career focus Shanghai Jaio Tong University building
explained: “The fact that logistics has become one of just ten industries listed in the‘Promoting Planning’ initiative indicates that the government has attached great importance to the logistics industry.”Andwith Beijing touting logistics as an important growth area,more and more colleges are looking to get in on the act. Another increasingly common trend is for large
transportation firms to ink cooperation agreementswith educational facilities, thereby ensuring a steady flowof newrecruits. Sinotrans, for instance, the country’s premier logistics operator, has had an International Logistics Institute at Shanghai Second Polytechnic University for the past seven years. The university successfully applied for a logisticsmanagement associate degree and got the approval of bachelor degree qualification in 2003. It is one of the first universities to offer logisticsmanagement education in China. Similarly, Dutch express operator TNT has hooked
upwith one of China’s leading‘Ivy League’establishments, Shanghai JiaoTong University – and specificallywith its Antai College ofManagement – to formTNT China University in 2006. Others have followed the lead shown by TNT and
Report on the Development of Chinese Talent. “China’s economy is not the same agricultural economy it
used to be,”he noted. “As the economy has shifted towards production there is less demand for ordinary, unskilled labour. As a result, there is an excess of unskilledworkers and an enormous lack of skilledworkers. “Our universities encourage research and theory, and
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Sinotrans. Hot on their corporate heels, foreign universities havemoved to formChinese joint ventures, such as the UK’s NottinghamUniversity,which has set up in the port city of Ningbo. One problemthat the educational systemneeds to
address is getting hands-on experience for their students in their chosen vocations. Themismatch betweenworkers’ abilities and the skills thatmany jobs nowrequire is partly the result of China’s natural development, says Pan Chenguang, a human resources expert at the China Academy of Social Sciences and the author of the 2009
What society needs is people with skills”
there are relatively fewvocational schools,”Pan said. “Moreover,most students feel that the social status of attending a vocational school is lower, so they don’twant to go. Butwhat society needs is peoplewith skills.”China needs to strengthen its technical training andmake a college educationmore applicable, Panmaintained, emphasising the need to give college graduatesmore practical training. Chinese logistics industry
giant Cosco Logistics has been aware of this lack of practical experience fromthe latest crop of graduates and hasmoved to take control of the situation. It has itself developed a Technology,Management andTraining (TMT) training system. TMT is divided into two phases: school classes and practicalworkshop experience to quickly bridge the gap between knowledge and practice. The first class opened in DalianMaritime University, theworld’s largest shipping university and the almamater ofmany of today’s leading Chinese shipowners – including the chief executive of the COSCOGroup,Wei Jiafu. It is the breakneck speed of China’s development that
makes kinks along theway inevitable. Just as the runways and container ports are nowamong the best in theworld, so toowill the universities be in the coming years. It is still all a learning process.
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