On July 10th, the 17th Suzhou International Elite Entrepreneurship Week kicked off, with more than 1,700 domestic foreign experts and scholars gathering in Suzhou to celebrate the event and the city buzzing with innovation. At the meeting, the "2025 Top Ten Industrial Scientific and Technological Achievements in Suzhou" was released for the first time, with Hengtong Marine Optical Fiber Communication System successfully making the list.

Suzhou has always attached great importance to talent introduction and training and scientific and technological innovation, and since 2020, it has set 10 as "Suzhou Scientists' Day" every year, and has carried out a series of activities such as the International Elite Entrepreneurship Week for many years, taking a of measures to create a "talent-friendly city" and accelerating the construction of the main carrier area of the industrial scientific and technological innovation center with global influence. It is such a vibrant and innovative land that Hengtong Group has gathered the development strategy of "innovation leading and talent first", taking talent as the root of innovation and, vigorously promoting the spirit of scientists, and creating a strong atmosphere of respecting talent and innovation. Batch after batch of scientific and technological talents continue to create and keep pace with times, following one after another in key core technology research and new technology and new product research and development and other innovation work, creating a number of "national first" and "worlds best", leading the enterprise to keep moving towards the high-end of the global value chain and injecting endless and powerful power into sustainable and high-quality development.
How can the water in the canal be so clear? It is because there is a source of living water. "The development of a company ultimately depends on innovative elements of talents, and high-quality talent strategy should lead to high-quality development." In the more than thirty years of development, Hengtong regards talents as first resource, the first capital and the first strategy of the enterprise, constructs the talent policy of "attracting, cultivating, using and retaining", and makes all kinds of fully play their talents and bloom in a competitive way.
From recruiting the first college student, the first graduate student, to inviting the first chief engineer, the first chief expert, Hengtong has been continuously professional talents, high-end talents, leading talents, and overseas talents, to help the industry continue to develop to the new stage. In 2023, the Group the "Ten Hundred Thousand" talent project to focus on key core technologies of emerging industries, cutting-edge world science and technology, etc., and strive to build globally influential and competitive advanced manufacturing center and scientific research innovation center.
Only when there is a well-built nest can a phoenix choose to settle there; and where flowers bloom, butterflies will come. By establishing Hengtong Management School and the Artisan Academy, Hengtong has built a talent training system covering all employees, trained and certified more than 800 instructors and set up a training system covering more than 1,500 courses. Every year, it offers courses such as international business, skill craftsman training, business management, grassroots team building, and continuously improves the "five major competitions" to improve the comprehensive skills and quality of employees through training. In addition, Hengtong has also promoted twoway job exchanges and alternation of work and study with various universities and research institutes to push forward the industry-education cooperation. It has been identified as a national high-ills talent training base, one of the first batch of industry-education integrated enterprises, and a Jiangsu high-skills talent training base.
Hengtong Science has established an "H-shaped" career development channel, implemented the "name the challenge and take the lead" system, hundreds of "craftsman-level" talents have played a key role in technological innovation, constantly breaking monopolies and filling gaps in the fields of information and communication, power, new materials, marine communication and energy. With the support of various national-level enterprise technology centers, postdoctoral research workstations, academician workstations, scientific and innovation centers, and other platforms, a series of major national equipment, national science and technology progress awards, and single champion innovation achievements have emerged, and the group has obtained more than 5,500 authorized patents and led and participated in the formulation of more than 600 standards.
A single flower does not make a spring, but a garden full of blooms does. Talent can be attracted, but it is more important to it. To achieve this, Hengtong has been continuously improving its skills training and job level evaluation system. Hengtong has been vigorously promoting reform and innovation in management, providing clear career development paths and more opportunities for promotion. In addition, Hengtong has also established management innovation awards, technology innovation awards, outstanding contribution awards, etc, as well as short-term, medium-term, and long-term "three-in-one" incentive policies, so that employees can share in the achievements of the's development, and innovation has become a common practice in the enterprise. Hengtong has also become one of the first private enterprises in Jiangsu Province to have the to review senior professional titles and special-grade technicians, nearly 300 people have obtained senior and deputy senior professional titles through their abilities and contributions, and national, provincial,, and district-level labor models, skilled craftsmen, etc. have emerged in large numbers, shining and blooming in all fronts.
"Innovation is the core competitiveness of an enterprise, and talents are the fundamental source of innovation." On July 11th,ui Wei, the president of Hengtong Group, attended the 17th Suzhou International Elite Entrepreneurship Week Wujiang Branch and delivered a speech. He said in the more than 30 years since its establishment, Hengtong has introduced and cultivated a number of national-level innovative talents, skill masters, special technicians, provincial-innovation talents, etc., building a "strong magnetic field" for talents and gathering the source power for development. This is a vivid practice of Hengtongs adherence to people-oriented and high emphasis on talent development. It has also laid a solid talent foundation for the company's high-quality development. Hengtong also continue to increase its investment in talent, deepen the development of the industry, and allow all kinds of talents to spread wisdom and achieve their ideals on this land, contributing to construction of Suzhou as a globally influential industrial science and technology innovation center main carrier area, and creating new achievements and reaching new peaks in the journey of building a world-class.
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