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Opening ceremony of the Pioneering Class of the Institute of Green and Intelligent Transportation Industry

Time:2024-10-22 Page views:10

The opening ceremony of the Pioneering Class of the Institute of Green and Intelligent Transportation Industry was held in Room 703 of the Administrative Building on the morning of October 16, which symbolizes that Guangzhou City University of Technology (GCUT) has made steady progress in promoting integration between industry and education. Related leadership, representatives and students of the Pioneering Class attended the ceremony, including Zhang Yibing, member of the Committee of the Communist Party of China of Guangzhou Metro and vice manager of Guangzhou Metro; Du Xiaoming, Secretary of CPC Guangzhou City University of Technology Committee; Su Cheng, president of GCU; Wei Demin, vice president of GCU; related leaders of the Guangzhou Railway Transportation Industry Alliance; off-campus supervisors from the enterprises included in the Guangzhou Railway Transportation Industry Alliance; leaders of related departments and divisions of GCU; teachers and all students of the Pioneering Class.


The opening ceremony


President Su Cheng extended sincere gratitude to all member units, experts and scholars of the Guangzhou Railway Transportation Industry Alliance who care and support the development of the Institute of Green and Intelligent Transportation Industry while congratulating students of the first batch that are admitted to the Pioneering Class. He emphasized that the foundation of the Institute of Green and Intelligent Transportation Industry caught up with the innovation-driven development strategy, which serves as a significant approach to deepening integration between industry and education as well as promoting cooperation between colleges and businesses. Furthermore, it functions as a new engine for boosting the innovative and high quality development of higher education and rail transit industry. As an exploration of innovative reform on the cultivation of GCU, the Pioneering Class of the Institute of Green and Intelligent Transportation Industry adopts the teaching model of double tutorial system drawing on the industrial and social resources of the alliance. Moreover, it implements a package of ability enhancement schemes combined courses on the industry with customized graduation thesis. In addition, recommendation system will be adopted to provide internship in industry-leading enterprises of the industry and leading enterprises, thus its students can learn the latest technologies and management concepts during the application of the whole industry chain of rail transit. In this way, they can better integrate what they have learned in the classroom with the requirements of the industry, thus helping to promote the integration and development of higher education and the industry.

Su put forward that GCUT and the Guangzhou Railway Transportation Industry Alliance had provided favorable policies and resources allocation for the first batch of students admitted. Therefore, he proposed two hopes for them: firstly, they should treasure the learning resources to break down the disciplinary divide in order to learn the latest knowledge of the rail transit industry, endeavoring to be a pillar of the development of rail transit industry; secondly, they need to cultivate their teamwork and leadership spirits to listen to and respect diverse views of students from different disciplines and majors, thus completing their assignments and projects through cooperation.

  “We will advance with the times to deepen the integration of educational and industrial resources concentrating on the cutting-edge technologies and the market demand of the rail transit industry. Consequently, we can embrace the industrial progress, industrial transformation and regional development consistent with the trend of the times, and regional and industrial development. Therefore, we can cultivate more quality, innovative and application-oriented talents for the sustainable development of the rail transit industry.”


President Su Cheng delivered a speech


Zhang Yibing, vice manager of Guangzhou Metro, then congratulated the implementation of the Pioneering Class on behalf of the Management and Advisory Committee of the Institute of Green and Intelligent Transportation Industry. He emphasized that the Institute of Green and Intelligent Transportation Industry explored the teaching practice of guiding students to participate in the actual project of enterprises with quality educational practice through practice for students, thus building a talent pool for the acceleration of developing new quality productive forces of enterprises. He expected that the institute could improve students’ comprehensive quality through focusing on the effects on practical education from the perspective of humanistic quality and international vision.


Zhang Yibing delivered a speech


Wang Yixiu, assistant general manager of the Baiyun Power Group delivered a speech on behalf of the enterprise. He stated that the allied enterprise would fully support the construction and development of the Institute of Green and Intelligent Transportation Industry while strengthening the cooperation and exchanges with GCUT to cultivate more outstanding talents for the green and intelligent transportation through joint cultivation.


Wang Yixiu delivered a speech


Du Xiaoming, Secretary of CPC Guangzhou City University of Technology Committee, and Zhang Yibing, vice manager of Guangzhou Metro issued certifications to off-campus supervisors at the ceremony. It symbolizes that the off-campus supervisors of the industry alliance will become an important force for the Pioneering Class of the Institute of Green and Intelligent Transportation Industry, who will provide professional and practical guidance and assistance to students.


Issuing of certifications to off-campus supervisors


Cai Demin, the chief economic expert of the Guangzhou Railway Transportation Industry Alliance, initiated the first lesson of the Pioneering Class themed on “Reviews on Humanistic Quality”, illustrating the importance of the humanistic quality to the growth of an engineer. Therefore, he encouraged these students to put what they have learned from human culture into engineering practices, which enables them to better understand society and human needs. Students shared their views after the lesson, saying that the class makes them understand the significance of learning human culture, while they stand firmer to become an engineer with great humanistic quality in the future.


The first class taught by Cai Demin


It is said that the Institute of Green and Intelligent Transportation Industry is jointly founded by GCUT and related industrial institutions, including Guangzhou Railway Transportation Industry Alliance, Guangzhou Enterprise Confederation of Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality Industry Alliance as well as Talent Confederation of Guangzhou Rail Transit Industry, whose core educational principle lies on “greenness and intelligence, application-orientation and internationalization”. The Institute of Green and Intelligent Transportation Industry was founded and unveiled on June 28 while completing its first batch of enrollment on October 10 with 70 students admitted. It stays committed to the principle of “openness and cooperation, innovation-driven development and cultivating talents through practice”. Guided by the principle, it has built platforms for cooperation between college and businesses to form a new approach and mechanism for coordinated management between the university and enterprises featuring “university + alliance” and “multiple disciplines + various enterprises”. In this way, it strives to build a base for cultivating rail transit talents and scientific and technological innovation, thus making contributions to the transformation and upgrading of the rail transit industry as well as its quality development in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area even for national rail transit industry in the future.