OREANDA-NEWS. September 17, 2014. The Inspection Group of State Council led by Fang Aiqing, Vice Minister of Commerce, made inspection in TISCO accompanied by Zhang Jianxin, Vice Governor of Shanxi Government, Wang Aiqin, Vice Mayor of Taiyuan City, and the leaders of Shanxi Bureau of Quality Supervision, the Commerce Department of Shanxi Province.

Fang Aiqing pointed out that TISCO paid great attention to the quality work and formed a full set of concept, method, system and measures for quality management. The experience should be summed up and promoted conscientiously to establish a benchmark for more enterprises to improve quality. TISCO leaders Li Xiaobo, Gao Xiangming, Zhang Zhifang, Gao Jianbing took part in the report and inspection.
 
Chairman of TISCO, Li Xiaobo, expressed his welcome to the Inspection Group of State Council. He said,” the quality is the core to promote the quality improvement, increase the enterprise benefits and upgrade enterprise. TISCO is an important special steel producer and its products are widely used in the national key projects and equipment, which put forward higher requirement for product quality. TISCO always takes the quality as its main task, actively promotes the blue ocean strategy, establishes perfect quality management system, dominates the establishment of a series of national standards for stainless steels and works out the strict enterprise standards. TISCO participates in market competition by producing high-tech quality products to better meet customer’s individualized needs and improves its comprehensive competitiveness continuously. Director of TISCO and Vice President of STSS, Gao Jianbing, made the special report about TISCO’s quality management.
 
Fang Aiqing pointed out that,” we saw the great changes that took place in TISCO. Product quality reflects the comprehensive enterprise competitiveness. The garden-type steel plant, the R&D and application of the high-end products, and the developing trend of replacing the imported products by TISCO products and their exportation to the international markets show that the quality work in TISCO is effective. In recent years, TISCO promotes quality management innovation in stages, forms a full set of concepts, method, system and measures for quality management, researches and develops products according to customer’s requirements, sets up the brand with strict standards and plays an typically exemplary role for other enterprises. To improve the quality is endless, we hope that TISCO continue to carry out the blue ocean strategy, seriously sum up experiences, continuously make innovation and improvement to bring the quality work to a new stage and establish a benchmark for more enterprises to improve quality.”
 
For further improvement of the quality work, Fang Aiqing emphasized that the regulation role of the market should be brought into full play; the supervising responsibilities of the government should be done well; the system of primary responsibility for the product quality should be well implemented; the market mechanism of quality development should be established and perfected; the fair and orderly environment of market competition should be established; the quality work should be guided by technological innovation and supported by IT; the technological innovation should be strengthened; the combination of production, universities and research institutes should be paid attention to; the reserves of talents, technologies and market should be done well; the quality should be improved by management innovation; the quality control and monitoring and the quality Inspection system should be perfected; the  sense of responsibility and consciousness for the improvement should be strengthened to bring the quality work of the enterprises to a new stage.
 
The Inspection Group of State Council also visited the municipal wastewater treatment center, 2250mm Hot Strip Mill and the new stainless steel cold rolling line in TISCO and made an on-site inspection about the TISCO’s quality control procedures.