Posted on June 20, 2025 by Dong Quanyue|Qingdao Vocational and Technical College of Hotel Management
The college held a working meeting of skill-based top innovative talents on June 19, focusing on the “Skill-based Top Innovative Talents Cultivation Project” for discussion.
Some experts were invited to attend the meeting, such as Prof. Wang Xinfeng and Dr. Su Yuanzheng from the School of Education of Beijing Normal University, Wu Lianhai, Director of Basic Teaching Center of Ocean University of China, Wei Longji, Director of Academic Affairs Department of Shandong Foreign Trade Vocational College, Wang Jixia, Member of the Board of Directors and Director of Academic Affairs Department of Qingdao Tourism School.
President Jiang Yupeng said that vocational education bears an important mission of the times in cultivating skillful and innovative talents. The current scientific and technological revolution and industrial changes have put forward higher requirements for talents, vocational education must break through the traditional mode, accurately define the core competence characteristics of skillful and innovative talents, and build a scientific and effective cultivation path.
The college will work closely with Beijing Normal University and other organizations to deepen the integration of industry and education, explore school-enterprise cooperation, skills competitions, project-based teaching and other training methods, and provide new ideas and new samples for the cultivation of skilled top innovative talents.
Professor Wang Xinfeng said that the project team will focus on key issues such as “assessment and development trajectory portrayal of core attributes of skill-based top-notch innovative talents” and “evaluation and cultivation of innovation ability in educational scenarios”. By constructing a multi-dimensional assessment model, establishing a growth cohort database, and developing an innovation ability training program, we will break through the intelligent assessment technology of innovation ability in educational scenarios, and provide a technologically advanced, feasible and effective overall solution for the cultivation of skilled top-notch innovative talents.
The meeting held an in-depth discussion on the Implementation Plan of Skill-based Top Innovative Talents Cultivation Project, and Tang Wenjun, Director of Vocational Education Research and Development Center of the college, reported on the project's research plan and phased implementation arrangements.
The “Skill-based Top Innovative Talents Cultivation Project” was initiated by Beijing Normal University, focusing on the cultivation mode of skill-based top innovative talents in the new era, focusing on the selection mechanism, growth and development paths of top innovative talents, and committing itself to the research of systematic solutions for the cultivation of innovation ability.
As one of the first four cooperating universities, the college is a pilot school for the cultivation of skill-based top talents and innovation ability.
After the meeting, the expert group visited the culinary training base and held a discussion with the representatives of teachers, discussing and exchanging views on topics such as traits of top talents and core skills cultivation.