The mystery of the rise of Guangxi City Vocational College in the west
This website reported on August 5 (Reporter Guo Weijing and Zeng Qinglai) In just three years, a landscape garden-style university has grown in the west of the motherland. Rapid rise on the hot soil: Groundbreaking in March 2005, the school applied for enrollment that year. It has four secondary colleges: Economics and Technology Branch, Humanities Branch, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Branch, and Foreign Languages ??Branch, and 27 majors, covering economics, literature, science, It manages four major disciplines; it enrolled more than 5,400 students in two years from 2005 to 2006, and it is expected that the number of new students will exceed 10,000 after they enroll in September this year. The students come from more than a dozen provinces, districts and cities across the country; it is the first university student enrollment in the region. Entrepreneurship Park, Professional Ability Practice, Strange Stone Cultural Center, International Cartoon Competition... The development experience of Guangxi City Vocational College has provided valuable inspiration for the construction of higher vocational colleges in Guangxi and even the country.
When you walk into the Guangxi City Vocational College campus, you are greeted by a brand new teaching building. Dark green glass is spread from the first floor to the fifth floor, forming a large mirror of several hundred square meters. Facing the east, toward the sun, toward the curling smoke of the southern forests and fields, it reflects all the phenomena and creatures in the world. The "mirror" reflects the dense forest in the distance covered by clouds and fog, making the entire campus even more tranquil and solemn. Along the campus trails, the majestic buildings and wide squares and sports fields always give people a visual shock: the "Sheep, Cows, Horses, Tigers and Wolves" sculptures in Rengao Garden are displayed on half of the campus. Against the background of green and beautified campus landscapes such as chess and cultural corridors, people can't help but think of the famous saying of Suhomsky, a famous educator in the former Soviet Union: "We are working hard to make the walls of the school speak."
The connotation of this emerging higher vocational college located in southern Xinjiang of the motherland has gone beyond a functional combination of educational facilities. She is an "artwork" that perfectly combines modern technology and traditional culture, and this "artwork" that was born during the implementation of the western development process of the motherland has undoubtedly made this land known as the "old revolutionary area" , immersed in an artistic conception of "ancient trees bloom in spring".
During the summer vacation last year, two elderly people in their 70s rushed from Guilin to Guangxi City Vocational College to visit their granddaughter who had not returned home during the summer vacation. After entering the campus, the two old people were surprised: "This is obviously a beautiful and unique park! Did we go to the wrong place?" These two old people have traveled all over the country and can be said to be well-informed. Attracted by this landscape-style campus, I stayed here for more than a week and never wanted to leave. Faced with the rapid changes in the college, Huang, a student in the Grade 05 Business English Class of the Foreign Languages ??Branch of the college, said this: "When I first entered school, the beautiful scenery here made me know what beauty is; with the rise of buildings one after another, For the first time, I experienced the artistic conception of "like a sudden spring breeze coming overnight, thousands of pear blossoms blooming on the trees". The development of the college is really so fast, it can be compared with "the speed of Shenzhen, the scale of Beijing, "Dalian Garden Scenery" can be summarized as "I feel very comfortable, happy and proud to study in such a school."
Two years ago, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, the former director of the Nanning Regional Cultural Bureau, and the Federation of Literary and Art Circles Chairman Deng Yonglong retired to teach at Guangxi City Vocational College. Professor Deng Yonglong has worked in culture, publishing, and journalism for decades, and has made many achievements in literary creation, especially poetry creation. Many people asked him in confusion why he came from the bustling capital to teach at a college 28 kilometers away from Nanning International Airport. He said frankly: "For literature and art, it may be easier to accept cutting-edge artistic concepts in big cities, but real literature comes from a person's heart and the tranquility and beauty of your environment. Guangxi Urban Career Although the college is a young university, it is very dynamic. Not only is the environment beautiful, but the learning environment is also good, and the inner peace can stimulate your own creation.
