The Zhitong Finance App learned that on December 16, Guangzhou Lingnan Education Group, an entity company in South China Vocational Education (06913), a leading private academic vocational education service provider in the Greater Bay Area, held a 30th anniversary development conference and held the opening ceremony of the South China International Vocational Training Center on the same day. The event reviewed the 30-year development history of education in Lingnan and the way forward for future development. It aimed to use its 30-year accumulated brand value, reputation, location advantages, and teacher strength to create vocational training courses that closely meet market needs, cultivate professional talents that meet market needs, and continue to build dual channels for further education and employment.

According to reports, in 1993, Lingnan Education was founded in Guangzhou. It has grown from a single class of only 10 students 30 years ago to a leading vocational education group in the Greater Bay Area with more than 26,000 full-time students and nearly 300,000 graduates, a nationally renowned, and listed in Hong Kong, with remarkable achievements.

Over the past 30 years, education in Lingnan has closely followed national policies and market needs, adhered to the content and characteristics of vocational education, and hoped that through the “two-wheel drive” of academic education and vocational training, and implementation of the “Five in One” ecological development strategy, Lingnan education would help Lingnan education achieve the vision of “becoming a great maternity and education group”.

Lingnan Education operates two vocational schools in the Greater Bay Area. Among them, Guangdong Lingnan Vocational and Technical College has become the only private provincial model school for higher education and double innovation in the province, ranking in the top three in the country, while Guangdong Lingnan Modern Technician College has developed into a national priority and the largest private technician college in the province. Performance has also been steady and progressive. Among them, the number of new entrants to Lingnan Polytechnic College and Lingnan Modern Technician College in the 2023/24 academic year increased even more. As of October 8, 2023, the total number of new entrants increased 27.1% year over year to 13,888.

Among them, the “Guangdong Obstetrics and Education Integration Demonstration Park (Qingyuan)” of Lingnan Vocational and Technical College was approved by the Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission in 2021, becoming a university with a provincial obstetrics and education integration demonstration park in the province; entering big health upstream, middle and downstream productive enterprises, and working together to build an industrial park integrating production and development of health industry enterprises with major health characteristics, further deepening the group's industry-education integration and school-enterprise cooperation.

Lingnan Modern Technician College has carried out in-depth cooperation with more than 700 large enterprises, including JD, Alibaba, Radio and Television Communications, and Tencent, etc., to establish more than 1,000 off-campus professional practice bases, and explore the “JD model” for e-commerce majors, the “radio and television communication model” for mechatronics integration, and the “Schidlang model” for Internet of Things majors. Lingnan Modern Technician College is also planning to build the JD & Lingnan Industrial College with JD Technology Group and JD Industrial Education Group to help achieve greater breakthroughs in the integration of industry and education.

As the status of vocational education will continue to improve and the vocational education system will gradually improve, education in Lingnan will closely follow the national policy, unswervingly follow the path of high-quality development, continue to deepen the integration of industry and education, comprehensively improve the quality of education, teaching and talent training, and take on the heavy responsibility of cultivating highly qualified and skilled talents in various industries.

In terms of business development strategies, Lingnan Education will continue to expand the campus network and vocational education market in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and organically integrate the academic, applied and innovative aspects of vocational education through the “two-wheel drive” of academic education and vocational training. At the same time, on the basis of steady development and upgrading of vocational education subjects (integration), Lingnan Education will actively explore and expand five major business areas, namely “big training,” “big dispatch,” “big health,” “big e-commerce,” and “big public welfare,” forming a new pattern of “five in one” development.

It is worth noting that education in Lingnan is also actively involved in public welfare undertakings. Using the resources and advantages it has accumulated in the field of vocational education over the years, with sustainable education empowerment as the core, rural revitalization and innovation and entrepreneurship as the fulcrum, and vocational education+public welfare, it has formed a unique educational public welfare model and practices corporate social responsibility.

Furthermore, education in Lingnan will adhere to the idea of running schools based in Lingnan and from an international perspective. Through the “three education parallel” model of liberal arts education, entrepreneurship education, and international education, the running of schools will be integrated into national strategies, regional development, and industry progress, and is committed to cultivating high-quality, high-level technical and skilled talents with an international perspective and homeland feelings to meet the needs of social development.

Mr. He Huishan, founder, executive director and chairman of the board of directors of Lingnan Education, said that the 30-year development history of Lingnan Education is a history of “hard work and continuous self-improvement” in line with the general development trend of the country's economy, society, and vocational education. The Group's extensive achievements are inseparable from the unity and struggle of all Lingnan people. In the future, the Group will continue to adhere to the mission of shaping outstanding talents for society, lead the entire group on a new journey of transformation and breakthrough, closely follow national policies, comprehensively drive the innovation engine of industry and education, deepen the all-round reform of skilled talent work, continuously send high-quality talents to the country's regional economic development strategy and industrial transformation and upgrading, and strive to achieve the grand desire to establish a “century-old famous school”.