The Cotton And Textile Clothing Industry Industry Education Integration Community Was Established And Inaugurated In Bazhou, Xinjiang

On November 22, the industry education integration community of cotton and textile clothing industry, which is composed of 45 textile enterprises, scientific research institutes, textile colleges and universities, was established in Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang (hereinafter referred to as Bayingolin).

On the same day, the unveiling ceremony was held at the founding conference of the industry education integration community in the cotton and textile clothing industries, and the teaching board of the industry education integration training base was issued to textile enterprises of relevant scale, to jointly build a "productive training base" and promote "industry education integration, school enterprise cooperation".

Xie Yongsheng, assistant to the general manager of a clothing company in Bazhou, Xinjiang, said that at present, we have conducted in-depth cooperation with four vocational and technical colleges. During 2023, we received about 300 interns for practical training in our unit. After the establishment of the integrated community of production and education in cotton and textile and clothing industries, the company will carry out deeper cooperation with vocational colleges across the country in the future.

The cotton industry is a distinctive and advantageous industry in Xinjiang and an important raw material guarantee for the healthy and sustainable development of China's textile industry. The cotton and textile and clothing industry is one of the "eight industrial clusters" in the autonomous region. The establishment of an industry education integration community will gather more resources by promoting production through education, assisting teaching with production, integrating production and education, and cooperating production and education, Besides gathering more resources for the growth and talent cultivation of college students, it also provides more possibilities.

Yang Xuan, secretary of the Party Committee of Xinjiang Light Industry Vocational and Technical College, said that in the future, school enterprises and related resources within the "community" will be aggregated to form a division of labor at different levels. According to the talent needs of enterprises, from secondary vocational schools to vocational schools to undergraduate colleges, they will assume different training roles and improve the talent training system.

Gong Xiaorui, president of the Xinjiang Research Institute of Dalian University of Technology, said, "In the future, we will work together with other member units of the integration of industry and education to solve the technical problems of our textile industry in Xinjiang, tell a good story about Xinjiang's cotton, and make Xinjiang's cotton industry bigger and stronger."