OREANDA-NEWS. September 16, 2011. Chairman Xu Lejiang of the Group Corporation inspected the new plant of Chengdu Baosteel Automotive Steel & Components Processing Distribution Co., Ltd. He encouraged the cadres and employees to overcome the difficulties, enhance capabilities and create values for the customers with excellent service, reported the press-centre of Baosteel.

Chengdu Baosteel project is constructed in 3 phases, among which the phase 1 project, configurated with a large shearing line, a large slitting line, a small shearing line, a laser tailor welding line and a blanking line, is designed to have an annual capacity of 180,000t shearing & blanking capacity and 800,000 pieces of laser tailor welding and has enter the stage of equipment commissioning and trial production since July this year. The project mainly provides automotive sheet shearing, blanking and laser tailor welding service for Baosteel's strategic customers and direct supply customers in Sichuan area.

Baosteel International's regional companies and steel distribution companies are at the front edge of the market and can perceive the market and serve the customers most directly. Xu Lejiang carefully listened to the reports made by Baosteel International's Western Trading Company and Chengdu Baosteel on project construction, equipment commissioning, production & operation, customer service, etc., and affirmed the project construction and customer service of the early stage of Chengdu Baosteel. He pointed out that, "service first" is one of the 5 key capabilities forged by Baosteel for the future competition in the market. Now profound change has taken place in the general trend of steel industry and market, we must stick to guidance by the market and drive by the customer's demands to keep improving the service to the customers.

He wished that Chengdu Baosteel can make persistent efforts, overcome various difficulties, enhance capabilities and become a fresh activist in Baosteel International's processing system, so as to take care of the customers and serve the customers better. Chengdu Baosteel expressed that they will catch the good opportunity of the accelerated development of automobile enterprises in Sichuan area, set up the operating mechanism with customers as the center, improve its internal capabilities to serve the customers and create values for the customers. Xu Lejiang visited the new office building and plant building of Chengdu Baosteel and extended regards to the hard working employees. "Have you acclimatized yourself to the current post?", "Where is your hometown? Do you have any difficulty in life?" Xu Lejiang shook hands with the employees amiably and asked about their work and life. He encourage them to strengthen study, get exercised in the practice and keep improving capabilities. He urged the leaders of Western Trading Company and Chengdu Baosteel to care for the employees, unite the employees and rely on employees to take up the challenges from the market jointly.

On September 5, Xu Lejiang inspected the Living steel project of Chengdu Foxconn Apartment undertaken by Baosteel. On the construction site of the project, Xu Lejiang listened to the reports made by the project manager of Chengdu Foxconn Apartment project undertaken by Baosteel Engineering & Technology Group Baosteel Building on the construction scale, number of peoples that can be accommodated, project investment, steel consumption, new type steel structure technologies and structural member processing, etc. Xu Lejiang affirmed the progress of the construction project. He said, the project is a instructive probe for Baosteel to accelerate the development pace in non-steel field, we must spare no efforts to reach the pre-set target of construction time schedule. The application of new technologies shall be further expanded, so as to construct better the project, which is beneficial to the harmonious development of the society.