[News from the News Center] On the morning, Apr. 17, the inauguration ceremony forYSU National Continuing Education Base for Technical Professionals was held at No. 4 Building, East Campus. The base was inaugurated by Zhao Xianfeng, YSU Party Secretary, and Zhao Yongsheng, YSU Vice President. Leaders and representatives from School of Continuing Education, Academic Affairs Office, Financial Office, Office of Laboratory and Asset Management, Logistic Group and the work management committee of the base attended the ceremony.
Zhao Xianfeng and Zhao Yongsheng inaugurated the base.
(Photographed by Wang Yapei, the News Center)
After the ceremony, Zhao Xianfeng visited the newly built “smart classrooms”, advanced training classrooms and modernized special classrooms, and listened carefully to the introduction of the functions of classrooms and facilities. He strongly affirmed the transformation of the continuing education base. Zhao pointed out that the relevant departments and offices should continue to conduct in-depth research, scientific planning, and improve the conditions for running the university as soon as possible, in order to provide a good environment for working, learning and living.
Zhao Xianfeng visits the “smart classroom”.
Zhao Xianfeng visits modernized classroom.
(Photos above from School of Continuing Education)
The National Continuing Education Base for Technical Professionals is one of the key projects of the knowledge renewal programs for technical professionals and it serves as a platform to train high-level, urgently needed and key technical professionals in China. In 2018, YSU was approved to set up a national continuing education base for technical professionals and got a lump-sum special subsidy of 3.08 million yuan from the central government. In 2019, YSU was approved by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security for advanced research project of knowledge renewal programs for technical professionals.
The daily work and training of the continuing education base is in the charge of the School of Continuing Education. In the past three years, it has undertaken more than 100 non-degree education trainings for intelligent manufacturing and provincial cadres, taxation, banking system, etc., and trained more than 5,000 high-level students. The base is proved to achieve certain social and economic benefits.
Carrying out non-degree education is an important task required by the 13thFive-Year Plan of YSU. In the future, the School of Continuing Education will make full use of the disciplines and location advantages of the university, give full play to the base in cultivating middle and senior technical professionals, improving their ability and quality, and promoting the team construction. Besides, the School will lead “National Machinery Industry and Education Collaborative Innovation Base” and “YSU Health and Training Center” to rapid development, and continuously increase the scale and quality of non-degree education. With focus on the high-quality products, the base aims to improve quality and efficiency for non-degree education.
[Translated by Xing Tong]
