(Beilun, China) On March 15th, the first Think Tank Symposium – titled “child-friendly district construction in Beilun” – was held officially at the Women and Children Activity Centre. The founder and CEO of Hape Holding AG., Mr. Peter Handstein, was invited to attend the conference and participated in the discussion forum together with experts and think tanks from different fields, such as the minister of the China National Children’s Centre, the president of Beilun’s Women Federation and many more.

As the pilot unit of child-friendly city construction in China, Beilun’s government has been devoted to progressing and completing various projects concerned with child-friendly district construction for a long time. Undoubtedly, the establishment of the expert think tank group will help to further construct a solid and powerful foundation for future work related to child-friendly district construction in Beilun. Before the meeting, Zong Lina, the minister of the China National Children’s Centre, awarded the attending experts a letter of appointment, before highly praising great contributions towards Beilun’s child friendly-district construction. Afterwards, distinguished experts and government think tanks, educational departments, judicial authorities and healthcare institutions shared their insightful opinions on child-friendly district construction in Beilun, which pushed the symposium to fascinating climax.

As one of the invited experts at the symposium, the founder and CEO of Hape Holding AG., Mr. Peter Handstein, expressed his views on Beilun’s child-friendly district construction from an entrepreneur’s perspective. Peter stated that enterprises maintaining their original aspirations and adhering to their mission is one of the key elements of the current period. As Peter pointed out, enterprises should actively undertake the responsibility of constructing a child-friendly Beilun and that, moreover, the participation of children is of great importance during the construction of such districts. Peter went on to stress that we should spare no effort to assure that every child is involved in the project.

As a leading and responsible enterprise, we have focused on child-friendly initiatives for a long time, and have done a lot to achieve it. For instance, in 2017, Hape donated a set of Danish outdoor playground facilities to Beilun Haichen Park – all of which can be used for free – creating a child-friendly outdoor environment for children. Furthermore, we also launched the “Hape Nature Explore Education Base” project, and constructed a comprehensive space for children to explore nature and enjoy quality family time with their parents. The HNEEB project also conforms to the Beilun CFC very well, and has been listed as an impressive part of Beilun’s CFC programs.

We will continue to do more in the future to aid the process of Beilun’s child friendly district construction, and create more diverse and high-quality educational toys for the next generation of learners.