The mystery of Cao Yong 'an's running a school

Qiqihar, the hometown of red-crowned cranes, can be described as a heavy industrial city that was liberated the earliest, entered the planned economy at the earliest and entered the market economy at the latest. There are only eight state-owned enterprises with more than 10,000 people. The regional economy is underdeveloped, and enterprise-run education accounts for half of the local education. In this case, how to develop enterprise-run education has always been one of the concerns and thoughts of Cao Yong 'an, Party Secretary and President of East Asia University in Heilongjiang. After several analyses and arguments, Cao Yong 'an came to the conclusion that the rolling development is too slow, the bank loan is too difficult, and the risk of raising funds to run a school is too great. Only by integrating the educational resources under the planned economy, reducing the cost and expanding the scale of running a school, is it the most cost-effective. As a result, the prelude to the tough battle of integrating educational resources was opened.

1993 12.25, East Asia University of Heilongjiang signed a separation contract with Qiqihar No.1 Machine Tool Factory, which was in its heyday at that time, becoming the first private school run by an enterprise in China. After embarking on the road of state-owned and private enterprises, they seek survival and development with reform as the driving force.

The accounting units are divided into small units, and the distribution principles of "three posts system" and "those who can work more, get more for more work, and give priority to efficiency and benefit" are implemented.

So as to realize the effective integration of intellectual resources.

Diversified school-running modes, diversified teaching forms and diversified teaching contents have formed the construction of "three pairs up to standard" teachers. "Three pairs" means "amphibious" post ability, which can not only teach and educate people, but also manage and educate people. Obtaining the "double-qualified" qualification certificate can not only impart theory, but also operate demonstration. With "double high" cultural literacy, there are both solid cultural literacy and high humanistic literacy. Through "learning, guiding, leading and pressing", the overall professional level of teachers will be continuously improved. And improve the school's running conditions, with self-built school buildings of 2 1000 square meters, 600 multifunctional Pentium series microcomputers, 43 professional laboratories for microcomputer control and sound track language lab, electrical, physical, numerical control and auto repair, off-campus practice bases 10, and a school FM broadcasting station. School assets increased by 40 million yuan.

Good teaching atmosphere, flexible distribution mechanism and excellent school-running conditions not only attract a large number of educational talents in Qiqihar, but also win the participation of foreign teachers such as the United States, Australia and Britain. In a few years, the number of teachers in the University of East Asia has increased by 2.9 times, reaching 203. Among them, teachers with senior titles account for more than half of all teachers, reaching 109. The expansion of teachers and the improvement of teachers' level have promoted the development of teaching and scientific research in the school year by year. Six national textbooks for higher education diploma examinations compiled by college teachers have been popularized all over the country, and the average pass rate of students taking self-study examinations for higher education has remained above 80%, ranking the leading level in the country. They are authorized by the Ministry of Education as national examination sites and training institutions for computer application technology (NIT). It is recognized as a computer information application education center by the Ministry of Information Industry; It was identified as a computer information high-tech evaluation station by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security; Authorized by Microsoft Corporation of the United States as Training and Testing Center (ATC); Awarded by the Ministry of Education as the "Advanced Collective of National Higher Education Self-taught Examination", China Adult Education Association also hung the halo of "Advanced Unit of Private Colleges and Universities" under the neck of East Asia University, and the total score of private colleges and universities in Heilongjiang was the first.

The East Asia University in Heilongjiang, which is growing year by year, is not only recognized by the society, but also concerned by governments at all levels. In March, 20001year, with the approval of the people's government of Heilongjiang Province, Qiqihar Vocational College was born in East Asia University, and became an ordinary university with higher education enrollment qualifications, ranking among the national 108 1 ordinary universities. Zhou Tienong, Vice Chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, personally wrote the name of the college; Cheng Siwei, vice chairman of the National People's Congress, encouraged the teachers and students of the college to continue their efforts and create a new world of higher vocational education when meeting with President An. Peng Peiyun, vice chairman of the National People's Congress, personally visited Qiqihar Vocational College.

The victory in the first battle greatly boosted morale. Under the leadership of Cao Yong 'an, East Asians conducted the second effective integration of educational resources.

