The Zhitong Finance App learned that innovation empowers the future and skills shape life. On November 20, the 2024 World Conference on the Development of Vocational and Technical Education was grandly opened in Tianjin. Government officials, educators, and entrepreneurs from all over the world discussed the sustainable development of vocational education. Li Shufu, chairman of Geely Holding Group, once again attended the education forum as an entrepreneur. He shared how Geely leverages the advantages of integrating industry and education to explore new paths for the development of vocational education. Li Shufu believes that Geely's automobile industry is healthy and sustainable, product quality is reliable, and quality and service are respected. One important success factor is the integration of industry and education. Paying attention to the construction of various professional and technical talent teams, including technicians and technicians, and talent development is an indispensable key element for Geely enterprises from small to large.

Nearly 30 years of spontaneous to conscious cultivation of education

From supporting the development of enterprises themselves to supporting the systematic development of the industry

Geely Education has the natural advantage of integrating industry and education. In the early days, in order to solve the problem of scarce talents in key positions in automobile manufacturing, Geely set up a path for running schools, that is, schools can be run wherever the industrial base is built, forming a “left factory, right school” school-enterprise exchange model. This model still plays a very special role in cultivating professional talents. Over the past 30 years, Geely and its upstream and downstream strategic partners have opened more than 30 categories and 300 types of jobs to Geely colleges, covering most majors in Geely colleges, and have jointly built more than 20 modern industrial colleges with Geely colleges. School-enterprise cooperation incorporates real enterprise cases into courses and textbooks, creates an experimental environment through high-simulation enterprise production first-line application scenarios, and deploys actual enterprise business operation and operation platforms to college laboratories. The proportion of students actually doing real course work, graduation thesis, and graduation design questions is getting higher and higher. Relevant graduates can get a starting point for Samsung employees when they enter Geely.

Geely has always insisted on the non-profit nature of education, the integration of industry and education, and integrity. Geely has invested more than 10 billion dollars in the field of education. Currently, it has built seven undergraduate colleges with more than 90,000 students, opening up multi-level professional talent training channels from middle and higher vocational education to applied undergraduate education to professional postgraduate education. It has trained nearly 200,000 graduates, 80% of whom have entered relevant industries across the country, sending a large number of outstanding talents to the automobile industry.

Jointly build the “Belt and Road”

Start the digital development of vocational education

Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the economic and trade relations between the countries along the Belt and Road have become closer and closer, and the Geely Automobile Industry has also gone beyond China and into countries such as Malaysia and Uzbekistan. In order to ensure the quality of Geely Automobile's products and services, Geely has set up a special talent development group dedicated to the integration of industry and education, the integration of science and education, and international cooperation. Currently, Geely has established cooperative institutions and cooperative projects to promote vocational and technical education through digital construction in Malaysia and Uzbekistan.

Through its self-built “Core Education” online platform as a link, Geely has established more vocational education cooperation with Asia and other regions to cultivate technology-based professionals in the new era. Last year, more than 10 colleges and universities in ASEAN already used the “Core Education” platform. In the future, Geely Talent Group will expand the scale of “core education” cooperation among overseas universities and open up Geely vocational education resources to be shared with countries around the world.

Non-profit schools

Make charitable causes a thousand years

Li Shufu said at the conference that for the sake of the national plan for vocational and technical education, Geely has always insisted on running non-profit schools in the past, present, and future. Education is a charitable cause. We must persist for a long time, do good deeds well, and make charitable causes for thousands of years. At the same time, he shared three thoughts on vocational technical education:

First, vocational and technical education should be based on the effective integration and efficient collaboration of the respective resources of schools and enterprises; second, vocational and technical education should sort out the underlying logic of each school and enterprise; colleges and universities should understand the business logic of the enterprise; enterprises should understand the academic logic of the college. Both supply and demand are close and cooperate, use each other in space, use each other in scientific research, and cultivate talents closely to form a stable talent hierarchy and cooperative culture of “industry and education” to create green and sustainable vocational education; third, vocational education requires accurate investment. Education is public welfare, but how to optimize the use of resources I want Many additional inputs.

Integrity and innovation

Geely innovates to build “three campuses” for vocational and technical education

Geely is innovating the construction of “three campuses” for vocational and technical education. Li Shufu called for national support and welcomed more universities and enterprises from countries and regions to join Geely's innovative three-campus construction plan.

The “three campuses” are: first, “cross-border campuses” to better develop green and sustainable vocational education through the reshaping of space, resources, and mechanisms between colleges and enterprises; second, “cross-regional campuses”, which integrate campus resources from different regions at home and abroad through industry-education integration mechanisms and online education platforms to better develop friendly and close vocational education; and third, establish “parallel campuses” where online intelligence and offline entities are independent and mutually supported through AI-enabled smart education. Through the construction of the above three campuses, the flourishing development of technology-leading technology-based vocational education can be promoted better and faster.