Context
The city of Jincheng is one of many resource-dependent cities in Shanxi Province, which has been pilot province of the State Council for Sustainable Transformation and Structural Change for many years. In order to meet the challenges and unlock the development potential, the city government has decided to implement capacity-building measures. One of these measures is the training of entre-preneurs and managers of companies of the most im-portant industrial branches.
Objective
The aim of the component is to promote the structural adaptation of traditional (old) industries in Jincheng through capacity-building measures and to make the industrial sector of the city more sustainable in terms of the concept of ecological civilization. Furthermore, it aims to reform and diversify the industrial structure through new, modern and innovative industries based on the concept of Made in China 2025 and to promote intelligent production through increased digitization.
Approach
To achieve this goal, the component consists of five parts: application, theory-based training in China, practical training in Germany, implementation of learning projects and alumni work combined with knowledge sharing in Jincheng. The training measures last a total of eight weeks, with five weeks in China and three weeks in Germany.
The project focuses on executives of Chinese companies. Ideally, the participants come from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who want to establish contacts with German companies. In order to achieve synergy effects and a sustainable impact in the city, up to five officials from relevant departments should be integrated into each group. Against this background, a total of 90 executives from companies and government agencies of the city will participate in the training measures in 2019 in three groups of 30 each.
The training programme is open to all companies in the city. However, managers from industries that are among the mainstays of the local industry will be favoured, e.g. coal chemistry, foundries, steelworks, mechanical engi-neering, environmental technology and ceramics will be.
At the beginning of the training in China there will be introduction days, to introduce topics and methodology of the training, e.g. Action Learning, as well as intercul-tural competences and knowledge and important basic information about Germany.
The subsequent training measures will consist of themati-cally structured blocks mainly consisting of presentations and workshops at the Jincheng Institute of Technology. Among other things, experiences from Germany will be presented, discussed and exchanges among the partici-pants will be promoted to ensure transfer to the local context.