The ultra-long pig cycle has triggered industry shocks, the market downturn, plagued by epidemics, stock prices have fallen sharply, the tide of delisting has intensified, the contraction of giant enterprises has continued to expand, the ability of personnel management is uneven, and the layoffs are fierce All these have led pig farmers to think more about how to survive and the sustainable development of enterprises. A few days ago, Mr. Yao Jun, chairman of Changrong, shared in the live class of "Training and Education - Core Competitiveness of Pig Farms facing the Future" that in response to the market changes caused by the pig cycle, we are all reducing costs, which mainly refers to reducing communication costs and time costs, and only by grasping the core elements can we truly achieve cost reduction. The basis of cost reduction is efficiency, the basis of efficiency is to improve PSY, the basis for improving PSY is to improve human efficiency, and the basis for improving human efficiency is education and training.

Exporting talents can create value for customers more than outputting products, and exporting senior management talents for pig farms for the industry is an important mission of Empowering Customers in Changrong value chain. To this end, Changrong actively explores school-enterprise cooperation, goes deep into colleges and universities with the concept of education and training, and introduces international cutting-edge educational concepts and curriculum systems through joint internationally renowned agricultural colleges to jointly cultivate pig management talents in the new era.

Youquan Zhang, production director of Changrong, introduced in the live class that the initial training is based on the phased new talent training, covering cultural training such as corporate culture, leadership expectations, and value exploration; Training in 8 modules of biosecurity, production safety, feeding management, batch management, environmental control, immunization management, management system, system management, etc. The middle of the training is based on continuous improvement training, covering new farm start-up, personnel allocation, pig flow management, system construction, non-production days, communication reporting, data analysis, European management and other training. In the later stage of the training, it is selected to participate in the project management of expatriates, international project cooperation training, foreign study tours and other links. Through diversified training settings, we continue to support the high-performance development of Changrong employees.

Review of the new model of Changrong school-enterprise cooperation:

New Farmer Project - Pig Master Pig Master Positive Index 4.47

In September 2021, Wageningen University and Research Center, Yuncheng College, together with Shanxi Changrong Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., jointly launched a four-month online pig master course "New Farmer" education project. The training was conducted in the form of a biweekly live online course with a total of 80 hours. A total of 47 participants participated in the training.

The "Pig Master Course" is a course that systematically teaches the theory and practice related to pig farming. Lecturers include professors from Wageningen University, researchers from wageningen research centres, lecturers from the Dutch University of Applied Sciences, as well as many senior experts from the Dutch pig industry and representatives of pig farmers. The lecturer group composed of more than 20 academic experts and enterprise representatives spent four months to provide young scholars and front-line workers in pig production and breeding with a combination of theory and practice, systematic learning opportunities.

Courses cover a number of topics such as pig production, pig behaviour and welfare, breeding, reproduction and pregnancy, delivery management, piglets and fattening pigs, and farm management. The course provides an open learning mode for the participants, and on the basis of the instructor's teaching, there is also an additional group assignment session and Q&A session. The participants met their industry peers in group assignments and discussed and exchanged views with industry experts during the Q&A session.

Changrong new model of school-enterprise cooperation is expected:

Changrong & AERES University of APPLIED SCIENCES (one of the famous universities of agricultural applications in the Netherlands).

Project 1: Short course training

Project 2: Application for undergraduate degree (international pig management) for the whole academic year

The new project will be available in the second half of the year, so stay tuned.

For undergraduate colleges and vocational colleges, Changrong innovates various levels and types of education models, deepens the integration of industry and education, and school-enterprise cooperation. Through education, we will continue to cultivate the talents needed by the industry, teach according to people, teach according to talents, and teach the known, update the old knowledge, explore the new knowledge, and explore the unknown through education, so that young animal husbandry can better understand the development of the industry and better create a better future for the industry.