The First Council Meeting of the National Smart Supply Chain Industry-education Integration Community was Successfully Held

On May 16th, the first council meeting of the National Smart Supply Chain Industry-education Integration Community (hereafter called the Community) was held at Tianjin University (hereafter called TJU). Attendees included Luo Yan-an, a member of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee's Education Working Committee and deputy director of the Municipal Education Commission; Xu Zhen, director of the Higher Education Department of the Tianjin Municipal Education Commission; Liu Shao-hua, deputy director of the Vocational Education Department of the Tianjin Municipal Education Commission; He Ming-ke, deputy director of the Teaching Guidance Committee for Logistics Management and Engineering under the Ministry of Education; Lang Li-ying, vice president of Hebei University of Technology; Zhang Chuang, vice president of Beijing Materials Institute; Cai Yu-jun, vice president of Tianjin University of Technology and Education; Liu Ning, assistant to the president of TJU, the initiating unit of the community; Xia Shu-qian, deputy director of the Academic Affairs Office of TJU; Zheng Chun-dong, vice dean of the College of Management and Economics (hereafter called CoME) at TJU; Yu Hai-xiang, president of Tianjin Transportation Technical College; Fan Guang-hui, vice president of JD Logistics Technology, as well as party secretaries, presidents, and representatives from more than 50 universities and colleges.

The participants discussed and deployed key tasks for 2024, determining six major working groups including "standard formulation, talent cultivation, curriculum development, scientific research, faculty training, and international cooperation", along with 10 major tasks. They compiled a list of 68 tasks, expecting to produce more than 230 outcomes. With the concerted efforts of member units of the Community, they aim to build a model integration community nationwide.

Liu Ning, assistant to the president of TJU, delivered a welcoming speech at the meeting. He emphasized that TJU has taken active promotion of related work with high quality around the ten major tasks of the Community since its establishment in November of the previous year. As the initiating unit of the Community, TJU hopes to use this meeting as an opportunity to drive the application of Data-intelligence Technology in various scenarios through collaboration among member units of the Community, thereby promoting industrial innovation, efficiency, and green development, and contributing to the improvement of economic quality and efficiency.

The Secretariat of the National Smart Supply Chain Industry-education Integration Community summarized the achievements of the Community's work in 2023 and deployed the work plan for 2024, covering aspects such as content construction, "Five-Gold" construction, industry competitions, and outcome promotion. The leading units of the six major working groups of the Community reported on the progress and objectives of each working group.

On November 23, 2023, the National Smart Supply Chain Industry-education Integration Community, supported and guided by the Tianjin Municipal Education Commission, the Education Examination Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, was officially established. The Community, jointly initiated by JD Group, TJU, and Tianjin Transportation Technical College, aims to deepen the reform of the modern vocational education system, promote deep integration of supply chain "network integration" resources, advance comprehensive communication among government, industry, enterprises, and universities to coordinate the cultivation of talents, and focusing on Tianjin, while radiating to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and facing the whole country, deepen the reform of talent cultivation mode, promote the accurate matching of industry and education, and serve the economic construction with high quality

Zheng Chun-dong, vice dean of CoME, spoke on behalf of the leading units. He stated that TJU will conscientiously implement the ten major tasks of the Community. As the leader of the standard formulation group, they will cooperate with other deputy group units to complete the "Supply Chain Management Talent White Paper" and the "Intelligent Supply Chain Management Talent Capability Requirements" by 2025, and organize the finals of the first "JD Logistics Cup" Smart Supply Chain College Student Competition in mid-June 2024. TJU will seize this opportunity to promote the high-quality development of the Community of Intelligent Supply Chain Industry and Education Integration.

Representatives of the leading units of the Community, Fan Guang-hui, vice president of JD Logistics Technology, and Yu Hai-xiang, president of Tianjin Transportation Technical College, respectively delivered speeches. They both expressed their determination to conscientiously implement the ten major tasks of the Community, focus on "Five-gold" construction and new technologies to promote the improvement of industrial colleges and faculty teams, give full play to their respective advantages, and create a new ecology of symbiosis, sharing, prosperity, and win-win.

In the concluding remarks, Luo Yan-an, member of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee's Education Working Committee and deputy director of the Municipal Education Commission, affirmed the key work content and planning of the Secretariat and the six major working groups, and urged the Community to play a pioneering role in supporting and leading, promoting the mutual integration of education chain, industry chain, talent chain, and innovation chain, to promote education by industry and assist industry with education, and to contribute to the high-quality development of education.

In the afternoon, the parallel working meetings of the six major working groups of the Community respectively conducted in-depth discussions and exchanges on the key work content, construction rhythm, and expected results for 2024, explored possible problems and countermeasures in the implementation of work, laying a solid foundation for the smooth progress of subsequent work.

The CoME of TJU attaches great importance to the work of the Intelligent Supply Chain Industry-Education Integration Community, focusing on broadening the professional development perspective through industry-education integration and enhancing the ability to link teaching with practice. In the work of setting up new majors last year, TJU approved the establishment of a new major in "Supply Chain Management," providing an important carrier for the cultivation of undergraduate talents in the field of supply chain. Currently, CoME has conducted good cooperation with enterprises such as JD Group. The college and JD Group jointly applied for the national-level New Engineering Education Reform Project "Exploration and Practice of Logistics Engineering Major Transformation and Upgrade from the Perspective of Smart Economy and Innovation-Driven", with an excellent final evaluation. The two parties also jointly developed the first national standard in the field of smart logistics, the National Standard for Smart Logistics Service Guide (GB/T 41834-2022), and the IEEE Standard for Logistics Operation Process in a Smart Factory (IEEE Std 2934™-2022), effectively promoting the development and progress of the industry.