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For a person who understands the development history of Guangxi City Vocational College on a deeper level, what really impresses him is not just the campus landscape that can be perceived through the senses?
To create a brand and seek development, the key is to be truthful and pragmatic
On March 30, 2005, Guangxi City Vocational College officially opened its doors in Fusui County, a science and education center located in the half-hour economic circle between Nanning City and Chongzuo City. The cultural park broke ground and "Guangxi City Vocational College" officially made its debut in China's higher education sector.
When Guangxi City Vocational College was being prepared, it was when my country's higher education entered the stage of popularization. Educational enrollment expansion has been going on for many years. At this time, there are dozens of powerful higher education teams in the country. As we all know, it often takes decades or even hundreds of years to develop an influential and competitive university. Can be formed. How far can a newly established university like Guangxi City Vocational College in a non-provincial capital city in a border autonomous region go in the face of such a severe situation? How much room does it have for development? It lingers in the hearts of people from all walks of life, and it also weighs heavily on the hearts of every teacher and student of Guangxi City Vocational College.
What should Guangxi City Vocational College develop and how to develop it? Regarding the overall goal positioning and role positioning, we must adopt a truth-seeking and pragmatic spirit, carefully study and analyze the development laws and trends of higher education at home and abroad today, and identify our own personality traits and comparative advantages. Take a distinctive and transcendent path with a pioneering and innovative spirit
The leadership team of Guangxi City Vocational College is clearly aware that the awareness of market economy is constantly increasing and the division of labor in society is increasing. In a more detailed context, with the advancement of popular education and the rapid expansion of higher education institutions, the classification and differentiation of universities will inevitably become more and more obvious. Under such circumstances, the educational philosophy and university spirit of each university will inevitably become more and more obvious. , university systems and training objectives should also be different. Newly built higher vocational colleges like Guangxi City Vocational College must not blindly pursue and imitate the educational objectives of traditional public universities that were common in previous universities. Ability" and "emphasis on theory and neglect of practice", resulting in students' professional level not meeting the qualities required for the job, serious disconnection between education and the market, and difficulty in finding employment for students. In a newly built university due to hardware and software None of them have yet been solidified, and there are no problems such as exit costs and path dependence. Therefore, there is every reason to overcome the various accumulated disadvantages formed in the history of traditional universities in the early stages of university construction and development, that is, in the construction and setup of software and hardware. And there is every reason to better grasp the pulse of the times and better integrate the educational philosophy of colleges and universities with the development trends of social economy. Whether it can make full use of the late-mover advantages of newly built universities is the key to brand creation of Guangxi City Vocational College. The core key to success.
Characteristics are the expression of the connotation of a university and are also the core competitiveness of a university. After several years of education and teaching practice and analysis and research on the situation, the leaders of Guangxi City Vocational College made the judgment that the characteristics stem from its own advantages, that is, Guangxi City Vocational College is located in the Zhuang Autonomous Region with unique natural scenery and cultural landscape. The ethnic and cultural advantages of the autonomous region; as a private higher vocational college, it has the advantage of a flexible working mechanism with undergraduate colleges and public universities; it has the advantage of being adjacent to Southeast Asia and South Asia, and in regional cooperation and the "One Axis and Two Wings" strategic concept and other national external relations. Location advantages in the opening strategy. Therefore, the college adheres to the direction of running a socialist school and is guided by the Scientific Outlook on Development. It establishes and adheres to the guiding ideology and positioning of running a school that is “oriented by market demand and centered on ability cultivation”. It clearly puts forward the idea of ??surviving based on the major and jumping out of the major. In order to meet the requirements of development, we strive to improve students' employment competitiveness, stability and development abilities, and advocate students to read society as a textbook while learning professional knowledge, rather than simply reading textbooks as society, and improve their Connotation, expansion of scale, creation of a sustainable development path with unified characteristics, and efforts to cultivate high-tech applications that combine scientific and technological spirit with humanistic spirit for national and local economic development and meet the needs of the front line of production, construction, management, and services. Talent.
