In response to the spirit of "Opinions on Further Improving Vocational Training" by Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and "Opinions on Promoting the Development of Gold Market" by six ministries and commissions, Hou Huimin, former full-time vice president of China Gold Association and now director of Precious Metals Industry Committee of China Vocational Education Association, proposed the professional setting of precious metals traders. Vocational training programs have been incorporated into the national vocational training system, and the National Curriculum Development Center for Precious Metals Dealers has been established. The center is responsible for the national vocational training and certification of precious metal traders. Students trained by this center can obtain the CETTIC precious metal trader (junior/intermediate/senior/teacher) certificate issued by Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security China Employment Training Technical Guidance Center. According to the relevant provisions of China's vocational education law, the certificate can be used as a certificate to train students.

In the early stage of the establishment of the National Precious Metals Trader Vocational Training Project, Director Hou Huimin organized the People's Bank of China, the State Securities Regulatory Commission, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, the Shanghai Futures Exchange, the Shanghai Gold Exchange and well-known enterprise experts and scholars with outstanding achievements in the industry to complete the compilation of the Precious Metals Trader Course, which has been published by China Publishing Group Modern Education Press.

Brief introduction of professional founder of precious metal trader

Professor Hou Huimin (doctoral supervisor), male, born in 1950, enlisted in the army at the beginning of 1969, graduated from Beijing Jiaotong University, once worked as a teacher of Beijing Jiaotong University, deputy director, director and deputy director of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC Central Committee, deputy director of the State Gold Bureau, full-time vice president of China Gold Association and economic analyst of Xinhua News Agency. He is currently the director of Precious Metals Industry Committee of China Vocational Education Institute, the vice president of Beijing Project Management Research Institute and the chairman of Asia Industrial Science and Technology Innovation Alliance.

In order to meet the demand of China's gold market entry, in 2005, he initiated the application for the national occupation of gold investment analyst, and served as the first director of the expert committee for the qualification evaluation of gold investment analyst, which trained a large number of outstanding talents for the country. With the development of precious metals market, he initiated the establishment of a new national profession for precious metals traders on 20 1 1, and the precious metals industry committee became the cradle for cultivating precious metals traders.

Professor Hou Huimin is good at learning. Since 2005, he has published 150 papers, amounting to 1 more than ten thousand words. In 2006, he compiled the History of China's Gold Development, which filled the blank of China's gold history book and laid the foundation for the revision of China's gold history. In particular, in 2009, a personal blog was established and 35 papers were published in one year, of which 2/3 were recommended by Sohu. They are praised as China financiers by the World Fortune Network, and they are famous gold investment experts in China.

Ba Shusong, deputy director of the Institute of Finance of the State Council Development Research Center and doctoral supervisor, prefaces the Course of Precious Metals Traders.