The Shanghai FTZ Bonded Area hosts a pre-service training workshop for university students at a spring job fair on April 24. [Photo/pdtimes.com.cn]

The Bonded Area of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (Shanghai FTZ) launched a pre-service training workshop for university students at a spring job fair on April 24 to improve its talent training.

The workshop, co-created by the Bonded Area Management Bureau and the Shanghai Student Affairs Center, aims to utilize FTZ's advantages to cultivate talented personnel.

It will serve as a platform for government departments, enterprises, and universities to exchange ideas and cooperate in the fields of disciplinary development, talent training, internships, and employment. It will also serve the FTZ by training and supplying talent that the zone needs.

After it is launched, resources and information from government branches, universities, institutions, and enterprises will be shared. In addition, it will also provide an integrated talent solution covering research, consulting, decision making, and human resources.

The competitiveness of university students in getting employed and starting up businesses will also be improved significantly via pre-service training and internships.

Shanghai University of International Business and Economics is the first training base of the workshop. Others including Tongji University, Dong University, Shanghai Association of International Services Trade, and Shanghai Shine-Link International Logistics Co will join the project.

Managers at the Shanghai Shine-Link International Logistics Co said that they yearn for top talents and the workshop allows the company to be in close contact with professionals of various universities and to retain top graduates ahead of other competitors.

Last year, the Bonded Area established a regional talent base, included overseas talents into its talent training system, and upgraded the previous administrative committee-town-university cooperation model to an administrative committee-industry-university model. 

In the future, it will promote the further development of the FTZ as a talent hub based on the actual needs of local enterprises.

About 204 enterprises such as Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group, Carl Zeiss, and Ping An Insurance Group attended the spring job fair, which attracted more than 5,100 job seekers from 30 Shanghai's universities and colleges and 22 towns.

A total of 859 positions and 2,059 job opportunities were on offer, and eventually 1,437 people obtained employment.