Skillful Craftsman Announces Strategic Partnership with Major Flexible Staffing Platform in Jiangsu Province
Skillful Craftsman Education Technology Ltd. (NASDAQ: EDTK) announced a strategic partnership with Wuxi Talent Home Information Technology Co., Ltd. to enhance vocational education services. This collaboration will provide free elementary skills training and paid vocational skills courses, aiming to expand WTH's customer channels and share revenue. The Chinese flexible staffing market, valued at RMB648 billion in 2020, is projected to grow by 25% annually until 2025, driven by supportive government policies. This partnership is expected to strengthen Skillful Craftsman's market position and increase user engagement.
- Strategic partnership with WTH to expand vocational education services.
- Access to a growing flexible staffing market projected to reach RMB648 billion by 2025.
- Government policies favoring vocational education create a supportive environment for growth.
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WUXI, China, Aug. 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Skillful Craftsman Education Technology Ltd. (“the Company” or “Skillful Craftsman”) (NASDAQ: EDTK), an education technology company providing interactive online learning services, today announced a strategic partnership with Wuxi Talent Home Information Technology Co., Ltd. (“WTH”), one of the largest flexible staffing platforms in Jiangsu Province. The partnership will combine Skillful Craftsman’s expertise in vocational education with WTH’s leadership in the regional flexible staffing market to better serve talents and employers.
Under the cooperation framework, the Company will provide WTH with free elementary skills training courses and paid vocational skills certificate training courses. The Company will also help WTH expand its business scale by increasing customer channels and, as the consideration, WTH agrees to share corresponding revenue.
According to a research report by iResearch, China's flexible staffing market was about RMB648 billion in 2020, and will grow at a compound growth rate of
In the past two years, the Chinese government has implemented a series of policies to encourage vocational education and skill training, creating policy advantages for the Company’s development. The “Vocational Education Quality Improvement Action 2020-2023” issued in September 2020 proposes a system that serves lifelong vocational education for all people, promotes the implementation of the “1+X certificate” system in more schools, and vigorously pushes forward the “Internet +” and the development of new forms of “smart education.” Skillful Craftsman firmly focuses on vocational skills training and technical services. Through in-depth cooperation with schools, research institutions, labor platforms and other institutions, the Company has expanded the scale of users, made continuous progress in market competition, and obtained long-term returns for shareholders.
Mr. Xiaofeng Gao, Chairman and CEO of Skillful Craftsman, commented, “The cooperation with the WTH is an important step for our strategic development. We can effectively increase our user stickiness and boost revenue by providing vocational skills training closer to the actual needs of employers and applying the embedded cooperation of Internet platform technology and flexible staffing platform. The experience drawn from this cooperation will also help both us and the WTH replicate this model and expand to other regions to lay a more solid foundation for further business development.”
About Wuxi Talent Home Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Founded in 2007, WTH is China's first third-party part-time service platform with a crowdsourcing model. The platform of WTH is mainly designed for temporary employment, providing employment management, social insurance, and salary optimization services.
About Skillful Craftsman
Skillful Craftsman is an education technology company that provides interactive online vocational training and virtual simulation experimental training courses. The Company began operations in Wuxi, China in 2013 and is a key supporter for China education reform and development for labor employment. For more information, please visit: http: http://ir.kingwayup.com/.
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