Ph.D. teacher enters enterprise, school-enterprise cooperation bears fruit

Suzhou Vocational and Technical College of Economics and Trade is a provincial model higher vocational college. The college adheres to the motto of “Training the morals and the talents with strong skills”. Over the past 60 years since its establishment, the college has cultivated a foundation for national economic construction and social development. A large number of skilled talents. While focusing on cultivating talents, the college also encourages teachers, especially those with doctoral degrees, to go to the enterprise for training. On the one hand, the school-enterprise cooperation has promoted the development of the local economy in Suzhou, on the other hand, it has also improved the teachers' practical teaching level and improved the teachers' comprehensive quality and teaching and research capabilities.

Jia Wenyi graduated from Hohai University and was the first batch of Ph.Ds introduced by Suzhou Vocational and Technical College of Economics and Trade. For more than ten years, he has successively carried out consulting, training, design and development business with Suzhou Auchan Supermarket, Suzhou Donglin Hardware Company, Taicang Zhongxi Food Company, Suzhou Buding Textile Technology Co., Ltd.; developed cooperative research and development with enterprises; presided over the cooperation between schools and enterprises 3 horizontal topics. After the implementation of his research results, the company has achieved good economic and social benefits. At the same time, he developed these companies into internship training bases for students. On average, 100 students go to these companies for internship training every year. Through the internship, the students' practical ability has been greatly improved.

Suzhou Buding Textile Technology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise that integrates product development, design, production, sales and installation of ventilation equipment and flame retardant materials founded by Chairman Xu Yifei. Xu Yifei has been engaged in the research of flame retardant materials for 10 years and has extensive experience. buding Company is the world's leading supplier of fiber fabric air distribution system solutions, focusing on the ventilation field and the innovation and development of functional flame-retardant textiles. In the past 3 years since the establishment of buding Company, there are currently two production centers in Taixing and Jiangyin, and one R&D and sales center in Suzhou. Its scale and performance have taken the lead in the domestic industry. Since 2018, Jia Wenyi has been deeply involved in the school-enterprise cooperation of Suzhou buding Company, participating in the formulation of company plans, product development and design, subject research, personnel recruitment and employee training. Up to now, he has participated in the design of 5 patents, 3 of which have obtained patent certificates, and 1 joint horizontal project research. The topic has been completed in 2019. He has trained employees for the company 5 times and organized students from Suzhou Vocational and Technical College of Economics and Trade to the company. 50 internships. In 2020, buding established a subsidiary, Qiajiao (Suzhou) New Material Technology Co., Ltd., and Jia Wenyi is responsible for sales team building and sales. In the past three years of cooperation, buding's annual sales have increased from 20 million yuan to 30 million yuan, with an average annual growth rate of more than 30%. Despite the impact of the epidemic at the beginning of this year, buding's sales in the first half of the year still increased significantly. Through cooperation, enterprises and schools have achieved a win-win situation.

Professor Sheng Liqiang, deputy dean of Suzhou Vocational and Technical College of Economics and Trade, once visited the buding Company's R&D and sales center in Wuzhong, Suzhou, visited the company’s R&D center and product display, learned about sales, and gave feedback on the model of school-enterprise cooperation and the results achieved Highly praised. Sheng Liqiang expressed that it is necessary to give full play to the advantages of the human resources of universities, realize the alliance between strong and powerful, help enterprises in the Suzhou area realize transformation and upgrading, transform the economic growth mode, and promote the sustainable and healthy development of the local economy. The economic and social development of the region has made greater contributions to the training of more highly skilled talents in Suzhou Vocational and Technical College of Economics and Trade.