As the new year begins, everything takes on a new look. On the morning of January 1, 2026, a solemn and enthusiastic “First Lesson of the New Year” with the training theme of “Filial Piety Comes First Among All Virtues; A Harmonious Family Leads to Prosperity” was solemnly held in the company auditorium. Li Yunfeng, the newly appointed Chairman and General Manager, presided over the meeting. More than 800 people attended the study session, including Li Shijiang, the founder and former Chairman, representatives of the founding team, management personnel above the middle level, and family representatives.

“The original meaning of revolution is not to subvert everything, but to return to traditional values.” At the beginning of the meeting, newly appointed Chairman Li Yunfeng started his sharing with sincere and profound reflections. He proposed that in the rapidly changing tide of the times, for an enterprise to achieve steady and long-term development, it must return to those timeless traditional core values. He systematically explained that the company’s core values of “Gratitude, Truth-seeking, Kindness, Innovation” are deeply rooted in the spirit of “responsibility” in the red gene, as well as the virtues of “filial piety”, “harmony” and “sharing” in traditional Chinese culture. By recalling the story of the founding generation declaring “I make the decision, I take the responsibility”, he vividly interpreted the primary task of inheritance: the new generation of leaders must deeply understand, consciously safeguard and take the initiative to carry forward the spiritual and cultural genes that drove the first-generation entrepreneurs to forge ahead.

At this critical juncture of connecting the past and the future, the company specially invited Meng Xianzhong, a professor at Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a renowned economic expert, to deliver a special lecture. With the theme of “Building on the Past, Uniting as One to Create a New Future for the Company”, Professor Meng provided intellectual empowerment for the company’s inheritance path from a global perspective and in-depth theoretical insights. He systematically explained the “HSGL Gene Model” of entrepreneurial characteristics, decoding the core logic of the success of the older generation of entrepreneurs represented by Chairman Li Shijiang from four dimensions: Heart (vision and passion), Wisdom (insight and innovation), Guts (decision-making and perseverance), and Luck (discovering and seizing opportunities). He further analyzed the new paradigm of technological development in the 21st century, urging the company to deeply integrate profound spiritual inheritance with bold scientific and technological innovation to stand at the forefront of the times. The essence of inheritance lies in grasping spiritual wealth – inheriting the passion, wisdom and courage of the older generation, carrying it forward in inheritance and innovating in development.

The sharing session by Li Shijiang, the founder and Chairman, brought the whole atmosphere to a climax.

He affectionately reviewed the epic struggle of the enterprise from its humble beginnings to becoming an industry leader, telling stories of the team fighting side by side, learning from top talents, and striving for the country, thus outlining the cultural heritage formed by the enterprise’s red gene and innovative gene.

He offered a profound and brand-new interpretation of the culture of “inheritance” and “filial piety”.

”He pointed out, “True filial piety is inheriting the wisdom of thousands of years of ancestors through one’s parents, and connecting to the broadband of the source of human wisdom.”

From this, he elevated the inheritance of the enterprise to a new height: the inheritance of an enterprise is essentially a relay of cause and sublimation of spirit beyond blood ties and wealth, and a transmission of mission under the concept of “family and nation as an integrated structure”.

He clearly reaffirmed the company’s action guideline: “We do what the country needs”, and inspired the whole audience with the sonorous oath: “Our goal must be achieved, and our goal will surely be achieved”.

Looking to the future, he not only outlined the grand blueprint of strengthening the national innovation center, conquering key core technologies and leading green development, but also revealed the inheritance logic between himself and the new leader: “linked by challenging goals, jointly shouldering the mission of development”.

He specially sent a message to all employees: we live in a great era, and everyone should be part of greatness. He hoped that all employees would keep learning, improve their cognition, grow healthily, take bold actions and responsibilities, and contribute to the country and society.

In his concluding speech, the newly appointed Chairman Li Yunfeng elaborated his profound understanding of “inheritance”: true inheritance is by no means passive acceptance, but active exploration, promotion and re-creation.

“The true joy in life comes from the process of struggle itself.” He vowed to abide by the core values of “Gratitude, Truth-Seeking, Goodness, and Innovation”, transform the older generation’s spirit of responsibility and philosophy of innovation into strong cohesion and driving force for corporate governance, continue to make efforts in technological innovation, industrial upgrading and ecological construction, and stride firmly toward the goal of becoming a respected world-class enterprise.

This “First Lesson of the Year” is both a profound cultural root-seeking and spiritual tempering, and an inspiring mobilization for the future and declaration of oaths.

Through the collision of wisdom and sincere dialogue between the two generations of leaders, the connotation of “inheritance” has become concrete, vivid and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Standing at the starting point of a new journey, all employees of the company will keep in mind this earnest entrustment and mission of the times, consciously become guardians, practitioners and disseminators of the enterprise’s red gene and innovative gene, and jointly write a brand-new chapter worthy of the times and the mission with firmer faith, pragmatic work style and sustained striving attitude!