In just over a year, Weifang Maritime School invested nearly 20 million yuan to complete the construction of equipment and teaching facilities of the Maritime Vocational School. The school is equipped with modern teaching facilities such as multifunctional teaching building, multimedia classroom, paperless examination room, navigation control simulator, simulated fire cabin, GMDSS global satellite communication system, radar observation and plotting training system, etc. With professional skills training center, the first power operation simulation computer room in China was built, which significantly improved the level of school hardware facilities. In the acceptance of the National Maritime Safety Administration in August 2008, *** 13 school crew education and training passed the acceptance at one time, creating a miracle of the national maritime school. On June+10, 5438, the paperless examination room of the school passed the acceptance test and became the only suitable paperless examination room within the jurisdiction of Jinan Maritime Safety Administration. The school has perfected the first-class modern hardware conditions for running a school, laying a solid hardware foundation for the continuous improvement of the school's education level and teaching quality.
(2) With the goal of in-depth implementation of vocational education, vigorously promote the construction of excellent professional teachers.
Weifang Navigation School has an excellent team of professional teachers composed of navigation experts, professors, senior cadres, crew members and professional teachers, including professors, associate professors and lecturers 10, more than 60 professional teachers with certificates of competency as captain, chief engineer, chief mate and ocean liner, more than 20 English teachers with professional English level 8 or above and 8 graduate students. At the same time, the school has hired well-known scholars and professors from maritime universities in China as teaching guides (consultants), which has played a very good role in promoting the improvement of teaching level and quality. In the future, the school will continue to vigorously promote the construction of professional teachers, optimize the structure of teachers, strive to train dual-qualified professional teachers, and constantly improve the teaching level and quality of education.
The teaching quality of the school has been fundamentally guaranteed by excellent professional teachers, and the performance training of the school crew has also made continuous achievements. By the end of the performance training examination organized by the Maritime Safety Administration, the passing rate of theoretical examination and practical examination of students reached over 99.7% and over 95%, which affirmed the teaching quality and training effect of the school, laid a good foundation for the smooth development of the school's next work and promoted the continuous improvement of the school's education and teaching level. In response to the call of the state to vigorously develop vocational education and improve people's living standards, the school fully cooperates with Weifang's coastal economic development in accordance with the spirit of Weifang Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government on promoting the development of northern coastal areas as a whole, further improving the level of running schools and improving the quality of education, and cultivating high-quality, high-skilled and practical navigation talents for the society. The school has declared "Shandong Weifang Maritime College" and has been formally established. At the same time, the school invested heavily in building a new campus in Weifang Binhai Economic Development Zone Science and Education Innovation Park. The new campus covers an area of nearly 700 mu, with a planned construction area of about 300,000 square meters. The functions of the new campus include: new majors: navigation technology, marine engineering management, international logistics, port machinery, international shipping management, computer application and maintenance, ship repair and construction, ship electrical and so on. Equipped with fully functional training center and practice factory; In the functional construction of the new campus, we should pay attention to further promoting the construction of scientific research and development achievements of the school; We will build student dormitories, teachers' apartments and living restaurants with complete functions and facilities, which can accommodate10.5 million students to study and live at school. The new campus is under construction, and the progress of six main buildings in the first phase is in the middle of construction, reaching the standard of 5000 people.
After the completion of the new campus, the enrollment capacity and hardware facilities of the school will reach a new level on the basis of the new campus, forming the most advanced and largest training base for maritime professional and technical personnel in the province, thus delivering more outstanding maritime talents to the society.
Weifang Navigation School, as a school full of vigor and vitality, has seized the opportunity, pioneered and innovated and stepped onto a new level step by step under the leadership and decision of the board of directors since its establishment. All the work of the school has been on the right track and is developing steadily, healthily and rapidly. With its strong school-running strength and unparalleled advantages, the school has not only been highly praised by the national, provincial and municipal maritime departments and education departments, but also won wide attention and universal praise from all walks of life. The first enrollment showed a hot situation. After layers of screening, more than a thousand students finally entered the gate of Weifang Maritime School smoothly. The enthusiastic registration of students fully verified the school's own strength and good reputation, and also provided a good start for the school's work.
Facing the new situation, new opportunities and new challenges, Weifang Navigation School will aim at higher goals, adhere to the school-running purpose of "serving the society, ensuring the training of navigation professionals who meet the requirements of relevant international conventions and national regulations and meet the needs of customers with perfect school-running conditions, standardized management and comprehensive services", adhere to the school-running concept of "service-oriented, employment first", undertake the mission, seize the opportunity and forge ahead. Make greater contributions to the development of maritime education in Weifang and even the whole country, and strive for the goal of building a maritime professional school with distinctive shipping characteristics with a high starting point, high quality and high level!