By Yin Jianhua
A few days ago, Hongkou District held the activity of "Gathering Talents in Shanghai, Realizing Ambitions in Hongkou, Happily Working in Hongkou" at the riverside of the North Bund, which was compose of the establishment of the North Bund Talent Work Alliance, the unveiling of college students' internship practice base and the theme activity of creation in Hongkou. It was also one of the series of activities of the government's opening month this year. Attending the event were Du Songquan, Deputy Chief of Hongkou District Party Committee, Jiang Renhui, Standing Member and Organization Director of Hongkou District Party Committee, Zhang Wei, Deputy District Governor, and representatives of talent work leadership groups at the municipality and district levels, key enterprises at the North Bund, cooperative universities, and human resources service institutions.
The North Bund Talent Work Alliance was officially established at the conference. It is reported that the alliance covers relevant departments and key enterprises, cooperative universities and human resources service institutions. The first batch of member units include not only the District Committee Organization Department, the District Committee Publicity Department, the Youth League District Committee, the District Commerce Committee, the District Science and Technology Committee, the District Investment Promotion Office, the District Finance Bureau and other departments of Hongkou, but also famous financial and internet enterprises such as Shanghai Branch of Xiamen International Bank, Galaxy Futures Company, Shanghai Wanxiang Blockchain, as well as Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tongji University and other institutions of higher education. The win-win cooperation propels to create an atmosphere of "strong magnetic field" in the Golden Triangle of Huangpu River by gathering talents at the North Bund.
Lin Yongsheng, President of Shanghai Branch of Xiamen International Bank, one of the first batch of member units, introduced that during the pandemic, the bank issued employment notices to more than 180 socially recruited talents and more than 110 college graduates in activities such as the Hongkou District Committee Organization Department, the Hongkou District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau and the Hongkou Talent Service Center. So far, more than 110 people have been on duty, reaching the peak in recent years, with the demand for talents at all posts and levels of the bank better guaranteed. He said that the establishment of the North Bund Talent Work Alliance will provide new ideas, new platforms and new mechanisms for the supply and demand for talents and enterprises, and it will also bring about new sparks, new achievements and new breakthroughs.
The activity also released the list of the first batch of Hongkou District College Students' Practice Bases. It awarded the nameplates by the representatives of the first batch of practice bases, including the North Bund Group, the North Bund Sub-district, Three Gorges Group Shanghai Survey, Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd., Galaxy Futures, Shanghai Port Logistics, and the Hongkou District Arbitration Institute. The demand for internships from government organs, enterprises and public institutions was also released.
Ge Yuhan, a master of finance of East China Normal University, is currently interning at Shanghai Branch of Xiamen International Bank. She said that during the internship, she noticed the talent policies such as the "Honghu Plan" social practice for college students, the "Hundred Talents Project" talent reserve plan, and the "Overseas Returned Talents Posthouse" for returned overseas students introduced by Hongkou. At the same time, the North Bund has gathered more than 2,000 financial enterprises, with a good policy system, a strong industrial platform, and many internship opportunities, making people yearn for it. She hopes to stay at the North Bund after her internship and become a member of the financial industry, to add luster to Hongkou's development.
As the bridgehead and the important bearing area of the Belt and Road Initiative in Shanghai, the North Bund has unique advantages. Hongkou is actively building a talent reception hall here by setting posts of "talent-service specialist" and "talent planner", launching a talent relay station policy for overseas returnees to vigorously attract overseas students to return home and start businesses, opening a "one-stop" online inquiry of talent policies, and building a one-stop online service platform for domestic and foreign talents, strengthening the Dazhanhongtu cloud recruitment brand, and exploring a series of talent service systems with regional characteristics, such as the deep integration of party mass service stations and talent services. In the future, Hongkou will create an optimal environment to retain talents, provide better service for talents, and create an ecological space which both makes talents happy and attract more talents.
The theme activity was broadcast on the Shanghai Hongkou App simultaneously in the main venue and branch venues both online and offline. The talent service night market of the branch venues, located in the New Era Civilization Practice Center of Hongkou District, were divided into three areas, including the function exhibition area of the human resources and social security system, the emerging entrepreneurship talents’ exhibition area and the area of recruitment through live streaming, which displayed the window functions of the human resources and social security system, and provided policy consultancy and achievements display in terms of talents service, career planning, employment guidance and labor relations.