(I) Development Target:
1. Build the extroverted decision-making team familiar with the latest management methodology and proficient in operation management; the management team with the idea of scientific management and innovation as well as the practical capability; the operation team with good professional moral and strong practice capability, and the well-structured practitioner group that accommodates the industry construction requirements and has high social responsibility and professional principal, solid scientific and cultural basis and continuous learning capability.
2. Form the schooling system both accommodating the socialism market economy and complying with the educational rules, which shall be jointly participated by the government, the schools, the enterprises and the society, and shall be supported by both the enterprises and the society. The system shall put equal focus on the scale and the structure, improve both the quality and the benefit, and meet the talent requirements of city construction and management development.
3. Perfect the educational architecture based on standardized management and featured with industry construction characteristics, which shall be begin with the industry practice quality, stand on the basis of professional technology education, put emphasis on the professional quality training and the continuous education, aim at improving the long-term employment capability and the continuous innovation power of practitioners, and be oriented with the management knowledge and the management talent training.
(II) Main Tasks:
1. In order to meet the need of talent in the city construction of Shanghai and the development of management function, we should develop a group of professional experts or managers who can trace the development of international science-technology operation and management, and have the innovation soul as well as innovation capability, and provide them continuous education. The registration system of continuous education shall be promoted in the whole industry, making efforts to provide the continuous education to all the to-be-trained persons in the 10th "5-year Plan". The trainees shall take certain hours of the full-time continuous education and training, and take it as the necessary condition for the individual practice quality or the enterprise annual quality examination.
2. According to the requirements of the city development in Shanghai and the development of construction industry, we should put the emphasis on the training that targets at fostering the city management talent to 6 kinds of key talents in 3 catalogs i.e. the city management talent (including the city environment management talent, the city transportation management talent), the enterprise operation talent (including the enterprise operators and the marketing talent of construction materials or real-estate), and the city construction talent (including the certificated architect and the certificated construction cost engineer)). In the 10th "5-year Plan", up to 5,000 key talents shall be trained. At the same time, the training of latest knowledge to the professional technicians shall be included in the training to the key talents so as to meet the needs of the development of construction industry.
3. Make sufficient use of the industry associations and the academies, and organize the specialists to work out the industry standards and rules complied with the 21st century and featured with Shanghai's unique characteristics. Define the requirements to the practitioner of each post, and carry out the practice quality training that focuses on the improvement of practical and innovative capability. Strengthen the personal professional quality certificate system, completely carry out the equal-focusing and equal-applying system of educational background certificate and professional quality certificate in the construction industry, and build the good talent circumstance featured with quality-oriented and capability-based.
4. In order to meet the leveled talent requirement in the 21st century, the layout regulation of middle professional technology schools shall be intensified in the 10th "5-year Plan". In the principle of "society-oriented, market-adaptable, quality-focused and feature-based", the reform of professional technology education shall be strengthened to bring it to the way of market-based schooling and centralized development. Build the system to renew the teaching content, and improve the integration and practice of curses. Together with the popular improvement of knowledge introduction to the middle professional technology school students, the capability to accommodate the professional changes shall be intensified to both provide the students with basis of higher education and guarantee the qualification of professional talents for the production line.
The construction of Employee College shall be gradually adjusted to build the college of senior professional technology education that is focused on the post-employment education with the assistance of pre-employment education, and put equal importance to the background education and post training. The major setup shall be based on the city management, and shall cover the city construction as well. In the 10th "5-year Plan", the quantity of students in education shall reach around 2,000. According to the development requirement, the divisions of college or departments and the auxiliary middle professional technology school should be set up. Meanwhile, we should make full use of the education force of the universities in Shanghai to foster the specialized talents who are required by the sectors of production, construction, management and service as well as the enterprises of the construction industry, and are equipped with necessary theoretic knowledge and strong practice capability. The training scale shall be as much as 3,000. Deepen the reform of education and teaching, and build the professional technology education system of construction industry that covers both the middle and the high level education.
Enterprise-based education is part of the whole construction education. We shall encourage proactively the enterprise to develop the enterprise-based education according to the standard of modern enterprise system so as to improve the employee quality and the enterprise competitive capability, and build the enterprise as the "learning enterprise".
5. Carry out the course reform and teaching materials construction according to the municipal construction and management development in Shanghai. By 2002, cooperate with Shanghai Education Committee to work out the middle professional teaching material of "civil engineering" that is featured with Shanghai local characteristics; organize the experts of construction industry to conclude and study the experiences and lessons of the main projects in Shanghai, and compile the dynamic continuous education materials for technicians and managers that are based on the analysis of project cases and meet the needs of industry development.
6. Further develop the professional skill post training in a complete and thorough way to improve the operator's technical level and streamline the team structure of construction employees. By the end of the 10th "5-year Plan", perfect the professional skill evaluation network, and make all efforts guarantee all the special-type workers and the main-type technicians are issued the operation certificate and the technical grade certificate from National Labor Ministry. Among the technical team of construction industry, the ratio of senior technician shall be 1%; technician shall be 7%; middle worker shall be 60%; primary workers shall be 25%; and the basic workers shall be as much as the real need. Establish the technician team feature with positive soul, proficient skill and proper type of work to ensure the project quality and the safety production.
7. Build the open-styled, remote modern education and training network. Make full use of the modern technologies such as the multimedia and the computer networks in the talent training, and accelerate the distribution of new knowledge, new theory and new method in order to facilitate the development of all kinds of talents. Develop the common education software and the examination software for the key talent training and the post training, build the examination database, and implement scientific education and management. Build the training information networks for the schools and training entities of all levels to share the education and training resources.
8. Develop the international cooperation, widen all kinds of international communication channels, absorb and refer to the successful experiences of employee education in the developed countries, and firmly expand the international cooperation on education. Aside from the Sino-Australia "International Construction and Management Training Center", 2 or 3 overseas training bases shall be established. Organize 20 teams of different specializations to study abroad according to the requirements of fostering talent. Encourage the schools with proper conditions to establish collaboration with the related foreign schools in order to broaden the international communication channels of different kinds of educations.