Forum appeals to skilled IT personnel
(China Daily)
Updated: 2005-06-25 08:51

DALIAN: An international IT forum offering a platform for educational and industrial circles to communicate stressed the need for training staff in software.

Dalian Mayor Xia Deren said the city's software industry has benefited a lot from developing human resources. Among the 15,000 college graduates employed in the city each year, 80 per cent work with software.

President of Northeastern University Hao Jicheng also said that education will play a vital role in forming core competence in the country's software sector.

He called for an integration of IT education through adjusting knowledge structure, reforming teaching methods and meeting market needs.

Private capital should be encouraged to cultivate IT professionals.

He also emphasized the importance of establishing a link between training and the market.

Structural shortage of software staff and a disconnection of education from the market have led to a bottleneck in the sector.

Research-oriented and application-oriented institutes should seek different forms of co-operation with software enterprises, he said.

Wang Jicheng, researcher of the Development Research Centre of the State Council, said 5 per cent of people in China had high-education degrees, compared with 30 per cent in advanced countries.

Jiang Lujie, chief operation officer of HP Global Software Service Centre, said the company is willing to co-operate with educational institutes.

But he also said internal training within companies was not always suitable for colleges and institutes.

Mizuma, vice president of Waseda University, said Japan-based firms with investment in China welcome skilled staff with fluent foreign languages and foreign culture education, equipped with both professional knowledge and the ability to communicate.

The country needs 60,000 high-level, 280,000 middle-level and 460,000 low-level skilled staff by 2005.

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