2018 Beijing Sister City Youth Camp Opened in BAIC Group

A bunch of energetic foreign youths acted as BAIC's car models and said in a heavily-accented Chinese “I love Beijing, I love BAIC” on the south square of the Beijing Automobile Industry Research & Development Base on 23rd October. 200 international youths from more than 40 countries and regions visited BAIC Group to participate in the opening ceremony of the 2018 Beijing Sister City Youth Camp.

At the opening ceremony, Guo Wenjie, deputy secretary of the Communist Youth League of Beijing Municipal Committee, on behalf of the sponsor, expressed welcome to representatives of the youth organizations of the countries participating in the camp. He called on international organizations to exchange, cooperate and develop together, and advocated youths of the world to join hands for solidarity and friendship, and spare no efforts to build a harmonious world of lasting peace.

Han Yonggui, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and member of board of director of BAIC Group, mentioned in his speech that BAIC Group has actively fulfilled its enterprise social responsibility and carried out social activities for public good such as donations to schools, community services, and provide for the aged and disabled, and has nearly 20,000 young employees as volunteers. With the internationalization of BAIC Group, the brand value concept and the public welfare action of “boundless love” of BAIC people have also been extended to countries like Mexico, Myanmar, South Africa and Uganda.

Diego Ramiro Guelar, Ambassador of the Argentine Republic in China, hoped that youths of all countries will use the camp as a platform to build consensus and move to the world stage in the future to become the messenger of world friendly development.     Wang Jianping, Standing Member of CPC, Organization Dep. Of Party Committee & HR, Director of the BAIC Group, presented gifts to the camp representatives.  

Guo Wenjie and Han Yonggui and the camp representatives jointly launched the opening ceremony and announced the official opening of the 2018 Beijing Sister City Youth Camp.

  With the theme of “global volunteer community”, the camp has three sub-forums to discuss the topics of “volunteer and community building”, “volunteer and sustainable development” and “volunteer and international cooperation” to encourage young people from all over the world to have pioneering thinking, cooperation and exchange, public volunteering, sharing volunteer ideas, and seek volunteer service. Among them, in the “volunteer and sustainable development” forum, Sun Juan, secretary of the Youth League Committee of BAIC International, shared the practice of fulfilling corporate social responsibility in the road of BAIC's international development. Taking "Love of the Silk Road" as a public welfare brand, it brings BAIC’s love to Yunnan Province, Mexico, Uganda, South Africa and other places in the form of donations to schools, earthquake relief work, helping the elderly, and caring street children. It not only has a good social impact in the local area, but also enhances the global reputation and popularity of the BAIC brand! Through practical cases, the young people attending the meeting truly felt the "promising and love" in the internationalization of BAIC Group.   Wang Jianping cordially met with youth representatives from Mexico. As a key overseas market of BAIC Group, Mexico is a test field for overseas business model innovation. BAIC brand was successfully launched in Mexico on June 2, 2016. At present, it has successfully opened 21 BAIC franchise stores and become the fastest growing Chinese automobile enterprise there. The event was strongly supported by Mexican partners. Four chosen young people came to Beijing to participate in the event, who can more deeply feel the modern China and the developing BAIC.   2018 is the seventh year of BAIC sponsoring the Beijing Sister City Youth Camp. In the past seven years, more than 1,000 international youths visited the BAIC Group and its subsidiaries, and experienced the charm of BAIC products and culture. The camp has not only become a practical action for BAIC Group to deeply practice the path of international development, but also an important part of the role to improve Beijing’s international exchange.