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editor's note: 2024 is the 75th anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china. it is also a critical year for achieving the goals and tasks of the "14th five-year plan". it is also the year when the third plenary session of the 20th central committee of the party is held. over the past 75 years, especially since the 18th national congress of the communist party of china, our country has made great historic achievements in development. under the guidance of the cyberspace administration of jiangsu provincial committee, our jiangsu provincial committee has joined forces with city and county media across the province to carry out the "meet you through time and space" media integration campaign, reviewing those surging historical moments and beautiful memories together, and telling the story of the magnificent changes and development of the times. miracle!

general secretary xi jinping pointed out that building an educational power is a good wish that the chinese nation has dreamed of since modern times. it is the leading task, solid foundation and strategic support for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and national rejuvenation with chinese-style modernization. it must make solid progress towards the set goals. since the founding of the people's republic of china 75 years ago, vocational education, as an important force in building an educational power, has continued to reform, innovate, develop and grow, and has cultivated batches of great craftsmen who are working on the front line. today, our country has built the world's largest vocational education system, and vocational education continues to make efforts in promoting china's transformation from a manufacturing power to a manufacturing power.

the hand of time has turned forward 21 years.

on october 5, 2003, changzhou information vocational and technical college (hereinafter referred to as "changxin college"), one of the six colleges and universities stationed in changzhou university town, welcomed its first batch of 2,500 freshmen, and 18-year-old li liangliang was one of them.

when li liangliang got off the pick-up bus and walked into the campus with his luggage full of joy, he did not expect that the huge and brand-new school in front of him had just been reborn from the dusty construction site. in the previous year, he had planned laboratories, moved instruments, pulled wires, installed the sockets and even the network cables were all made by sui bixia, a professor at the changxin institute, and her colleagues.

the country’s first university town featuring higher vocational education——changzhou university city (now known as "changzhou science and education city") is an epitome of the connotation construction of china's vocational education. facing the needs of my country’s industrial transformation and upgrading,1999issued by the central committee of the communist party of china and the state councilthe "decision on deepening education reform and comprehensively promoting quality education" clearly stated for the first time that higher vocational education should be vigorously developed.in 2000, changxin institute was upgraded from its predecessor, changzhou radio industrial school, to a higher vocational school, becoming the first information vocational and technical college in jiangsu.since then, sui bixia and her colleagues have not stopped being busy.in just a dozen years since then, the number of higher vocational education schools in my country has increased from dozens to more than 1,400.

sui bixia, who is over 60 years old, has successively served as a teacher, dean, and principal of changxin college, and participated in the entire school construction. looking back on those years, she vividly remembers:“after being upgraded to a higher vocational school, school conditions and other conditions were difficult to meet the needs of industry and talent training. in 2002, the provincial department of education and the changzhou municipal government decided to invest in the construction of changzhou university town, including 5 vocational colleges and 1 undergraduate college. "she dug out her notes from the china education news in 2003 and wrote, stroke by stroke: "the country's first higher vocational education base has emerged in southern jiangsu: the university town will follow the idea of ​​​​6 schools and extensive integration with society... "

for 18-year-old college student li liangliang, it was the advanced instruments on the new campus that ignited his “skill dream”:“the oscilloscopes, signal generators, high-frequency circuit experiment boxes, etc. in the training room were all things i had never seen before, which immediately aroused my interest. at that time, i secretly made up my mind to study hard and use my skills to repay the society. "

sui bixia has been involved in vocational education since the 1980s. she has witnessed the popularity of graduates and has also experienced "vocational education being in the cold". for her, the new education model in the university town convinced her that vocational education has great potential.“the university town has established a shared training base, which can be used jointly by 6 schools including our school. the schools recognize each other’s credits, students choose each other’s courses, and study across schools. the curriculum highlights the key points to the greatest extent and is compatible with each other; at the same time, many companies have settled here to explore the industry-university-research model of collaborative innovation.”

since then, school-enterprise cooperation has gradually become the norm in vocational education talent training, but sui bixia found that the deeper it goes, the more difficult it becomes. in 2006, the ministry of education and the ministry of finance launched the "national demonstration vocational college construction plan", focusing on supporting 100 colleges and universities to establish projects to build national backbone vocational colleges, which gave her new thinking.vocational education needs to develop its own unique education system, breaking through the method of teaching based on book logic in general education,sui bixia led the software technology professional team to explore the "professional situation, project-led" talent training model integrating work and study, and led students to "practice to gain true knowledge" according to the logic of the project system.

this path has been successful, and the students trained are more favored by enterprises. “although this model was proposed in one major, the school has continuously enriched its connotation, expanded it in related majors, and has also emerged among similar colleges across the country. it has gained a certain influence, and many schools have learned from our model to expand its connotation and form their own characteristics.” the new model won the first prize for national teaching achievements. in 2007, changxin college became a national model higher vocational college.

li liangliang can be said to be the first generation of vocational education students influenced by this educational model. after graduating in 2006, he stayed at the school to teach, and he and teacher sui bixia became colleagues from teachers and students. he told sui bixia that the school is still teaching in this model, and teachers in various subjects continue to make innovations and adjustments based on their own circumstances in practice.

the real reform of vocational education is in the curriculum.sui bixia and li liangliang decided to take a look at the current teaching scene.

the maker space in the school's training building is a bustling scene. on one side, students in twos and threes are modeling and debugging computers to prepare for the skills competition; on the other side, zhang jingzheng, deputy dean of the school of software and big data, is leading several students. group learning.

