On December 1, 2015, Anhui RTVU and Anhui Auto Industry School signed a cooperative agreement to officially found and operate Anhui RTVU’s School of Automotive Engineering. According to the agreement, both sides will adopt a flexible and innovative way to expand the scope of subjects, while improving enrollment and the level of education. They will also jointly build and share practical training centres for students, all to further cooperate in-depth and push the development of open and distance education in the province’s automobile industry. 

The CPC Party Committee Secretary and President of Anhui RTVU, Zheng Hanhua, Vice President of Anhui RTVU, Fan Jialu, Secretary of the CPC Party Committee of Anhui Automobile Industry School, Fang Runsheng, and President of Anhui Automobile Industry School, Zhu Guomiao, participated in the signing ceremony. Fan Jialu and Zhu Guomiao signed the cooperation agreement on behalf of each party. 

Zheng Hanhua pointed out that both sides have years of solid cooperation experience, creating a deep professional foundation in both Anhui Province’s open and distance education, and the automotive industry. Anhui RTVU’s School of Automotive Engineering, jointly built by both parties, is designed to promote vocational education and serve a lifelong education system and learning society. The school will take full advantage of the parties’ experience in the fields of distance education and the automotive industry, deepening the development model of open education in the industry.

Zhu Guomiao pointed out that the Anhui Automobile Industry School is a state-level key secondary school directly affiliated with Anhui Province’s Department of Education. Over the past 20 years, the school has cultivated a large number of high-quality workers and professional skilled talents for the national automotive industry, modern manufacturing, and service sectors. This new cooperation with Anhui RTVU will vigorously promote its development in distance vocational education.

Both sides expressed their intent to establish a long-term, strategic business partnership built on "sincere cooperation, equal and mutual benefit, promotion of industry, and common development."

Vice Presidents of Anhui Automobile Industry School Shou Peicong, Wu Zhongbin, Xu Li, and heads of relevant departments from both sides attended the signing ceremony.

By Wu Jianyi, Anhui RTVU