China：Stanford Delegation Visits HongyunHonghe

Source from:  HongyunHonghe Group 10/31/2011

A delegation from Stanford University of the United States, led by Deputy Director Paul Marca of the Stanford Center for Professional Development, visited HongyunHonghe Tobacco Group in southwest China’s tobacco-producing Yunnan Province on October 26, in exploration of possible cooperation between the two sides in human resources development.

Accompanied by Deputy Director Gan Xuechun of the Foreign Affairs Office of Yunnan Provincial People’s Government, Executive Vice-President Dr. Andy B. Ge of the San Francisco United States-China Exchange Council and Vice-Chairperson Ms. Willa S. Wu of the United States-China Exchange Council, the delegation also grouped Professor Thomas Kosnik with Stanford University and Professor Edison Tse with Stanford's Department of Management Science and Engineering. Hongyunhonghe Board of Directors Chairman Yao Qingyan and Communist Party Committee Deputy Secretary Dai Wei received the delegation. During the visit, Yao Qingyan briefed the delegation on the general situation of HongyunHonghe, saying that the development of HongyunHonghe needs the support of human resources, and that HongyunHonghe has always attached great importance to human resources development. Yao Qingyan expressed the hope that HongyunHonghe will have chances to cooperate the world’s prestigious universities such as Stanford University in human resources development, and that HongyunHonghe will be able to send outstanding human resources to other countries to receive professional training, in order to further improve the quality of its workforce and management human resources, and promote better and more rapid development of HongyunHonghe. Meanwhile, Dai Wei elaborately introduced to the delegation the profit making and tax payment by HongyunHonghe in the first nine months of 2011, HongyunHonghe’s competitive brands development, corporate culture development, “42158” business development targets, etc. Dai Wei expressed the hope that the two sides will reach consensus during the current visit of the delegation, in laying a solid foundation for future cooperation between the two sides.

Speaking on the same occasion, Paul Marca briefed the HongyunHonghe leaders on the history, research fields and some representative projects of Stanford University, saying that he believes HongyunHonghe is an enterprise with the greatest growing capacity in China, with development eyesight, and with development capacity. Paul Marca said that he is very much willing to cooperate with HongyunHonghe, because they can also learn a lot in such a process of corporate training. Enditem