At the same time, from the first day of students' enrollment, entrepreneurship education will be institutionalized and routine, an elite education platform will be built, an atmosphere of "wanting to start a business, daring to start a business, and knowing how to start a business" will be created, and students will be guided to establish the "creativity, innovation, creation, and entrepreneurship" , create wealth” awareness and plan your own future.
In addition, the college insists that vocational education should be closely integrated with local social politics, economy, and culture to "serve local economic construction, serve the 'agriculture, rural areas, and farmers', serve enterprises, and help the majority of college students to find jobs and make a living. "Service" is our responsibility and we will do our best to build a harmonious society. On April 23 this year, representatives of teachers and students from the school came to Longzhou County, Guangxi for a donation event, donating 20 computers, 20 sets of computer desks and chairs, and 360 "Mengcongbao" Chinese Character Classic learning machines to Dongbu Hope Primary School; Donated 14 computers, 14 sets of desks and chairs, 2 printers, and 1 copier to the Xia Dong Town Agricultural Information Center; donated 6 computers and 6 sets of desks and chairs to Xia Dong Middle School. This move has strengthened the facilities for local information construction and has a very positive role in promoting the development of agricultural information resources in Longzhou County, carrying out rural informatization construction, narrowing the "digital divide" between urban and rural areas, and creating a fair information society. It will be beneficial to the Further understanding and grasp of local agriculture, agricultural specialty product information and market dynamics will promote local agricultural development and new rural economic development.
Infrastructure comes first with two major projects
Campus supporting facilities are the material carrier of the school’s philosophy, teaching and culture. Campus construction is an important part of the school’s development plan and is the overall construction of the school. important component. Campus construction not only reflects a school's educational philosophy and positioning, but also can exert a subtle educational effect on students with its specific intuitiveness and permeability.
In order to achieve the goal of talent training, the infrastructure construction of Guangxi City Vocational College is in accordance with the development goals of the Ministry of Education in the next 20 years. It is high-standard, high starting point, close to the forefront of scientific development, and strictly in accordance with the "high starting point, high starting point" Based on the planning principles of "forward-looking and scientific", we openly solicit design plans across the country, and invite the best domestic planning and design units such as South China University of Technology to scientifically plan the campus and participate in the plan bidding. The design plan is required to be grand, first-class and rich. It must have individual characteristics and at the same time be in harmony with the unique karst landforms and natural landscapes of southern China. It must reflect modern flavor, southern style, and national characteristics. It must be novel, beautiful, and have cultural connotations, pursuing high taste. At the same time, huge investments are invested in the construction of teaching software and hardware, and the advantages of information technology are used to promote the modernization of teaching methods.
At present, the total construction area of ??the hospital is approximately 131,250 square meters. It has built 2 teaching buildings, 14 student apartment buildings, 2 comprehensive service buildings, 2 libraries, 1 modern experimental building, student canteen, administrative office building, college student entrepreneurship park, faculty dormitory, etc.; it is under construction Under construction are a comprehensive teaching building and a faculty dormitory. The modern experimental building has dozens of laboratories such as a computer network center with broadband access, a multimedia speech laboratory, an electronics laboratory, and a radio and television station. 27 multimedia classrooms and 16 computer rooms have been built, and more than 1,100 Lenovo brand computers have been installed. The campus network project with an investment of more than 10 million yuan has been put into use. The modern library covering an area of ??more than 7,000 square meters and with an investment of 10 million yuan has been fully put into use. The college's supermarket, hospital, self-service laundry, IT shop, mail room and other living service facilities are complete. All student apartments are equipped with independent bathrooms, solar water heaters, direct dial telephones, and computer broadband. Student apartments are managed strictly according to standards, and campus security is on duty 24 hours a day, striving to create an elegant, convenient, safe and comfortable learning and living environment.
