On the morning of March 28, 2024, Baotou Huazi Industry Co., Ltd. held a university-enterprise cooperation negotiation meeting. Zhang Bangjian, Secretary of the Party General Branch of the Department of Food and Bioengineering of Baotou Light Industry Vocational and Technical College, led a delegation to attend the meeting as invited. Liu Fu'an, Vice Chairman and General Manager of Huazi Industry, held discussions with the college representatives on the company's talent demand and other aspects.
Huazi Industry has a profound historical connection with Baotou Light Industry Vocational and Technical College. In the early stage of its establishment in the 1950s, Huazi Industry (formerly Baotou Sugar Factory) was affiliated to the Ministry of Light Industry of the People's Republic of China and was then known as North China Sugar Factory. After its completion and commissioning in 1955, to meet the enterprise's talent needs, the Ministry of Light Industry built the predecessor of the current college— the Sugar Workers' Technical School of the Sugar and Wine Administration of the Ministry of Light Industry—next to Huazi Industry in 1956. Over the past decades, the two institutions have complemented each other and grown together.