Culture Unites Hearts, Gathers Strength to Move Forward — Qingdao Hicorp Group's Corporate Culture Knowledge Competition Successfully Held
Spring brings warmth, and culture unites hearts. With the holding of the corporate culture knowledge competition, Qingdao Hicorp Group's series of activities for the "Corporate Culture Promotion Month" in the first lunar month have come to a successful conclusion. The "Corporate Culture Promotion Month" activities in 2026 kicked off on February 24 and ran throughout the entire first lunar month, and this corporate culture knowledge competition served as a platform for communication, collision, and a comprehensive review of revisiting and learning about corporate culture.
On March 19, the offline final of Qingdao Hicorp Group's "Wisdom Learning, Diligent Practice, and Fierce PK" corporate culture knowledge competition was successfully held in the multi-functional hall at the group headquarters. After preliminary selections, six elite teams from the group and its various subsidiaries competed on the same stage, comprehensively testing their learning outcomes regarding corporate culture and creating a positive atmosphere where all employees learn and practice corporate culture.
The competition featured four competitive segments: compulsory culture questions, drum-beating rush answers, cultural matrix one-stroke drawing, and "I Talk About Corporate Culture." Throughout the event, on-site scoring and on-site announcements were adopted to ensure the fairness, impartiality, and openness of the competition.
The compulsory culture questions segment focused on testing basic knowledge. Each team responded calmly and steadily, demonstrating solid theoretical foundations. The drum-beating rush answers segment had a fast pace, with contestants reacting quickly and answering enthusiastically, fully showcasing their knowledge reserves and on-the-spot adaptability. The cultural matrix one-stroke drawing segment emphasized teamwork, with each team cooperating tacitly and efficiently completing the challenges, successfully unlocking the group's 60th anniversary (1966-2026) commemorative code and paying tribute to the company's development in a creative way. In the final "I Talk About Corporate Culture" segment, each team combined their job positions to elaborate on the connotations of corporate culture and share implementation paths, deeply integrating corporate culture with production, operation, and job duties, and demonstrating the practical effects of corporate culture implementation.
After fierce competition, all the awards for this competition were announced: the first prize went to Hicorp-Zhiding Team, the second prize to Hicorp-Zhiguan Team, and the third prize to Heavy Industry-Zhihai Team. Meanwhile, the event also recognized outstanding teams and departments that excelled in the preliminary "Mystery Box Q&A" and "Brush-Up Competition," granting them the titles of "Corporate Culture Learning Pioneer Team" and "Corporate Culture Learning Pioneer Department," setting learning benchmarks and inspiring enthusiasm for learning among all employees.
Group Deputy General Manager Chen Xiuyan presented awards to the winning teams and delivered a concluding speech. She first congratulated the winning teams and individuals and fully affirmed the enthusiastic demeanor displayed by all employees during the series of activities for the Corporate Culture Promotion Month. Ms. Chen pointed out that the 60 years of steady development of Hicorp Group have relied not only on continuously evolving product technologies but also on a deeply ingrained corporate culture. The long-standing integrity culture within the company has been internalized into the thinking and behavioral habits of employees, serving as a vivid manifestation of cultural implementation. She hoped that all employees would take this competition as an opportunity to carry the enthusiasm and focus displayed on the competition stage into their job positions, striving to be endorsers, guardians, practitioners, and disseminators of corporate culture. Taking the 60th anniversary as a new starting point, she encouraged everyone to translate cultural concepts into daily behavioral norms, fulfill their job responsibilities, and work hand in hand to contribute to the grand vision of a century-old Hicorp Group.
This corporate culture knowledge competition represents an important measure taken by Qingdao Hicorp Group to advance cultural construction. By promoting learning through competition and facilitating action through learning, it has further strengthened employees' cultural identity, enhanced team cohesion and solidarity, injected strong spiritual impetus into the group's 60th anniversary, and laid a solid cultural foundation for the company's sustained and healthy development.
