Hengda Printing & Dyeing cooperates with Donghua University to establish “Postgraduate Fostering Base”.  It has responsible tutors inside and outside the schools.  The students take part in the company’s production and management activities, task research and production practice.  They learn from practice, promote practice by tasks.  They truly learn to meet practical needs.  On the one hand, the base helps the students to practice and absorb work experience as soon as possible.  On the other hand, it inputs fresh blood to Hengda and adds more and more creative power.  The base gives a full use of the superior resources from the enterprises, institutions of higher learning to jointly foster high-level innovative and versatile talents.  It fulfills good interaction in production, study and research.  It offers the powerful talent support for the social progress, the development of textile dyeing and finishing industry.

United Postgraduate Fostering Base functions as bridge and tie of production-study-research cooperation education.  Base mode combines theory study with practice activities.  It enhances the students’ comprehensive abilities.  It offers comprehensive service to increase innovative and practice capability of postgraduates.  It gets rid of mono-objective of limited traditional education mode, explores innovative postgraduate fostering mode, initiates upon new channels of production-study-research cooperation cooperation.  It fosters high-level innovative and versatile talents who accord with social requirements.  Its functional design mainly includes the following aspects:

1)  It spurs on innovative postgraduate fostering mode.  The students in Postgraduate Fostering Base receive course work at school, paper fostering in the enterprise with double-tutor mode.  They shall combine with the enterprise scientific research projects to complete Graduation Thesis.  School tutors play major roles.Enterprise tutors give auxiliary function.  They are responsible for their respective tasks and jointly foster postgraduates.  It takes premise of establishing the fostering base.  It combines with actual situations of both the school and enterprise.  It enhances the postgraduates’ fostering quality.

2)  It initiates upon new channel of production-study-research cooperation.  It never ceases production-study-research cooperation between school and enterprise, mainly by the form of scientific research cooperation or personnel training.  The establishment of Postgraduate Fostering Base breaks mono-layout in traditional talent fostering mode.  From now on, the enterprise can participate into postgraduate fostering.  Actual scientific research project is used as carrier.  While the enterprise is fostering postgraduates, it gets labor and intellectual support from postgraduates.  It pushes forward technological progress of the enterprise.  Meanwhile it expands talent channels.  The school can use superior education resources from the enterprise.  It creates beneficial conditions for innovative fostering of postgraduates.  Therefore institutions of higher learning can better serve our societies.

3)  It enhances the postgraduates’ fostering quality.  It establishes Postgraduate Fostering Base to combine teaching practice with scientific research practice.  It emphasizes pertinence and timeliness of talent fostering.  It constructs a talent fostering platform to meet frontline science, national requirements and high-tech activities.  It solves a big problem that postgraduate fostering can not meet social requirements.  It strengthens the students’ social competitiveness.

4)  It promotes high-tech progress of the enterprise.  Through establishing united fostering base, it builds up a bridge for school-enterprise cooperation.  It uses school technology and intellectual advantage to participate into the enterprise tasks, help to tackle technical difficulties.  Postgraduates go to the enterprise.  They are fostered according to the enterprise requirements.  The enterprise investigates, selects and attracts the excellent postgraduates who will be long-term scientific researchers in future.  The enterprise completes investment of human capital through education training.  It adds more and more human capital reserve.