More than 2 million yuan has been invested in campus greening and beautification. More than 4,000 trees such as Ficus microphylla, jackfruit, white magnolia, and red camellia have been planted, and more than 200,000 shrubs have been planted. The lawn area is about 48,000 square meters. 32,000 square meters of school roads have been paved, and landscapes with profound humanistic connotations such as the Human Gao Garden, Life Chess Game, Writing Forum, and Acacia Forest Garden have also been built.
Guangxi City Vocational College also pays attention to the physical fitness of students. It has built 1 lawn football field, 10 basketball fields, 6 volleyball fields, 1 fitness square, 1 standard track and field field, 8 badminton courts ensure the normal development of college sports activities.
In addition, the hospital is also busy preparing to build table tennis courts and other sports venues.
Vice Dean Qin, who is in charge of infrastructure, was full of emotion when talking about campus infrastructure construction. It is a big challenge for the college to complete the first phase of the project in less than half a year. In order to ensure the efficient operation of the entire construction work, the college has formulated a relatively complete infrastructure construction system and established a dedicated infrastructure construction office to regularly listen to infrastructure work reports and provide timely guidance and coordinated solutions to difficulties and problems existing in the construction. In the early stages of project construction, the leaders and teachers of the college came to work in person, leaving early and returning late, working hard without complaint. Even though their faces were covered with dust and sand all day long, no one complained. We started working on the site in March 2005, digging walls, cutting down shrubs, repairing ditches, and paving roads... Even hundreds of thousands of flowers and trees were planted by employees themselves. Some flowers and trees had to be worked overtime to plant overnight, and it was the rainy season. , there were a lot of mosquitoes, it was stuffy and hot, and many employees were tired and hungry in the middle of the night, so they ignored the mud in the wetlands, and some fell to the ground to sleep. When the sun came up, their white pants turned into yellow mud... The world is boundless, and the heavy entrepreneurship History is worth singing and crying.
In September 2005, it took less than half a year to complete the first phase of construction tasks with high quality and efficiency. The No. 1 teaching building, the square in front of the school gate, the library building, the canteen, the administrative office building, the football stadium, the student apartments, the faculty apartments and other buildings were built in more than half a year, forming a new landscape with a sense of the times. The garden-style campus was completed and put into use before the first batch of students started school.
Because of its high starting point planning and high-quality cultural connotation, Guangxi City Vocational College has been repeatedly evaluated by leaders and guests who come to the school to inspect and guide work: every inch of land speaks, every leaf, every leaf. A university campus with the most distinctive architecture and the most pleasant living conditions, where every flower expresses feelings. Indeed, the entire building complex of Guangxi City Vocational College has gained architectural life with a higher architectural artistic conception, echoing the border minority areas of southern China and harmonizing with the natural landscape of karst landforms, becoming the most beautiful scenery where the school is located.
On June 16, 2006, three guests from the United States visited Guangxi City Vocational College with great interest and praised the college’s beautiful scenery and unique school philosophy. , I kept taking pictures while walking, and I didn’t want to leave for a long time. One of the guests said emotionally: "I can't take enough pictures of the beautiful scenery of Guangxi City Vocational College. I wish I could stay here to study. If I lived in China, I would definitely send my children to Guangxi City Vocational College to study!"