"teacher sui, why are you here?"zhang jing greeted warmly.

"let's take a look at your teaching."

"this semester's courses are practical java mainstream framework projects, and still practice the 'professional situation, project-led' work-study integrated talent training model."zhang jing said that the entire teaching process is now oriented to the software work process, covering all aspects such as requirements, design, implementation, and maintenance. the course directly introduces the actual asset management system project of an enterprise. the system includes functional modules such as approval management, asset management, statistical analysis, etc.nowadays, school-enterprise cooperation is more in-depth, and teaching content will be dynamically adjusted at any time as the needs of enterprises change."during the summer vacation, the company's engineers sent a new requirement from party a, which required that information be read by scanning the barcodes on consumables or office assets, so we immediately included the new requirement in the class discussion."

after listening to zhang jing’s introduction, li liangliang was also deeply touched:"vocational education is about 'learning by doing'. i am now cooperating with companies to test equipment, allowing students to directly participate in some projects and learn in actual corporate projects. the training they receive is still different from the training on paper."

for schools, the idea of ​​setting up majors is also oriented to industry, docking industry, and service industry.

changzhou is an industrial area for new energy and a demonstration area for industrial internet applications. the development of new energy industry, the deep integration of industrialization and informatization is the best example for china's transformation from a manufacturing power to a manufacturing power. since 2019, changxin institute has focused its education on the industrial internet, a major national innovation and development strategy, and has organized seven industrial internet professional clusters around the technical structure of the industrial internet to facilitate the in-depth integration of the new generation of information technology and manufacturing.

majors follow the industry, and vocational education courses strengthen the integration of work and study, focus on practical training, and modular education and teaching activities, and cultivate talents that are "practical" and "down-to-earth." now the graduation destination implementation rate of changxin college graduates remains above 97%. as a graduate of the school, li liangliang used his actions to write a clear footnote for "skills light up life".

while studying at changxin academy, li liangliang's technical skills had already emerged. in the early 21st century, school-enterprise cooperation was not close, but li liangliang was favored by enterprises and was often approached to do projects. "at that time, he could earn several thousand yuan at a time." when he graduated, li liangliang, who originally planned to go to a company, stayed in school.“i want to use my skills to support students’ future.”

li liangliang took over the baton from the older generation of vocational education personnel such as sui bixia and became a unique "double-qualified" teacher in vocational education."i have a bucket of water before i can give a student a glass of water.", over the years, he has accumulated rich experience in industrial equipment maintenance and technical improvement, developed a complete data recovery system in practice, and carefully edited and published the industry-famous "practical data recovery technology". he is also an "industry pioneer" in the field of data recovery, winning the jiangsu provincial vocational skills competition withabsolute advantage won the first place in the employee group and won the title of "technical expert of jiangsu province", won the championship again in the national "second information industry new technology" vocational skills competition, and won the first place in the national competition employee group.awarded as "national technical expert". because of the outstanding level of technical skills,in 2021, he was awarded the honorary title of "jiangsu craftsman" by the jiangsu provincial people's government. with his own efforts and strength, he has become a "great craftsman" admired by teachers and students.

on the day of the interview, li liangliang had another good news to share with teacher sui bixia:"the provincial department of human resources and social security announced the results of the 2024 jiangsu province high-skilled talent key project evaluation and the fourth jiangsu skills awards. the project i led was awarded the 'jiangsu province skills master studio'." this summer vacation, the spacious and bright "master li liangliang studio" has just been renovated and delivered.

standing on the three-foot podium for 40 years, sui bixia has witnessed the development of vocational education and participated in the entire construction of the school to become a national model school, a national quality school, and a national dual university. but for her, the most practical and happiest thing is "seeing students like li liangliang use their wisdom and skills to develop well."

now, li liangliang also has the same joy of sui bixia."teacher sui, look! this is the message just sent by my student zhong yuwu."li liangliang took out his mobile phone from his pocket and showed it to sui bixia:"he has just graduated and entered nanjing university of information science and technology for further study. this time he participated in the national college student electronic design competition. more than 150 teams were selected to win 12 national first prizes. he created the best result since nanjing university participated in the competition."

seeing li liangliang's unconcealable pride, sui bixia smiled:"of course, our vocational education students are no less qualified."

times are changing rapidly, industries are constantly upgrading, and vocational education is realizing its own transformation in response to changes time after time.today, our country has built the world's largest vocational education system, forming a vocational education talent training path with chinese characteristics, cultivating approximately 10 million high-quality technical and technical talents every year. sui bixia and li liangliang believe that in this golden age of vocational education, there will be more "li liangliang" and "zhong yuwu" using their skills to achieve outstanding lives in the future.