OREANDA-NEWS. December 21, 2011. The Technology Development Department  under Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. held a special briefing on the "Golden Apple Team" - periodical inspection and promotion to  R & D work  of  five "Golden Apple Teams"  has been delivered, reported the press-centre of Baosteel.

Ma Guoqiang,  the General Manager of Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. and  Zhou Jianfeng, the   Deputy General Manager attended the briefing,  and delivered the instructions to the work of the "Golden Apple Team "  for the next stage. 
 
In March 2009, being approved by  Baosteel Steel, five " Gold Apple Teams " have been set up on steel making  technology, hot-rolled plate technology, cold rolling technology, cold-rolled post-processing technology, automotive sheet products technology and application technology and a three-year action plan has been commenced.

 With the clear target,  the "Gold Apple Team"  has  cooperated with the departments and the teams concerned since more than two years to carry out fruitful research and development work, and played an active role for quality improvement on-site, new development of product and technology and carried out prospectively cutting-edge research - some research has reached advanced  international  level.

 On the meeting, the  chieves from five " Gold Apple Teams "  delivered the briefing on  progress of the project, initial results obtained for their own teams. The participants presented their comments on the project of each team, and put forward their constructive suggestions on how to do better the work for coming stage.
 
Ma Guoqiang, Zhou Jianfeng, etc fully confirmed pre-work done and the results achieved by the "Gold  Apple Team". They asked, R & D work by "Gold  Apple Team" is to further target to  the market,  site and the future development  of the company. Developing  of new product is to integrate closely with the requirements from user; and the cooperation with brother teams, with site and with non " Gold Apple Team " is to be strengthened.  The efforts  for R & D on  the issue of restricting the development of the company is to be made integrating with the products under company's business, and role is to be played in improving of product quality, lowering production cost, and in enhancing competitiveness.