On February 28, Ginkgo Catering Training School (hereinafter referred to as the school) officially held an unveiling ceremony in Nanxi Vocational Education Industrial Park, Yibin, Sichuan. Yang Longtao, Principal of Ginkgo Catering Training School, Li Wenwei, Executive Principal, Hao Baoli, Master of State Banquet, Sun Lixin, Founder of Lao Fan Gu, a new ** brand of food, Hou Yurui, Master of Lao Fan Gu, Lu Yongliang, Master of Chinese Chu Cuisine, Peng Ziyu, Master of Chinese Sichuan Cuisine, and leaders of relevant departments of Yibin City and guests from industry associations witnessed the launch of the school.
At the unveiling ceremony, the school issued special certificates to many national culinary masters such as Hao Baoli, Sun Lixin, Hou Yurui, Lu Yongliang, Peng Ziyu, etc., and invited the masters to deeply integrate into the vocational education of Ginkgo Biloba catering, teach cooking skills to students, and deliver high-quality catering talents to the society. At the same time, the "Cooking Smoke Pavilion Project" jointly created by the school and the Lao Fan Gu team was also officially launched at this ceremony.
According to Master Sun Lixin, the founder of Lao Fan Gu, the program is an improvement platform created by Lao Fan Gu and Ginkgo Catering Training School to cultivate "managers" in the catering industry, aiming to help them master professional skills in the high-end field of catering and improve their professional quality. The program will also work closely with catering companies to provide internship and employment opportunities for trainees, promote the integration of industry and academia, and provide excellent talents for the industry.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, China's catering industry will achieve a historic breakthrough in 2023, and the continuous growth of the catering industry will make its economic contribution to the forefront of the service industry. With the rapid development of the catering industry and the increase in market segmentation demand, although the density of catering employees is increasing rapidly, there is still a shortage of talents and needs to be improved urgently. In 2024, as the country intensifies macro-control efforts and effectively enhances economic vitality, the catering industry is expected to reach a new level of economic development with its unique advantages. In this context, the importance of catering vocational education has become increasingly prominent, and Ginkgo Catering Training School came into being, providing a high-quality education platform for cultivating high-quality catering talents.
Ginkgo Catering Training School, with the tenet of "running a school with characteristics and strengthening the quality of the school", deeply combines the professional needs of social catering and culinary talents, and the actual situation of market development and changes, and rigorously considers, and has opened a series of professional courses such as Sichuan cuisine master inheritance class and cooking top master class, aiming to cultivate outstanding talents who are proficient in the essence of Sichuan cuisine, master cooking skills, and have the ability to innovate and apply dishes and catering management, and can serve as chefs, chefs and above positions in the catering industry. At the same time, the school also pays close attention to catering vocational education, providing people with lofty ideals in the catering industry with Sichuan cuisine as the core and other cuisines as the surrounding training services, and tailoring high-quality courses and evaluation standards. The school has also established in-depth cooperative relations with well-known institutions such as the World Federation of Chinese Cuisine Industry, the China Cuisine Association, and a number of foreign catering industry associations, so as to provide professional chefs and catering management talents for global catering enterprises and provide stable employment opportunities for students.
Zhang Haisheng, deputy director of the Talent and University Town Work Bureau of the Yibin Municipal Party Committee, said that the Ginkgo Catering Training School is not only of great significance for inheriting Sichuan cuisine culture and teaching Sichuan cuisine skills, but also plays a positive role in creating new supply and leading new consumption. I wish the school to flourish, cultivate more catering talents, and let the Sichuan cuisine culture shine on the world stage!
It is understood that the Ginkgo Catering Training School is the first investment holding company of Chengdu Ginkgo Education Management, and the construction of the campus integrates the latest education concept of the global hotel industry, relying on the first-class level of the Ginkgo standard teaching hotel community of Chengdu Ginkgo Hotel Management College Yibin Campus and the deep integration of production, education and research to provide the real application scenarios of hotel catering training and practical operation, covering the new concept kitchen of Chinese and Western food, Chinese pastry laboratory, baking room, wine tasting laboratory, bartending laboratory, coffee laboratory, tea room, Large banquet halls, guest room laboratories and cooking training buildings, etc., with a total area of 1390,000 square meters, the school scale can accommodate 10,000 people. The school will adhere to the teaching concept of "inheritance, innovation and practice", provide students with professional catering training and practice opportunities, and cultivate batches of outstanding catering talents for the society. The establishment of Ginkgo Catering Training School will inject new vitality into the development of the catering industry.
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