OREANDA-NEWS. October 19, 2011. The final of Baosteel youth business pioneering plan competition was concluded in Baosteel Tower recently. After fierce competition, Baosteel Development's steel slag compound admixture team won the laurel and was awarded the prize of most worthy of investment; Baosteel International's shared manufacturing enterprises' e-procurement platform "procurement treasure" team, Baosight Software's "honeycomb" commercial intelligent building terminal control system R&D team, RFID intermediate parts product development team were awarded the prizes of best business pioneering, best originality and most promising development. Vice president Zhao Kun, deputy Party secretary Fu Zhongzhe of the Group Corporation, deputy secretary Xia Kejia of Shanghai municipal council of Communist Youth League, etc. attended the meeting and awarded the prizes to the teams, reported the press-centre of Baosteel.

The competition was sponsored jointly by the council of the Communist Youth League of the Group Corporation, Planning and Development Department, and the Human Resource Department with the aim of creating the atmosphere of business pioneering in the activity and discovering the young talented people of business pioneering type. Since the activity was launched, it received active response from Baosteel youth, and attracted 45 business pioneering teams and nearly 200 youths to sign up and participate. In the meantime, the competition organized many pre-competition exchanges such as schoolroom for business pioneering, the on-the-spot defence meeting of the preliminary contest, home of IPO business pioneering, etc.

The 4 business pioneering plans entering the final all have their own features. For example, the plan of Baosteel Development's steel slag compound admixture team processes the steel slags of steel industry which are hard to utilize into the concrete admixture with high value added, to practice Baosteel's concept of "environmental management";Baosteel International's shared manufacturing enterprises' e-procurement platform "procurement treasure" team intends to build the most competitive B2B third party on-line procurement platform for Chinese steel industry and related manufacturing industries; Baosight Software's "honeycomb" commercial intelligent building terminal control system R&D team and RFID intermediate parts product development team focus on the blank in IT sector and intend to occupy the decisive occasion of market.

On the site of the final, the 4 teams were divided into two groups for PK. In the final step of the final, the on-site poll by 6 specialist appraisers and 30 appraisers from the masses pushed the final to the peak.

Xia Kejia sufficiently affirmed the success of the competition, and put forward 3 wishes for carrying out the work of youth business pioneering plan: one is to center on the core work and serve the overall situation, two is to expand the platform and innovate the working vehicles, three is to move the gravity downward and deepen the grass-roots innovation.

Zhao Kun pointed out in the speech that the young employees should think about innovation and efficiency creation from the perspective of the enterprises, and combine the individual development with the enterprises' need. He wished that the Party, executive, labor union and youth league organizations of each level should pay sufficient attention to and support the development of innovation and efficiency creation activities by the youth and the cultivation of business pioneering type young talents.