Yibin Vocational and Technical College officially established the New Energy Battery College

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In line with the development direction of Yibin’s power battery industry, on July 15, Yibin Vocational and Technical College officially established a School of New Energy Batteries. In the future, Yibin will rely on power batteries as its core industry, and develop in the areas of photovoltaic cells, hydrogen energy (fuel cells), as well as testing and maintenance technologies for new energy vehicles. In response, the New Energy Batteries College of Yibin Vocational and Technical College will offer the following major: Applied Technology of New Energy Materials, which is related to the lithium-ion power battery industry ； The major in New Energy Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Technology is related to the new energy vehicle industry ； Major in Photovoltaic Materials Preparation Technology, related to the solar cell industry ； Hydrogen Energy Technology Application major (hydrogen fuel cells), related to the hydrogen storage industry. It is understood that the School of New Energy Batteries will begin enrolling students in 2023, with an estimated enrollment of around 400 students; the number of students is expected to reach about 1,500 within the next three years. The college will innovate the training model for talent development, dividing the training process into three stages: basic job skills, intermediate job skills, and advanced job skills. Throughout this process, there is achieved a connection among professional teachers and enterprise engineers, as well as between teaching requirements and job-related skills; furthermore, the content of specialized courses is integrated with enterprise technologies – achieving these \"three\" forms of integration. In terms of development goals, the New Energy Batteries College will build on its strong foundation to pursue research at the undergraduate level in vocational education, aiming to become a world-renowned and domestically leading institution in this field. It will strive to achieve excellence in battery-related skills among vocational colleges, adopting a long-term development strategy and exploring the possibility of offering graduate programs in vocational education in the future ； Horizontally, it aims to supply high-level battery manufacturing skills to the ecosystem of Yibin’s power battery industry – including upstream battery materials, midstream power batteries, and downstream industries such as new energy vehicles, solar cells, and hydrogen energy – thereby supporting Yibin, serving the southwest region, and having an impact across the whole country.