Recently, Kingsoft Software Park located in Wuhan East Lake High-tech Zone officially opened with great fanfare. Since launching its Wuhan strategic layout in 2017, after 8 years of effort, Kingsoft's Wuhan headquarters has completed a transformative leap from "landing and taking root" to "growth and flourishing." Lei Jun, Chairman of Kingsoft Group and Founder & CEO of Xiaomi Group, announced that the combined workforce of Kingsoft and Xiaomi in Wuhan has exceeded 9,500 people, and they plan to achieve the strategic goal of a "10,000-person R&D center" within this year.

As a member of the Xiaomi-Kingsoft ecosystem, Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Ltd (03896) has been creating industrial synergy effects with ecosystem companies in Wuhan since 2017, helping Hubei build a new highland for the digital economy. Since 2022, the company has focused on building a Wuhan dual-center and has formulated long-term talent strategic planning accordingly. Currently, the Wuhan center has become Kingsoft Cloud's core talent cultivation base with nearly 1,000 employees, of which technical personnel account for as high as 90%.

**Comprehensive Talent Pipeline Covers Core Business, Helping Build Hubei Benchmark Cases**

Kingsoft Cloud Wuhan, leveraging government support, has comprehensively built its Wuhan talent base around three pillars: "social recruitment for talent acquisition, university-enterprise collaboration, and internal migration," constructing a talent pipeline that fully covers core business areas.

In terms of social talent attraction, the company actively builds a cloud computing industry talent pool by leveraging the industrial policy advantages of Wuhan Optics Valley, attracting excellent technical talent from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and overseas. The company aims to double the recruitment of mid-to-high-end talent in 2025.

In university-enterprise cooperation, the company collaborates with ecosystem companies like Kingsoft and Xiaomi to establish deep cooperation with universities such as Wuhan University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology across multiple dimensions including AI frontier research and joint talent cultivation, building a solid campus talent pipeline platform.

In internal talent migration, through comprehensive welfare policies including housing rental and purchase support, children's education guarantees, and parental employment assistance, the company guides internal core executives and technical backbones to concentrate in Wuhan. The longer employees develop in Wuhan, the more attractive the returns become.

Under the continuous efforts of these "three pillars," Kingsoft Cloud's Wuhan talent system has become increasingly comprehensive, successfully establishing a complete Beijing-Wuhan "dual-center" organizational layout.

Benefiting from the successful construction of a diversified talent pipeline, Kingsoft Cloud has built full-stack cloud computing capabilities in Wuhan, with government cloud and intelligent computing cloud services serving numerous clients, providing "digital infrastructure" to accelerate Hubei's digital transformation.

In Chibi, Kingsoft Cloud collaborates with the Chibi municipal government on smart city construction, advancing the "Smart Chibi" project and applying it to various citizen service scenarios including healthcare and education. Specifically, Kingsoft Cloud launched "Smart Chibi" medical services through its big data platform.

In Wuhan, Kingsoft Cloud completed the cloud-native service-oriented system transformation of Wuhan Zhongnan Hospital's internal systems, decomposing the original complex and rigid business processes to achieve business process reengineering and improve hospital operational efficiency. For high-frequency business in key scenarios, average processing time was reduced from 7.1 seconds to 1.2 seconds.

Additionally, in the Wuhan Optics Valley Cloud project, Kingsoft Cloud formed a joint operations team with clients to help achieve unified planning, construction, and management of "Digital Optics Valley."

**Strategic-Level Empowerment for Talent Growth, Comprehensive Support for Building Wuhan's New Highland**

As a company that "builds its foundation on technology and puts people first," Kingsoft Cloud has always regarded talent as its core asset, committed to the mutual development of employees and the company. In Wuhan, Kingsoft Cloud systematically advances local executive and high-potential talent pipeline construction around the company-wide talent strategy. Through regularly holding executive meetings in Wuhan, the company continuously strengthens strategic focus and talent reserves in key areas such as AI, ensuring that core position talent takes root in Wuhan.

High-end talent in the Wuhan region serves as committee members, participating in the company's development deliberation, decision-making, and implementation processes, also helping make Wuhan the main battlefield for group strategy implementation and talent growth.

In terms of cultural integration, the company regularly organizes outstanding Wuhan employee representatives to visit sister companies, experiencing the group's 37 years of technological accumulation and corporate culture, enhancing their sense of belonging and mission.

Kingsoft Cloud continues to practice the philosophy of "cultivating talent generation by generation." Campus recruits enjoy "dual mentor" system protection and have a three-tier comprehensive empowerment system at the "company-department-position" levels. The company implements a "dual-track" career development path, allowing employees to choose professional or management sequences based on their expertise, while offering a series of rich training activities such as "Embracing AI," "Management Alchemy," "Kingsoft Tuesday," and "Geek Talk."

Zou Tao, CEO of Kingsoft Group and CEO of Kingsoft Cloud, stated at the opening of Wuhan Kingsoft Software Park that Wuhan and Optics Valley will become the main battlefield for Kingsoft's development. As a company deeply rooted in Wuhan, Kingsoft Cloud responds to the "Chu Talent Returns to Wuhan" initiative and hopes that in the process of building the Wuhan talent base, it can collaborate with Kingsoft Wuhan platform, Xiaomi Wuhan, and other companies to cultivate more professional technical talent for the country's core technology fields including big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.