Silk Road Institute (Healthcare & Elderly Care) School-Enterprise Co-Construction Alliance Established at SXVTC
This afternoon, the inaugural meeting of the Silk Road Institute (Healthcare & Elderly Care) School-Enterprise Co-Construction Alliance was held in Xunmei Auditorium of the Cultural Center, Shaoxing Vocational & Technical College. Attendees included Shu Peidong, Member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education; Ma Guocan, Member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of Shaoxing Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee; Lan Jingjing, Director of the International Exchange and Cooperation Division of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education; Ding Chuxiao, Deputy Director of Shaoxing Municipal Bureau of Education; Jin Hongzhu, Deputy Director of Shaoxing Municipal Health Commission; Xie Yan, Deputy Director of Shaoxing Foreign Affairs Office; Song Lin, Vice President of Shaoxing Council for the Promotion of International Trade; Lian Jianwei, Former Vice President of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University and National Renowned TCM Physician; Mao Xiaoming, Party Secretary of Shaoxing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Tao Jianhua, President of Shaoxing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Shen Qinrong, President of Shaoxing Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Shen Jianchao, General Manager of Zhejiang Huatong Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd.; Fan Weiming, Chairman of Zhejiang Zhenyuan Biotechnology Co., Ltd.; Shen Zhenfang, Vice Chairman of Zhende Medical Supplies Co., Ltd.; Han Jiangwei, Founder of VLAN Malaysia; Zhang Chao, Deputy Director of International Affairs Office of Krirk University, Thailand; as well as SXVTC leaders Shen Lihua, Li Xinyang, Huang Baijiang and Wang Shengbing. All teachers and students of the Medical School also attended the ceremony. Overseas university representatives including Dr. Bibi, Vice President of Lincoln University College, Malaysia; Tu Zhihui, Dean of South Pacific College of Traditional Chinese Medicine; and Ye Jinlin, Deputy Director of International and Cross-Strait Affairs Office of Fooyin University, Taiwan, participated online. The meeting was presided over by Huang Baijiang, Executive President of SXVTC.
Shu Peidong delivered a speech at the inaugural ceremony. He pointed out that the establishment of the Silk Road Institute (Healthcare & Elderly Care) School-Enterprise Co-Construction Alliance marks another new initiative of Shaoxing Vocational & Technical College to deepen Belt and Road vocational education cooperation and explore the “going global” path of vocational education. He hoped that SXVTC would uphold the development philosophy of Openness, Integration, Inheritance and Innovation, unite all alliance members to share resources and seek common development, further deepen industry-education integration and school-enterprise cooperation in the healthcare and elderly care sector, and contribute more to the high-quality development of vocational education.
The Silk Road Institute (Healthcare & Elderly Care) School-Enterprise Co-Construction Alliance is a healthcare industry-education cooperation platform jointly initiated by Shaoxing Vocational & Technical College together with 10 domestic and overseas universities, industrial enterprises and research institutions. Members include Lincoln University College (Malaysia), Krirk University (Thailand), South Pacific College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fooyin University (Taiwan), Shaoxing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shaoxing Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhejiang Zhenyuan Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Huatong Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., Zhende Medical Supplies Co., Ltd., and Weland Group (Malaysia) Ltd..
Mao Xiaoming, Party Secretary of Shaoxing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Shen Qinrong, President of Shaoxing Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine; Fan Weiming, Chairman of Zhejiang Zhenyuan Biotechnology Co., Ltd.; Shen Jianchao, General Manager of Zhejiang Huatong Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd.; Shen Zhenfang, Vice Chairman of Zhende Medical Supplies Co., Ltd.; Han Jiangwei, Founder of Weland Group (Malaysia) Ltd.; Zhang Chao, Deputy Director of International Affairs Office of Krirk University, Thailand; and Wang Shengbing, Vice President of Shaoxing Vocational & Technical College, jointly launched the establishment of the alliance. Ma Guocan presented plaques to all alliance member units.
Shen Lihua, Party Secretary of SXVTC and Chairman of the Alliance, stated that the college will take this opportunity to jointly cultivate international talents in healthcare and elderly care, develop featured curricula and professional standards, organize training and promotion of appropriate TCM techniques, conduct country-specific research, support enterprises in overseas expansion, and make due contributions to serving the high-quality development of an open economy.
On behalf of all alliance members, Shen Zhenfang delivered a statement. She said the company would give full play to its resource advantages, further deepen school-enterprise cooperation, explore and expand diversified “going global” models through joint efforts, and make greater contributions to the joint construction of the Belt and Road.
Li Xinyang, President of SXVTC, issued adjunct professor appointment letters to ten professors.
Professor Lian Jianwei donated 11 published academic works to the college for the teaching of Traditional Chinese Medicine programs. Jin Bing, Secretary of the General Party Branch of the Medical School, accepted the donation on behalf of the college.
Mentor-apprentice inheritance is an important way to follow the growth pattern of TCM talents and cultivate high-caliber professionals in traditional Chinese medicine. A traditional mentor-apprentice initiation ceremony was held for majors of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese Materia Medica. Following ancient rituals including presenting apprenticeship letters, paying formal respects, offering tea to mentors and receiving reply letters, the ceremony embodied the spirit of respecting teachers and pursuing knowledge with propriety.
Dr. Hao Juanjuan, the fourth-generation inheritor of Shanghai-Style Xu’s Pediatrics and selected candidate of Zhejiang Green Seedling Program, led all apprentices in taking an oath.
After the ceremony, Professor Lian Jianwei gave a special lecture themed On Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture.
The founding of the Silk Road Institute (Healthcare & Elderly Care) School-Enterprise Co-Construction Alliance represents a major move for college to deepen Belt and Road vocational education cooperation and advance the “going global” strategy of vocational education. The college will continue to explore and expand international exchanges and cooperation, jointly build overseas Yueyi Institute with enterprises, actively apply for the Belt and Road Silk Road Institute—the Sino-Malaysian Yueyi Institute, forge a vocational education brand with local characteristics and advantages, and strive for the high-quality development of vocational education.