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Xu Xiaohan: Architect of Steel-Making Future

Dec 22-2021   



A recent episode of CGTN’s special series Architects of the Future features the story of Ms. Xu Xiaohan, PKU-UCL part-time MBA 2020 class. The program shows how young members of the CPC have helped improve the society through their dedication.

 

Ms. Xu works for her family firm REAL Non-metallic Materials Co., Ltd., which produces high-tech materials used to protect the interior of furnaces. Shifting between her roles as a company owner, a mother of two, a daughter and a young CPC member, Ms. Xu tells the audience about her life, her business and her outlook for China’s future.

 

Having completed graduate studies in Engineering with Purdue University, Ms. Xu returned to China and worked for more than four years in the gaming industry in project-management roles. When her family business braced for reforms, she decided to take up the mantle but soon found that she had underestimated the challenges, despite all that she had learned from her parents about steel-making when she grew up. Not to be deterred, she went on to try out various positions of the company, from factory and warehouse jobs to those in customer service and human resource, before taking charge of the purchasing department.

 

In 2019, Ms. Xu was fully involved in a bidding project of the largest steelmaker in Russia and pulled off an overwhelming victory by scoring 99 out of 100 with the judging panel. She was proud not only for the company but also for the country. Ms. Xu says that the company’s early efforts to focus on sustainability have incurred extra costs but are proving worthwhile and necessary in the context of the country’s carbon neutrality and carbon peaking goals. China’s enormous steel market, she adds, offers comparative advantages for developing technologies.

 

Inspired by her father who makes altruism and continuous learning a part of corporate culture, Ms. Xu applied to the MBA program at BiMBA in search of a unique learning experience fusing the best of the East and the West. She says that the MBA program has not only offered her wider and higher perspectives but also different understandings about many aspects of the society. Her learnings, for example, in Prof. Chen Chunhua’s organizational course and Prof. Bilal Gokpinar’s Operations and Technology Management, have been put to use in the company. “It feels like everyone in the company is studying with me at BiMBA,” she enthuses.

 

Juggling work and study, Ms. Xu tries her best to take care of her two daughters. The support from colleagues and family, she says, has made things possible.

Xu Xiaohan: Architect of Steel-Making Future

Dec 22-2021   



A recent episode of CGTN’s special series Architects of the Future features the story of Ms. Xu Xiaohan, PKU-UCL part-time MBA 2020 class. The program shows how young members of the CPC have helped improve the society through their dedication.

 

Ms. Xu works for her family firm REAL Non-metallic Materials Co., Ltd., which produces high-tech materials used to protect the interior of furnaces. Shifting between her roles as a company owner, a mother of two, a daughter and a young CPC member, Ms. Xu tells the audience about her life, her business and her outlook for China’s future.

 

Having completed graduate studies in Engineering with Purdue University, Ms. Xu returned to China and worked for more than four years in the gaming industry in project-management roles. When her family business braced for reforms, she decided to take up the mantle but soon found that she had underestimated the challenges, despite all that she had learned from her parents about steel-making when she grew up. Not to be deterred, she went on to try out various positions of the company, from factory and warehouse jobs to those in customer service and human resource, before taking charge of the purchasing department.

 

In 2019, Ms. Xu was fully involved in a bidding project of the largest steelmaker in Russia and pulled off an overwhelming victory by scoring 99 out of 100 with the judging panel. She was proud not only for the company but also for the country. Ms. Xu says that the company’s early efforts to focus on sustainability have incurred extra costs but are proving worthwhile and necessary in the context of the country’s carbon neutrality and carbon peaking goals. China’s enormous steel market, she adds, offers comparative advantages for developing technologies.

 

Inspired by her father who makes altruism and continuous learning a part of corporate culture, Ms. Xu applied to the MBA program at BiMBA in search of a unique learning experience fusing the best of the East and the West. She says that the MBA program has not only offered her wider and higher perspectives but also different understandings about many aspects of the society. Her learnings, for example, in Prof. Chen Chunhua’s organizational course and Prof. Bilal Gokpinar’s Operations and Technology Management, have been put to use in the company. “It feels like everyone in the company is studying with me at BiMBA,” she enthuses.

 

Juggling work and study, Ms. Xu tries her best to take care of her two daughters. The support from colleagues and family, she says, has made things possible.