“We will continue to give high priority to the development of education, build China’s self-reliance and strength in science and technology, and rely on talent to pioneer and to propel development....... ” the Report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China mapped out the strategic blueprint “Invigorating China through Science and Education and Developing a Strong Workforce for the Modernization Drive”. The Business School(BS) of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology(USST) is fully implementing the Party's education policy and proactively built a brand-new teaching program, i.e. the second classroom “P series”. This is the action taken by the school to build a solid foundation for national prosperity and cultivate management talents being in charge of national rejuvenation
On November 29, 2022, a total of 28 postgraduates from the Professional Degree Education Center of BS-USST went to the Yangtze River Delta G60 Industrial Internet Innovation and Application Experience Center, Aole Technology Co. This is to help students connect theory with practice, develop their vision, enhance their professional skills and learn cutting-edge industry knowledge.
Part1 Enterprise Visit
First stop: Yangtze River Delta G60 Industrial Internet Innovation Application Experience Center
Yangtze River Delta G60 Industrial Internet Innovation Application Experience Center
As specified in “The G60 S&T Innovation Valley of Yangtze River Delta” on the official website of the Ministry of Science and Technology: by 2022, Science and Technology(S&T) Innovation Valley will come into form. The advanced manufacture and strategic emerging industry clusters will take a lead among peers in the country. The Yangtze River Delta G60 Industrial Internet Innovation and Application Experience Center is located in Songjiang District, Shanghai.
The first thing at sight were the four golden Chinese characters “Technology Empowering Shanghai. By explaining the indicators in five areas: new infrastructure, basic infrastructure, enabling platform, security posture and spatial carrier, the staff showed that “digital transformation lead Shanghai into an international digital metropolis”.
Next, the students came to the specific application exhibition hall see the sandbox of Weimar car, 3D dental mold printer, AISD intelligent creation command center production line, BONO high-end business professional clothing custom brand operation mode, through a series of excellent application cases, students were able to appreciate the effective combination of “digital link, physical link, intelligent link”, and the sudden change of digital transformation from technology to paradigm. In addition, the staff also showed the students a panoramic view of the electronic information industry chain, explaining the operation mode of the industry chain from five levels: application layer, software layer, platform layer, network layer and equipment layer.
Second stop: Aole Technology Co., Ltd
Aole Technology Co.
The second stop was the Aole Technology Co., Ltd. which was founded in 2000. As introduced by the staff, the company has experienced a 6-year journey consisting of five stages, initial growth, hard work, rapid growth, dramatic rise, great development, from the initial setting up of the department of Security and Defense to the foundation of the company, it takes 6 years for the company to be accredited in the first-ever batch of Smart Specialized Design entities by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.
In the exhibition hall, through 270° immersive viewing, students were able to appreciate the eight tracks of Aole in different fields, such as smart finance, smart campus, smart transportation, smart medical, etc., and each of their sub-sectors, and to experience the concept of “smart city” to design intelligent system solutions for various industries in science and technology, municipal venues, airports and ports, power and environmental protection, health care, etc.
Next, the students watched how to operate the video surveillance and AI big data application - intelligent education through the screen. In the final sharing session, manager HE said, “In business school, there is no right or wrong. Study tours are very important for everyone’s learning”. He suggested that students should come out with thoughts and questions, so that they can get greater gains; at the same time, as a young person in business school, he expected that everyone should dare to explore and constantly stimulate their own potential through learning.
Third stop: Shanghai Manheng Digital Technology Co.
Manheng Digital Technology Co.
Manheng insists on forming core technology groups with independent intellectual property rights in key areas such as virtual reality software engine, interaction tracking, motion capture, content and platform, participating in three national major special projects, dozens of Shanghai-level scientific research projects, being Shanghai Virtual Simulation Engineering Technology Research Center, and serving 3000+ famous enterprises and scientific research institutions, such as COMAC, China Aerospace Science and Technology Group, CGNPC, Peking University, etc.
First of all, the staff introduced to the students the products and solutions of three high and four no scenarios of training, training and teaching for the customers in the fields of vocational education and college, emergency security and national defense and military industry with virtual reality technology.