1In March, 1998, Cao Yong 'an, with a high sense of social responsibility and successful experience in transforming enterprise-run education into private education, reformed the school-running system of eight schools (kindergartens) and an education department in Qiqihar No.1 Machine Tool Factory, which was in trouble and had 607 teaching staff and more than 6,000 primary and secondary school students, and established Heilongjiang East Asia Research Group. In order to solve the universality of state-owned enterprises running society in the "Northeast Phenomenon" in which they entered the planned economy at the earliest and withdrew from the planned economy at the latest, a useful exploration was made. For the first time, state-owned enterprises were set up as education groups to give full play to the industrial function of education and transfer to private education with the support and help of the government and the original enterprises. After the establishment of East Asia Research Group * * *, it has five campuses with all kinds of students 12000 except special education for the blind and deaf, and has revitalized 50 million yuan of enterprise-run educational resources.

At the same time, they also use scientific management to solve the two difficult problems of "where people go and where money comes from" and maximize labor productivity.

By establishing the comprehensive evaluation index system of leading cadres and teachers' morality, ability, diligence and performance respectively, they regularly evaluate the work of leading cadres and teachers by using fuzzy mathematics evaluation method, and organically combine it with the incentive mechanism of dynamic management and job mobility, effectively solving the problem of "where are people going?" In secondary and higher vocational education, through the "education supermarket" formed by 89 vocational skills training modules in five categories, the teaching mode of "set meal+buffet" is constructed. Students whose basic education has changed in the past, such as primary schools and kindergartens. To meet the needs of schools and society, we will organize various cultural and artistic classes, bilingual small classes, quality classes and boarding classes. To provide students with diversified educational services and make learning an exciting point for people. Effectively solved the problem of "where does the money come from?" By introducing the management ideas embodied in the ISO9000 quality management and quality assurance system, they established the quality management and quality assurance system of educational services, and formed a set of teaching management, teaching evaluation and teaching testing systems, which ensured the rigor and standardization of education and teaching, and promoted the solution of the two major problems of "where people go and where money comes from".

Many things happen. Under the leadership of Cao Yong 'an, after five years of hard exploration and unremitting pursuit, East Asians have effectively unloaded the burden of enterprise-run education through the reform of school-running system-from enterprises to private enterprises; Through the effective integration, scientific management and marketization of educational resources, we have created a road of "running schools independently, at our own expense and self-improvement". 1998 school income 1/10,000 yuan, 1999 school income13.08 million yuan, 2000 school income 148 1 10,000 yuan, 200/kloc. As a result, it not only reduced the educational expenditure of enterprises by more than 50 million yuan, but also ensured the normal running funds of affiliated universities, primary and secondary schools, and invested 23 million yuan, which improved the running conditions and enabled more than12,000 students of all levels to receive education and thrive in a comfortable and beautiful education and teaching environment. At this point, the enterprise-run education in the troubled Qiqihar No.1 Machine Tool Plant is full of vitality.

The East Asia Research Group in Heilongjiang successfully cracked the universal problem of how to turn the burden into wealth, and really got rid of the burden of enterprises running society, which was really satisfied by the government, enterprises and schools. Therefore, it has aroused widespread concern in society. 1998 The Qiqihar Municipal People's Government approved the East Asia Research Group as an "experimental area for educational reform". In the report of the whole committee of Qiqihar Municipal Committee, it is affirmed that East Asian Studies Group should integrate educational resources and take the road of collectivization development. From June, 5438 to October, 2000 10, the government work report of the Municipal People's Congress affirmed the running mode of East Asian Academy from public to private, and decided to popularize the experience of East Asian Academy in using the education industry to play the role of educational resources in the whole city. The People's Daily reported the reform of the East Asian Research Group with the title of "Changing Enterprise Education into Social Education-Heilongjiang East Asian Research Group's Vitality Greatly Increased". China People's Broadcasting Station introduced the reform and school-running mode of East Asia Research Group to the whole country for three times. Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao, China Education News and Xinhua News Agency Internal Reference have published articles introducing the reform experience of the East Asia Research Group. More than 0/00 enterprises, such as Hangang, went to East Asia to study and inspect, and received good social effects. After completing the primary stage of educational system reform from enterprises to private enterprises, East Asians seized the favorable opportunity for the country to carry out property right system reform and entered the advanced stage of educational system reform-property right system reform. They try to establish a new school property right system with clear property right relationship, diversified property right structure, personification of property right subject and commercialization of property right attribute, so as to improve the internal motivation of learning groups in market competition and realize the goal of sustainable development. At present, the Qiqihar Municipal People's Government has listed the work of clarifying the property rights of Qiqihar Vocational College as one of the major events of the municipal government in 2002.

