International Youth Day 2023: Shanghai Electric accepts over 700 graduates from the world's leading universities in the latest hiring drive

2023-08-15 15:41:29

Shanghai (ots/PRNewswire) – Shanghai Electric (SEHK:2727, SSE:601727) (“the Company”) announced that over 700 employees who recently graduated from top universities around the world have joined the Company in a new recruitment season.

The new young professionals will bring their unique skills and creative ideas to spur the development of new research projects in smart energy, smart manufacturing and digital intelligence integration, furthering Shanghai Electric’s long-standing efforts to spur innovation in the new energy sector and the global economy empower to move faster towards the zero net goals, to bring to life. At present, young workers at Shanghai Electric account for 40% of the total workforce, half of which are high-skilled technical workers.

“Shanghai Electric is a hub of innovation that equips engineering graduates with the latest industry knowledge and experience, providing them with a solid foundation for their careers. This is a place for the best and brightest young professionals to fulfill their potential by participating in projects that enable them to solve challenges at the forefront of the industry and meeting mentors who bridge academic theory and industrial reality.I am convinced that our new members will achieve great things together with Shanghai Electric in the fields of energy, technology and digitalization will be explored and achieved, as they bring fresh thinking that stimulates the transformation of the industry,” said Liu Ping, director and president of Shanghai Electric Group.

As part of the 2023 recruitment initiative, Shanghai Electric has hired highly qualified graduates from prestigious universities such as Cambridge University, New York University, the University of London and Nagoya University. Among the graduates are also outstanding graduates from renowned universities in China and Europe, including those with outstanding qualifications such as Tsinghua University in the Department of Materials, Peking University in the Department of Chemistry, Glasgow University in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Technische Universität Berlin in the Department of Electrical Engineering .

With Shanghai Electric offering a variety of global career opportunities for the new hires, the new hires, whose majors are aligned with the company’s businesses and directions, will bring added intelligence that will strengthen Shanghai Electric’s R&B capabilities in smart energy, smart manufacturing and digital integration solutions. Because Shanghai Electric is a leader in these three areas, the company is a platform for passionate and ambitious engineers and technicians who want to learn, grow and thrive, as well as true problem solvers who take up the challenge of innovative, intelligent and green solutions to find that create value for customers while creating a sustainable future for all.

As a global technology leader and innovator, Shanghai Electric has developed products and solutions that set industry standards and paved the way for numerous groundbreaking pioneering achievements both in China and on the global stage. Since its inception, Shanghai Electric has been at the forefront of pioneering projects in China and beyond. Milestones include China’s first thermal power generation unit, the world’s first electric motor with a double internal cooling system, China’s first 10,000-ton water press, etc. China’s first set of nuclear power generation units.

With its world-leading technological capabilities, Shanghai Electric has become a leading force driving China to accelerate the country’s carbon peak and carbon neutrality journey. Shanghai Electric is working to strengthen industrial synergies to enable low-carbon transition for its partners in the different value chains and has published an action plan outlining the short and long-term carbon footprint reduction strategies and practices in both the new energies as well as in the area of traditional energies are described.

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