On October 12, 2021, the opening ceremony of the “Big Data Application-based E-commerce”training course for Lao middle and senior managers of the Silk Road Project of the Mayor Scholarship for Foreign Students of Chongqing Municipal People’s Government undertaken by Chongqing City Vocational College (CCVC) was held.Affected by the COVID-19, the opening ceremony was held in the “cloud” and implemented offline in combination with video connections. Oudet Souvannavong, Chairman of the Lao National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LNCCI), Somlith VIRIVONG, Deputy Director General of the Department of Technical and Vocational Education, Ministry of Education and Sports of Laos, Soumana Choulamany, Director General of the Department of Vocational and Technical Innovation, Ministry of Technology and Telecommunications of Laos; Manitto, LNCCI Deputy Secretary-General; Souvaly, Vice President of Young Entrepreneur Association of Lao (YEAL), Zhang Yi, Principal of Laos HSK International School, and Zhang Tieshan, General Manager of Laos Guoding Kaitai Company, attended the opening ceremony of the Laos branch. Li Bin, Director of International Cooperation and Exchange Office of Chongqing Education Commission, Song Wen, Secretary of Yongchuan High-tech Zone, Pi Shengqin, Deputy Director of Yongchuan High-tech Zone, Yang Donglun, Chief Representative of LNCCI Chongqing, Zhang Shaorong, Secretary of CCVC Party Committee, and CCVC President Tang Yulin attended the main venue of the school Class opening ceremony. Liu Zhongquan, CCVC Vice President, presided over the opening ceremony at the main venue. 70 students from Laos also participated in the opening ceremony through online channels.

At 11 o’clock in the morning, the opening ceremony officially began. In his speech, President Tang Yulin pointed out that the school will strive to provide Lao students with high-quality education and training services, and strive to promote to Laos the advanced technologies, products and services of China and Chongqing related companies in the big data and e-commerce fields, and promote labor The scenario application of intelligence in various fields of society cultivates intermediate and senior technical and project management talents for neighboring countries who understand Chinese culture, are familiar with e-commerce models, understand the construction and project implementation of functional e-commerce platforms, and understand the application prospects of big data technology industries. . He hopes that Lao students can achieve what they have learned, apply what they have learned, and serve their country. At the same time, be an ambassador for cultural exchanges and friendship between China and Laos.

Oudet Souvannavong, LNCCI Chairman, hoped that after completing the study, the trainees would bring new knowledge and new ideas to work, and integrate personal progress, business prosperity and social development. He also hoped to use more training opportunities to train Laos. Talents who understand technology and market will help Laos’ economic and social development.

Song Wen, Secretary of the Yongchuan High-tech Zone, expressed his heartfelt congratulations on the success of this training project in his speech. He pointed out that the “E-commerce based on big data application” training jointly carried out by Chongqing City Vocational College and Laos is highly compatible with the development advantages of Yongchuan District, especially the integrated development direction of the big data industry and e-commerce industry, which can allow participants to participate in the training. The trainees fully understand China’s e-commerce policy, master e-commerce platform operation, and will surely further deepen the friendship between China and Laos.

Somlith VIRIVONG, Deputy Director General of the Department of Technical and Vocational Education of the Ministry of Education and Sports of Laos, hopes that the trainees will cherish the opportunity, broaden their horizons, learn knowledge and skills, and use the knowledge and technology they have learned to better serve enterprises and realize their own value in life. He looks forward to establishing an exchange and communication mechanism with China’s vocational colleges to jointly carry out cooperation in joint school running, teacher training, student study abroad, and skill competitions.

Li Bin, Director of the International Cooperation and Exchange Office of the Municipal Education Commission, pointed out that China and Laos are good neighbors and friends. Over the past 60 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, China and Laos have always been close-minded and sincerely communicating with each other, bringing tangibility to the two peoples. He reviewed the good foundation of cooperation between Chongqing and Laos. At the same time, in order to attract outstanding foreign students to study in Chongqing, the Chongqing Municipal People’s Government specially established the “Chongqing Municipal People’s Government Mayor Scholarship for Foreign Students”. He hopes that the CCVC will organize the training with high standards and ensure the successful completion of the training work in line with the attitude of striving for excellence and the spirit of craftsmanship. He hoped that the Lao trainees participating in the training would gain and accomplish what they learned, and be friendly ambassadors for the exchanges between the two countries, and contribute to deepening China-Laos friendship, strengthening China-Laos business exchanges, and deepening China-Laos educational exchanges and cooperation.

Representatives of training teachers and trainees also made enthusiastic speeches at the opening ceremony.

Finally, Zhang Shaorong, Secretary of the CCVC Party Committee announced the official opening of the training.

The follow-up 30-day training mainly adopts a combination of online centralized live lectures, online business seminars, online business negotiations, and online cultural exchanges. The training content mainly includes: e-commerce development and China’s foreign trade policies, e-commerce operations and there are five modules: management, application of big data artificial intelligence technology in e-commerce, Chinese cultural display and communication, enterprise online communication and business negotiation.

For this training course, LNCCI Chongqing Representative Office has done a lot of work, LNCCI Laos headquarters organized a strong team, and about 30 member companies selected excellent management personnel to participate in the training. Hope they will succeed in learning and make new contributions to the development of LNCCI!