Mr. Wang Qingxian, Secretary of Qingdao Municipal Party Committee, Investigates Vland's Talent Cultivation Program

On July 14, 2020, Mr. Wang Qingxian, member of the Standing Committee of Shandong Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of Qingdao Municipal Party Committee, went to enterprises to investigate their talent cultivation programs. He emphasized that it was necessary to implement the spirit of important speeches by General Secretary Xi Jinping on talent cultivation, adhere to the principle of human resources under the Party leadership, value knowledge, talents and creation, integrate the four industrial chain, capital chain, talent chain and technology chain, and work hard to attract, cultivate, retain and employ talents, thus providing an effective talent pool for Qingdao's high-quality development.

Secretary Wang Qingxian came to Songli Group, Eve Rubber Institute and Vland Biotech Group to visit the companies’ exhibition halls and laboratories, and have cordial exchanges with corporate leaders and scientific researchers on enterprise production and operation, technological innovation, talent training and introduction, etc.

At a symposium held by Vland, Secretary Wang Qingxian engaged in in-depth discussions on how Qingdao can accurately attract talents, effectively cultivate talents and scientifically use talents with heads of enterprises including Vland Biotech Group, Qingdao Aucma Co. Ltd., Songli Group, Eve Rubber Institute and Goertek Microelectronics Co., Ltd.

Vland’s President Chen Gang gave an introduction to the company and delivered a report on its practices in attracting, cultivating, retaining and using talents. He said that talents were of significance to enterprises, so Vland attached great importance to the development of innovation team and innovation capacities, with a team of nearly 300 research personnel led by 8 chief scientists and 26 Ph.Ds. At present, the company has 1343 employees, 65% of whom have a college degree or above. Multiple measures are taken for global talent hunting, platform empowerment, activation of individuals, people-centered development and happiness empowerment. For example, Vland attracts talents, especially overseas high-caliber ones, by building a multidisciplinary and complementary integrated innovation platform, deconstructs the original matrix management organization into a "platform + maker" self-organization to stimulate the creativity and entrepreneurial enthusiasm, and creates a comfortable living environment for talents, provides convenient conditions for employee medical treatment and children’s education, while providing a superior scientific research environment, so that talents can settle down and work at ease.

Secretary Wang Qingxian expressed his gratitude to all entrepreneurs for their contributions to Qingdao's economic and social development. He said that General Secretary Xi Jinping assigned Qingdao tasks to build Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone, a new platform for international cooperation on the "Belt and Road" and to integrate itself into the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin. He also pointed out that it was necessary to foster a strong talent base if we were to achieve the strategic goals set by General Secretary Xi Jinping for Qingdao, and only by integrating the four chains can talents be attracted. It is crucial to improve the talent introduction and utilize the mechanism with enterprises as the core, combine talent introduction with innovation and entrepreneurship, make full use of the models of "platform + maker", joint training and entrepreneurship training, and use the power of capital to facilitate talent gathering and create a good talent ecology. It is of importance to combine the talents needs for industry development with the talents cultivation in universities and set up professional courses according to the needs of enterprises, so as to cultivate high-quality skilled talents. Since talents are valuable, departments at all levels need to think about how to attract, use, and cultivate talents from the ecological perspective of "four chains in one", formulate talent policies based on the needs of enterprises, and change the model of  "governments serving" into "enterprise “ordering", so that policies will satisfy the needs of enterprises.

Secretary Wang Qingxian stressed that we must adhere to the principles of top-level listening, coordination and advancement, carefully implement talent policies, accelerate the construction of talent apartments, advance the "one-stop" mechanism to deal with problems in taxation, school admission, medical care and housing encountered by enterprises in the introduction of talents, break down institutional barriers, thus creating a comfortable environment for entrepreneurs and talents. Departments at all levels must enhance the awareness of the importance of talents, seize the opportunities of the accelerated restructuring of the global industrial chain and supply chain and the high-speed flow of talents around the world, plan ahead with forward-looking attitude, integrate the strengths of the government, enterprises and society, so as to pool global talents and build Qingdao into a more inspiring and competitive talent highland.

Mr. Li Wei, member of the Standing Committee of Qingdao Municipal Party Committee and Director of the Organization Department, moderated the symposium. Mr. Zhu Peiji, deputy mayor of Qingdao, also attended the investigation.