Career Development Series: Company visit to Guan Sheng Yuan Group & Alumni Mixer

On 18th April, a group of more than 20 students and alumni visited Guan Sheng Yuan Group Internet and Finance Park (“GSY Park”), which occupies 12,000 square meters in central Shanghai. The GSY Park, originally the headquarter site for the Guan Sheng Yuan Group, now mainly provides free community space for the public and incubation sites for start-ups in areas such as internet, finance, and innovation.

As part of the career development series of events, this company visit was organized by the Shanghai Overseas Returned Scholars Association University of Manchester Alumni Association and University of Manchester China Centre. Ms. Sherry Fu, China Centre director led the visit.

Group photo at the beginning of the visit

A brief introduction of the company

Mr. Xiaoxian Zhen, Manager in charge of innovation cooperation at the GSY Park introduced the development and culture of the company.

Activity 1

Introduction of Mingxiao Circle - a start-up based at the GSY Group striving to promote and raise awareness of traditional Chinese culture.

Activity 2

Introduction of Dijie Technology - a start-up based at the GSY Group aiming to invent and create products that is user-friendly, time-efficient and economically feasible.

Activity 3

A tour of Sky farm tour (a lovely city farm for community use + self-designed planting app and equipment for auto- watering and lighting)

Activity 4

Traditional Chinese music performance by folk musicians and senior residents in the community

Networking

After the visit, an informal alumni social mixer was held at Sofia Pizza where students and alumni from different years of intake had the great opportunity to connect and network with each other.