Talents Wanted in Zigong Lantern Festival Industry
In September, the Lantern College of Sichuan University of Light Chemical Technology started a new semester of courses. A group of students full of youth and vitality through the next 4 years of experience, is expected to become proficient in the lantern creative, design, modeling, production and other full process of lantern composite talents.
As early as three months ago, the first eight students (class of 2018) to graduate from the school were robbed by the lantern company before graduation.
At present, Zigong's lantern industry is in a critical period of transformation and upgrading. In order to inherit Zigong's lantern culture and develop the industry well, it is necessary to have a professional college in the industry to provide talent support for further expanding and strengthening Zigong's lantern industry.
In recent years, Zigong has held nearly 1,000 lantern fairs in more than 300 cities in more than 80 countries and regions. At present, there are 2,136 registered lantern enterprises in the city, with a registered capital of 8.955 billion yuan. Zigong lanterns occupy about 85% of the domestic and 92% of the international market share.
However, what does not adapt to the development of the Lantern Festival is that the scale, clustering and specialization of Zigong's lantern industry is not high. The main reason lies in the lack of high-end talents.
It is understood that Zigong lantern industry has more than 100,000 local employees, non-local employees more than 30,000 people. In terms of the distribution of work, there are more than 107,000 auxiliary and technical workers, more than 5,000 inter-disciplinary talents such as operation management and creative design, more than 15,000 skilled technicians, and more than 3,000 special technical workers who hold the Special Operation Certificate of the People's Republic of China.
In the view of Huang Dechun, dean of the Lantern College of Sichuan Light Chemical University and president of the Zigong Lantern Industry Chamber of Commerce, Zigong Lantern is an industry without "ceiling", which is different from traditional artists and traditional production. It is a comprehensive production technology. Its artistic characteristics reflect not only the "shape, color, sound and light movement", but also reflect the "tall, novel and beautiful", which requires a large number of talents to support the development and growth of the industry.
According to Huang Dechun, the reasons for talent scarcity are as follows: firstly, the market continues to expand, and the existing talents cannot meet the market demand; Second, although the salary is high, but very hard, some young people do not want to enter this industry; The third is that talents enter the period of suspension, high-end lantern talents are scarce.
Huang Dechun believes that colored lights, first of all, are an art, and secondly, some components and products can be standardized production in the process of making lights. Therefore, the future Zigong lanterns are the integration of art and modern industry, with art accounting for 70% and modern industry for 30%.
The old lantern artists know the traditional skills but not the new technology; The new generation of lantern people know science and technology, but lack traditional skills. Huang said that future lantern talents should be new talents with traditional skills and the use of modern technology.
