On the morning of 1^st, April 2018, MBA teachers and students, who attended the 2^nd Asia-Pacific District MBA Public Welfare Activity assisting Nanjing City Wall to Apply for World Heritage themed with “Inherit Traditional Culture, Promote City Competitiveness” & the First National MBA CDCC Speech Contest, visited Sanpower Group. Lu Haibo, Vice President of Sanpower Lv Xiaofeng, Assistant President of Sanpower, and Tang Yu, Deputy Director of the Chairman’s Office met with the guests.

The MBA cohort visited Sanpower‘s corporate culture showroom, Brookstone concept store, and An Kang Tong Ageing Service Command Centre to learn the overall growth, business layout, and transformation inspirations of the Group. They were deeply impressed with the fact that Sanpower Group built itself into such a scale within only two decades; notably New Health and New Commerce demonstrated tremendous vigor.

MBAs were attracted to various technologies at the Brookstone concept store

During the meeting, Lu Haibo remarked that talents are the most important force to drive the rapid development transformation of the Group. A few metropolises have released talent strategies, Sanpower Group also modified the policy for the management of talent introduction, through multiple channels, to explore and recruit professionals with excellence who identify with Sanpower’s corporate culture and values. Additionally, he explained the three standards for talent recruitment to the MBAers. Finally, he noted having more excellent t MBAs on board would accelerate Sanpower’s development. 

Professor Han Shunping, Vice President of Nanjing University Business School, complimented Sanpower Group for offering such a good opportunity for the MBA students to converse. Moreover, Professor Han mentioned his acquaintance with the Chairman of Sanpower, and shared a line from Yuan Yafei, who said if you refuse to do the tiny things that others despise, you are unable to do the big things that everyone else wants to do. This line perfectly reflected Sanpower’s development. He even admitted that he frequently used the successful operation model of Sanpower Group as an example during his lectures that the transformation Sanpower has gone through is a worthy business case for many.

Representatives from MBA Federations of various colleges spoke freely of their takeaways from the event. It is reported that, more than 400 elite MBAers walked on the Nanjing city wall from the Shence Gate to the Taiping Gate on the morning of 31^st, March 2018, in support the city’s application for city walls as a world heritage.