Hold your mind steady, endure loneliness, sit on the cold bench - see how Zhongnan Design Group introduces and cultivates young and middle-aged talents

Zhan Tianyou, 27 years old, presided over the construction of the Tangshan Railway, 41 years old as the chief engineer of the Beijing-Zhang Railway; Mao Yisheng, 38 years old, shouldered the heavy responsibility of building the Qiantang River Bridge; Liang Sicheng, at the age of 41, began to write the "History of Chinese Architecture"...

30 to 40 years old, is the golden age for engineering designers to show their skills, creativity and results.

How to cultivate a vigorous, vigorous and innovative team of young and middle-aged first-class talents? On June 18, at the 2021 Talent Work Conference of Zhongnan Design Group, some new explorations attracted attention.

"Two legs" walk to attract digital talent

On the 19th floor of the Scientific Research and Design Center Building of the Zhongnan Architectural Design Institute, the youth of the Engineering Digital Technology Center of the Institute was bursting——

16 employees, the average age is less than 30 years old, some wear personalized fashion brands, some carry internet red milk tea, like walking into the office of an Internet company.

Zhang Shen, director of the Engineering Digital Technology Center, is less than 40 years old. Since the official establishment of the center in 2018, he led the team to explore in the fields of engineering design software research and development, helping the Group accelerate the transformation and upgrading of "digital infrastructure".

Most of the design institutes are architectural design or civil engineering majors, and digital transformation urgently needs digital technology talents such as programming, algorithms and artificial intelligence. What to do?

Self-cultivation and social recruitment "two legs" walk. Through the joint efforts of schools and enterprises, the Engineering Digital Technology Center has established academician experts, postdoctoral and graduate workstations, transformed the jointly trained doctors and masters into regular employees, and recruited social R&D talents by participating in academic conferences, scientific and technological exhibitions and other publicity of R&D achievements.

Zhang Shen believes that the most important thing for a good team is to let its ordinary team members create extraordinary performance. To this end, the center breaks the evaluation system of only papers, only professional titles, only academic qualifications and only awards from within, implements an incentive mechanism oriented to increasing the value of knowledge, encourages employees to form scientific research interest groups, stimulates innovation inspiration through interdisciplinary intersection, and tests the effectiveness of scientific and technological research and development in the major projects of the design institute, creating a talent team of "science and art flying together, academic life together".

"Digital Portraits" find talent

In order to meet the needs of the industry's digital transformation, Hubei Provincial Institute of Building Research and Design (hereinafter referred to as "Provincial Construction Research Institute"), a subsidiary of Zhongnan Design Group, made an article on the "cloud training" of employees.

At present, there are more than 8,000 engineering testing and technical personnel in our province, and the inspector induction certificate is valid for three years, and the training on the job has become the just need of each engineering testing unit. To this end, the Provincial Construction Research Institute has built the "Provincial Construction Research Institute Online Education Integration Management Platform", which includes 275 normative standards involved in the industry, 23-hour theoretical and practical videos by business category, more than 30,000 sets of standardized test questions, and developed teachers, students, and training management ports.

In view of the pain points of online education and training, the platform introduces offline real scenes, and strengthens the practical ability drills of testing industry personnel by hosting on-site observation meetings for the ability evaluation of quality inspection personnel in Hubei Province, and promotes the integration of online and offline education.

With the support of big data, the Provincial Construction Research Institute can evaluate the quality of the course by learning the independent completion rate, analyze the shortcomings of the trainees' ability by evaluating the data, and create a digital training model for thousands of people through the "digital portrait" of posts and personnel, providing data support for the industry to cultivate talents and select talents.

Keep an eye on the famous schools to cultivate "good seedlings"

Zhang Yun, secretary of the party committee and general manager of Zhongnan Design Group, believes that in order to build a leading enterprise of science and technology, it is necessary to promote the transformation of talent concept from group management to market-oriented services, the transformation of talent work from the expansion of "quantity" to the improvement of "quality", the transformation of talent construction from "following" to "running and running" and "leading", the transformation of talent pursuit from personal value realization to the feeling of planting a family and a country, and cultivating a group of Zhongnan designers who "can hold their minds steady, endure loneliness, and sit on the cold bench".

To this end, Zhongnan Design Group has always adhered to the concept of long-term training of talents, regarded talents as the largest value investment of enterprises, grasped them as a century-old system engineering of enterprises, and cultivated talents with a long-term vision and a large enterprise and a large cause.

How to lock in excellent students from the source? School-enterprise co-construction is the starting point.

Since the Hubei Academy of Urban Planning and Design was assigned to Zhongnan Design Group in 2017, it has issued the "Administrative Measures for the Targeted Training of Outstanding Students", which provides targeted training for undergraduate or graduate students enrolled in domestic "double-first-class" universities, and the tuition fees during the academic period are fully borne by the company and the living subsidies are issued. At the same time, the institute also adopts a test-free signing policy for fresh graduates of top universities, in addition to giving 100,000 yuan of entry rewards, it also provides a double tutor apprenticeship system to accelerate the workplace experience and growth of new employees. At present, a group of outstanding employees from top universities have become the main creative force in the core business areas of the institute.

(Hubei Daily all-media reporter Liu Tianzhong, correspondent Feng Xihui, Liu Anning)