ESG initiatives| Huabao Shanghai Industrial Park welcomed a group of young faces

During June 24-25, 2024, over 80 youthful students from Shanghai Institute of Technology (SIT) majoring in Perfume and Aroma Technology and Engineering visited Huabao Shanghai Industrial Park in two batches. Guided by their teachers, the students visited Huabao Flavours & Fragrances Co., Ltd. (“Huabao” or “Company”) to carry out their off-campus “cognition practice” course activities at Huabao Shanghai Industrial Park. Huabao has been a “cognition practice” activity base for SIT Perfume and Aroma Technology and Engineering Major for several consecutive years. During the activity, off-campus enterprise mentors were invited to give classes to enhance students’ professional knowledge and understanding. MU Jieqiang, Vice Chairman of the Trade Union Federation of Huabao Shanghai Industrial Park and Planning Manager of Huabao HR and Administration Department, once again served as an off-campus “cognition practice” mentor, warmly welcomed the teachers and students, showed them around the Company’s exhibition hall and laboratory, and gave a lively career planning lesson to the students at the Company’s meeting room.

During the visit to the Company’s exhibition hall, the students learned about the Company’s products with great interest and asked questions about the products from time to time. In the customer product exhibition area, the students discussed warmly, and the well-known customers also deepened their understanding of Huabao’s strength. In addition, we prepared black truffle ham soda biscuit, a popular product at Sam’s Club, and also invited the students to taste the ice cream. We enabled the students to experience the charm of flavors and the strength of Huabao by listening, watching, smelling and tasting.

At the Company’s meeting room, Mr. MU first introduced the overall situation of Huabao, focusing on professional learning and career planning advice and experience sharing based on the enterprise, industry and his own learning and growth experience. He suggested that the students should evaluate themselves objectively, look at reality rationally, and conduct planning ahead and early. Whether the students pursued employment or further study in the future, they should pay attention to study and practice, so that they could feel confident of the future. In class, Mr. MU put forward three suggestions on the students: first, they should strive to learn professional knowledge well and cultivate the learning habit of lifelong learning and continuous exploration; second, they should embrace AI technology and use it to work for themselves, learn English well as a language tool to better serve and benefit their study and work in the future, and enhance their competitiveness; third, they should uphold an open mind, and improve cognition and comprehensive quality through continuous reading, learning, communicating, and traveling. In class, the atmosphere was active and full of frequent interactions. Finally, Mr. MU also led the teachers and students to visit the laboratory at the R&D Building to understand the Company’s scientific and technological innovation platform.

“Cognition practice” is a required course (with credit points) for students from SIT majoring in Perfume and Aroma Technology and Engineering. This course is designed to help junior grade students better understand the professional industry and work situation in the future, and help them better plan their study, career and future. Huabao has always maintained a good school-enterprise cooperative relationship with SIT, and frequently interacted with SIT in respect of personnel training, professional learning, internship and employment, thus providing students with learning, internship and employment platforms and opportunities.

As an excellent enterprise in the industry, “respecting teachers and valuing education” is a vivid embodiment of Huabao’s profound corporate cultural deposits. Successively, Huabao has donated schoolbags and books for students in such poverty-stricken areas as Xizang, Gansu, Shaanxi and Guizhou; established a long-term mechanism to help ten poverty-stricken students in the old revolutionary base area Jinzhai to complete their studies better; carried out science popularization activities for primary and secondary school students in Jiading District, Shanghai. Now, the ESG work has been officially upgraded to the strategic level in the Company. Huabao will continue to earnestly implement the ESG strategy with practical actions and efforts and create more value for both the enterprise and society.