Keeping Pace with the Times and Embarking on a New Chapter | Zibo National High-tech Industrial Development Zone Industry-Education Alliance Inaugural Meeting Held at the Sino-German Intelligent Manufacturing Industry-Education Integration Demonstration Base

2023-05-30

On May 29, 2023, the inaugural meeting of the Zibo
National Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone Industry-Education Consortium was
held in the Sino-German Smart Manufacturing Industry-Education Integration
Demonstration Base. Bi Hongwei, vice mayor of Zibo Municipal Government, Li
Junjie, vice mayor of the municipal government and secretary of the working
committee of the high-tech zone, attended the inaugural meeting. Zhang Dong,
Deputy Director of the Municipal Government Office, Liu Wei, Secretary of the Party
Committee of Zibo Vocational College, Sun Qiyou, Deputy Secretary of the Party
Committee and President of Zibo Vocational College, Erik Moskawa, German
vocational education expert and President of Rhein Koester Group, Wang Yuquan,
Chairman of Shandong Xinhua Medical Equipment Co., Ltd. and Cui Zhi, Chairman
of Shandong Rhein Koester Intelligent Technology Co.


△Sun Yingtao, Executive Deputy Secretary of the Education
Work Committee of Zibo Municipal Committee, Secretary of the Party Group and
Director of the Municipal Education Bureau, presided over the meeting


Li Junjie, Vice Mayor of Zibo Municipal Government
and Secretary of the High-tech Zone Working Committee, delivered a speech,
saying that the conference was a specific effort to create a municipal
industry-education consortium with the functions of talent training, innovation
and entrepreneurship, and promoting high-quality development of industrial
economy, with the strong support of Zibo Municipal Government, fully
implementing the spirit of the 20th Party Congress, and playing the role of
government coordination, industry aggregation, enterprise traction and school
main body. The work. The conference was held in Zibo High-tech Zone with
Siemens and Rhein Koester to build the country’s first Sino-German intelligent
manufacturing industry-education integration demonstration base to enable
industrial digital transformation with industrial internet. In order to do a
good job of reserving and supporting the skilled personnel needed for Zibo’s
economic and social development and forging an “iron army” of skilled
personnel, he proposed three “supports”: First, to support
enterprises and colleges to actively explore new modes of training highly
skilled personnel and widely carry out apprenticeship systems with Chinese
characteristics; Secondly, he supported the cooperation with institutions in
the body for segmented training or through-train training, and encouraged
outstanding employees of enterprises to study undergraduate and professional
degree postgraduate education; thirdly, he supported the construction of a
common technical service platform to open up the chain of scientific research
and development, technological innovation and results transfer.


Liu Wei, secretary of the party committee of Zibo
Vocational Institute, spoke in his speech that as the leading school of the
industry-education consortium, Zibo Vocational College has a history of 67
years of operation, and the comprehensive strength of the school has long been
ranked among the top institutions of its kind in China. The school has always
adhered to the collaborative development mechanism involving multiple subjects
such as government, industry and enterprises, and in deepening the reform of
the school system, it has improved the quality of talent training and achieved
a new increase in the supply of social services. The next step of the school
will take the establishment of the consortium as an opportunity to continue to
focus on the advantageous industrial clusters and many enterprises in the Zibo
High-tech Zone, adhere to the education for industry, industry to help
education, industry-education integration, industry-university cooperation,
seek effective results in the common training of talents, seek innovation in
serving the development of the high-tech zone, and strive to promote the
effective convergence and integration of the talent chain, education chain,
industry chain and innovation chain, and work together to make the Zibo
National High-tech Industrial Development Zone The joint establishment of the
province and even the country’s municipal industry and education consortium
benchmark and model.


German vocational education expert and President of
the German Rhine Cost Group, Professor Eric Moskawa, expressed in his speech
that as early as 2007, Rhine Cost had introduced the German “dual
system” education model in China and explored the implementation of
localized landing plans. Currently, it has established Sino-German public
service platforms and cross-enterprise training centers in many cities in China
that meet German standards. At present, 10 Sino-German intelligent
manufacturing integration demonstration platforms with an operating area of
nearly 100,000 square meters have been built and operated in provinces and
cities such as Shandong, Beijing, Jiangsu, and Hubei. In the future, Rhine Cost
will continue to join forces with Industry 4.0 leading enterprises, German
research institutions, and several Sino-German universities and other
high-quality resources to further promote the integration of industry and
education, school-enterprise cooperation, and contribute corporate strength to
the construction of the Zibo High-tech Zone regional industry-education
consortium, demonstrating a new model for the deep integration of the education
chain, talent chain, industrial chain, and innovation chain.


