Hunan's construction machinery industry is accelerating toward becoming a world-class industrial cluster. As a key institution for cultivating highly skilled talent locally, Hunan Sany Industrial Polytechnic (referred to as "Sany Polytechnic") has delivered impressive results: across four graduating cohorts, 416 graduates have achieved a 100% placement rate in multi-skilled worker positions within the construction machinery sector, with employer satisfaction reaching 97.9%. The multi-skilled workers cultivated through school-enterprise collaboration are becoming a vital force in Hunan's construction machinery industry as it transitions from pure manufacturing toward integrated manufacturing-plus-services.
Cultivating more multi-skilled workers to serve Hunan's "Three Highs and Four News" vision and to build a manufacturing powerhouse, Hunan's vocational education is blazing a new trail of industry-education integration.
Industrial upgrading: where does talent come from?
As the construction machinery industry shifts from manufacturing toward a manufacturing-plus-services integration, enterprises urgently need composite multi-skilled workers who understand both parts processing and manufacturing as well as service marketing, and who can master fleet-coordinated construction and full-lifecycle smart services. However, a gap exists between traditional vocational school talent cultivation and industry demands. Sany Polytechnic, relying on national-level industry-education integration enterprise Sany Heavy Industry, has built through school-enterprise collaboration a multi-skilled worker training system featuring organizational interlocking, field sharing, and certification-compensation alignment, enabling talent cultivation to shift from merely following the industry to accompanying and even anticipating it.
Three approaches to solving training challenges
Organizational interlocking: the school and enterprise jointly build a four-dimensional interlocking community spanning strategy, personnel, mechanisms, and culture, establish a three-dimensional radar sharing platform, use micro-major flexible training to meet industry needs, and implement a revolving-door mutual hiring system between teachers and engineers so that dual-qualified capabilities keep pace with the times.
Field sharing: a three-domain practice system is constructed consisting of a six-competency training ground, a three-post live combat field, and a one-stop research and practice station. Real equipment and real scenarios build the foundation, while real projects and real battles hone skills, allowing students' abilities to rise in a spiral.
Certification-compensation alignment: course certificates, driving-test certification, and skill cashing are closely linked, using three-dimensional incentives to transform "I have to learn" into "I want to learn," addressing students' lack of intrinsic motivation.
Employment strength speaks for itself
The first batch of 46 multi-skilled workers has been on the job for four years, with average income reaching 13,000 yuan, and 91% having received promotions or pay raises. The school's Golden Apple ranking jumped from 838th to 169th, making it one of the top 50 contributors to service in the central and eastern regions. It has led the establishment of a construction machinery industry industry-education integration community and a city-level consortium, was recognized as a craftsman school with key support from the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, and its related practices were selected among the top 50 typical cases by the Ministry of Education and the National Development and Reform Commission. The model has been extended to 51 other targeted classes at the school and has gone global—sharing experience at the Belt and Road lecture series in Malaysia, jointly building an overseas lighthouse factory academy with Sany Indonesia, and bringing multi-skilled worker training experience to Belt and Road countries.
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