To precisely seize the strategic development opportunities of vocational education in the "15th Five-Year Plan," explore innovative paths for deep industry-education integration and school-enterprise collaborative education, and empower the high-quality development of vocational education, the 2026 Vocational Education Industry-Education Integration Forum (Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area) and the Peking University Education Doctor Vocational Education Forum were grandly held at the China-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City. Gao Hongyin, Dean of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship College of Xinyang Shengye International Education Group (Maple Leaf Vocational College), was invited to participate. Together with numerous vocational education institutions, industry experts, and leading enterprise representatives from across the country, they gathered in the Bay Area to jointly explore the direction of vocational education reform and innovation and the path of high-quality development in the new era.

This forum was hosted by Guangzhou Kangda Vocational and Technical College and the Hong Kong Workers' Education and Vocational Training Association, with authoritative academic support from the Peking University Graduate School of Education. It is a high-specification, professional vocational education exchange event based in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and radiating across the country. The forum took "'15th Five-Year Plan' Opening Vocational Education — Key Points and Trends of High-Quality Development of Vocational Education Under the Background of Building an Education Powerhouse" as its core theme, gathering over a hundred institution managers, academic experts, and enterprise leaders from the mainland, Hong Kong, and Macao. Around core topics such as deep integration of the four chains, digital and intelligent transformation of vocational education, implementation of the modern apprenticeship system, cultivation of high-skilled talents, innovation in school-enterprise cooperation, and coordinated development of regional vocational education, they carried out multi-dimensional and in-depth discussions and exchanges. The agenda was substantial, the content pragmatic, and the focus on practical combat. The opening ceremony speech was visionary and far-reaching. Multiple authoritative industry experts brought cutting-edge keynote sharing. The parallel forums for higher vocational and secondary vocational education precisely focused on educational pain points and solved development problems. The Peking University Education Doctor Forum focused on academic frontiers, colliding with advanced educational concepts. Participants, based on the new pattern of industrial development and the reality of vocational education operation, deeply shared high-quality education models, benchmark industry-education cooperation cases, and modern talent cultivation plans, precisely clarifying the core priorities of current vocational education transformation and future development trends, providing highly valuable practical ideas for institutions and enterprises across the country to deepen collaborative education and empower talent cultivation.

During the participation, Gao Hongyin, Dean of Xinyang Shengye International Education Group (Maple Leaf Vocational College), focused on learning throughout and deeply participated in discussions, systematically absorbing the advanced vocational education concepts, mature industry-education integration operation systems, and practical experience of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. He focused on studying innovative education models such as digital and intelligent empowerment of teaching reform, special cultivation of on-site engineers, and integrated talent cultivation of secondary vocational, higher vocational, and enterprises. At the same time, the team actively carried out cross-regional and cross-industry exchange and docking, deeply communicating with institution leaders and industry enterprise representatives from various places on educational concepts and exploring cooperation models. They carried out negotiations around directions such as school-enterprise joint construction of bases, resource sharing, targeted talent delivery, and joint project research and development, actively building long-term and diversified cross-regional industry-education cooperation bridges.

This participation built a high-quality learning exchange and resource docking platform for both schools and enterprises, and also further clarified the type positioning and development core of vocational education in the new era for both sides. They deeply recognized the core value of the "four-chain integration" and coordinated development of the education chain, talent chain, industrial chain, and innovation chain. The cutting-edge development concepts, mature and pragmatic cooperation models, and rich and vivid practical cases conveyed by the forum effectively broadened the development vision of Dalian Maple Leaf Vocational and Technical College's Innovation and Entrepreneurship College in teaching reform, innovation and entrepreneurship talent cultivation, and school-enterprise project landing, and precisely anchored the direction for the college's subsequent high-quality development. In the next step, relying on the industry exchange platform built by this forum, they will continue to deepen cross-regional resource linkage and complementary advantages, continuously consolidate the foundation of school-enterprise and inter-school collaborative cooperation, deeply cultivate the fertile soil of vocational education innovative development, and gather strength to build characteristic and benchmark industry-education integration brands, assisting in the quality improvement and excellence cultivation of vocational education, and contributing the strength of school-enterprise collaboration to the high-quality development of vocational education.