OREANDA-NEWS. April 24, 2013. Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli made the investigation and survey in TISCO accompanied by Minister of Industry and Information Technology Miao Wei,, Minister of Environment Protection Zhou Shengxian,Vice Minister of State Development and Reform Commission and Director of Energy Bureau Wu Xinxiong, Secretary of Shanxi Provincial Committee of CPC and Chairman of the Standing Committee of Shanxi Provincial People’s Congress Yuan Chunqing, Vice Secretary of Shanxi Provincial Committee of CPC and Shanxi Governor Li Xiaopeng.
   
Chairman of TISCO Li Xiaobo, Secretary of TISCO Committee of CPC Yang Haigui and President of TISCO Gao Xiangming greeted the leaders on the platform of 4350 m3 Blast furnace. This was the first inspection made by Zhang Gaoli after the “two meetings” of the NPC and CPPCC. TISCO was the first enterprise he inspected this time.
   
At 15:40, Zhang Gaoli and his party arrived at the Blast Furnace platform. Li Xiaobo introduced the production, energy efficiency and environmental protection of the BF in front of BF tap hole. Li Xiaobo said, “The 4350m3 BF in TISCO is one of the largest BFs in China, its operational efficiency, the level of energy saving and environmental protection standards of the BF is rather high. In the past, the site conditions of the BF was poor, the workers worked hard in severe environment. Now, through the technological innovation and intensifying management, the site environment has become very clean. The iron and steel enterprises can well solve the environmental protection issue; the key point is you must be willing to make investment. The dusts generated during the ironmaking are well treated by the dust removal equipment. There is no smell and dust in the working site, and the site safety is also ensured.” Zhang Gaoli nodded his head and said, “Now the environmental conditions of the production site is very good.”
   
Zhang Gaoli and his party stayed in front of the display panel for TISCO green development after they walked out from the BF platform. Li Xiaobo briefed the conditions of circular economy, energy saving and emission reduction of TISCO. He said that TISCO is an old enterprise established in 1934, the green development is the major challenge that TISCO faces. In recent years, a large number of energy saving and emission reduction and circular economy projects with internationally advanced level have been implemented in TISCO by independent innovation. Now the key energy saving and emission reduction indexes of TISCO take the lead in the industry, some of them are the best in the world. Zhang Gaoli said, “You have done very well.” When Li Xiaobo said the electricity generated by after-pressure and afterheat already makes up 33% of TISCO’s total electricity consumption, Zhang Gaoli was very happy and said: “now 33%, that’s real good.”    
   
Zhang Gaoli came to the main control room of the BF, when he saw the operators were concentrating on the BF operation, he asked the working and living situations of the workers. Li Xiaobo answered them all. Li Xiaobo introduced the energy saving and environmental protection of the BF in TRT, CCPP, BF slag comprehensive utilization and water saving. He said that BF has realized the automatic operation control, the site operators are not the iron workers in the traditional sense. Zhang Gaoli nodded his head and asked: “Now, can TISCO do the steelmaking with minus energy consumption?” Li Xiaobo answered: “there is no problem for the converters.”    ,
   
Then Zhang Gaoli and his party visited the Stainless Steel Cold Rolling Mill. At the product exhibition area, Li Xiaobo introduced that in recent years TISCO focused on building itself into the steel producer with the most distinctive features in product varieties in the world, insisted on the innovative concept of innovation-driven and win-by-new-products, enhanced the technology innovation, sped up the elimination of the conventional and homogenized products, devoted major efforts to develop the high-end, precision and advanced products. TISCO continuously promoted the optimizing and upgrading of the product mix, worked out an innovation-driven and intension type development path while the total steel output remained about the same. Zhang Gaoli watched the products with great interests in the exhibition area and asked about the performances, applications and market of the products.

He was very happy when he heard that TISCO’s products such as duplex stainless steel and high-grade pipeline steels were used in Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge and West-to-East Gas Project, respectively, TISCO’s oil drill collar steel, steel for LNG tanks, steel for ultra-supercritical utility boiler, steel for nuclear power station, steel for chemical carriers, steel for high speed railway, nonmagnetic steel and so on were substituted for the imported ones, and the export of the stainless steel increased steadily. He said: “I have visited many cold rolling mills, the technology and management level in your cold rolling mill is very high. Now the domestic steel industry has a huge overcapacity problem, we must resolutely eliminate the backward production capacity. You have done very well in expanding product varieties and circular economy. We should develop the high level enterprises like TISCO and make efforts to improve the development level of our iron and steel industry.”
   
When walking along the new BAL, Zhang Gaoli asked about the noise control level in the workshop, the production equipment and the product export with great interests and encouraged TISCO to keep developing new products, improving the market competitiveness and the economy benefits of the products and enhancing TISCO’s comprehensive competitiveness.
   
At the end of his investigation, Zhang Gaoli shook hands with Li Xiaobo and said that TISCO’s development level, especially the development level in stainless steel sector, is already relatively high, the product range is wide, the product competitiveness is strong, the green development level is also very high, TISCO has become a garden type plant. In the future, TISCO should continuously aim at the high-end market, and try to develop in the high-end direction. At the same time, TISCO should continue to advance the energy-saving, emission reduction and circular economy, tap potentials and strive to do better.
   
His cordial encouragement and ardent expectations inspire all members of TISCO to press forward. Just as Li Xiaobo said that all members of TISCO would proceed with confidence and make unremitting efforts to reach a higher stage of development.