On April 17, the 2025 "Farmer College Student Training Program" open-education enrollment was officially launched. The Municipal Party Committee Organization Department, Municipal Education Bureau, the Municipal Finance Bureau, the Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, the Municipal Agriculture and Rural Bureau, the Municipal Rural Revitalization Bureau of Huaihua jointly issued a notice that they will rely on the Huaihua Open University educational system to continue implementing the "Farmer College Student Training Program" to further serve and promote rural revitalization.
It is understood that the "Farmer College Student Training Program" is divided into two categories: full-time higher vocational education and open education under the unified enrollment plan of the national college entrance examination. Full-time higher vocational education is of a junior college level, with a schooling length of 3-6 years. Students will be uniformly enrolled by the headquarters of Huaihua Open University. This year, the city plans to train 500 farmer college students. The training targets of the "Farmer College Student Training Program" are mainly members of the two CPC committees of the village (including rural communities) and their reserve forces, CPC members and CPC application activitists, rural revitalization and wealth pioneers, etc., and will set up majors such as industrial and commercial enterprise management (township enterprise management direction) and e-commerce (agricultural and sideline products marketing direction).
In order to truly cultivate a group of rural grassroots CPC members and cadres and new rural practical talents who can be retained and used, who understand technology, and who can operate businesses, Huaihua Open University actively builds teaching platforms, enriches teaching staff, and enriches teaching methods to effectively improve teaching results. The school has established a high-level teaching team and hired "dual-teacher" experts with profound theoretical knowledge and practical experience from various universities in the province and relevant units in the city. Teaching will adopt a combination of online and offline modes, giving full play to the role of 32 practical teaching bases, and will carefully arrange face-to-face course teaching and practical teaching according to the characteristics of local regional economic development.
"Among the farmer college students who have graduated in recent years in our city, 73.83% have stayed in the local area for employment or entrepreneurship. They have founded more than 300 enterprises and cooperatives, established 48 demonstration bases, and helped more than 17,882 farmers in the surrounding areas to make money together. These students are rooted in their hometowns and serve the "three rural areas", playing an active role in promoting rural revitalization." Xiao Wei, president of Huaihua Open University, said that the school will continue to improve the pertinence of teaching, promote the construction of rural revitalization majors and disciplines, and focus on training rural talents with "academic qualifications + skills" to empower rural revitalization.
(Translated by Le Guobin)