Recently, the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission issued "the Notice on Publishing the List of the First Batch of Vocational Education Modern Industry Colleges in Shanghai" (Shanghai Education Commission [2023] No.44). Modern Chemical Industry College jointly built by our school and five enterprises—Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co., LTD., Covestro Polymer (China) Co., Ltd., BASF Chemical Co., Ltd., Evonik Special Chemicals (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and Santoni (Shanghai) Knitting Machinery Co., Ltd.—was successfully approved for the first batch of construction projects of Shanghai Vocational Education Modern Industry Colleges.
Modern Chemical Industry College is an independent vocational education platform supported by the government, with Shanghai Modern Chemical Industry Vocational College as the main body and a number of leading enterprises as the common body. Facing the high-quality development needs of advanced materials and key industries, relying on the Yangtze River Delta chemical new materials industrial park and Hangzhou Bay's high-quality vocational education resources, the college will build itself into a first-class demonstration modern industry college in China to provide high-quality personnel training and technical service support for regional industrial development through three years of construction.
The approval of the construction project of Modern Chemical Industrial College reflects the achievements of our school in the deep integration of production and education and the cooperation between school and enterprises in educating people. Our school will take this selection as an opportunity to further improve the management system and mechanism, build a service platform in Industry-University-Research, innovate the talent training mode, improve the quality of professional construction and promote the high-quality development of vocational education in accordance with the requirements of the document "Guidelines for the Construction of Modern Industry Colleges (Trial)" issued by the Ministry of Education.