According to Zhitong Finance APP, innovation empowers the future, and skills shape lives. On November 20, 2024, the World Conference on Professional Technical Education Development was grandly opened in Tianjin, where government officials, educational scholars, and entrepreneurs from around the globe discussed the sustainable development of professional education. Li Shufu, chairman of Geely Holding Group, once again attended the education forum as an entrepreneur, sharing how Geely leverages the advantages of industry-education integration to explore new pathways for professional education development. Li Shufu believes that the healthy and sustainable development of the Geely automotive industry, reliable product quality, and respected quality and service, one important success factor is industry-education integration. Valuing the construction and training of various types of professional technical talent, including technicians and skilled workers, is an indispensable key element for Geely's growth from small to large.

From spontaneous to conscious, cultivating education for nearly 30 years.

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

Geely Education has a natural advantage in industry-education integration. In the early days, to address the shortage of key personnel in the automotive manufacturing front line, Geely established an educational pathway: wherever the industrial base is set up, the school will be established there, creating a school-enterprise communication model of 'left factory, right school.' This model continues to serve a very special function in cultivating professional talent. Over the past 30 years, Geely and its upstream and downstream strategic partners have opened over 30 major categories and 300 types of occupation positions to Geely schools, covering most of the majors at Geely schools, and have co-established more than 20 modern industrial colleges with Geely schools. School-enterprise cooperation integrates real company cases into the curriculum and textbooks, creates experimental environments through high-fidelity enterprise production front-line application scenarios, and deploys real business operation platforms into school laboratories, increasing the proportion of students' coursework, graduation theses, and graduation design projects being genuinely completed. Graduates who join Geely can start at a level equivalent to a Samsung employee.

Geely has always adhered to the non-profit nature of education, insisted on industry-education integration, and maintained integrity and innovation. Geely's investment in education has exceeded 10 billion, and currently, there are seven co-built colleges with over 90,000 students enrolled, creating a multi-level professional talent training pathway that bridges vocational education to applied undergraduate education, and then to specialized graduate education, having trained nearly 200,000 graduates, with 80% entering relevant industries nationwide, supplying a large number of outstanding talents for the automotive industry.

Co-build the Belt and Road Initiative concept.

Initiating the digital development of professional education.

Since the 18th National Congress, the economic and trade relations between the countries along the belt and road initiative concept and china have become increasingly close. Geely's automotive industry has also expanded beyond china to countries like Malaysia and Uzbekistan. To ensure the product and service quality of Geely's autos, Geely has specifically established a talent development group dedicated to the integration of production and education, the blending of science and education, and international cooperation. Currently, Geely has established cooperative colleges and projects in Malaysia and Uzbekistan that promote vocational technical education through digital construction.

Geely uses its self-built "Core Education" online platform as a link to establish more cooperation in professional education with asia and other regions, training technology-oriented vocational talents for the new era. Last year, more than ten universities in ASEAN already used the "Core Education" platform. In the future, Geely's talent group will expand the cooperation scale of "Core Education" in overseas universities and open Geely's vocational education resources to share with countries around the world.

Non-profit education operation.

Transforming public welfare charitable causes into enduring enterprises.

Li Shufu stated at the conference that for the national strategy of vocational technical education, Geely has adhered to non-profit education operation in the past, present, and future. Education is a public welfare charitable cause that must be sustained in the long term, doing good deeds well, and transforming public welfare charitable endeavors into enduring enterprises. At the same time, he shared three thoughts on vocational technical education:

First, vocational technical education should be based on the effective integration and efficient collaboration of resources from both schools and enterprises; second, vocational technical education should clarify the underlying logic of mechanisms and structures between schools and enterprises, where schools understand the operational logic of enterprises, and enterprises understand the academic logic of schools, fostering close cooperation between supply and demand, sharing spaces, leveraging research collaboration, cultivating talent proximity, forming a stable talent echelon and cooperative culture of "integration of production and education", and promoting green and sustainable vocational education; third, vocational education should be precisely invested, education is a public undertaking, but optimizing resource utilization still requires considerable additional investment.

Upholding integrity and innovation.

Geely is innovating in the establishment of professional education with the "three campuses".

Geely is innovating in the construction of professional education's "three campuses," with Li Shufu calling for national support and welcoming more institutions and enterprises from different countries and regions to join Geely's innovative three-campus construction concept.

The "three campuses" construction includes: first, the "cross-border campus," which reshapes the space, resources, and mechanisms between institutions and enterprises to better develop green and sustainable vocational education; second, the "cross-regional campus," which integrates domestic and foreign campus resources through a mechanism of industry-education integration and online education platforms to better develop friendly and close vocational education; third, establishing a "parallel campus" through AI-enabled intelligent education, where online intelligence and offline entities are independent yet mutually supportive. Through these three campus constructions, better and faster promotion of the thriving development of technology-oriented vocational education undertaking is achieved.