Clarifying the relationship of property rights solves the problem of who owns the designated property (natural person and legal person) and whether their respective shares can be clearly confirmed. They terminated the labor relationship with the original affiliated enterprises by replacing the property rights as faculty members, and replaced the state-owned assets in the existing schools with the compensation payable by the state to faculty members. At the same time, when the teaching staff gave up their personal property rights, enterprises unloaded the burden of running the society, and the country also realized the process of exchanging existing assets for incremental funds. The school has laid a foundation for the establishment of a school-running system combining the staff union with the capital staff union.

Diversification of property rights structure means that schools need to absorb investment from all sectors of society in order to develop rapidly. While establishing diversified financing channels, the property right structure of the school has also formed diversification. Government investment forms the state-owned assets of the school, social donation forms the corporate assets of the school, and company financing forms the leased assets of the school, which are accumulated in a rolling way.

The personification of the subject of property rights solves the phenomenon of the absence of the subject of property rights of "state-owned assets, equal property rights, everyone has a share, and no one cares". Through the reform of property rights system, the subject of school property rights will be personified, so that the property owners (teaching staff) can directly face the market economy, so that the sense of responsibility of the masters will fall on a solid economic foundation, and through the internalization of external responsibilities, the teaching staff will be guided and standardized to be loyal to the collective interests. Based on this, they are going to establish "East Asia Education Co., Ltd.". What needs to be explained here is not to turn the school into a joint-stock school. The school is still a faculty union and a non-profit educational institution; Education Co., Ltd. initiated by faculty and staff of the school is a capital consortium of faculty and staff. This has initially realized the organic combination of the faculty trade union and the capital trade union, so that the faculty's sense of ownership has a solid economic foundation.

The commercialization of property rights is to trade property rights in the corresponding property rights market in order to realize the value of property rights. Once the property right has the commodity attribute, its value can be expressed by price, and the property right that can be expressed by price will often be favored by investors. At the same time, this commercial property right is more conducive to giving play to the role of the "invisible hand" of the market in allocating resources and completing the integration of educational resources in time in the areas with the best benefits.

East Asia Education Co., Ltd., which is funded by employees of Heilongjiang East Asia College who broke off labor relations with the enterprise, will operate in accordance with the Company Law, and the shares held by its shareholders can be transferred and inherited according to law. As shareholders, faculty and staff must strive to improve the quality of running a school and expand the reputation of the school if they pursue the appreciation of their property rights and the maximization of option income. At the same time, property owners will continue to explore the fastest way to increase assets, that is, to control the purchase and transformation of disadvantaged schools and implement the effective integration of educational resources for the purpose of low-cost expansion.

Through the reform of property rights system, the following five problems have been effectively solved:

Unify the demonstration and universality of the participation of all sectors of society in organizing education. Donate money to the school if you want to accumulate virtue; If you want to be rich, you should invest in the company.

Educational institutions obtain educational resources from educational investment companies through operating lease or financial lease, thus solving the "bottleneck" problem of funds for extraordinary development.

The separation of ownership and the right to run a school is realized, which can effectively avoid the situation that investors interfere with the autonomy of running a school.

It has opened up a channel for social hot money investment education.

With the diversification of property rights, the identity of teaching staff has undergone a qualitative change. Teachers are no longer national identities and national cadres, but one or a combination of the following:

School staff

Company shareholders

School employees+company shareholders

During the more than ten years when freelancers founded Heilongjiang East Asia University and East Asia Study Group, Cao Yong 'an established such working principles-guiding people with correct thoughts, infecting people with noble personality, motivating people with competitive mechanism and shaping people with scientific management. The first two sentences are about the work style of cadres, and the last two sentences are about the management mode of the school.

