A Nike employee works at a production facility in Taicang, Jiangsu province. [Photo by Ji Haixin/For China Daily]

Nike's China Logistics Center in Taicang, Jiangsu province recently sent a letter of acknowledgement to students at Suzhou Chien-Shiung Institute of Technology (SCSIT) for their support during the Singles Day shopping bonanza.

According to local media, from Nov 11 to 13, the logistics center handled over 980,000 orders, 220,000 of which were handled by 137 internees from the business college of SCSIT.

"Exhausting as it was, the internship was worth it. We gained some valuable experience and learned to work under pressure," said a student.

Internships during the Singles Day period is a tradition for LF Logistics, operator of the logistics center, and SCSIT.

Their partnership is a good example of Taicang's practice of integrating vocational education and the service sector.

Founded in 2004, SCSIT is named after Wu Chien-Shiung (1912-1997), a Chinese-American physicist who specialized in experimental physics and radioactivity. She worked on the Manhattan Project and was best known for her 1956 experiment that disproved the conservation of parity.

The institute took the lead in introducing the "dual system" of vocational education to China and was also the first in China to establish a Sino-German training base.