On November 26-27, the 2020 “Belt and Road” International Symposium on Vocational Education with the theme of “Digital Vocational Education, Discuss, Co-construct, and Share” was held in Shenzhen. Nearly 300 experts and scholars from 26 countries and regions government departments, institutions, and industry companies gathered online and offline to discuss the opportunities and challenges of vocational education in the “Belt and Road” countries in the digital economy era and released the "Shenzhen Initiative".

Principal He Xingyue of our school was invited to give a conference theme report on "Digital Empowerment, Helping Vocational Education to Improve Quality and Quality". President He Xingyue explained how to promote the "Internet" under the background of double-high construction and quality improvement of vocational education from the three aspects of digital empowerment: the background, practical innovation, and future direction. +", "Intelligent +", to promote the reform and innovation of education and teaching. Principal He took our school as an example to accurately connect Zhejiang’s high-end equipment manufacturing and emerging technology industries. With the overall idea of “connecting industries, highlighting characteristics, driving demonstrations, and coordinated development”, he built seven professional groups to integrate digital twin technology and cloud computing , Big data, intelligence, VR/AR technology and other digital technologies are integrated into the construction of professional groups, and "co-build, share, share, and interoperate" digital teaching resource allocation system to improve the ability of vocational education to serve the digital economy. Looking to the future, President He Xingyue proposed to start with optimizing the top-level design, building a digital organization framework as the starting point, implementing collaborative innovation as the focus, promoting the reform of teaching mode, promoting the "classroom revolution", and realizing digital empowerment. The theme report has won unanimous praise from domestic and foreign experts and industry professionals and has expanded our school's international influence in China and countries along the Belt and Road.

This conference was sponsored by the China Vocational and Technical Education Association and the Institute of Vocational and Technical Education Center of the Ministry of Education and undertaken by Shenzhen Vocational and Technical College. Lu Xin, President of the Chinese Society of Vocational and Technical Education and former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education of China, Soo-Hyang Choi, Director of the UNESCO International Vocational Education Center, Zhang Guangping, Deputy Director of the Contemporary World Research Center of the External Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, United Nations Education, People’s Republic of China Qin Changwei, Secretary-General of the National Committee of Cultural Organization, Secretary-General of the Organizing Committee of China-ASEAN Education Exchange Week, Zou Lianke, Member and Director of the Guizhou Provincial Education Department, and Xie Li, Deputy Director of the Vocational Education and Adult Education Department of the Ministry of Education, delivered speeches. The conference held in-depth dialogues on topics such as digital vocational education boosting the global supply chain, vocational education boosting the application of a new generation of information technology, vocational education in 5G application segmentation, exploration and practice of vocational education digital transformation, and jointly discussed the "Belt and Road" Under the background of digital vocational education construction strategy, promote the innovation and development of global vocational education.

The conference site also exhibited a case of digital transformation of our school's course "Online Course Construction of "Plastic Mold Design and Practice"".