Issue 5

February 2008

ISSUE 5 CHRONICLE OF 2007 

Chronicle of ChemChina in 2007 

(Draft to Solicit Opinions) 

The following is the Chronicle of ChemChina in 2007. We are eager to receive opinions and 

suggestions from all functional departments and subsidiaries. Please send your feedback to the 

ChemChina Office at: jiazd@chemchina.com.cn. 

Jan. 5 

A meeting was held in ChemChina 

by its Safety Committee, conveying 

the safety requirements of the 

State Administration of Work Safety. 

ChemChina President Ren Jianxin 

a u t h o r i z e d C h e m C h i n a ' s 2 0 0 7 

initiatives for safe production. 

www.chemchina.com.cn 

Jan. 30 

China National Advanced Chemical 

M a t e r i a l s C o r p o r a t i o n , a s a 

transferee, signed a contract with 

Hunan Huasheng Industrial & Trading 

Imp. & Exp. (Group) Corp to acquire 

100% of Hunan Xiangwei Co., Ltd. 

By using pressure swing adsorption 

(PSA) gas separation technology 

from the Southwest Research & 

Design Institute of Chemical Industry 

(SWRDICI), ChemChina took the 

lead to build a successful MSW 

(municipal solid waste) green energy 

environmental protection project in 

Hong Kong. 

Jiangsu Anpon Electrochemical Co., 

Ltd.'s 20,000 t/a ECH (epichlorohydrin) 

p r o j e c t w a s c o m p l e t e d a n d 

commissioned. 

Feb. 9 

T h e D i s c i p l i n e I n s p e c t i o n 

Committee of ChemChina held 

a c o n f e r e n c e , c o n v e y i n g t h e 

principles of the Seventh Plenary 

C o n f e r e n c e o f t h e C e n t r a l 

C o m m i s s i o n f o r D i s c i p l i n e 

I n s p e c t i o n a n d t h e C e n t r a l 

Enterprises Discipline Inspection 

and Supervision Conference. At the 

meeting, the committee summed up 

and announced the commencement 

o f C h e m C h i n a ' s d i s c i p l i n e 

inspection and supervision work. 


addressed the meeting. (Above) 

Mar. 7 

Feb. 18 

The President of ChemChina, 

Ren Jianxin made a survey tour 

of five enterprises in Shanxi and 

Henan Province and paid a visit to 

employees working during the New 

Year holiday. 

Feb. 27 

At the 2006 National Science and 

Technology Awards Conference, the 

Clean Catalytic Phenol Alkylation 

Technology and Industrial Application 

Project of the Wuxi Resin Plant won 

the Second Prize for 2006 National 

Science and Technology Progress. 

Zhonghao Chenguang Research 

Institute of Chemical Industry was 

approved as an IPR (Intellectual 

Property Right) Demonstration 

Enterprise by the State Intellectual 

Property Office (SIPO). 

ChemChina's Committee on Science and Technology held 

its first meeting of all members. Ren Jianxin, President of 

ChemChina gave the keynote speech. (Left) 

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Mar. 8 

C h e m C h i n a h e l d a f o r u m f o r 

its female workers. ChemChina 

President Ren Jianxin attended 

t h e m e e t i n g a n d e n c o u r a g e d 

the women to contribute to the 

development of a harmonious 

enterprise. 

Mar. 23 

Thanks to tireless efforts, Qenos 

Australia Pty. Ltd. won an award 

from the Australian Government 

for its outstanding water-saving 

achievements. 

Mar. 28 

Cosponsored by ChemChina, Hainan 

Provincial Government, German 

DECHEMA and HSBC HK, the 07 Bo'ao 

International Advanced Materials 

Mar. 9 

President of ChemChina Ren Jianxin, 

together with the President of China 

Construction Bank Zhang Jianguo, 

exchanged views on the bankenterprise 

cooperation and unified 

assets management of ChemChina. 

ChemChina chose China Construction 

Bank as its financial advisor and 

discussed promoting strategic 

cooperation in financial management, 

finance, project construction, 

overseas listings and other aspects. 

Mar. 13 

ChemChina issued a document, 

Suggestions on Learning f r om t he 

Team-building Experiences of BlueStar 

Petroleum Co., Ltd. Tianjin Branch , 

directing all subsidiaries to study 

the successful experiences of 

Tianjin branch, strengthen their 

own team-building and improve 

t h e q u a l i t y of e m p l oyees a n d 

management. 

Apr. 7 

ChemChina held its CPC Party 

Delegate Conference in Beijing. The 

conference elected Ren Jianxin and 

three other delegates to represent 

ChemChina at the CPC Beijing-based 

Central Enterprises Conference. 

Yu Zhengsheng, Member of the 

Political Bureau of CPC Central 

Committee and secretary of Hubei 

Provincial CPC Party Committee, and 

Luo Qingquan, Governor of Hubei 

Province, accompanied by Meng 

Jianzhu, Secretary of the Jiangxi 

Provincial CPC Party Committee, 

and the Governor of Jiangxi Province 

Wu Xinxiong, made a survey tour 

of Jiangxi Xinghuo Organic Silicone 

Plant. 

