OREANDA-NEWS. September 29, 2011.Chairman Xu Lejiang of Baosteel Group Corporation went to Baosteel Engineering & Technology Group's 4 subsidiaries outside Shanghai, i.e. Baosteel Suzhou Metallurgy Heavy & Industry Co., Ltd., Suzhou Dafang Special Vehicle Co.,Ltd., Changzhou Baoling Heavy & Industrial Machinery Co., Ltd. and Changzhou Roll Manufacture Company for inspection. After investigation on site and listening to the reports, Xu Lejiang pointed out that, to realize transformed development, metallurgical equipment manufacturing sector must make down-to-earth progress, be good at learning and strive to narrow the gap with the leading enterprises in the world. Meanwhile, it must pay attention to explore other fields and markets and take a characteristic development road, reported the press-centre of Baosteel.

In the afternoon of September 17, Xu Lejiang firstly went to Suzhou Metallurgy Heavy & Industry Co., Ltd. and Suzhou Dafang Special Vehicle Co.,Ltd. in the company of president Jiang Weimin and Party secretary Chen Weidong of Baosteel Engineering & Technology Group. After inspecting the production site of the two companies on the spot, Xu Lejiang listened to the special reports made by president Ren Zhiming of Suzhou Metallurgy Heavy & Industry Co., Ltd. and executive director Jiang Anyi of Suzhou Dafang Special Vehicle Co.,Ltd. to learn in details the production, operation and technology innovation of the two companies. In recent years, Suzhou Metallurgy Heavy & Industry Co., Ltd. increased the sales volume year by year, improved profitability steadily, made its professional brands more eminent day by day and enjoyed higher and higher customer's opinions.

Its market structure is supported by 3 major businesses and its strategic customers keep increasing, substantial progress has been made in terms of enterprise transformation. Since joint investment in July, Suzhou Dafang Special Vehicle Co.,Ltd. re-established the equity structure, organization chart, and management systems, etc., set up the examination mechanisms for operating performance, marketing incentives and technology innovation incentives, and strove to become the internationalized engineering machinery supplier and service provider with technology as the guide and the No.1 brand in China for special vehicles.

In the morning of September 18, Xu Lejiang went to Changzhou Baoling Heavy & Industrial Machinery Co., Ltd. and Changzhou Roll Manufacture Company in Changzhou for inspection. Xu Lejiang went to the production sites of the two companies, exchanged with the employees amiably and inquired about the production information such as output and quality. Later on he listened to the special reports made by president and Party secretary Fan Bangren of Changzhou Baoling Heavy & Industrial Machinery Co., Ltd. and president Guan Yaohua of Changzhou Roll Manufacture Company.

This year, the business focus of Changzhou Baoling Heavy & Industrial Machinery Co., Ltd. shifted from equipment manufacture to EP (engineering and equipment supply), and undertook some projects outside Baosteel Group from Maanshan steel, Zhejiang Yongjin and Tangshan Steel, etc. Successively, and possessed the EP capability for over 10 kinds of large-sized equipment. Changzhou Roll Manufacture Company accelerated the steps to improve capability and promote transformation, its product mix became optimized day by day, and it is showing the favorable trend to march towards the target of "intelligent manufacture". Among other things, a batch of key technologies such as heat treatment has ranked within the domestic leading level.

Xu Lejiang affirmed the achievements made by Baosteel Engineering & Technology Group's 4 subsidiaries outside Shanghai. He pointed out that the working philosophy of "one light and four heavy" of Baosteel Engineering & Technology Group is correct, the enterprise may not follow the road of heavy assets, but must lay the foundation solidly.

Baosteel Engineering & Technology Group must position the entire manufacture sector on the current foundation and pursue further breakthrough and development in order to improve the capability and promote transformation. Xu Lejiang emphasized that we must learn from the leading enterprises in the world with an open mind and exert ourselves to narrow the gap with the benchmarking enterprises; we must have the spirit of innovation, the field of transformation must be further broadened, focus on the key business on the basis of extensive market analysis and tracking, increase the inputs in R&D, and enhance engineering capability, so as to realize the shift from equipment to technology and service and take a characteristic development road.