On the afternoon of March 21st, Dawn Group held a school-enterprise cooperation and scientific research worker conference in the academic lecture hall of the student dormitory, with 10 video sub-venues set up simultaneously. Jiang Lichun, member of the Standing Committee of the Longkou Municipal Committee and Minister of the Organization Department, Xing Qin, member of the Party Committee of Yantai Vocational College and director of the Organization and Personnel Department, attended the event. Yu Xiaoning, chairman and president of Dawn Group and dean of Dawn Business School, attended the event and delivered a speech. People of Longkou Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Industry and Information Technology Bureau, Science and Technology Bureau, and Yantai Vocational College, as well as the relevant leaders, teachers and R&D personnel of Dawn Group participated in the event.

Minister Jiang Lichun pointed out that in recent years, the municipal party committee and government had introduced a series of new talent policies, creating a strong magnetic field for talent aggregation. Dawn has assembled a research team led by Academician Tian Hongchi and supported by national-level experts and provincial-level talents, continuously breaking through key areas, developing front-end products, and transforming scientific research and talent advantages into competitive advantages. He commended the contributions made by Dawn's research team and congratulated them on the achievements of university-enterprise cooperation.

Yue Dongmei, a professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology and the Chief Engineer of Dawn Special Elastomer Company, has recently been recognized as a high-level talent in Shandong Province. She expressed that the industrialization of research achievements relies on the collaborative efforts of enterprises, universities, and researchers. "As a researcher, I keenly feel the great responsibility and honor of my mission. In the future, I will dedicate myself wholeheartedly to scientific research and contribute to the advancement of industrial technology."

In the presence of the attendees, Director Xing Qin and Mr. Xiao Hui, Executive Vice President of Dawn Group and Vice Dean of Dawn Business School, jointly signed a school-enterprise cooperation agreement. They also presented an adjunct professorship appointment to Mr. Tian Hongchi, General Manager of Dawn Polymer and a foreign academician of Ukrainian Academy of Engineering Science. Director Xing expressed that in the future, the college would collaborate with Dawn to achieve mutual employment of high-level talents, cultivate more high-skilled personnel, empower entity development, serve the regional economy, and promote mutually beneficial development through cooperation.

As an adjunct professor at Yantai Vocational College, Mr. Tian Hongchi, General Manager of Dawn Polymer, signed a mentorship agreement with Su Ling, the doctoral representative of the college. In his remarks, he expressed that this collaboration between the school and the enterprise will achieve efficient integration of the innovation chain, industry chain, and talent chain. He urged all researchers to uphold a sense of patriotism, consider research as a career, and transform their research capabilities into personal aspirations, determination, and confidence.

Chen Qingkui, the Dean of Dawn Research Institute, delivered a keynote report focusing on the overview of technological innovation and future development plans. He elaborated on the cooperation between academia and enterprises, technological collaboration, flexible introduction of talents, and reserve projects, along with an industry analysis. Chen Qingkui emphasized the future key development directions of new materials, enabling researchers to see the height and strength of Dawn's future, thereby strengthening their confidence in "leading the industrial trend".   

"We need to concentrate our efforts on scientific and technological breakthroughs, promote product upgrades and replacements, and enhance the core competitiveness of the enterprise," said Chen Wenquan, an outstanding representative of Dawn's researchers and Deputy Chief Engineer of Dawn Polymer. Zhang Xiuwen, another outstanding representative of Dawn's researchers and Deputy General Manager of Qingdao New Materials Company, expressed that Dawn's business philosophy is highly compatible with the connotation of new quality productivity. In the future, he will not fail the platform and will realize his personal value in technological innovation.

Accelerating the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-reliance is the only way to promote high-quality development. Vice President of Dawn Group, Qiu Huanling, stated that researchers should enhance their ability for independent development. In deepening the cooperation between industry, academia and research institutes, they should strengthen technology development, flexibly introduce high-end talents, gather the strength of scientific and technological innovation, and promote Dawn's transformation and upgrading from a professional enterprise to an expert enterprise.

Chairman Yu Xiaoning stressed that they should base themselves on the big stage of Dawn to form a scientific combination with high-level professionals and high-level technical talents, aim at the forefront of the industry, find opponents for cooperation, learning and competition, and gain growth in the confrontation with opponents; It is necessary to find out the "enterprise positioning" and "product positioning" in the process from "meeting customer needs" to "leading customer needs"; It is necessary to drive industrial innovation with technological innovation, actively cultivate and strengthen new productive forces, and promote high-quality development of enterprises.