Forum was held in Bo'ao, Hainan. The 

Deputy Director of the NPC Standing 

Committee, Gu Xiulian, the Deputy 

Director of National Development 

and Reform Commission (NDRC), 

Zhang Guobao, Hainan Provincial CPC 

Party Secretary Wei Liucheng and 

the Chairman of China Petroleum 

and Chemical Industry Association, 

Li Yongwu all attended the forum. 

ChemChina President Ren Jianxin also 

delivered a speech at the forum. 

Apr. 19 

ChemChina Methods for Investment 

M a n a g e m e n t 

w a s i s s u e d a n d 

implementation began. 


Mar. 15 

Sun Huashan, Deputy Director of the 

State Administration of Work Safety 

and his entourage toured ChemChina 

reviewing safety improvements. Ren 

Jianxin, President of ChemChina 

briefed him on the safety efforts of 

the Corporation. 

Apr. 16 

ChemChina President Ren Jianxin led 

an administrative level meeting to 

relay the content of the IT Solutions 

Conference held by SASAC (Stateowned 

Assets Supervision and 

Administration Commission) and to 

plan for ChemChina's Enterprise IT 

Solutions. 

Apr. 20 

With approval of the National 

Development and Reform Commission 

(NDRC), ChemChina successfully 

issued corporate bonds of RMB1.5 

billion. This was the first time 

ChemChina issued bonds under its 

name. 

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Apr. 29 

ChemChina held a forum called 

Commemoration of Youth Day. 

More than 30 representatives from 

subsidiaries attended. ChemChina 

President Ren Jianxin and the CPC 

Party Committee Deputy Secretary of 

ChemChina Fu Xiangsheng addressed 

the forum. 

A National May 1 st Labor Day Award 

was granted to the evaporation 

work section of the Chlor-alkali 

Plant of the Siping Haohua Chemical 

Co., Ltd., issued by the All China 

Federation of Trade Unions. In 

addition, the Chairman of the Board 

of Haohua South China (Guilin) 

Rubber Co., Ltd., Li Dongping, the 

Chairman of the Board of Cangzhou 

Dahua Group Co., Ltd., Ping Haijun 

and the Director of the PVC Plant 

of Shenyang Chemical Co., Ltd., 

Li Chunming were honored with 

National May 1 st Labor Day Medals. 

Double Happiness Tyre Industries 

Corp Ltd.'s 600,000 sets/year 

all-steel radial tire project was 

completed and put into production. 

May. 1 


made a tour to survey more than 

10 subsidiaries of ChemChina in 

Shandong Province. He looked into 

production and operations, planning 

and construction, security and 

environmental protection, energy 

conservation and emission reduction, 

enterprise management and other 

issues. (Below) 

May. 11 

A n e x p l o s i o n o c c u r r e d i n t h e 

nitration section of the TDI (toluene 

diisocyanate) workshop of Cangzhou 

Dahua TDI Co., Ltd., a company 

majority-owned by ChemChina 

Agrochemical Corporation. Five 

deaths and 80 injuries resulted. A full 

scale investigation into the accident 

was launched by ChemChina. 

China BlueStar Lehigh Engineering 

Corporation won the Second Prize 

for Chemical Industry Outstanding 

Engineering Design, the Third Prize 

for State Environmental Protection 

Te c h n o l o g y Pr o g r e s s a n d w a s 

classified as a State Environmental 

Protection Demonstration Project for 

its project to improve technology 

for coking sewage treatment for 

Nanchang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. 

May. 14 

A ChemChina delegation attended the 

exhibition ACHEMASIA 2007. ChemChina 

President Ren Jianxin attended 

the ACHEMA Chemical Process and 

Engineering Forum and delivered a 

speech entitled Developing Advanced 

Chemical Materials Industry through 

Innovation and Cooperation. 

Qihua Group Co., Ltd. was under strict 

supervision by the State Environmental 

Protection Administration (SEPA) due 

to its published case of not treating 

sewage water in accordance with 

national standards. 

May. 16 

Provisional Methods of ChemChina 

for Recruitment of Eligible Marketing 

w a s i s s u e d , a n d 

implementation was started. 

P r o f e s s i o n a l s 

May. 28 

ChemChina Agrochemical Corporation 

acquired a 70% stake in Jiangsu 

Huaihe Chemicals Co., Ltd. 

The new 800,000 t/a diesel 

hydrogenation project of Shandong 

Changyi Petrochemical Co., Ltd. was 

completed and began commissioning. 

Jun. 1 

ChemChina launched "safe production 

month" activities with the theme 

of Comprehensive Management 

and Security Protection. In order 

to improve production safety, all 

e n t e r p r i s e s t o o k m a n a g e m e n t 

actions on the basis of thorough 

investigation of potential safety 

hazards, promoting safety principles, 

complying with safety regulations 

and taking responsibility for security. 

