OREANDA-NEWS. January 19, 2015. The Party Committee of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (or the SASAC for short) recently decided to appoint Zhang Zhiqiang as a member of the Party Committee and Director of Discipline Inspection Council of the Party Committee in Sinochem Group to replace Luo Dongjiang, who was expected to retire soon.

Sinochem Group convened a meeting of its latest leadership so that its members could officially get together for the first time. Among the senior government officials who attended the meeting were Deputy Director Gao Yan of the SASAC First Management Bureau for Corporate Leaders, who announced the decision made by the SASAC Party Committee; Deputy Secretary Ruan Guoping of the SASAC Discipline Inspection Committee, who communicated instructions from Party Secretary Qiang Weidong of the SASAC Discipline Inspection Committee to the audience; and Deputy Director Zhao Gang of the Enterprise Cadre Office of the Department of Organization of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China. The meeting was presided over by Liu Deshu, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sinochem Group.

Chairman Liu Deshu said that the Group would firmly support and abide by the decision and earnestly follow the instructions from Party Secretary Qiang Weidong. He also pointed out that, Luo Dongjiang had made great contributions to the Group's efforts to draw up and implement corporate strategies and had done a great deal of work in many areas of its running, including party building, discipline inspection, organizational and personnel management, and corporate governance by law, since Mr. Luo began to work for Sinochem Group 33 years ago and serve as a member of its leadership 17 years ago; and that Zhang Zhiqiang proved to be politically capable, knew a great deal about organizational and personnel management work as well as internal education and training, and had a sound knowledge of the situation of Sinochem Group.

On behalf of the Group, Chairman Liu extended a warm welcome to Mr. Zhang. Chairman Liu further stressed that, now that Sinochem Group had just launched its third efforts to reinvent itself, doing discipline inspection work properly would become more vital than ever before, for it would help guarantee the smooth development of Sinochem Group; that Sinochem Group would continue to deeply implement the spirit of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), particularly those of the third and fourth plenary sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee, and make a determined effort to build a pure party organization within the Group and root out corruption at all levels; and that Sinochem Group would make every effort to ensure that its Party Committee will fulfill its duties as a leading force in corporate governance and as a discipline inspection body inside the Group, consolidate and apply the Communist Party of China's achievements in the mass line education and practice campaign, and try to build a long-term mechanism for enforcing discipline within its Party organization.