On June 24, 2025, a delegation of six people including Hao Shande, Director of the Party School of Jigang Group and the Aerospace Industry Education and Training Department of Jingang Talent Company, Liu Guangyou, Deputy Director, and Jia Hongsheng, Vice Dean of the Continuing Education College of Suzhou Chien-Shiung Institute of Technology, visited Rhein Koester.
The visiting delegation conducted an on-site inspection of Rhein-Koester’s core facilities including the Intelligent Manufacturing Training Center, Technology R&D Center, and Digital Exhibition Hall. They gained in-depth understanding of the company’s cutting-edge technologies, innovative achievements, and mature industry-education integration solutions in smart manufacturing. Particular attention was given to observing live teaching sessions of the “AI + Sino-German Rhein Smart Craftsman Program”. The delegation highly commended Rhein-Koester’s established system that deeply integrates the essence of Germany’s dual-system vocational model with China’s industrial needs, delivering comprehensive excellence across three dimensions: technological innovation, talent development, and industry-academia collaboration.
During the discussion, Director Hao Shande reviewed Jigang Group’s strategic transformation process since 2017, with a focus on establishing three core industrial sectors: aerospace, information technology, and high-end equipment manufacturing and new materials. He also highlighted the current acceleration of the intelligent transformation of high-end production lines and the resulting shortage of skilled talent. To overcome this, he stated that Jigang Group will launch a special plan to upgrade the technology used by production line workers. This will involve high-quality teachers from the Suzhou Chien-Shiung Institute of Technology providing theoretical teaching and using the Rhein Koester international training platform, real production scenarios and a mature training system to develop skills.