Xiangxiang, in collaboration with Tsinghua University's G20 Entrepreneurship Research Center, launched the global 'Industrial Green Collar Plan
From November 4 to 5, 2025, the 9th G20 Entrepreneurship Roundtable Dialogue was successfully held at the Caohejing Conference Center in Xuhui, Shanghai. The dialogue, themed "Youth Entrepreneurship and Employment: Injecting New Vitality into Global Development," was jointly guided by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and Tsinghua University, co-hosted by the G20 Entrepreneurship Research Center of Tsinghua University, the South African Department of Employment and Labour, and the International Labour Organization (ILO), and organized by Shanghai XiangXiang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as "XiangXiang Sharing").
Lv Yulin, Director of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of China; Professor Yang Bin, Deputy Director of the Administrative Committee of Tsinghua University; Kgomotso Letoaba, representative of the Department of Employment and Labour of South Africa, the 2025 G20 Presidency country; Li Changhui, Director of the China-Mongolia Bureau of the International Labour Organization; Zhou Guoliang, Director of the Shanghai Employment Promotion Center; Chen Yong, Deputy District Mayor of Xuhui District, Shanghai, and others attended and delivered speeches.
As the host of this G20 Entrepreneurship Roundtable Dialogue, XiangXiang GongYong has fully upgraded the previously China-focused 'Zero Carbon Circular Entrepreneurship Program' into a global cooperation platform under the G20 framework. Together with the Tsinghua University G20 Entrepreneurship Research Center, it launched the world's first international cooperation project focusing on talent development in the green supply chain industry-the 'Industrial Green Collar Program.' Li Changhui, Director of the China-Mongolia Bureau of the International Labour Organization; Professor Gao Jian, Director of the Tsinghua University G20 Entrepreneurship Research Center; Liao Qingxin, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of XiangXiang GongYong; Wang Dewen, Senior Economist for Social Protection at the World Bank; Pang Shi, Director of the Employment Research Office at the Chinese Academy of Personnel Science; Wang Chunxing, Strategic Cooperation Development Director at the UN Global Leadership and ESG Development Center; Alfonso Araujo, Director of the China-Mexico Innovation Center; Leonard Joachim Hoffmann, Head of Alternative Investment Management in Munich, Germany; and other representatives from multilateral institutions, academia, industry, and G20 member countries jointly witnessed the project launch.
Global opportunities for sustainable development give rise to the Industrial Green Collar Program
Currently, the widespread use of disposable packaging in industrial, agricultural, and service sector supply chains has led to severe resource consumption and environmental pollution. According to incomplete statistics, this waste causes an economic loss of up to tens of trillions of dollars annually. At the same time, the green and low-carbon transition has become a global consensus. Policy directions, represented by China's "dual carbon" goals and the European Union's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), are driving the green supply chain industry into a period of rapid development, thereby creating a huge talent gap."What we are facing is not a single technical issue, but a profound structural challenge," said Liao Qingxin at the launch ceremony. "The green supply chain is a completely new industry reconstructed through digitalization. It requires both 'four-new' talents at the manufacturing end who are proficient in new materials, new processes, new equipment, and new technologies, and operational talents who can manage quality, logistics, and warehousing under digitalized and automated operating models. Moreover, it needs innovative forces familiar with technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. The original intention of the 'Industrial Green Collar Program' is precisely to build a platform to address this cross-disciplinary talent shortage, promote the cross-fertilization and integration of technologies, and systematically solve the environmental and industrial challenges faced by society today."
Upgrading from China's Zero-Carbon Circular Entrepreneurship Program to the G20 Industrial Green Forest Program
The 'Industrial Green Collar Program' is a comprehensive upgrade of the 'Zero-Carbon Circular Entrepreneurship Program' launched by XiangXiang Shared in 2024, aiming to achieve global expansion. Over the past year, the program has successfully incubated dozens of entrepreneurs in the green supply chain sector in regions such as the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta. At the launch event, Liao Qingxin stated: 'We are not only building a digital platform but also connecting the entire industry chain - strengthening green manufacturing capabilities on the left, establishing localized operation networks on the right, and achieving efficient collaboration in the middle through the digital platform. This not only empowers users to access circular packaging services at lower costs and higher efficiency, fundamentally promoting a shift in packaging usage from "disposable" to "circular sharing," but also, through the "platform + entrepreneur" model, effectively reduces entrepreneurial risks, accelerates the entrepreneurial process, and verifies that commercial sustainability and social value can be achieved simultaneously.'It is reported that to support the implementation of the program, XiangXiang Shared has established the world's first 'Industrial Green Collar' Talent Development Center in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, open to talents aspiring to entrepreneurial or employment opportunities in the green industry. Liao Qingxin said: 'We sincerely invite global partners to join the "Industrial Green Collar Program," jointly build green productivity, create green impact, and contribute practical solutions for global sustainable development.'
Opening new paths for green international expansion, Tsinghua G2O Entrepreneurship Research Center empowers the global implementation of the Industrial Green Collar Program
Professor Gao Jian pointed out that the Tsinghua University G20 Entrepreneurship Research Center actively supports the establishment and implementation of the plan, helping facilitate exchanges and mutual learning with G20 members in related areas, promoting learning and exchange activities on the development and utilization of industrial green-collar human resources among G20 members, and identifying and summarizing effective organizational models and management methods. The plan focuses on the full lifecycle value of industrial green-collar talent, the innovative development needs of green industries, and the ecological trends in green industrial development, in cooperation with G20 members, international organizations, the business sector, and enterprises of all sizes, including startups.
With its official launch, leveraging the academic resources and international network of Tsinghua University's G20 Entrepreneurship Research Center, the 'Industrial Green-Collar Program' will officially start global recruitment, selecting young entrepreneurs and SMEs from G20 and Belt and Road Initiative countries to promote the localization of green supply chain technologies and solutions. From product exports to industrial globalization, Xiangxiang Gongyong is building a complete green overseas ecosystem through the 'Industrial Green-Collar Program.' The project not only opens a sustainable new path for global expansion but also addresses the core youth employment issues of the G20, transforming the concept of 'green employment driving entrepreneurship' into an operational, replicable, and scalable incubation platform, showcasing the practical strength of Chinese enterprises in driving green transformation through new-quality productivity.