On May 30 and 31, 2021, GEM held the first talent conference in Jingmen, Hubei Province. This grand conference was attended by Prof. Xu Kaihua, board Chairman of GEM, Ms. Wang Min, Director of GEM, Zhou Bo, Chairman of GEM Supervisory Board, and more than 300 other participants including directors, supervisors, senior executives, leading talent, innovative figures, core business personnel of GEM as well as core technical personnel, administrators and workers, technical representatives and outstanding employees from GEM’s subsidiary parks.

Centering on the theme of “Investing in Talent, Helping Talent Succeed and Working Together for a Low-Carbon Future”, GEM offered an overview of its talent development, shared its successful cases of talent training, held a live show of the theoretical and practical operation of ABC technicians from Jingmen Park, released three “thousand” talent-training programs, with each being participated by 1,000 personnel, and awarded resettlement grant to the first batch of senior talents. With its open-mindedness, GEM is making much too clear its thirst for talents.

Put people first and follow the talent-driven strategy.

It is upon a wealth of talent that GEM has developed its green, low-carbon business so well, with technical talent being the cornerstone, the young core the mainstay and leaders the core pillars.

“We must realize deeply that in a world where global industries are changing rapidly and technologies are being updated faster than we imagine, talents are what enable a company to outshine its rivals and take the lead during the global technological transformation.” Prof. Xu Kaihua emphasized when addressing the conference. “Investing in talent should be GEM’s priority. This must come before investing in production capacity, expanding production capacity or investing in equipment and plants. The comprehensive shift to investment in talent marks a talent revolution in GEM’s history. When we invest in talent, we are investing in the future; when we help talent succeed, we are helping build a better GEM.”

Build nests to attract phoenix and give full play to the role of a competitive platform.

In order to tackle the talent shortage problem, GEM has increased investment in scientific research and innovative platforms and has attracted talents from both home and abroad so that they play a pioneering role in the quality development of the green, low-carbon industry.

Since Gem’s Post-Doctoral Research Station was established in 2013, it has produced 17 post-doctors (including those still in the station), undertook 5 general programs of China Post-doctoral Science Foundation, applied for over 40 patents, published 15 academic theses, and carried out more than 30 studies on cutting-edge or tough technological problems concerning GEM’s new energy materials and waste treatment. All these are important for GEM to become one of the world’s leading innovators in the industry. Over 1 billion yuan has been invested into the building of GEM’s National Engineering Research Center of WEEE Recycling, and over the past five years more than 20 billion has gone into research and development. The center undertook more than 30 projects from National Science and Technology Support Program and National High Technology Research and Development Program 863. In 2019, GEM was identified as a national enterprise technology center - another influential national technology platform it has. Being recognized as a national innovative dual-platform represents that GEM’s technological innovation is now unsurpassed in the industry; GEM earned National Science and Technology Progress Awards in both 2010 and 2018, and wined international prizes such as the Circulars at Davos 2018 and the 2020 Paulson Prize for Sustainable in the Green Innovation category. It has emerged as an advanced innovative platform in the global green, low-carbon industry.

Apart from a powerful R&D platform, GEM also has a talent platform, which is a magic weapon for its ceaseless innovation. Since 2017, GEM came up with a series of talent policies. With the immediate support of all staff, third-level talents released their potential to the fullest, and GEM becomes home to outstanding talents.

In July, 2017, GEM established a training college. During the past four years, it has kept offering systematic training for university graduates (for over 500 person times), and has become a “Huangpu Military Academy” where GEM people have their thoughts deepened and their ability enhanced. Besides, GEM sent excellent talents (including leading talent & outstanding talent & model workers) to ECOPRO of Korea, Catalyst of Kansai, Japan, the University of Oxford, etc. for exchanges - GEM is taking a global vision in talent training.

