China’s First Industry-Talent Innovation Hub for New Energy Storage Launches in Foshan
China has officially launched the country’s first industry-talent collaborative innovation centre for the new energy storage sector in Foshan, Guangdong Province. According to CNR News, the new platform is designed to deepen coordinated innovation between the new energy storage industrial chain and talent development system via refined collaborative mechanisms, supporting the high-quality expansion of the booming domestic new energy storage industry.
Jointly built by the MIIT Talent Exchange Center, CSG Peak-Shaving and Frequency-Modulating (Guangdong) Energy Storage Technology Co., Ltd. and Wuhan Business University, the centre integrates multi-party advantages to form a comprehensive talent service ecosystem for the sector. It leverages the resource coordination strengths of central public service institutions, the solid technological innovation and practical application experience of leading energy storage enterprises, as well as the professional talent cultivation and supply capabilities of higher education institutions.
Driven by China’s dual-carbon goals, the new energy storage industry maintains robust growth, with its industrial scale ranking first globally for consecutive years. The fast industrial expansion generates growing market demand for professional and technical talents, creating urgent needs for standardized talent training and professional capability evaluation in the field.
The centre will focus on actual job requirements of new energy storage enterprises to carry out systematic talent training and competency assessment from three core dimensions, including professional knowledge, technical skills and engineering practice. It will build a closed-loop industrial service system covering whole-process talent cultivation, capability evaluation and industrial supporting services.
A series of targeted talent development plans have been rolled out to support long-term industrial talent supply. In terms of professional knowledge improvement, the centre will develop specialized courses and textbooks covering power energy storage application technologies, and achieve a full-time training scale of no fewer than 100 students annually by 2027.
For technical skill enhancement, it will build professional research laboratories and industry-talent collaborative training bases, delivering no less than three batches of internal and external vocational training sessions every year. In terms of engineering practice cultivation, the centre will rely on operational new energy storage demonstration projects invested and constructed by enterprises. It will arrange professional trainees to participate in on-site practical learning and tackle technical challenges in energy storage battery manufacturing and system integration.
The launch of the innovative centre fills the gap of specialized industry-talent integration platforms in China’s new energy storage sector. It will continuously optimize talent matching efficiency with industrial development, deliver high-caliber professional talents, and empower the sustainable and high-quality development of the domestic new energy storage industry in the future.