Next, the students learned about the representative products of MANHENG in the exhibition hall: firstly, IDEAVR2021, as a VR creation engine, which can quickly build VR scenes and interactive content creation without mastering the code, followed by 7 Light, a professional VR headset for B-end industry market; next is G-Motion5.0, which has been continuously updated since 2011. Continuously iterating and updating, with independent intellectual property rights, copyrights and patent certificates, it is a virtual reality human-computer interaction motion capture and positioning optical system.
Finally, the students went to the VR experience hall and experienced virtual welding and virtual emergency rescue, etc. They learned about the company's hardware and software capabilities while experiencing first-hand the power of virtual technology. Finally, the students also visited the advanced studio and learned that the maturity of virtual technology has been able to satisfy people to complete different weather shooting indoors.
Part2 Topic-based Communication
The session invited three senior managements from Manheng to share. Director of Public Relations Yu Liping prefaced today”s visit with a presentation on the development of the Industrial Internet Innovation Project, describing to the students the prospects for technological development in Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta.
Top-based communication
Innovation is the primary drive to lead development
Yang Ting, the director of digital R&D, introduced how to reflect innovation in the R&D process with the theme of innovation is the first driving force leading development. Mr. Yang introduced the innovation road of Manheng from the early stage of its establishment: from content creation, strategic cooperation to content distribution, Manheng realized the innovation trilogy step by step from ideaVR, 7 light VR all-in-one machine to VRBOX. Then, Mr. Yang talked about how to achieve innovation from 0 to 1, and encouraged students to have the courage to innovate and improve themselves from behavioral skills to integrate new cognitive skills, so as to come up with innovative business ideas. Finally, Mr. Yang made an outlook on the development of VR field and the company's prospect in new directions such as metaverse and NFT, showing that innovation is a never-ending process.
the director of digital R&D
Being an long-term strategist in uncertain times
Taking the uncertain time as the starting point, Vice President of Operations Hou Yuyu proposed that in the face of the uncertainties in the current situation, it is necessary to firmly keep the righteousness upward and keep deep thinking, while embracing changes and normalizing them. She believed that in the uncertain times, it is more necessary to strengthen the power of corporate values and role models, to recognize the long-term goals of the company, to make reasonable predictions, to act decisively and to push forward firmly. Mr. Hou briefly described the national layout of Manheng and proved the effectiveness of Manheng's operation strategy in the uncertain environment, and finally encouraged the students to be a long-termist and let time prove the value with persistence.
Vice President of Operations Hou Yuyu
The key to market model change in the face of adversity
Vice President of Marketing Wen Guifen analyzed that the two key words for marketing were adversity and seeking change. Firstly, the current adversity, i.e. the epidemic, has three impacts on the company's marketing: weakened ability in decision-making ability in an uncertain environment, difficulty in carrying out marketing activities and meeting customers; secondly, “seeking change”, i.e. the change of going to the absolute headquarters center. On the one hand, it is reflected in the regionalization of decision making and resources, on the other hand, it is reflected in flexibility, efficiency and risk resilience, and at the same time, “seeking change” also means that the market model is changed from offline to online, so as to contact customers face-to-face. In addition, manager Wen analyzed the operation mode, promotion mode and customer communication, and said that “learning and growing team is the key to seeking change”, showing the successful case of Manheng overcoming “adversity” by “change”.
Vice President of Marketing Wen Guifen
In the session of query and answer, the students put forward questions to the executives regarding customer fragmentation, balance between profit and business objective, performance assessment, etc. The executives answered the questions one by one, and at the same time said that health is important to maintain the long-term vitality of the enterprise, so is the company’s dashboard. The employees should think about the value they create for the company. These ideas have inspired the students.
The P-Action Enterprise Frontier Management Information Practice Series is closely connected with enterprises, allowing students to learn more about the application in practice in addition to classroom learning. Under the influence of the epidemic, the college got the strong support from the Yangtze River Delta G60 Industrial Internet Innovation and Application Experience Center, Aole Technology Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Manheng Digital Technology Co., Ltd. to facilitate this opportunity of visiting and learning and practical exchange, helping students to understand and learn the working mechanism and practical experience of excellent technology enterprises and acquire cutting-edge knowledge in high-tech field during the specific visit. The first session of P-Action was successfully concluded, please look forward to the next session of the event and continue to register for it!
Manheng VR Studio
