OREANDA-NEWS. July 20, 2011. Regarding that Education is the foundation of social development and children are the future treasure for a nation. CSC has therefore arranged a Steel Journey activity for about 1500 graduates from 13 elementary schools in Siaogang District to visit the plant in four groups. The purpose was to up grade the level of local education, to build up a good relationship with the community and meeting corporate social responsibility, reported the press-centre of CSC.

The abundant content of this Steel Journey included an introduction to the steel production process, the relation between steel and our daily life, various applications of steel, visiting the newest PV system for saving energy and reducing carbon, as well as the CSC History Museum, in order to better understand how the plant was established.

Proactively approching achieving corporate social responsibility in regard to saving energy and protecting the environment, the PV system of CSC has been used inside the plant, such as on the roofs of CSC Auditorium, Employee Welfare Building, Power Plant and Central Warehouse. The daily generated electric power is about 17450 and 630,0000 per year. 1087kg of CO2 emission can be reduced daily, and 400,000kg annually. The total generated electric power is more than 70% for the entire illuminations of the Administration Building.

Wang Pin-wei, one of the graduates of Kang Ho Elementary School, expressed excitedly that he originally thought that CSC was a tradiational steel plant, with dirt everywhere. But after visiting the PV system, he was impressed very much by the newest technology of solar energy and the generated electric power system controlled by the network. What progress! Student Zheng Ciao-ling, one of the graduates of Ming Yi Elementary School paid admiration after visiting CSC History Museum. She said that the development of CSC was simply amazing. It started from one plant to a group cooperation, and its annual productivity reached 10 million tons. That is a dremendous change. Beyond the production, CSC is a leading company in saving energy and protecting the environment. The blue sky above the plant is totally different from other ordinary plants. It’s very cool!

The tour guides of this Steel Journey are retired staff members from CSC. The former Deputy General Manager of Public Affairs Dept., Mr. Zhuang Wei-po, pointed out that he was very happy to lead the plant tour to all of the graduates. Being with the children indulge him feel young again. He is proud of devoting himself to CSC after retirement, which also proves that he is still young in heart. The journey brought happiness to all of the participants.