On 22-24 November 2024, the 9th China University Student HR Innovation and Practice Competition (HRU) Grand Final was held in Xiong'an New District, Hebei Province. The team of undergraduates majoring in human resource management won the group grand prize, four individual grand prizes and two individual first prizes.
HRU competition, as a top domestic event, was successfully listed in the Observation Catalogue of the National Catalogue of Discipline Competitions for College Students of Ordinary Colleges and Universities of China by the Chinese Society of Higher Education in 2023, aiming to cultivate high-quality and applied talents with a sense of innovation and a spirit of practice. After the fierce competition in seven regions, a total of more than 1,000 contestants from 100 colleges and universities across the country entered the finals. This year's HRU Competition, with the theme of ‘Cultivating, nurturing and adapting complex talents to the development of new quality productivity’, was divided into seven tracks: no-leadership group discussion, practice design, digital HR practice, workplace practice, case analysis, labour dispute handling and HR-English, with a panel of judges composed of corporate HR executives and senior lawyers to assess the competitors' performance. A panel of judges was formed to professionally evaluate the performance of the contestants.
With the support of the school and the college, as well as the careful guidance of the Department of Organisation and Human Resource Management, Professor Zhang Hongyu, Professor JI Yueting, Professor ZUO Yuhan and Professor JI Xiaode, the team prepared for the competition positively and responded to the battle calmly, and finally achieved a proud result. Participants 2022 undergraduates Li Yiwen, Yang Luyuan, Li Linlin, Xiao Jingyu, Yang Lianyi, 2023 undergraduates Cao Yueqi, Yang Qingqing, Guo Tingting, Shen Yan, Jiang Lin were involved in the fierce competition of the various tracks, and stood out from the competition by virtue of their excellent professionalism and practical ability. Among them, the four tracks of Practice Design, Workplace Practice, Case Analysis and Leaderless Group Discussion won the Grand Prize of each track, and the two tracks of Digital HR and Labour Dispute Handling won the First Prize of each track.
From the careful preparation and organisation of the school competition, to the excellent results of the group special prize in the regional competition in October, to the group special prize in the national finals in November and the third place in the whole country, our students' profound professionalism in human resource management as well as their flexible practical ability have been fully demonstrated in the process of the competition, which is also a strong proof of the achievements of the education in the field of human resource management and the quality of talent cultivation of the college. This is also a strong proof of the educational achievements and quality of talent cultivation in the field of human resource management.
Looking ahead, the Department of Organisation and Human Resource Management of the Business School of the Central University of Finance and Economics will, as always, adhere to its original intention and mission, and through high-level and international academic research and teaching practice, continue to focus on cultivating senior management talents with both innovation and action, as well as high-quality talents with significant strengths in business knowledge, strategic thinking and analytical techniques.
