Zhou Shikang, Founder Of Garment Vocational Education In Shenzhen

The year 2020 marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. In the footsteps of Shenzhen people, their original intention of seeking dreams has never been changed. It is the passion of "coming is the Shenzhen people", and it is also the steadiness of "empty talk will harm the country and work hard to prosper the country". The rapid development of Shenzhen is inseparable from the efforts and sweat of every ordinary builder who comes to Shenzhen. They are lovely and respectable builders and strivers, as well as the inheritors and witnesses of the spirit of the special zone.

Because of love, stick to the road of characteristic education

Because of his love for the city, Zhou Shikang practiced the spirit of "bravely being the first in the world". In October 1990, he founded the first clothing talent training school in Shenzhen, Shenzhen clothing industry training school, providing a platform for migrant workers to learn knowledge and skills. In 1992, Zhou Shikang went to Hong Kong for an inspection tour. He realized that there are many fashionable international clothing brands in Hong Kong, and that Shenzhen should also develop local fashion brands in the future. Therefore, Zhou Shikang cooperated with the Hong Kong Institute of fashion, and became the first garment college in Shenzhen to carry out joint education.

Zhou Shikang recalled, "at the beginning of the school's establishment, I spent 240 yuan to make a 4x4 middle seam advertisement in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Daily. I recruited 32 students who were studying clothing cutting. I taught in person. Because the teaching content was simple and easy to understand, I was very popular with the students. In order to meet the needs of the majority of students, the school started from a clothing cutting class to offering courses such as clothing design, clothing marketing management and clothing enterprise management; Another thing moved me very much. A little girl came to my office with a newspaper from three years ago. She told me that she had worked for nearly three years and saved enough tuition fees. She would immediately sign up for study to realize her designer dream. "

As a training base for highly skilled talents in Shenzhen, a training demonstration institution for short supply talents in Shenzhen and a national training base for textile and garment talents, Shenzhen garment industry training school has not forgotten its original intention for 30 years and has always adhered to its own characteristic education. "The school adheres to the road of specialization and characteristic education, which is different from the large and comprehensive degree education in Colleges and universities. In curriculum design and talent cultivation, the school mainly highlights specialty, excellence and strength, and pays attention to the cultivation of students' craftsmanship spirit. The talents trained are more suitable for the market demand, and are more likely to become skilled craftsmen and urgently needed talents for social and economic development." He thought that Zhou Shihao had created his own mode of sex.

From a classroom, a course, to Sino foreign joint education and national chain school. Since then, the clothing industry of Jingkang has been developing for 8 years. They are all over the clothing enterprises in Shenzhen and all over the country. Some of them have become the chief fashion designer and fashion design director, some have established their own design studio or brand company, and have won the labor medal of Guangdong Province and the title of technical expert of Guangdong Province. They not only realized their fashion dream, but also became the mainstay of the clothing industry development and the promoter of fashion trend.

Building a talent platform for designers

Enabling construction area

Zhou Shikang is dedicated to the cultivation of clothing professionals, but also concerned about the development of the clothing industry. In 2014, he initiated the establishment of Shenzhen Fashion Designers Association and served as its president. He said that there are a group of dreamers in the fashion industry in Shenzhen, who have the courage to open up and innovate. The establishment of the association is to keep in mind the original intention, unite and cooperate, help the revival of Oriental clothing culture as its own responsibility, constantly upgrade service ability, update service means, support innovative design, build talent team, play the role of social organization as a bridge and link, and help Chinese brands to go international.

Over the past six years, the association has set up a fashion industry cluster with policies, funds and industry sectors. It has also held fashion festivals, high-end forums, model competitions and other events, which has played an important role in stimulating the talent demand of garment enterprises and promoting the development of the clothing industry. When it comes to the next step of work, Zhou Shikang pointed out that Shenzhen Fashion Designers Association will focus on four tasks: Deepening the cooperation of industry, University and research to promote the transformation of technological achievements; implementing the policy of "bringing in" and "going out" to lead designers to go abroad and meet international standards; to make China (Shenzhen) International Fashion Festival a fashion card for Shenzhen; and; We will continue to organize and hold skills competitions to promote learning and practice.

Facing the bottleneck of industrial development, Zhou Shikang always thinks that talent cultivation is the key. He also said that from the "leading area" in 2018 to the "leading demonstration area" in 2019, the mission of Shenzhen is deepening, and the garment industry in Shenzhen will usher in a new round of development. To meet this development, education must go ahead.

As the highland of Chinese brand women's wear, Futian District has built a world-class Bay Area fashion center by leading the leap forward development of clothing industry. In the future, Zhou Shikang will continue to take social responsibility, speed up the construction of the school's own ability and the improvement of teaching level, and promote the cultivation of innovative high skilled talents with the help of the association, so that more young people can realize the value of life with their own skills, and make new contributions to the construction of the leading demonstration area of socialism with Chinese characteristics in Shenzhen.