Chairman Mao once pointed out: "After the correct route is determined, cadres are the decisive factor". As the leader of the private education group, Cao Yong 'an is conscientious and hard-working, and dares to shout out the password of "keep up with me".

In Cao Yong 'an's mind, career always comes first.

"Lao Cao is a workaholic." Many people around him commented on him. 365 days a year, every day is a working day, and school is home. My wife complains that even on New Year's Eve, he goes to school without chewing the New Year's Eve-he is worried about the fire prevention and theft prevention work at school, and he wants to visit his colleagues who are staying at home. ...

Teachers and students can see that after work at night, the light in his office on the second floor is on in all likelihood, and there is always a box of instant noodles in front of his desk. He either works or studies. "The stars light up the way home". Therefore, Wang, the vice governor in charge of culture and education, praised him as "the latest headmaster of Heilongjiang Province".

Due to years of hard work, I overdraw my health. In the autumn of the second year after the establishment of the East Asia Research Group, Cao Yong 'an suffered from cataract in his eyes, which looked like he was covered with a plastic film. But at this time, it was the crucial stage, and he put it off again and again until the next summer, when he decided to have surgery and replace the intraocular lens in the summer vacation and winter vacation. Therefore, Cao Yong Ann said humorously to herself from time to time: "Don't take it amiss, I am as blind as a bat!" "

Less than three days after the right eye surgery, Cao Yong 'an wore an eye patch and endured the pain, forcing the school driver to send him to the construction site of East Asia No.2 Middle School for inspection. Personal education is as heavy as a mountain in his heart! The eye ward also became a temporary meeting room for the group cadres until the medical staff issued an "ultimatum" to him.

April 1 2006 was the happiest day for Cao Yong Anhe and all "East Asians". After several ups and downs, East Asia University finally turned decadence into magic and became the first private higher vocational college in Heilongjiang Province, which has the qualification to award academic qualifications. On that day, the spring breeze swayed and the plants sprouted. Yang Xin, Mayor of Qiqihar City, personally unveiled the red silk on the school board of Qiqihar Vocational College. Suddenly, drums sounded and firecrackers exploded. Cao Yong 'an smiled comfortably among the burning flowers. However, he was not intoxicated with the victory of "grinding a sword in ten years", but organized all the faculty and staff to re-learn Guo Moruo's "Three Hundred Years Festival of Shen Jia" to remind everyone to break their arrogance and make new achievements, and sing all the way to the end of the world.

Immediately, Cao Yong 'an made a bold decision, led a group of eight cadres in the teaching management department of the college, drove a medium-sized van, and "rushed to Kyushu"-began a ten-mile trip to higher vocational education. Because he knows that the competition is fierce and the situation is grim, and time waits for no one. If they want to develop private higher vocational education, they must go out to study and broaden their horizons. Since ancient times, "stones from other mountains can attack jade."

For a whole month, the wheels were rolling and the wind and rain were difficult. Cao Yong and An passed through 15 provinces, with a journey of 2.6 Wan Li, and consumed 1.5 tons of gasoline. They visited 39 famous higher vocational colleges in China and brought back 400 kilograms of school materials, which is a bit like Tang Priest's learning from the scriptures.

According to the comrades who participated in the "Wan Li Xing", they visited during the day, drove at night, and everyone sat and dozed off. President Cao bought seven or eight small pillows and tied them to the top of the chair. When wearing Dabie Mountain at night, he was afraid that the young driver would be sleepy because of the blood concentration. After more than 20 years of driving experience, he held the steering wheel alone. On the winding mountain road, everything is silent in the moonlight. Cao Yongan stopped the car and stood on the narrow side of the road. He and Mr. Xiao Wu threw a stone into the abyss. After a while, he heard the valley echo with a bang. ...

As the saying goes, "There is heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below". However, Cao Yong 'an and his party passed through Suzhou, a famous scenic city, but they didn't enter, and they didn't go shopping through big cities. However, in Hunan, Cao Yong would rather make a detour and show everyone around the former residences of Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi and other older revolutionaries.

