Shacman Speed: Forging a "Growth Chain" for Industrial Workers in the New Era

In recent years, Shaanxi Automobile Holding Group has thoroughly implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on the reform of the industrial workforce, guided by the “Four New” important instructions, and is committed to building an industrial workforce with ideals and beliefs, technical expertise and innovation, and a spirit of responsibility and dedication. It strives to create a development platform for employees that “increases motivation, provides prospects, adds hope, allows them to reap rewards, and boosts their morale,” creating more opportunities and platforms for the growth and development of industrial workers.

Breaking Through the Career Ceiling

“Previously, we were limited to senior technicians. Now, from master technician to chief technician, we see hope,” said Chief Technician Xi Xiaojun, expressing the sentiments of countless industrial workers at Shaanxi Automobile Holding Group.

Shaanxi Automobile Holding Group has broken through the “glass ceiling” and “dead ends” in the career development of skilled personnel, innovatively launching a “nine-level worker” skilled talent appointment sequence with enterprise characteristics, adding “chief technician” and “chief chief technician” above senior technician. At the same time, the company vigorously promotes independent skill level certification, striving to achieve “full coverage” of certification categories, levels, and units.

Today, Shaanxi Automobile Group (Shaanxi Auto) has opened up three 10-year career development channels for its industrial workers, building a “three-way connection” between skills, technology, and management positions.

Building a Grand Stage for Innovation

“Technological innovation reaches for the sky while remaining grounded in reality; micro-innovation is ubiquitous.” At Shaanxi Auto, this is not just empty talk.

“Now, 30% to 50% of our small inventions and creations come from frontline employees,” says Chen Liang, head of the Chen Liang Innovation Studio at the Automobile Assembly Plant. The company has established a “two-tier, three-layer, nine-category” innovation achievement management model and set up a micro-innovation fund, with project start-up funding reaching up to 500,000 yuan. Through improvement proposals, micro-innovations, achievement applications, and patent applications, Shaanxi Auto has built a complete innovation support system for frontline workers.

Currently, Shaanxi Auto has established 22 employee innovation studios and formed a high-skilled talent excellence alliance. These studios not only produce results and cultivate talent but also establish standards and mechanisms, becoming a high ground for promoting the spirit of model workers, the spirit of labor, and the spirit of craftsmanship.

A sense of honor and fulfillment follows. At the annual “Shaanxi Automobile Glory Day” commendation ceremony, outstanding innovation teams, model workers, and outstanding young people take to the stage to receive awards. From ordinary workers to provincial-level technical experts, from senior technicians to chief technicians, the career paths for industrial workers are becoming clearer, and their professional pride is growing stronger.

Cultivating a Fertile Ground for Growth

Shaanxi Automobile continues to strengthen its industrial worker development platform, launching company-level expert “technology-led” classes and company-level chief technician “skill-strengthening” classes. Simultaneously, it widely conducts labor and skills competitions, having held 40 group-level skills competitions in the past three years and hosted or participated in over 50 city-level and above competitions.

“The reform of the industrial worker workforce has activated the ‘primary resource’ for enterprise development.” Through a series of pragmatic measures, Shaanxi Automobile Holding is enabling its industrial workers to shine in their growth and progress, injecting continuous momentum into the high-quality development of the enterprise and the revitalization of the automotive industry.