China Education Daily-China Education News Network News (Reporter Jiao Yixuan) "At present, the construction of the "Belt and Road" has entered the second golden decade, and the international development of vocational education is facing unprecedented opportunities. In the context of continuous expansion of high-level opening up, it is imperative to further promote high-quality 'vocational education to go overseas'. Ma Yuxia, deputy to the National People's Congress and president of Zhengzhou Railway Vocational and Technical College, suggested that an alliance of "vocational education going to sea" should be formed to help the high-quality development of the "Belt and Road".
Ma Yuxia said that the first decade of the "Belt and Road" is a decade for China's vocational education to "go global" to improve quality and efficiency. "Vocational education going overseas" has become an important breakthrough in expanding the opening up of education in the new era, and it is also an important measure for vocational colleges to practice the strategy of strengthening the country through education and serve the overall situation of national diplomacy.
The establishment of the industry college overseas alliance is to gather industry-related colleges and universities to form an overseas school alliance under the overall guidance of the industry, with the industry vocational education and teaching steering committee as the link, with the support of the construction and reform achievements of the modern vocational education system, and with the goal of cultivating high-quality local technical and skilled talents, bringing together industry-related colleges and universities to form an overseas school-running alliance, and effectively serving the high-quality development of the 'Belt and Road' through a highly organized industry-education coordination mechanism. Ma Yuxia said.
Ma Yuxia believes that the Overseas Education Alliance of Industry Colleges has outstanding characteristics and advantages compared with regional vocational college overseas education organizations. First, most of the industry colleges and universities are born out of the self-run staff schools of enterprises, which have natural stickiness with related industries, and can realize the precise docking, two-way empowerment and common development of schools and enterprises; Second, industry colleges and universities have a high degree of synergy and matching with related industries in terms of professional settings, resource endowments, and talent training, which can completely cover the upstream, middle and downstream of the industrial chain and promote the extension and development of the industry; Third, under the organization of the alliance, industry colleges and universities can achieve the one-time completion of similar standards, the effective convergence of homogeneous resources, and the intensive development of colleges and universities in the same region, so as to better highlight the institutional advantages and scale advantages of "concentrating on doing great things", and serve the international development of Chinese enterprises at a higher level.
Zhengzhou Railway Vocational and Technical College, where Ma Yuxia is located, is a higher vocational college with distinctive characteristics in the railway industry. She introduced that in recent years, the college has actively participated in the overseas projects of Chinese-funded enterprises, and has worked with enterprises to build Zhan Tianyou College, and has successively undertaken technical personnel training projects such as Kenya's Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, Ethiopia's Jakarta-Djibouti Railway, Saudi Arabia's Mecca Light Rail Railway, Laos's China-Laos Railway and other projects and Russian high-speed rail teacher training projects, and has embarked on a unique path in standard development, talent training, technical services, and cultural communication.
In the next step, we will actively make good use of the platform of 'Zhan Tianyou College', focus on promoting the construction of the alliance of industry colleges and universities to go overseas, cultivate international talents from the perspective of enterprises, fulfill the glorious mission of vocational education from the perspective of the country, and continue to write a new chapter in the innovation and development of vocational education in the process of high-quality joint construction of the 'Belt and Road'." Ma Yuxia said.
Author: Jiao Yixuan.