The rapid advancement of the construction of basic supporting facilities has laid a solid foundation for the implementation of the two major projects of teaching construction and talent development. Professional construction and reform are the core of education and teaching work in higher vocational colleges. They are the basis and key link for improving teaching quality, developing characteristics, and cultivating high-quality, application-oriented talents. They are the guiding ideology and philosophy of running a higher vocational college. , the specific embodiment of school-running positioning and school-running characteristics. In the work of developing new majors and adjusting the professional structure, Guangxi City Vocational College conducts a detailed analysis of the reform trends and construction directions of the same majors and courses at home and abroad, and carefully solicits teachers and students on the basis of extensive comparative research on education plans. , employers and related industries, repeatedly revise and improve the talent training plan, and strive to meet the individual requirements of students. In terms of talent project construction, Guangxi City Vocational College regards the construction of teaching staff as the top priority of the school's work. While strengthening the training and further education of existing talents, we will actively create conditions to introduce talents with high academic qualifications, high professional titles and high levels. At present, the college has established a teaching team with a reasonable structure that combines full-time and part-time work, has high moral standards, has a high professional level, masters modern education and teaching methods and means, and has "double-qualified" teachers as subject leaders. Zhou Wuneng, a young and middle-aged subject leader in colleges and universities in Zhejiang Province, a professor at the School of Mathematics and Physics at Zhejiang Normal University, and a Ph.D. at Zhejiang University, is also hired as the dean. There are more than 380 faculty members, including 74 teachers with senior professional titles of professor, associate professor or above, and 43 lecturers. In addition, the college has also established associate-to-undergraduate correspondence stations with many well-known domestic institutions such as Zhejiang Normal University, Sichuan Normal University, and Ningbo University. Within the scope of cooperation, it has achieved a long-term cooperative relationship with teachers. The main courses will be provided by these institutions. Senior professors will take charge.
Education reform breaks new ground and cultural industry seeks leapfrog
In just 2 years since its establishment, Guangxi City Vocational College has achieved fruitful results and rapid development momentum. People admire it. From the beginning of preparations for the establishment of the school in March 2005, it took only 6 months to complete the construction of campus infrastructure with a construction area of ??more than 50,000 square meters. It enrolled 1,200 students that year; by the second year of its establishment, 8 In August, the college successfully completed the second phase of the project after 11 months, with a total construction area of ??more than 100,000 square meters, and more than 5,400 students in school in 2006. As of April 2007, in 8 months, the college’s total building area The area has increased to 130,000 square meters, and the number of students on campus is expected to exceed 10,000 this year. At the same time, in the past three years of hard work, the college has launched the first college student entrepreneurship park, professional ability practice, strange stone cultural center and international cartoon competition in the region, opening up new development areas for the college to implement characteristic education.
Guangxi City Vocational College advocates that students should learn professional knowledge well while reading society as a textbook, rather than simply reading textbooks as society, and permeate this concept into all aspects of teaching and management. Go in the link. To this end, the college actively carries out professional ability practice activities, actively explores new teaching models, and boldly reforms and innovates. On the premise of ensuring the completion of three-year higher vocational college teaching tasks, the college organizes students to use 2 It will take up to 3 months to carry out professional competency practice activities in highly modernized enterprises in developed areas. The teaching process of realizing theory?D?D practice?D?D then theory?D?D then practice. The college has clearly put forward the requirements of seeking survival based on professional learning and seeking development beyond professional learning, and strives to improve students' employment competitiveness, stability and development capabilities.
The College Student Entrepreneurship Park is a carrier for student entrepreneurship in the college. It is a base for cultivating the entrepreneurial and employability abilities of students in the college. It provides a platform for college students to start their own businesses and plays a guiding role in guiding college students to start their own businesses. The Entrepreneurship Park has four functional departments: Social Practice Department, Work-Study Department, Vocational Training Department, and Independent Entrepreneurship Department. The completion and use of the Entrepreneurship Park building provides a place for students to carry out entrepreneurial activities. In the past three years, Guangxi City Vocational College has optimized the service environment through continuous exploration of the capital structure, management model, industrial model and other aspects of the characteristic entrepreneurial base, and strived to create an atmosphere of "wanting to start a business, daring to start a business, and being able to start a business", so that students can Establish the awareness of "creativity, innovation, creation, entrepreneurship, and wealth creation".
Since its establishment, the Entrepreneurship Park has institutionalized, dailyized and humanized entrepreneurship education by organizing entrepreneurial design competitions, field trips to inspect practices, entrepreneurship and employment training classes, and entrepreneurship lectures. An elite education platform provides a broad platform for college students to launch subsidized entrepreneurship and occupy the large market. In 2006, with the joint efforts of teachers and students in the college, the College Student Entrepreneurship Park made a profit of 3.159 million yuan, benefiting more than 1,000 students in the college.
