Shanghai Municipal Vocational Training Orientation Center (SVTOC)

Shanghai Municipal Vocational Training Orientation Center (SVTOC), a public organization run by Shanghai Municipal government is composed of 4 centers and has 35 laboratories in total. This center has facilities for vocational training in different categories such as sewing. Training is offered free of charge. Not only students but also working people come to this center to receive training. A total of about 200,000 persons in all business categories have received training here in a year.

The garment training division has 9 leading-edge pressing machines for intermediate pressing and finishing work. The division provides training courses in its pre-sewing section for designing, marker making, cutting, etc., sewing section and finishing section. As many as 10,000 persons visit this division yearly.  

In Shanghai, there are 6 clothing-related schools. Some designing students do not have many opportunities to learn the sewing process in school. Such students visit this training centre during their summer vacation and receive training on garment production process. 

On the other hand, the technicians who handle sewing machines and the operators who work in sewing factories also visit this training division and upgrade their techniques. Curriculum is divided into 5 levels. Level 1 is a 250-hours course on the manufacturing process of jackets, trousers, etc. and level 2 requires 300-hours training of marker making. At level 3, trainees learn CAD/CAM and more complicated sewing techniques in 400 hours. Level 4 (second level) and level 5 (first/top level) are training courses for the chief technicians, each taking 320 hours.

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