Some people say, "Cao Yong 'an is so energetic when he works! "Yes, Cao Yongan is a career-oriented person. With this strength-enterprising, tenacious and hard-working, he led a group of people to seize the barrier and took the lead in turning enterprise-run education into private education. East Asia University has sprung up suddenly and is recognized as one of the "three red flags" of the national self-taught examination. From weak to strong, the East Asian study group has won many battles, and the "Hangang" group company sent personnel to study and inspect twice; Qizhi College was finally established, which made Hecheng, a northern country, the first local university in more than 300 years. Facing difficulties and challenges, Cao Yong 'an is a fearless tough guy. At the same time, in the field of academic and theoretical exploration, he is also a scholar-type Confucian general.

Every night, on both sides of the semi-circular school gate with modern architectural style, ruby-like neon signs flash, and on the left is "Success in small things depends on talents; To achieve great things depends on morality "; On the right is "education that suits you is the best education"; In the middle of the picture is Cao Yong 'an's "Zhonghe Weiyu", from which one of his educational thoughts can also be seen.

He was born in an intellectual family and read widely since he was a child. He understands the truth of "strengthening the foundation and developing branches" and Zhuangzi's philosophical words: "If the husband's accumulated water is not thick, he will not be able to carry a big boat". After 1993 resigned from public office and led everyone to "turn public affairs into private affairs", the development of the situation and the pressure of competition made him further realize the importance of learning educational theory and mastering educational laws to guide practice regardless of consequences, thus firmly establishing the concept of lifelong learning and continuous innovation.

It can be said that private education is the product of reform and opening up. In this newly reclaimed land, Cao Yong 'an worked hard, sweated hard, studied and practiced. He likes books and is diligent in thinking. With amazing perseverance and perseverance, he has mastered the theory of private higher education and vocational and technical education through more than ten years' efforts, and gradually formed some of his own views. For example, his ideas such as "education is service", "building a knowledge network" and "exchanging the stock of educational resources of enterprises for the increase of school funds"; Play the trilogy of private education: squeeze into the market-occupy the market-cultivate the market; Specialty setting and personnel training should not be a "pursuit war", but an "ambush war". Exploring the successful practice of enterprise-run education reform often makes experts feel refreshed. The above viewpoints and decisions have really benefited the University of East Asia and the East Asia Research Group.

As the president of a private university, he has published papers such as "Education is Service", "Innovation is the Driving Force for the Sustainable Development of Private Universities" and "Reforming the School-running System to Face the Market" in China Higher Education, Higher Education Research and China Vocational Education. This spring, Heilongjiang People's Publishing House also published his monograph "The Application of I-SO 9000 in School Management".

At the Peking University Education Forum, there was his figure and his voice; The Institute of Higher Education of Xiamen University sent him a beautiful letter of appointment as a master tutor. In June this year, his keynote speech was full of surprises at the "Experience Exchange Meeting on Separation and Transformation of Enterprises-run Primary and Secondary Schools" held by the Ministry of Education in Xi 'an. Cao Yong 'an, known as "China Education Huangpu", has been invited to give lectures on "Educational Resources and Educational Innovation" and "School Development Strategy and Educational Quality Management" for more than ten times over the years, and received overwhelming applause. Others invited him to give lectures everywhere, and he often took his laptop with him and was invited to travel around the world. ...

Hard sweat has brought fruitful results. Cao Yong 'an, an educated youth, originally studied chemistry, but became a professor of education. Need I say more about his diligence and hardship? Nowadays, despite his busy work and poor health, he always insists on giving students ideological and moral cultivation courses and giving teachers pedagogy theory courses regularly, which is well received by teachers and students.

In the face of achievements, Cao Yong 'an knows that "learning is endless". If you don't advance, you will retreat. He often uses physical phenomena to motivate himself. He said that the plane should be supersonic, but the traditional mechanical power could not overcome the obstacles of the sound barrier, and eventually a "jet" plane was produced. Then, a person's progress and a collective's development must also keep pace with the times, constantly "accumulate wealth and make little progress", constantly learn and forge ahead, and find and create their own "jet", otherwise they will be eliminated by the times and will be defeated like a mountain. "Open and aboveboard, Jiao Ran" is Cao Yong 'an's code of conduct and moral sentiment.