Chinese tea culture has a long history and is well-known overseas. Our people have always had the habit of "serving tea when guests come", which is a full reflection of the civilization and politeness of our Chinese nation. On the afternoon of January 14 this year, under the leadership of the college leaders, more than 40 teachers and students from Guangxi City Vocational College were fortunate enough to come to Longzhou County and visit the famous tea factory of the Guangxi Tropical Crops Research Institute Experimental Station. On the bus back to the college, Dean Ning Dejun also gave a wonderful lesson to the teachers and students. He said: "How far a person's thoughts are, how far he can go; how rich a person's thoughts are, how wonderful he can be..." This not only adds a lot of fun to the journey, but also makes the students spiritually inspired. Purified, feelings are sublimated. When talking about the development of culture, Dean Ning said: "You must have a heart of gratitude in life. The mentality of gratitude is actually the mentality of development. Longzhou is a place with great cultural heritage. Today we came here and got The reception of the deputy secretary of the county party committee is a kind of culture in itself. We must learn from the people in the old revolutionary areas and learn to be grateful..." He is quiet and quiet, unconcerned with the world, speaks softly, holds flowers and smiles, teaches diligently, and penetrates deep into his heart. , this is the mood of tea tasting.
In addition to tea culture, Guangxi City Vocational College also vigorously promotes strange stone culture. On June 15 this year, Guangxi City Vocational College’s Strange Stone Cultural Center and Cultural Industry College Student Training Base were officially inaugurated.
Lan Huaichang, chairman of the Autonomous Region Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Meng Jie, chairman of the Chongzuo Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference, and other leaders and guests attended the unveiling ceremony. The Fujian Chamber of Commerce, Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce, Guangdong Chamber of Commerce, etc. also sent flower baskets to express their congratulations. It is understood that the museum covers an area of ??more than 1,200 square meters, and nearly a thousand pieces of strange stones are on display in the museum. Its layout is divided into a large exhibition hall and a boutique room. The strange stones include large fossils, Shuichong stones, Gobi stones, Wujiang stones, Yangtze River stones, Yellow River source stones, Lingbi stones, petrified wood and dozens of other types. It brings together different regions and the best of the country. The macro layout and the placement of strange stones in the museum are the result of the joint wisdom of students and the leaders of the museum. Many of the strange stones on display were named, annotated, and expressed by students. As a special cultural industry, strange stones are facing the market and going to the world. This is the institute's operation of economical cultural industries, and through the "hands of the market", it realizes the true transformation of university campus cultural resources into economic resources.
While inheriting traditional Chinese national culture, Guangxi City Vocational College integrates new concepts and combines tea culture with the expansion of college students’ knowledge and cultural cultivation; closely connects the strange stone culture with college students’ practice, entrepreneurship, and employment. Get in touch. The introduction of strange stone culture has become a wonderful part of the campus culture of Guangxi City Vocational College, which promotes the passionate collision of campus culture and social economy. This will undoubtedly play a significant role in the cultural industry of the institute.
At the same time, Guangxi City Vocational College has seized the historical opportunity of Greater Mekong Sub-regional cooperation and the "10 + 1" cooperation between China and ASEAN. In the spirit of "integrating cultures from all over the world and building university spirit", It has conducted extensive and in-depth exchanges and cooperation with universities and educational organizations in various countries around the world, especially in Southeast Asia. At present, the institute has begun to implement the "transnational talent" training and enrollment plan, and jointly organizes "transnational talent" training projects with many famous universities in Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei, using economical and effective methods. To help aspiring young people become international talents.
Looking back at the past, Guangxi City Vocational College has laid a solid foundation and achieved fruitful results since its establishment. People have every reason to believe that this school is full of vitality and creativity because of its youth. powerful university. Looking forward to the future, she will write a glorious chapter with epoch-making significance with a beautiful attitude.