On the afternoon of 24 October 2022, XINGI TECH Co., Ltd. held a young university graduate symposium and a mentor-apprentice pairing and signing ceremony in the company’s second-floor meeting room, with company leaders, mentors, young university graduates and heads of all departments attending.
Mentor-Apprentice Pairing and Signing Ceremony
At the meeting, 19 young university graduates summarized and shared their study and work since joining the company, after which Mr. Zhu read out the “Notice on Advancing the Implementation of Mentor-Apprentice Pairing”. The notice noted that ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fiber is a high-tech product the company has devoted itself to developing, and that after nearly a decade of rapid growth its capacity has risen to first place worldwide, winning wide acclaim in the industry. With the implementation of the Xiaoyangkou Phase IV fiber project and the Dayangkou expansion project, the company is set to move onto an even faster development track. As product scale expands rapidly, the shortage of talent has become more prominent. To better build a specialized global UHMWPE fiber production base, add momentum to the company’s development and cultivate a talent team that matches its scale and growth, the company decided to first select 12 capable employees in the production system, namely those with strong professional commitment, outstanding technical skills and the ability to work independently, to serve as mentors for the young university graduates in the production system. Subsequently, the 12 mentors and 19 young university graduates signed mentor-apprentice pairing agreements in the presence of company leaders. Mentor representative Huang Yaping and apprentice representative Zong Xiaobo then spoke in turn, and Mr. Xia and Mr. Zhu set out requirements for the future work of both mentors and apprentices and for talent development.
Chairman Zhou speaks
Chairman Zhou Xinji attended the meeting and delivered an important speech. He stressed that the rapid growth of the company’s fiber products was thanks to a professional talent team that is dedicated, highly skilled, enterprising, willing to contribute, collaborative, loyal and clean. Their noble moral character, superb professional skills and rich work experience are a valuable asset to the company. Their exemplary and inspirational role is crucial to strengthening mutual learning among technical staff, increasing professional exchange, promoting rapid growth and raising the company’s overall level. Carrying out mentor-apprentice pairing is required to implement the strategy of strengthening the enterprise through talent and enhance its core competitiveness; it is required by the company’s rapid development and by the individual career development of young university graduates. Under this program, mentors must not only pass on job skills but also carry forward the corporate spirit and fine work style, helping young university graduates integrate into the company and grow quickly. This is a major mission the company has given its mentors in the new era and a historic responsibility young university graduates should shoulder; it is where the company’s hopes lie.
Chairman Zhou raised three hopes for both mentors and apprentices. First, he hoped mentors would truly take on responsibility, fulfill their duties, and, amid busy work, do a good job of mentoring, helping and guiding. They should lead by example, educating and guiding apprentices in both conduct and work through their personal example, so as to cultivate both “character” and “ability”. Cultivating “character” means passing on to apprentices, through words and deeds, one’s plain and rigorous work style, dedication to work and broad-minded loyalty and openness, so that they develop good moral conduct; cultivating “ability” means imparting one’s rich work experience, extensive professional knowledge and superb technical skills without reservation, providing technical and business guidance to young university graduates, being willing to assign apprentices responsibilities and tasks, and strengthening checks and assessments so that their professional skills improve rapidly in a short time. Second, he hoped young university graduates would take their mentors as role models, learn modestly, be ready to ask for advice, work tirelessly and not be ashamed to ask questions, learning from their mentors’ noble dedication, superb professional skills and adept management techniques by asking more questions, thinking more and practicing more. He hoped they would greatly treasure this rare opportunity, learn with heart, work with passion and strive to improve themselves. The graduates should keep the enterprise in mind, be loyal and open, dare to take on challenges and responsibility, and while improving their professional skills, work to develop and enhance their logical thinking, analytical judgment and independent problem-solving abilities, so that through their own efforts and their mentors’ guidance they grow and become capable quickly, strive to stand on their own and shoulder heavy responsibilities soon, and become valuable talent for the company. XINGI TECH offers a broad stage for development, and the graduates should use their hard work to create unlimited possibilities for themselves. Third, he hoped both mentors and apprentices would “learn from each other in teaching, help and learn from one another, and grow together”. Mentors and apprentices should help each other in thinking, complement each other in learning and assist each other at work, so as to learn from each other and improve together. They should exchange professional views and compare notes at any time. As mentors, they should pay close attention to apprentices’ growth, give timely guidance and help, while also constantly improving themselves, having a personal development plan and higher goals, and playing an exemplary role to become a good mentor in apprentices’ eyes; as apprentices, they should also bring their professional strengths and talents into play, inspiring and motivating their mentors with a spirit of bold exploration, pioneering, eager learning and passion, thus creating a good atmosphere of mutual learning and progress, dedication and striving to surpass within the company.
Chairman Zhou stressed that “a single flower does not make a spring; it takes a hundred flowers in bloom to fill the garden with spring”. The company’s rapid development requires bringing in a large number of young university graduates and also provides them with a broad stage for development. This time we have only carried out pairing for young university graduates in the production system; next, the Human Resources Department should plan to roll out mentor-apprentice pairing across the whole company, further improving the company’s talent development mechanism and providing talent support for the company’s sustainable development.
Young university graduates are the company’s future and hope, and developing them is a long and demanding task. Chairman Zhou required that everyone in the company have a strong sense of urgency and awareness of potential challenges, take a long-term view, focus on the overall picture, work together and form synergy, and create an environment conducive to the growth of university graduates. Young university graduates should also cherish the opportunity, devote themselves to self-improvement, and live up to the company’s expectations and their mentors’ efforts. Let us join hands to constantly enrich, improve and break through ourselves, work hard and toil diligently on this land of hope that is XINGI TECH, and with wisdom, effort and sweat, write a splendid answer for our lives and a new chapter in XINGI TECH’s development in the new era.
The meeting was chaired by Ren Daxian, Deputy General Manager of the company.