In 2021, GEM strengthened talent training in all aspects and issued a series of talent systems and innovation systems. During the talent conference, GEM released its 2021-2025 training program for a thousand senior talents, a thousand young core personnel, a thousand industrial craftsmen. This signals that GEM is releasing its talent program to the world and expecting to recruit top talent from all around the world, and that it is going to train and select talents from the Group to build the main force who will strive for its “Fourteenth Five-Year” goals.

Motivate employees by building a sound incentive mechanism.

Incentive mechanism is an effective measure to motivate employees to show initiative at work. In order to increase employee motivation and vitality, GEM is taking steps to build a sound salary, benefits and incentives mechanism.

On January 18, 2018, GEM issued GEM Co., Ltd. Incentive Regulations for Technological Innovation whereby “employees engaged in R&D will receive a reward”, “employees will receive dividends as long as their research findings are successfully applied”, and leading talents will be given an annual fund of 2 million yuan at their command as well as the right to select research projects and team members. These measures have radically broken the fetters that prevent leading figures from fulfilling their talents. In October of the same year, GEM started the “dual-leading talent” program. Between 2017 and 2020, GEM held innovative conferences for four consecutive years, spending millions each year to reward leading talents and innovative figures with Benz, BMW, etc. so that they set a good example for other employees.

On April 30, 2021, GEM issued Front-Line Engineering and Technology Talents Incentive Policy. According to it, GEM will make continuous efforts to carry out the training program for senior technical talent, core young personnel, senior technicians and craftsmen, offer preferential treatment to front-line engineering, technology, quality talents in terms of wages, leaves, etc., and let the wage and benefit policy does its part in selecting, training, appointing and retaining talents.

GEM also issued Resettlement Grant Rules for Senior Talents of the Group and held a resettlement grant issuing ceremony for the first batch of senior talents, during which 11 senior talents received 1.3 million yuan in total. Apart from “this substantial amount of money” (resettlement grant, housing, wage, research fund, etc.), the brought-in senior talents will also have access to a series of preferential treatment provided by the local talent policy, including special grant, job for spouse, kids’ education, etc.

In order to add internal driving force, GEM is now gathering talents at speed. Currently, GEM has over 1000 R&D personnel, which account for about 20% of GEM’s staff and feature quite some high-end talents including State Council Expert for Special Allowance, post-doctors, doctors, etc. Over the past three years, GEM has successfully trained over 1000 industrial craftsmen, who will provide strong technical support for GEM to expand its core business to other countries. A culture that is able to bring in talents, put talents in the right roles and retain talents is taking shape in GEM.

Now more than ever, GEM is showing a strong and urgent thirst for talents. GEM will keep its “Fourteenth Five-Year Plan” strategic goals firmly in mind, continue to plan for and build a strategic talent team that can compete in the global industry. GEM will build a sound talent system and ensure the effective implementation of a series of talent regulations, gathering talents from all around the world in GEM, motivating all talents to release their potentials, promoting “the updating of business, product quality and economic benefits”, significantly enhancing GEM’s global competitiveness and core value. GEM is making every effort for a new phase of harvest, and it will fulfill its mission as a Chinese enterprise to contribute wisdom and strength to the world’s green development.

In response to China’s strategy of carbon emission peak and carbon neutrality, GEM took the lead in promising the realization of carbon neutrality by 2030. It has been calculated that this conference will cause the emission of 4.55 tons of carbon dioxide. At the end of the conference, GEM signed a carbon-neutrality agreement with a rural revitalization company, who is entrusted to plant 455 trees to neutralize the carbon emitted during the conference. This conference will be a zero-carbon one, one that marks a significant milestone in the course of GEM’s 2030 carbon neutrality.

Photo 1 GEM’s first talent conference

Photo 2 Prof. Xu Kaihua, Board Chairman of GEM, is addressing the conference.

Photo 3 GEM Releases three thousand- talent-training programs.

Photo 4 GEM is holding the senior-talent resettlement grant issuing ceremony.

Photo 5 Live show of the theoretical and practical operation of ABC technicians from Jingmen Park

Photo 6 Signing ceremony for carbon neutrality of GEM’s first talent conference