Zhumadian Daily News (Reporter Wang Wei) On the morning of September 15, 2022, the opening ceremony of the 2022 Zhumadian Secondary Vocational Education Skills Competition was grandly held at Zhumadian Technician College. Niu Qingquan, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Zhumadian Municipal Education Bureau, attended and announced the opening of the skills competition. Wei Jihe, a second-level researcher of the Municipal Education Bureau, Li Xin, a second-level researcher and member of the Party Committee of the Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Zhao Ruliang, vice president of Zhumadian Preschool Teachers College, Yang Wentao, principal of Zhumadian Finance School, Wang Kunhui, president of Zhumadian Technician College, Feng Baoshan, vice president of Provincial Traffic Technician College, Wang Xinhua, principal of Zhumadian Agricultural School, Wu Shuying, chief of the Vocational Adult Education Section of the Municipal Education Bureau, and Yang Weihua, director of the Municipal Vocational Adult Teaching and Research Office. Directors of the vocational adult teaching and research sections of each county and district education bureau, principals, team leaders, judges representatives, and some contestants from the competition's co-organizers and participating schools attended the opening ceremony.
Wang Kunhui, dean of Zhumadian Technician College, delivered a welcome speech. Yang Weihua, director of the Municipal Vocational Adult Teaching and Research Office, announced the rules of the competition. Representatives of the judges and contestants took the stage to take oaths.
Niu Qingquan, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Zhumadian Municipal Education Bureau, said in his speech: In recent years, under the correct leadership of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, our city’s vocational education work has achieved gratifying results and a number of leading vocational schools have been formed. Huanghuai College is rooted in the land of the Central Plains, pioneering reform, based on industrial development, releasing the energy of industry-education integration, and achieving fruitful results in the construction of an applied undergraduate university. It has hosted the International Forum on Industry-Education Integration Development Strategy for eight consecutive years, which has had a positive impact in the country; Zhumadian Vocational and Technical College, Zhumadian Preschool Teachers College, Zhumadian Technician College, Zhumadian Agricultural School, etc. have good development momentum, and the number of enrolled students is increasing year by year.
The construction of vocational education parks in our city has achieved remarkable results. With the vigorous promotion of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, the Vocational Education Park has completed an investment of 4.65 billion yuan, with a total construction area of 871,400 square meters. It houses 7 vocational schools, more than 50,000 teachers and students, and outputs an average of 17,000 graduates of various types to the society every year. The Vocational Education Park is gradually developing into a centralized training and export base for applied technical talents in our city. Our city’s industry-education integration school-enterprise cooperation has made new progress. The Industry-Education Integration Promotion Committee headed by the mayor has been established, and the first batch of 22 industry-education integration strategic alliances have been established. 95 companies have been certified as industry-education integration education bases, covering 22 major industrial categories such as intelligent manufacturing, agricultural product processing, construction, chemical industry and new energy. The integration of education and industrial development has gradually increased. The quality of vocational education in the city has gradually improved. With the implementation of the "Famous Teacher Project" and the "Dual-qualified Teacher Team Training Project", the quality of vocational education has gradually improved, and its social influence has been further enhanced. It has trained a large number of applied professional and technical talents for the city, and has played a strong role in promoting the development of the city's economic and social undertakings.
Niu Qingquan emphasized: Vocational education is a type of education aimed at creation, and its fundamental goal is to cultivate applied technical talents with both hands and brains and the ability to develop sustainably. Holding a skills competition in secondary vocational schools is not only a concrete measure to fully implement the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity in vocational education and promote the implementation of vocational education goals through competition; it is also an effective way to guide vocational schools to further strengthen skills training, improve the professional skills level and practical ability of teachers and students, and deepen the reform of vocational education and teaching; it is also a major measure to promote good social customs of respecting knowledge, respecting labor, advocating skills, and encouraging innovation in the whole society.
This competition is sponsored by the Zhumadian Municipal Education Bureau and hosted by the Municipal Vocational Adult Education Teaching Research Office. According to Yang Weihua, director of the Municipal Vocational Adult Teaching and Research Office, our city has held secondary vocational school skills competitions since 2006. The competition items have expanded from more than a dozen majors at the beginning to dozens of majors now, and the number of participants has grown from dozens to hundreds, and now everyone participates. Our city’s vocational skills competitions are gradually becoming standardized and mature. This year’s skills competition involves 36 projects in 11 majors including agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, civil engineering and water conservancy, processing and manufacturing, transportation, information technology, Chinese cooking, leisure and health care, culture and art, and preschool education. There are 6 competition venues in the city, with more than 700 contestants from 15 vocational schools participating, and more than 100 teachers and industry experts hired as referees for this competition.
It is understood that this year's vocational skills competition lasts for 10 days. The competition will further stimulate the enthusiasm of the majority of students in the city's vocational schools to learn knowledge, enhance their quality, and practice their skills. It will also further promote mutual learning, exchanges, mutual learning, and mutual improvement among vocational schools.
