Seven Authorities Call for Educational Support for Development of Social Service Sector and Higher Training Quality for Cultivation of Urgently-needed Talent
Seven departments including the Ministry of Education ("MOE") have recently issued the Opinions on Upholding Educational Support for Development of the Social Service Sector and Enhancing the Training Quality for Cultivation of Urgently-needed Talent (the "Opinions").
The work objectives set in the Opinions are to effectively boost the capacity of the education sector to shore up the development of the social service sector, and to cultivate and transport a large group of high-quality talent at proper levels and of adequate categories that have relatively strong professional quality and expertise, to the fields of the social service sector short of talented individuals, by the year 2022. To this end, the Opinions outline 13 tasks and measures, including piloting the "1+X certificates" system, promoting in-depth cooperation between schools and enterprises and motivating students to make innovation and start up their own businesses. Among others, the Opinions call for focusing school-enterprise cooperation on the fields of the social service sector short of talent, giving priority support for occupational education projects involving in-depth collaboration between schools and enterprises. Additionally, over 100 housekeeping service enterprises featuring industry-education integration will be cultivated across the whole country, and 50 high-quality enterprises will be prompted to form occupational education groups in cooperation with 200 relevant colleges, and collaboratively set up industry academies and collaborative innovation platforms and employ such cultivation modes as "order-based cultivation".