Nanchong, Sichuan: Campus Open Day Showcases Vocational Education Charm

In the early summer, the secondary vocational school campus is filled with youth and charm. On May 30th, the 2025 Spring Semester "Learning from the Letter · Gratitude" Campus Open Day event was successfully held at the Nanchong Secondary Vocational School (hereinafter referred to as "Nanchong Secondary Vocational School"). The event, centered around "skills, arts, and exhibitions," consisted of multiple segments including the event launch ceremony and the acceptance of achievements of the cultural and artistic performance programs, the exhibition of vocational education achievements, and the "Building Dreams with Craftsmanship, Excelling in the World" session.

"Nanchong's vocational education needs to sail towards the vast blue seas and head towards a broader world," said a relevant person in charge of the Municipal Education and Sports Bureau at the launch ceremony. Currently, the municipal Party committee and government, with their farsighted strategic vision, have made the decision to integrate Nanchong Secondary Vocational School, Nanchong Normal School, and Nanchong Technical School. This is not only a key move to build a highland of vocational education in Northeast Sichuan but also a strategic layout to serve regional economic development. At this critical moment of accelerating the construction of a modern vocational education system, the mission is to cultivate more high - quality technical and skilled talents, master craftsmen, and great national craftsmen. The merged school will gradually build a overpass connecting secondary vocational education, higher vocational education, and undergraduate education by optimizing the layout and integrating resources, further broadening students' educational advancement paths and injecting strong impetus into vocational education.

At the event site, there were segments such as enrollment promotion, award ceremonies, and cultural and artistic performances. Teachers and students of Nanchong Secondary Vocational School presented singing and dancing, poetry recitations, large - puppet shows, dragon and lion dances, etc., demonstrating the skill achievements and charm of vocational education.

"Etiquette and image display, financial skills display, and a wide variety of flower arrangements." At the practical training observation site, it could be seen that students were concentrating on calculations, disassembling and assembling, and maintenance in accounting, automobiles, numerical control, cooking, and arts and crafts, fully demonstrating their professional technical abilities. Meanwhile, parent representatives also got a close - up view of the hands - on abilities of Nanchong Secondary Vocational School students.

In addition, the school also held parent - teacher meetings in both "online + offline" ways to further showcase and publicize the school's achievements.

Seeing the achievement displays of Nanchong Secondary Vocational School, Wang Xiaoxian, an outstanding alumnus of Nanchong Secondary Vocational School and the chairman of the Nanchong Municipal Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, encouraged everyone with the themes of "Learning from the Letter · Gratitude" and "A Skill in Hand, a Worry - free Life": Be grateful and forge ahead, and be grateful to the alma mater, teachers, and parents, with love, affection, and a sense of responsibility in heart; Have a skill in hand and stand firmly in the future, fully recognize the importance of "a special skill", find the pass to get around in society and the support point to realize the value of life; Courageously shoulder the mission and give back to society. As a member of Nanchong Secondary Vocational School, create extraordinary value in ordinary positions and use exquisite skills to contribute to social development.

It is reported that Nanchong Secondary Vocational School (originally Nanchong Finance and Trade School), founded in 1958, was renamed Nanchong Secondary Vocational School in 2005. It is a public school with provincial - level demonstration majors. Adhering to the educational tenet of "shaping financial and economic talents and casting great national craftsmen" and the concept of "repaying the people of Nanchong and serving the development of Nanchong," the school keeps up with the development strategy of Nanchong and has become the "cradle of accounting talents" and the "cultivation base of craftsmen" in Nanchong. In recent years, the school has actively expanded training channels and formed a training model that connects secondary vocational education, higher vocational education, and undergraduate education. It has explored and practiced the characteristic campus of "Three Practices and Four Beauties," taking "filial piety, elegance, and integrity" as behavioral guidelines and "learning beauty, labor beauty, innovation beauty, and dedication beauty" as practical goals, comprehensively creating a connotative, characteristic, and high - quality path for the development of vocational education, providing a solid talent support for economic and social development.

"With the promulgation of the newly revised 'Vocational Education Law of the People's Republic of China,' students have multiple educational choices and can develop personalized according to their interests and specialties, realizing their self - value in their areas of expertise and contributing positive forces to society," said the main person in charge of Nanchong Secondary Vocational School. Taking the opportunity of the integration of the three schools, Nanchong Secondary Vocational School is determined to build a high - level vocational school with a reasonable scale, distinct characteristics, and industry - education integration, and hand in a satisfactory answer for the development of vocational education in Nanchong.

More than a thousand people, including relevant departments of the Nanchong Municipal Party Committee such as the Municipal Internet Information Office, the Municipal Education and Sports Bureau, and the Municipal Finance Bureau, the Nanchong Self - Media Association, media representatives, internet celebrities, alumni representatives, enterprise representatives, and parent representatives, attended the event. (By Yi Qinghai and Tang Min)