Culture
1st Training Session for Excellent Foreign Employees Held at CDI Head Office
Between the 19th and the 26th of April, with the advent of the 2nd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, CDI held the first training session for excellent foreign employees at its head office. The 7 foreign employees attending this training session, all from CDI Egypt branch, were outstanding representatives of foreign employees who have made great contributions to CDI’s implementation of overseas projects with local resources. Mr. Chen Tao, Vice General Manager of CDI, was present at the opening ceremony and addressed the session with a welcome speech. Firstly, on hebalf of the management team he warmly welcomed the 7 foreign trainees who travelled a long way to come to China, and fully acknowledged their contributions to CDI’s overseas localization operations and projects implementation. Afterwards, he gave a brief introduction to CDI’s path of development as an international engineering company as well as CDI’s business scope and versatile operations. It was pointed out by him that localization, as the inevitable choice and important support to CDI’s constant “going out” strategy, meant a lot to CDI’s international operation, and under the direction of “One Belt One Road” policy, our localization management and operation would always stick to the principle of equality, mutual benefit, mutual development and win-win state. As a warm big international family, CDI had employees from all over the world, and training sessions like this would have more excellent foreign employees to come to China, come to Chengdu and come to the head office and give them the chance to visit the sites of domestic projects under construction, get a close understanding of CDI’s glorious history and company culture, attain basic knowledges of scientific and standardized project management system, and help them to find the right way to integrate personal promotion with company’s development. In the end, Mr. Chen Tao hoped that the foreign trainees could have a fruitful achievements with the 8-day training and convert what they have learned, saw and thought during the training into real works after they go back to Egypt, so as to make greater contributions to construction of CDI’s overseas projects, establishment of Sinoma brand and further development of CNBM as well as build, together with CDI, a more brilliant future for everyone.
Mr. He Jiao, Vice Director of Engineering Management Department No. 1, as the keynote speaker, gave the foreign trainees a detailed introduction to CDI’s histroy, typical achievements, company culture and career development trend, and shared his experiences in CDI’s project management system and management procedures. The foreign trainees, listening carefully with active interactions, acquired a clearer knowledge about CDI’s history, status quo and future planning and a deeper understanding about localization and turnkey project management. At close of the training session at the head office, each foreign trainee was awarded a training certificate and a beautiful gift with Sichuan characteristics.
On the 22nd of April, the foreign trainees left Chengdu for the site of Hongta Dianxi Bingchuan project undertaken by CDI on turnkey basis in Dali, Yunnan Province and started their 3-day learning at the domesitc project site. Hongta Dianxi Bingchuan 6000TPD clinker cement production line, under construction by CDI at present with a tight schedule of 13 months only, carried the mission to build a benchmark project of CNBM and Sinoma. The project management team highly valued this training and organized a training team composed of experienced and skillful engineers of process, civil, installation and safety management to give, by ways of classroom lecture, site visits and question-answer, a full and comprehensive demonstration on the advanced construction technology and project management procedures adopted by domestic cement production lines. The foreign trainees by studying carefully, taking notes and asking questions acquired site construction and management methods that are totally different from those used in Egypt and accumulated precious knowledge and experineces. The foreign trainees sincerely expressed their admiration of the high standard, high quality and high efficiency of Chinese construction technology and the scientific and standardized project management.
In order to let the foreign trainees have more experiences in site learning, CDI arranged the foreign trainees to visit Vanke Tianhui project constructed by CITIC Guoan Construction Group Co., Ltd. in Chengdu. Meanwhile, CDI made arrangements for the foreign trainees to visit at spare time various attractions such as Chengdu Panda Park, the ancient town of Dali and the Great Wall in Beijing, and they were all deeply impressed by the long and splendid history and culture of China.
At the end of the training, the foreign trainees expressed their most sincere gratitude to this training and the hospitality of the head office. The training and the visits made them fully feel CDI’s recognition and care for them, and they were truly proud of being a member of CDI big family. The foreign trainees unanimously stated that they would bring back to Egypt and carry forward tehcnology and precious management experiences acquired during this training, and at the same time try the best to improve their work performances and make greater contributions to CDI’s further development.