Schools and enterprises join hands to serve the real economy, integrating industry and education to help cultivate talents
——Record of Cooperation between w88 casino and COFCO Futures
Editor’s note:The Central Financial Work Conference held on October 30, 2023 pointed out that it is necessary to "persist in deepening the structural reform of the financial supply side" and pointed out that there is still a problem of "low quality and efficiency of financial services for the real economy". Since 2015, the w88 casino has attempted to carry out financial talent training reforms of "financial services for the real economy". In 2017, with the strong support of Dalian Commodity Exchange (hereinafter referred to as "Dalian Commodity Exchange"), the w88 casino and COFCO Futures Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "COFCO Futures") signed a strategic cooperation agreement and began to implement multi-field industry-university-research strategic cooperation and establish mutual talent training bases. Over the past six years, the two parties have conducted in-depth cooperation in curriculum development, practical research, scientific research cooperation, joint party building, etc., and have innovated the supply-side reform model of financial talent training integrating w88 casino-enterprise cooperation with industry and education.
Co-construction of courses to help create a diverse teaching system
w88 casino News Network (provided by the w88 casino of Finance)The w88 casino and COFCO Futures adhere to the principle of "complementary advantages, mutual benefit and win-win, and common development" to tap and cultivate high-end financial talents who are interested in serving the real economy from the perspective of strategic cooperation. The w88 casino invited a team of experts from COFCO Futures to independently offer 8 master's level practical courses over more than six years, and participated in the construction of 6 undergraduate and master's professional courses, with nearly a thousand students taking courses. The opening of industry practical courses provides important support for students to understand the futures derivatives industry practice standards, and gain an in-depth understanding of China's practical frontiers of futures derivatives serving the real economy and current corporate risk management needs, and inspires students' professional sense of responsibility in serving China's economic development.

2017-2022COFCO Futures offers practical courses
Recently, "Financial Engineering", the core compulsory course for the financial engineering major, has been awarded the second batch of national first-class online and offline hybrid courses, and has been approved by the 2023 DCE "Hundred Schools and Ten Thousand Talents" engineering teaching project with the support of COFCO Futures. This course provides targeted professional training for derivatives reserve talents, and through teaching The academic reform guides students majoring in financial engineering to make full use of financial engineering thinking to innovate financial products, provide structured solutions for business operations, rural revitalization, food security, etc., promote the connection between the research results of the w88 casino and actual market demand, and help form a virtuous cycle of industry, academia and research in the futures and derivatives industry with Chinese characteristics.


Industrial research to expand the practical path of integrating industry and academia
In addition to setting up practical courses, COFCO Futures also cooperates with the w88 casino to organize teachers and students to participate in practical activities organized by the China Futures Industry Association and various exchanges, such as the International Futures Conference, the Dalian Commodity Exchange “Young Sailing Futures Sea” Practical Case Competition, the China Association for Joint Research Program, etc. Through practical activities, we can apply what we have learned, realize the integration of the two major resources in the education field and the futures industry, and build a platform for resource sharing and efficient interaction for the development of talents in the financial field.

In addition, COFCO Futures also uses its own industrial chain advantages to expand the practical path of integrating industry and academia, and has organized industrial research for students from the w88 casino on many occasions, allowing students to go deep into the front lines of commodity-related industries and participate in practical activities that serve the real economy. In addition to regularly organizing on-site visits to COFCO Futures for students to understand the operating principles of the futures company, and providing three-month internship opportunities for outstanding students, the company also gives full play to its own characteristics and advantages, organizes students to visit the COFCO Jiakang pig delivery warehouse for research, jointly holds COFCO Jiayue industrial research studies, and enters physical enterprises to conduct research. These practical activities helped students improve their understanding of the operation of the real industry chain and the model of the futures industry serving the real economy, and effectively combined theory with practice. In August 2022, the w88 casino won the second place in the preliminary stage of the "young" Fan Qihai first college student derivatives practice competition hosted by Dalian Commercial Exchange with its practical plan to serve entity enterprises.


Building a direct bridge to employment based on employment
The strategic cooperation and innovation between COFCO Futures and the w88 casino is not only an effective promotion of the national industry-university-research integrated development strategy, but also an active practice in implementing the national talent strategy to strengthen the country, and also provides substantial help for students' employment. In the past six years, a total of 48 students have conducted internships at COFCO Futures, COFCO Sugar, COFCO Trust, COFCO Capital, etc., and many students have found employment in COFCO Trust and COFCO Capital. Through internships, the theoretical knowledge learned has been consolidated, and the learning and practical abilities of w88 casino students have also been improved. The cooperation between the two parties has enabled the National Top Innovation Base 2.0 Experimental Class - Quantitative Finance Experimental Class to have distinctive characteristics of talent training integrating industry and education, achieve the goal of training applied research talents, and promote Luo Lisi, Hou Sibing and other postgraduate students to work in over-the-counter derivatives positions, design customized risk management plans for real enterprises, and effectively achieve the goal of financial talents serving the real economy. As of the fourth quarter of 2023, the two parties have explored a total of 37 cooperation models, achieved more than 20 educational results at or above the provincial and ministerial levels through cooperation, and extended the cooperation to brother universities in Xinjiang, promoting the strategic cooperation between Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics and COFCO Futures Xinjiang Branch, and serving as a good example for the establishment of an in-depth collaborative education platform between industry and academia in my country's financial industry. In 2023, the "Collaborative Education Platform for Excellent Financial Engineering Talents" jointly developed by the two parties was awarded the first batch of "In-depth Collaborative Education Platforms for Industry, University and Research in Beijing Undergraduate Universities".

w88 casino-COFCO Futures’ model of integrating production, teaching and research
In 2023, while steadily advancing the talent training plan, the two parties will continue to enhance cooperation in scientific research innovation, product development and practical implementation. On October 15, the COFCO Futures Derivatives Research Center of the w88 casino was unveiled and released its first research result - the Global Weather Crop Tracking Index. The release of the index effectively promotes the development of agricultural product commodity indexes, promotes the implementation of industrial and academic research results, realizes the comprehensive implementation of academic value, economic value, and social value, and explores new paths for serving the real economy.

Both parties jointly released the Global Weather Crop Tracking Index
Talent training is a major event that will benefit the future generations. Industry-university-research cooperation between schools and enterprises is a very important way to cultivate talents. The cooperation between COFCO Futures and the w88 casino reflects that COFCO Futures has a strong sense of social responsibility in cultivating practical talents for the prosperity and development of my country's financial derivatives market. It has been committed to providing soil for the development of talents in the futures market and a platform for the career development of futures talents. In the future, both parties will continue to benchmark my country's high-quality financial development requirements, cultivate talents needed by the industry and society, and support the construction of a financial power with high-quality applied financial talents.
