On December 15th, the Seminar on International Chinese Language Education Helping Vocational Colleges to Internationalize was successfully held on the live broadcast platform ChinesePlus. As one of the series of activities for International Chinese Language Education Week 2021 (ICLEW 2021), the seminar attracted nearly 30 domestic and foreign experts from international Chinese language education and vocational education institutions to gather in the "cloud", where they communicated and made recommendations on the co-construction and sharing of "Chinese + TVET" education platforms and resources and discussed how vocational colleges, Chinese language education institutions, and corporate communities can help the overseas promotion of "Chinese + TVET" education. At the seminar, ChinesePlus attracted attention by showing a sample book titled Guide to Admission to Prestigious Vocational Colleges.
Cai Xiuling, President of Cambodia Tourism Association, Alex Langrand, representative of Clermont Business School in China, Yang Wenbo, Chinese President of the Confucius Institute at Phuket, Prince of Songkla University, and Niko Philip, the Director of International Development Affairs Department of Oxford Vocational College Union, expressed hopes for further cooperation with ChinesePlus directed toward the "Chinese + Tourism and Commerce" characteristic practice.
Yang Congkun, Vice President of Shenzhen Polytechnic, suggested building an international curriculum promotion system that combines international Chinese language education and vocational skills education. Zhang Hong, executive dean of the International Exchange Department of Shaanxi Vocational and Technical College, suggested exploring and building an international online course platform of "Chinese + TVET" + "Credit Banking". Su Tian, director of the "Chinese + Vocational Education" Center of the Royal Academy of Cambodia, pointed out that "Chinese + TVET" education will help serve the human resource development needs of the two countries and promote the development of friendly relations between China and Cambodia.
At the Seminar, the practical cases shared by the representatives resonated with everyone. Tang Jihong, Vice President of Chongqing Vocational Institute of Engineering; Cheng Shixing, President of Wuhan Railway Vocational College of Technology; Zhou Yan, Vice President of Beijing Polytechnic College; Zhang Tianyin, Vice President of Shaanxi International Chinese Education Research Association; Hu Lin, Director of the Department of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages, the College of Liberal Arts, Southwest University; and Lin Er, director of Zhejiang Institute of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, introduced their practical experience and gave suggestions.
Liu Dongyan, president of Chongqing Vocational College of Public Transportation, introduced the college's working methods: "work process connection, matching curriculum to working positions, mutual recognition of Chinese and foreign courses, and combined online and offline instruction". Meng Fanzeng, deputy dean of Shaanxi Institute of Technology, shared the college's successful experience constructing international curriculum resources and developing bilingual vocational textbooks. Kang Ximin, Dean of the College of Humanities, Xi'an Fanyi University, shared the university's practice with the "Chinese + Flight Attendant" program.
At present, more than 40 countries offer "Chinese +" courses, covering dozens of fields including high-speed rail, economy, trade and aviation. Wang Jinhong, President of ChinesePlus, introduced the method and planning for constructing the "Chinese + TVET" education platform. She said that the ChinesePlus platform will continue to promote the internationalization of "Chinese + TVET" curriculum with domestic vocational colleges through technology empowerment and model innovation. This will achieve precise connections between overseas localized talent training and corporate needs, and will vigorously develop the "Chinese + TVET" international promotion program. By relying on new technologies like the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, it will be possible to set up practice rooms that combine online and offline, smart classrooms, etc., in order to coordinate the construction of the "Chinese + TVET" digital resource system. (Information Sources：Center for Language Education and Cooperation)
