April 27, 2009, Professor Huang Yan of Business School signed contract with CHENGHAI tobacco companies for technology development services. Group led by Professor Huang Yan will provide technology development services for CHENGHAI Tobacco Company on the topic of "corporate culture and management innovation." The group will focus on the corporate culture of tobacco and tobacco business services innovation model.
May 9, 2009, the project kick-off ceremony and mobilization meeting was held in Golden Hill, a company of Chenghai tobacco companies. Chenghai tobacco company’s main leaders and employees more than 100 people attended the meeting. Main leaders of Chenghai Tobacco Company made speeches to mobilize the Building of enterprise culture. Various units, their staff should give the strong support to the research project team and actively participate in business activities of independent innovation. Chenghai Tobacco Company will give research project team supports such as human, material and financial resources. Subsequently, Professor Huang Yan expressed thanks to Chenghai tobacco companies and made a "corporate culture of the theory and practice of" academic lecture.
At present, the group has stationed in Chenghai Tobacco Company and began to issue questionnaires and group interviews. Research is promoting smoothly according to schedule. To enable research to proceed smoothly, Chenghai tobacco will provide 150 thousand yuan for 4 times to support research.