The US-based global hotel brand Marriott International was recently recognized as the "Best HR Teams in Greater China 2020", as well as the "Outstanding Achievement Award in Human Resource Management in Greater China'' by HRoot, a leading management media company, on Tuesday.

"At Marriott International, putting people first has always remained as our core value and our associates are critical to the continued long-term success. As part of our effort to help associates, we launched the Greater China Careercare Center in April 2020," said Henry Lee, president of Marriott International in Greater China. "Since its establishment, the center has successfully filled more than 2,200 taskforce positions and completed 1,700 internal transfer roles."

This year, shortly after the COVID-19 breakout, the hotel launched a series of associates' caring programs to show support to all employees and voluntary activities to help a surgical mask manufacturing factory.

In the past few years, Marriott International also has been recognized as one of the best employers in the industry, winning many awards, including ''Top Employer Award'' (2012-2020), ''Aon Hewitt Best Employer'' (2015-2019), ''Most Attractive Employer in China'' (2014-2019) by Universum and ''Employer Excellence China'' (2012-2019) by 51jobs.com.

Rooted deeply in the China market for over 30 years, the company is committed to provide more jobs and opportunities to local talents. Marriott International operates more than 390 hotels, with more than 350 hotels in the pipeline, and has more than 70,000 employees in the China market. Of those, over 73 percent of the hotel's general managers are Chinese natives.