Recently, encouraging news arrived for cell industry professionals. The "Senior Engineer Title Certificate in Cell Preparation" and "Senior Engineer Title Certificate in Cell Quality Management" issued by the Shenzhen Human Resources and Social Security Bureau have officially been completed and can now be looked up via the Guangdong government services website. This milestone event marks that the specialized technical talent in the emerging field of personalized cell technology finally has its own "talent registration record," and the cell industry officially begins to "work with credentials."
On March 30, 2019, three technical and management personnel from Beike Biotech — which is responsible for the operation and management of the Shenzhen Comprehensive Cell Bank —had already passed the review and oral defense and obtained Senior Engineer title certification. It is reported that, in addition to the three who obtained Associate Senior titles, the first batch of 18 reviewed engineers also includes 8 with intermediate titles and 7 with junior titles.
Cell storage services concern public health and safety; for industry development, controlling quality is a fundamental prerequisite. This includes not only the business environment, hardware facilities and software specifications of the new industry, but also the qualifications and competence of practitioners — just as a doctor who treats patients must hold a medical license, a person dispensing medicine must hold a pharmacist's license, and a person representing clients in court must be a qualified lawyer. If the technical level and competence of the personnel involved in cell preparation and quality management are not qualified, then the cells they prepare are unlikely to be qualified either. Qualified personnel is the first step toward qualified cell quality.
This title evaluation for talent in the cell industry is of great historical significance. It signals that there is now a clear pathway for the title evaluation of specialized technical positions in the cell industry, with a tailored title sequence designed for specialized technical talent in this emerging industry, aligning talent evaluation and talent development with the construction of the industrial system.The core of industrial development is the development of talent! The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China stated that "talent is the strategic resource for achieving national rejuvenation and gaining the initiative in international competition." Talent is the core resource for industrial development — when talent thrives, the industry thrives; when talent is strong, the industry is strong. Only by cultivating an atmosphere of "recognizing, loving, deploying and acknowledging talent" throughout society — letting talent that contributes and industrial talent that masters professional skills feel a sense of accomplishment and gain — can we lay the foundation to move from a manufacturing power to an "intelligent manufacturing" power.In the future, more qualified engineers in the cell industry will obtain corresponding title certifications. The title evaluation of cell preparation and cell quality management engineers responds to the cell industry's urgent need for talent qualification standards, builds a talent reservoir for the future development of the cell industry, lays the talent foundation for industrializing cell technology, and gives the field wings to soar.