Wang Yuquan, Chairman of Shandong Xinhua Medical
Devices Co., Ltd., congratulated the establishment of this consortium in his
speech. He stated that Xinhua Medical has always attached importance to the
training of skilled talents and supported the development of vocational
education as an important support for promoting the company’s development.
Currently, Xinhua Medical has collaborated with Shandong University of
Technology, Zibo Vocational College, and other institutions to carry out
collaborative cultivation of talents between universities and enterprises.
Starting from the actual needs of the company’s development goals, they have
conducted in-depth cooperation in professional construction, practical training
base construction, faculty exchange and training, enrollment and employment,
scientific research, cultural heritage, and social services. They have
continuously provided thousands of outstanding skilled talents to the company.
In the future, Xinhua Medical will take the establishment of this consortium as
an opportunity to fully leverage the platform’s strength, explore new paths for
the high-quality development of industry-education integration, promote various
educational models, and make greater contributions to regional economic
development.


Zeng Weiming, Deputy Director of the Talent
Exchange Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology,
delivered a speech through video. Deputy Director Zeng Weiming stated that Zibo
High-tech Zone is a highland of scientific and technological innovation, a
high-end industrial base, and also a highland of integration among industries,
education, and talent. The Talent Exchange Center of the Ministry of Industry
and Information Technology is an internationally specialized talent service
organization directly under the Ministry of Industry and Information
Technology, dedicated to the construction of industrial talent teams. In April
of last year, the center published the first batch of joint construction
institutions for industrial talents in key areas of the industrial and
information technology sectors. Rhine Cost from the high-tech zone was
successfully selected. In July of the same year, the center and Rhine Cost
signed a strategic cooperation agreement and launched the industrial talent
base project at the Sino-German intelligent manufacturing integration
demonstration base, jointly establishing an industrial talent empowerment base
and an intelligent manufacturing research and development center in Beijing. In
the future, the center hopes to rely on the industrial talent empowerment base
to create a comprehensive platform for talent, technology, and innovation
empowerment, actively participate in the construction of the Zibo High-tech Zone’s
industry-education consortium, provide professional services for the
construction of the talent team in key industrial areas and the cultivation of
high-quality small and medium-sized enterprises, and support the development of
the Zibo High-tech Zone through talent.


△Zibo High-tech Zone Working Committee member and Deputy
Director of the Management Committee, Li Kai, Zibo Vocational College Deputy
Party Secretary and President, Sun Qiyou, and Rhine Cost Chairman, Cui Zhi,
jointly signed the “Zibo National High-tech Industrial Development Zone
Industry-Education Consortium Construction Initiative Agreement.”


△Shandong Special Industry Group General Manager, Qi
Xiaoliang, and Zibo Vocational College Vice President, Bi Siyong, jointly
signed the “Joint Training Agreement for Intelligent Equipment Field
Engineers.”


△Han Bing, member of the Zibo Development and Reform
Commission Party Group and Deputy Director, and Shi Wei, member of the
Municipal Finance Bureau Party Group and Deputy Director, unveiled the
Intelligent Equipment Field Engineer College.


△Lao Zhiqiang, member of the Zibo Industrial and
Information Technology Bureau Party Group and Deputy Director, and Zhang
Mingguang, member of the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau Party Group
and Deputy Director, jointly unveiled the Haiyue Modern Service College.


△Bi Hongwei, Deputy Mayor, Li Junjie, Deputy Mayor, Sun
Yingtao, Bureau Director, Liu Wei, Secretary, Wang Yuquan, Chairman, Cui Zhi,
Chairman, jointly unveiled the Zibo National High-tech Industrial Development
Zone Industry-Education Consortium.


△The leaders and guests present visited the Sino-German
intelligent manufacturing integration training base.