Jinan Haoyang Launches Employee Skills Enhancement Program: Invests 2 Million in Three Years to Cultivate Hundreds of “Artisan Star Technicians”
On April 15, 2025, Jinan Haoyang Casting & Forging Co. Ltd. announced today that its “Artisan Star Program” for frontline skilled workers has reached its first anniversary. The program covers core positions such as forging, heat treatment, and quality inspection, and aims to achieve “common growth between employees and the company” through systematic training and welfare upgrades.
Three core initiatives
1. Skill Certification Subsidies
- cooperated with Jinan Vocational College to develop “Standardized Course on Wear-resistant Steel Ball Processing”. Workers who pass the examination can obtain the nationally accredited “Intermediate/Advanced Forging Worker Certificates”, and enjoy a monthly skill allowance of RMB 100-300.
- Data: 20 employees have been certified, and the average salary has increased by 18%.
2. Health protection upgrade
- Workshop renovation: invested 500,000 RMB to add fresh air system for high temperature operation area, real-time monitoring of temperature and dust data.
- Optimization of physical examination: Noise deafness screening and musculoskeletal disease assessment were added, and the coverage rate of annual physical examination was 100%.
- Mental health: Opened a 24-hour psychological counseling hotline, with a cumulative service of 63 times.
3. Career Development Path
- Established “Artisan Star - Team Leader - Workshop Director” promotion path, with a total of 8 workers promoted to management positions in 2023.
- Open up “cross-post learning day”: allow employees of technical post to observe and learn from R&D department 1 day a month.
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Employee Stories: From Operator to Technical Leader
Director Zhao (37), an employee of the heat treatment workshop, is one of the first batch of beneficiaries of the “Artisan Star Program”. Through 136 hours of training, he not only mastered the skills of optimizing the parameters of the quenching process, but also led his team to improve the hardness stability of a certain model of cast balls by 15%.
"The company reimbursed all the training costs, but also gave me a skills allowance. Now I have more confidence in leading apprentices!" Director Zhao said in an interview.
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Management Voices
“The core competitiveness of manufacturing is in people.” The general manager emphasized, "We reject the ‘use-it-or-lose-it’ model of employment. In the next three years, the Artisan Star Program will cover all frontline employees and explore joint schooling with vocational colleges."
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Employee Care Achievements (FY2024)
- Employee-initiated turnover rate decreased by 42% year-on-year
- Zero safety accidents in the workshop
- 29 suggestions for effective process improvement, cost savings of more than 800,000 yuan