Today, Cao Yong 'an is the president of Qiqihar Vocational College (formerly Heilongjiang East Asia University), the party secretary and chairman of Heilongjiang East Asia Learning Group, and is known as the "Samsung General". For more than ten years, he has been in and out of tens of millions every year. According to the "convention", some people speculate that Lao Cao must be a "rich man" and his home must be decorated as magnificently as a palace. Who knows, until 2009, Cao Yong 'an's family of three still lived in a "one-and-a-half-room" old house with a construction area of 53 square meters, which was allocated by his unit when he was a teacher. "I have been here for 20 years." Inside the house, the floor leather has rolled up its eaves, the old sofa handrails are rickety, and the closed balcony is still a wooden window frame.

He lives in a humble room, but the teaching buildings of the study group have mushroomed. On one occasion, when bidding for the construction of a comprehensive experimental building, people looking for Cao Yongan's "back door" through various channels followed. An engineering team leader quietly gave him a "golden spike card" with tens of thousands of dollars in it, and promised to "show" it when it was done. Cao Yong 'an said solemnly, "School is my home. Take this card back quickly, otherwise, you will be disqualified from bidding. " As a result, Cao Yong 'an didn't take "ill-gotten wealth" at all, and the school saved 520 thousand.

Although Cao Yong 'an often said that he was "as blind as a bat". However, everyone who knows him knows that he has a sharp eye and can't rub sand. The East Asia Research Group has built tens of thousands of meters of new buildings and purchased thousands of computers and other teaching equipment. Faced with all kinds of temptations and tests of "profit", he showed his noble personality charm and warned his subordinates "Don't bite the hook!"

Cao Yong 'an is willing to endure hardships for his personal education, and his self-discipline is extremely strict. The comrades who travel with him are the most experienced. He can live anywhere he likes, so that some people don't want to travel with him to "noodles" and stay in any small hotel.

The stars move around. However, there is still a good story in the study group. It was a summer day when East Asia University started school. Cao Yong Ann and two comrades drove to the provincial capital on business. Near midnight, he found several hotels that were too expensive. Finally, I led two comrades-in-arms to drive to the Songhua River and slept in the car for several hours by moonlight and the breezy river wind. At dawn, a group of old people doing morning exercises were surprised and puzzled, saying, look at this red cross-country jeep, it looks very rich; But look at the way they eat steamed bread and pickles, it seems very pitiful. What do these people do ... but, Cao Yong' an said, "It's not cold, where can't you cope with one night?" Yes, in order to save money for the school, he is not afraid of hardship. He wanted to jump the queue in the countryside that year. He used to sleep in a cotton cap on a cold night, "sleeping soundly".

According to the regulations of Cao Yong, when the leading bodies of colleges and students' organizations meet, party member cadres will use their spare time for the meeting, and no matter how late the meeting is, they will go back to their homes, and they have never had a porridge and a meal from the government, let alone a public banquet. A news media reporter heard about it and wrote an exclusive interview with Exploring East Asia.

Usually, Cao Yong 'an wears a cloth jacket and only wears a suit and tie when there are "occasions". He drinks boiled water, smokes "Toad Head" cigarettes and carries a meal card in his pocket. At noon, take a walk? When I went to the school cafeteria, I lined up to buy food and chatted with teachers and classmates ... He couldn't "rub hemp" and dance, and the "wine table culture" was also stumbling, but teachers and students admired him very much, and felt that it was a blessing for the college and the student group to have such a dean and chairman with both ability and political integrity, diligence and integrity.

As the old saying goes, "Go without orders." . Anyone who has been to the East Asia Research Group will feel that no one is not attentive to the work of "East Asians", and there is nothing that he does not try his best. They are like the formation of "people" in the clear sky of Wan Li. Under the guidance of Cao Yong 'an, the "head goose", they shout in unison, push through the clouds and fly forward.

Some educators assert that "a good principal is a good school". If this sentence is applied to Cao Yong Ann, it is really appropriate.