SSDPP Held the “Strategic Cooperation Summit on MSW Development and Employment” Successfully



On November 16, 2019, the "Strategic Cooperation Summit on MSW Development and Employment", which was sponsored by SSDPP and the Social Work Research Center of Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, was held in Zhuhai Campus of Beijing Normal University successfully. More than 150 people from some universities, enterprises, foundations, social service institutions and communities in related industries attended the event. Many excellent scholars and experts gathered at the meeting and all seats were occupied.

At the opening ceremony, Mr. Guo Changjiang, President of the Red Cross Society of China, Ms. Wang Lengfang, Executive Vice President of Zhuhai Charity Federation, and Professor Xu yuebin, President of SSDPP delivered opening speeches. Chairman Guo Changjiang pointed out that philanthropy needs professional education, and foundations need more professionals. Only through cross-border cooperation and strong alliance in the cultivation of philanthropic talents can they be competent for the public charity work of diversified ecological development. This summit is a forum for universities, foundations, enterprises, social organizations and communities to pool ideas, share wisdom and make efforts to promote social work education and employment. It will have a significant influence on the innovation of new ideas, mechanisms and modes of exchanges and cooperation between schools and employers, and on building a talent training system through joint efforts of universities, enterprises and social organizations. Vice President Wang Lengfang introduced the development of charity in Zhuhai City. He believed that the four MSW majors of Beijing Normal University (namely, charity and enterprises, medical care and pension, school, children and family, as well as anti-poverty and community) are exactly the development directions of charity that needs to be further refined and developed in the future. The professionals they cultivate will become the main force to promote the progress and development of charity. President Xu Yuebin introduced the development and outstanding achievements of MSW since its inception, and sincerely invited outstanding experts and scholars to participate in SSDPP's MSW personnel training and practice. Professor Qiao Dongping of SSDPP introduced the MSW training program in detail, and Teacher Wang Fangping talked about our exploration in MSW practice supervision. In addition, combined with his social work experience in setting up "Yunnan Lianxin community care service center", Professor Xiang Rong, Director of the Institute of Social Work, School of Ethnology and Sociology, Yunnan University, showed the possibility of MSW training, employment and public entrepreneurship path under social innovation.

In the morning, five industry leaders from different organizations and institutions gave keynote speeches. Professor Jia Jing, Vice President of China Global Philanthropy Institute talked about the obstacles and breakthrough paths of innovation in his speech with the theme of "innovative mechanism of talent cultivation of enterprise universities in the new economic era - create a new ecology of learning organization through the integration of industry and education and the cooperation between universities and enterprises". Combined with the development experience of Zhejiang Future Smile Charitable Foundation, Mr. Wu Wei, Chairman of Zhejiang Future Smile Charitable Foundation, delivered a speech on how social organizations promote the development of social worker cultivation and how foundations cooperate with universities to build a common training platform. Mr. Cheng Jinguan, Deputy Secretary General of the China Society for Leadership Science, expounded what kind of talents need to be cultivated in the new era under the background of supply side structural reform. By combining preschool education with social work talent cultivation, Ms. Zhao Chunmei, chairwoman of Beijing Daai Kids Education Science and Technology Co., Ltd., talked about the value of social work talent cultivation in the new era. From the perspective of policy interpretation, Ms. Xiong Junchao, President of Zhuhai Association of Social Work, pointed out that the development of social work needs not only preferential policies, but also "market" assistance, and the biggest challenge social work students face in employment is the specialization of social work ability .

At the round table in the afternoon, Guo Changjiang (President of the Red Cross Society of China), Peng Jianmei (Secretary General of  China Charity Alliance), Miao Li (former Secretary General of China Welfare Development Foundation), Hu Ningning (Vice President and Secretary General of China Primary Health Care Foundation) and Xing Jianxu (former Deputy Director General of China Foundation for Disabled Persons) delivered wonderful speeches and conducted in-depth discussions with the students on the industry development, salary and talent ability of the foundation at the first session themed on "training mode and strategy of social organization executives". In the second session themed on "enterprises' talent demand and training platform construction through university cooperation", Luo Tianzhen (General Manager of Shangdao International Health Industry Group) talked about what kind of students are needed for the development of modern enterprises. Liao Aidi (Party Secretary of Taoyuan Community, Shishan Sub-district, Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai City) and He Qiuxia (Party Secretary of Yijing Community, Jida Sub-district, Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai City) introduced the community work talents demand of the modernization of grassroots governance as well as the current situation. Mo Shaodong (Chairman of the E-Job (Beijing) Education Science and Technology Company) pointed out that only by building a university-enterprise cooperation platform can more people have a stage to show their talents. Ma Hong (General Manager of Zhongshan Kingdomcares Electric Appliance Co., Ltd.), based on the development of his own business, talked about how to build a cooperative training platform, with MSW internship as a starting point. In the third session themed on "work experience sharing of MSW graduates in various fields", five experts respectively talked about: "I am not a "public welfare person", "a dreamer", "learning to be a spokesman for social work", "the combination of social work and ideological and political education in universities", and "one-day social work, lifelong social worker". Each round table forum conducted in-depth discussions on the topics and had a warm interaction with outstanding experts and scholars as well as the MSW students enrolled in 2019. The views, opinions or work experience shared by the guests of the round table impressed the audience, drawing enthusiastic applause.

At the closing ceremony, President Xu Yuebin signed an agreement with 10 enterprises and institutions and five social organizations respectively concerning strategic cooperation on the cultivation of social work talents with a master's degree, and awarded the license to the contracting units jointly with Party Secretary Tian Donghua, Professor Qiao Dongping and Director Feng Bo. Both sides will carry out in-depth cooperation in personnel training and practice, which means that in the future, more MSW talents from Beijing Normal University will enter the social work-related fields for practice, which also represents the optimization of the comprehensive education structure of social work major at Beijing Normal University. Finally, Professor Tian Donghua, Secretary of SSDPP Party Branch, delivered a concluding speech, indicating that SSDPP will work closely with its partners to cultivate compound senior management talents of social work to meet the needs of new business forms and new models.

The summit aims at meeting the demands of national and socio-economic development for social workers. Combining with the current status of social workers, it successfully connected the resources of supply and demand, and built platforms for MSW training and employment exchange, which will jointly promote the cultivation of outstanding talents. With the concerted efforts of both sides, I believe, more excellent MSW will be cultivated by Beijing Normal University and contribute to a bright future of China's social work.