Tianjin, January 12 (Xue Chunyue, Wang Junyan) – The inaugural meeting of the International Industry-Education Alliance for Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Equipment and the preparatory meeting of the International Industry-Education Integration Community for Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Equipment were held on January 10 at Tianjin Maritime Vocational College. At the meeting, the International Industry-Education Alliance for Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Equipment was established.
On January 10, the International Industry-Education Alliance for Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Equipment was established in Tianjin. (Photo by Xue Chunyue)The alliance is committed to building a new international platform for industry-education integration, promoting the deep integration of the education chain, talent chain, industry chain, and innovation chain, and creating a new international industry-education collaborative ecosystem for shipbuilding and marine engineering equipment. At the event, plaques were awarded to four chair units and ten vice-chair units, and several memorandums of understanding and talent training agreements were signed. In the future, the alliance will uphold the principles of open cooperation and win-win development to promote the high-quality development of the global shipbuilding and marine engineering equipment industry.
In an interview, Karimov Valijon Aliyevich of the INNO Innovation Education and Production Technology Park in Uzbekistan stated that Uzbekistan's participation in this international alliance will "promote practice-oriented talent development, closely integrating vocational education with the practical needs of shipbuilding and the marine industry." He believes that China possesses a strong industrial base and advanced technologies in shipbuilding and marine engineering equipment, and the alliance can effectively integrate these resources into a professional talent training system.
In the keynote speech session, six experts and scholars from home and abroad, including Professor Gharsalala Ali, Director of Education Cooperation at the Tunisian Afro-Asian International Development Union, and Wu Haiqiang, Senior Engineer at the National Marine Technology Center, delivered speeches on topics such as international education cooperation and industry-education integration.
During the roundtable discussion, experts, scholars, and business representatives from Bangladesh, Russia, China, and other countries engaged in in-depth discussions on two main themes: "International Industry-Education Collaboration for High-Quality Development of the Marine Engineering Equipment Industry in the Context of Digital Transformation" and "Exploring High-Quality Development Paths for the Shipbuilding Industry in the Context of Green Transformation," sharing their experiences and insights. (End)
