International Day of the Youth 2023

Shanghai Electric has announced that more than 700 employees, who have recently graduated from top universities around the world, have joined the company in a new recruitment season. To get more news about shanghai daily, you can citynewsservice.cn official website.

The new young professionals will contribute their unique skills and creative ideas to drive the development of new research projects in the fields of smart energy, smart manufacturing and digital intelligence integration, injecting vitality into Shanghai Electric's long-standing efforts to catalyse innovation in the new energy sector and enable the global economy to accelerate towards zero net goals. Today, Shanghai Electric's young employees account for 40% of its total workforce, with half of them being highly skilled technical workers.

"Shanghai Electric is an innovation hub where engineering graduates are equipped with the latest industry skills and insights, enabling them to build a solid foundation for their professional careers. This is a place where the best and brightest young professionals can unlock their potential by participating in projects that allow them to solve challenges at the forefront of the industry, and meet mentors who bridge academic theory with industry reality. I believe our new members will explore and achieve great things together with Shanghai Electric in the fields of energy, engineering and digitalisation, as they bring fresh thinking to inspire industry transformation," said Liu Ping, Director, President of Shanghai Electric Group.

For the 2023 recruitment initiative, Shanghai Electric has recruited top graduates from prestigious institutions such as Cambridge University, New York University, University of London and Nagoya University. The intake also includes exceptional graduates from renowned universities in China and Europe, including those with outstanding qualifications such as materials engineering from Tsinghua University, chemistry from Peking University, electronic engineering from Glasgow University and electrical engineering from the Technical University of Berlin.

As Shanghai Electric offers a variety of global career opportunities to the new employees, the new hires, whose fields of study are aligned with the company's business areas and directions, will bring additional brain power to strengthen Shanghai Electric's R&D capabilities in the areas of smart energy, smart manufacturing and digital integration solutions. As Shanghai Electric builds leadership in these three areas, the company is the platform for passionate and ambitious engineers and technicians to learn, grow and thrive, and for true problem solvers to challenge themselves to find the innovative, smart and green solutions that create value for customers while building a sustainable future for all.

As a global technology leader and innovator, Shanghai Electric has developed products and solutions that have set industry standards and paved the way for numerous pioneering achievements both within China and on the global stage. Since its inception, Shanghai Electric has been at the forefront of pioneering projects in China and beyond, with milestones including China's first thermal power generation unit, the world's first electric motor with dual internal cooling system, China's first 10,000 tonne water press and China's first set of nuclear power generation units.

With its world-leading technological capabilities, Shanghai Electric has become a leading force driving China's acceleration towards the country's carbon-peak and carbon-neutrality goals. As it works to strengthen industrial synergy to enable its partners across the value chain to achieve a low-carbon transition, Shanghai Electric has also released an action plan detailing its short- and long-term strategy and practices to reduce its carbon footprint in both new and traditional energy businesses.