On the afternoon of April 1, Party Secretary Ding Rongyu led a delegation to Alibaba Center · Nanjing (1688 Platform) for research and exchange. Participants included staff from the School Office, Development Planning Office, and Training Center.
Yang Zhawen, Chief Strategy Officer of Jiangsu Huabo Industrial Group, and Qi Lili, General Manager of Nanjing Chengxingqi Education Technology Co., Ltd., welcomed the delegation. Yang detailed Alibaba Group's overall layout in digital trade and industry empowerment. Focusing on structural talent supply-demand mismatches in areas such as 1688 enterprise services, cross-border e-commerce operations, and EWTP global trade platform management, he articulated a vision for university-enterprise collaborative talent cultivation.
Ding Rongyu analyzed challenges faced by Jiangsu's manufacturing enterprises, including limited market expansion and shortages of online operations professionals. He noted that as an open university focused on skilled talent cultivation and lifelong learning, JSOU remains committed to serving local development and promoting student employment. Regarding the partnership with Alibaba Center · Nanjing (1688 Platform), Ding proposed three priorities: First, addressing talent shortages in 1688 operations and Belt and Road cross-border e-commerce by building an education + industry + employment training system. Second, leveraging 1688's global business resources to connect Jiangsu firms with overseas markets like the Middle East. Third, using the Credit Bank to enable integration of skills training and degree advancement.
Both sides are willing to fully integrate real 1688 business scenarios, platform operation standards, and cross-border trade rules into the training system, jointly cultivating interdisciplinary e-commerce talent who understand the platform, excel at operations, can expand markets, and are proficient in foreign languages.
