November 18, Lu Jijun, Deputy Director of the Political Department and Director of the General Affairs Department of Shanghai Municipal Fire Rescue Corps, led a team to our school to discuss exchanges and cooperation. Gao Ju, Party Secretary of the school, Chen Xiaobin, President of the school and relevant departments attended the reception. The two sides discussed and exchanged views on the cooperation in the specialty Fire Rescue Technology and the follow-up work plan.
Lu Jijun pointed out that with the establishment of the Ministry of National Emergency Management in 2018, fire rescue resources have achieved strong optimization and integration, but the current fire rescue undertaking is facing new challenges. Firstly, it is the urgent need to enhance diversity, professionalism and stability of national firefighter team and government full-time firefighters to further meet the needs of regional economic and social development. Secondly, the city is innovating its talent training mechanism by developing the new specialty Fire Rescue Technology in the field of secondary vocational schools and higher vocational schools. Thirdly, Shanghai Municipal Fire Rescue Corps and its cooperative schools are actively studying pathways and countermeasures to effectively promote joint government-school cooperative education. Lu Jijun expects that the cooperation with our school can expand the new situation of cooperation between government and school, promote the development of fire rescue undertaking and enhance the social service capacity of vocational schools.
During the research and study, Lu Jijun and his team visited the school's Cross-enterprise Training Center and Chemical Comprehensive Training Building and other places to know about the advanced equipment and facilities and management concept. They highly praised the school's successful experience in joint government-school cooperation and internationalization, and expressed sufficient confidence and good expectation to further promote the joint training of talents majoring in Fire Rescue Technology.
During the exchange meeting, Gao Ju briefly introduced the basic situation of our school in terms of location advantages, specialty settings and school's characteristics, highlighted the school's successful experience in industry-education integration, education-training combination and internationalization, and reported in detail on the promotion of new higher education and the construction plan of the School of Safety and Emergency Management, especially expressing the vision and expectation for the future cooperation between government and school in Fire Rescue Technology.
Chen Xiaobin emphasized that the school has the advantages, the manpower, the confidence and the enthusiasm to bring into play the strengths of professional people doing professional work and to create a new chapter in the training of fire rescue personnel. At the same time, he looked forward to the future to further strengthen the cooperation between the two sides in talent training programs, curriculum systems, faculty teams, practical training bases, to enhance the level of jointly running the school.
The two sides had in-depth exchanges and reached consensus on the declaration of Fire Rescue Technology, the joint training model among multiple schools, the development of talent training standards, the joint development of teaching materials and the joint training of teachers. In the future, the two sides will further enhance cooperation and communication, effectively address the various difficulties in the construction of new majors and improve the quality of joint training of talents.
This activity is a new attempt of our school to conduct joint education in specialties of higher vocational education. Our school will continue to strengthen cooperation with Shanghai Municipal Fire Rescue Corps, jointly focus on the long-term development strategy of both sides, jointly explore new modes of cooperation between government and school, and make new contributions to the talent pool of Shanghai Municipal Fire Rescue Corps and the high-quality development of new higher vocational education.