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Recently, the 12th Overseas Chinese Cooking Skills Training Course in Zhejiang Province, jointly sponsored by the Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and Zhejiang Commercial Vocational and Technical College (hereinafter referred to as "Zhejiang Commercial Institute") and co-organized by the Zhejiang Catering Industry Association, was opened at the Zhejiang Commercial Institute. Nearly 100 Zhejiang overseas Chinese restaurant players from 23 countries and regions gathered on the banks of the Qiantang River to exchange Zhejiang cuisine skills.
The opening ceremony was presided over by Zhou Songyi, member of the party group, vice chairman and secretary general of the Zhejiang Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese.
Zhang Baozhong, president of Zhejiang University of Commerce, delivered a welcome speech.
On behalf of all the teachers and students, he extended a warm welcome to all overseas students and expressed his gratitude to the Provincial Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese for its long-term trust and strong support to the Zhejiang Institute of Commerce.
Zhang Baozhong introduced the history and development status of Zhejiang Commercial College, as well as the achievements made by the school in long-term cooperation with the Provincial Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, in adding new energy to professional construction, promoting the internationalization of school education, and enhancing international influence. Zhang Baozhong said that the school will do its best to ensure the service of this training and teaching, provide high-quality and sufficient resources and conditions, so that everyone can return home with a full load and promote the transformation and upgrading of the overseas Chinese food industry with high quality.
On behalf of the Zhejiang Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, Lian Xiaomin, secretary of the party leading group and chairman of the Zhejiang Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, expressed warm congratulations on the opening of the training course.
He put forward three hopes: I hope that this training class will build a bridge of exchanges in the overseas Chinese food industry for everyone: strengthen the foundation and practice internal skills, cohesion and development, and hope that everyone will take advantage of this valuable learning opportunity to consolidate the theoretical foundation, enrich practical experience, and make Chinese food specialized, refined, and realistic; keep the integrity and innovation, strong self-confidence, exchange and mutual learning to promote promotion, and hope that the majority of overseas Chinese will strengthen their cultural self-confidence, not only to innovate culinary technology, but also to improve business philosophy, innovative business model, and take the road of branding and international development I hope that everyone will further strengthen the exchange and interaction with their mother's family, and jointly make new and greater contributions to the cause of overseas Chinese and the economic and social construction of their hometown with a deep "feeling of home and country".
Zeng, who was from New Zealand, spoke as a representative of overseas students.
He said that this training class is a rare good opportunity to get the guidance of famous teachers, we must cherish this learning opportunity, more exchanges, more friendship, more integration of network resources, master the essentials of Zhejiang cuisine cooking, in order to better promote Chinese food culture, tell the story of Zhejiang, spread the voice of China.
Shen Jian, former deputy secretary-general of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government and president of the Zhejiang Catering Industry Association, said that the training course will focus on the impact of the epidemic on the catering industry and how to innovate and develop and improve culinary skills under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control.
He hoped that the majority of overseas Chinese food industry colleagues would take this training course as an opportunity to learn something and gain something, adhere to innovative development in business operations, improve cooking technology, innovate management models, boost Zhejiang cuisine brand catering enterprises to "go global", and play a greater and more active role in promoting Zhejiang cuisine and overseas Chinese food culture.
At the opening ceremony, the launch ceremony of "Song of Chinese Cuisine" was held, and Zhu Peihua introduced his creative feelings.
The song was sung by Chen Zhen, a national second-class actor.
After the opening ceremony, Ying Jinping, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce, said that Zhejiang cuisine culture is an important channel for expanding external dissemination, and hoped that the majority of students would learn good skills, tell Zhejiang stories overseas, and better show the "window of Zhejiang" style.
The five-day overseas Chinese cooking skills training will arrange Hangzhou gastronomic innovation and integration sharing, folk intangible cultural heritage dim sum production, "Culture and Travel" field study, classic tea dish making skills and sharing, healthy beverage enterprise inspection, Zhejiang cuisine culture and history inspection and Hangzhou cuisine tasting meeting, Chinese and Western fusion dish production skills, Zhejiang catering entrepreneur business exchange forum and other colorful learning content.
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