At 8:30 in the morning, the crisp sound of metal clinking echoes in the automotive training workshop at Guizhou Industrial and Commercial College. Students from Class 1 of the 2025 Automotive Manufacturing and Testing Technology program, part of the Geely Auto order-based training class, are crouched around a vehicle operating electrical testers. This is a "mandatory course" for freshmen during their morning training.
"I used to think automotive classes were just about watching PowerPoint presentations. I never expected to dismantle a transmission on the very first day," recalls student Lu Xinggang, still finding the experience novel when thinking back to his first practical training session.
Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd., a leading domestic automaker and Fortune Global 500 company, requires "hands-on, technically proficient" talent across every production line, from vehicle assembly to battery testing. In recent years, leveraging the advantages of the Ministry of Education's supply-demand matching education project, Guizhou Industrial and Commercial College has collaborated with Geely Auto Group Co., Ltd. to explore a mixed-ownership school operation model. They have developed a distinctive professional cluster in Automotive Manufacturing and Testing Technology, which includes core directions like the Geely Auto order-based training and new energy vehicle technology. This initiative directly translates corporate job standards and talent requirements into classroom teaching content, achieving precise cultivation where "what is learned is precisely what the enterprise needs." This ensures that graduates can seamlessly meet job requirements upon employment.
"We are not training 'exam machines'; we are training 'workshop veterans.' Our students don't need to send out resumes everywhere like those in other majors because, from the day they join this class, they have a clear career path," said Liu Qinqiang, a corporate mentor from Geely Auto. He emphasized that the "guarantee" of the order-based class is not an empty promise but a tangible outcome of "school-enterprise cooperation." Currently, the employment placement rate for graduates from the Geely order class has reached 100%.
This model, where schools and enterprises jointly develop the curriculum system, share teaching resources, and co-implement instruction to achieve precise alignment between talent cultivation and corporate needs, is "blossoming everywhere" across higher vocational colleges in Guizhou. It covers multiple professional fields from traditional industries to emerging sectors.
For instance, the Department of Economics and Management at Zunyi Vocational and Technical College, aligning with local industrial demands, has established over 50 practical training platforms, including the "Provincial Zunyi Live-streaming E-commerce Modern Industry College" and the "Qianbei Green Food Digital Marketing Industry-Education Integration Training Platform." The college has also formed deep cooperative relationships with 68 enterprises such as JD.com, Pagoda, Inspur, and Guizhou Qianhang Group, jointly establishing 12 "order-based classes" and cultivating 586 customized talents.
Since being selected as one of the first batch of cooperative institutions in China for Tesla in 2017, Guizhou Communications Polytechnic has precisely aligned with industry demands through an "order-based training" model. The curriculum covers core electrification technologies, intelligent connectivity systems, and after-sales service systems. The student employment rate has exceeded 98% for five consecutive years. Currently, the school also cooperates with 13 enterprises, including Audi, Tesla, Porsche, and SAIC-GM, to offer order-based classes. Each cohort has over 600 students, with an employment rate above 95%.
The Department of Economics and Management at Guizhou Industry Polytechnic College has evolved from its early cooperation with Walmart to now establishing deep cooperative relationships with 16 enterprises. Its order-based class program has been running for over 15 years. These long-term, stable school-enterprise partnerships bear witness to the transformation of Guizhou's higher vocational education from simply "supplying graduates" to "custom-cultivating talents."