Jun. 7 

T h e V i c e C h a i r m a n o f C P P C C 

National Committee Zhou Tienong 

(second from the left) made a tour 

of Shenyang Chemical Co., Ltd. 

reviewing energy conservation and 

emission reduction work. (Above) 

Construction of the 60,000 t/a 

POM project - phase II of the 

whole 200,000 t/a POM project of 

Shanghai BlueStar New Chemical 

Materials Plant - was formally 

launched at the Spark Development 

Zone in Shanghai. 

Jun. 12 

Tw o d o c u m e n t s o f g u i d a n c e - 

Provisional Methods of ChemChina 

for Assessment of Achievements of 

Directors of Subsidiaries, and Provisional 

Methods of ChemChina for Managing the 

Compensation of Directors of Subsidiaries 

- were issued and implementation 

began. 

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Jun. 16 


B l u e S t a r ( B e i j i n g ) C h e m i c a l 

Machinery Co., Ltd. (BCMC) won the 

bid for Jiangsu Electrochemical's 

200,000 t/a ion-exchange membrane 

caustic soda project, becoming the 

first enterprise in China capable of 

delivering an ion-exchange caustic 

soda unit with scale as large as 

200,000 t/a from design through 

manufacture and installation. 

Jun. 20 

ChemChina President Ren Jianxin and 

the Vice President Fan Xiaosen toured 

the construction site at Tianjin 

Lingang Industrial Area (TLIA). The 

CPC Committee Secretary of Tianjin 

Zhang Gaoli and Mayor of Tianjin Dai 

Xianglong met with Ren Jianxin. They 

talked in depth about ChemChina's 

project in TLIA. 

Jun. 22 

The Labor Union of ChemChina 

started "Five Small" activities 

consisting of "small inventions, 

small designs, small reforms, small 

remakes and small proposals." 

Jun. 26 

The CPC Committee of ChemChina 

o r g a n i z e d p a r t y m e m b e r s t o 

celebrate the 86 th 

anniversary of 

the founding of the CPC (Communist 

Party of China). Party members and 

activists visited the Anti-Japanese 

War Memorial Hall and reaffirmed 

their oath of joining the party. 

Jun. 28 

The Governor of Liaoning Province Zhang 

Wenyue toured Shenyang Chemical Co., 

Ltd. reviewing energy conservation and 

emission reduction efforts. 


Materials Corporation reorganized 

Hebei Shenghua Chemical Industry 

Co., Ltd. by increasing capital 

through enlarging share capital. 

Jun. 29 

S A S A C ( S t a t e - o w n e d A s s e t s 

Supervision and Administration 

C o m m i s s i o n ) r e a s s i g n e d s o m e 

ChemChina administrative directors. 

Du Guosheng became the Vice 

President and the CPC Committee 

Secretary of ChemChina. 

Jul. 3 

The Third Generation Municipal 

D r i n k i n g Wa t e r P u r i f i c a t i o n 

Process developed by BlueStar 

Water Treatment Co., Ltd. gained 

approval from experts and relevant 

d e p a r t m e n t s o f t h e N a t i o n a l 

M e m b r a n e Wa t e r Tr e a t m e n t 

Technology Exchange Seminar. 

Jul. 5 

Mr. Liu Tienan, Deputy Director of 

the State Council's Northeast China 

Revitalization Office, accompanied 

by ChemChina President Ren Jianxin, 

made a survey tour of BlueStar 

(Beijing) Chemical Machinery Co., 

Ltd. (BCMC). Mr. Liu encouraged the 

company to be active in independent 

R&D for innovation, and carry the 

domestic manufacture of chemical 

machinery to a higher level. 

Jul. 11 

ChemChina required its subsidiaries 

to organize special inspection teams 

to carry out in-depth investigations 

for hidden hazards in production. 

Jul. 12 

The Deputy Director of the State 

Administration of Work Safety Wang 

Dexue toured ChemChina. ChemChina 

President Ren Jianxin briefed him on 

ChemChina's development and the 

status of production safety. (Above) 

Approved by the Ministry of Science 

and Technology, the Southwest 

Research & Design Institute of Chemical 

Industry (SWRDICI) Laboratory of 

Comprehensive Utilization of Industrial 

Gas Emissions became one of China's 

first batch of National Level Key 

Laboratories to be established within 

enterprises. 

The world's first 100,000 t/a 

d i m e t h y l e t h e r d e v i c e u s i n g 

c r u d e m e t h a n o l a s f e e d s t o c k 

was commissioned and started 

operation. The project had technical 

support and engineering design 

from Southwest Research & Design 

Institute of Chemical Industry 

(SWRDICI) and Sichuan Tianyi Science 

& Technology Co., Ltd. 

Southwest China Haohua Chemical 

Co., Ltd. successfully rebuilt its 

carbon tetrachloride unit into a 

tetrachloroethylene unit. This new 

technology was unprecedented in 

China. 

Jul. 27 

T h r e e d o c u m e n t s o f g u i d a n c e 

- Me t hod s o f ChemCh i na on Aud i t 

Management of Project Construction, 

Provisional Methods of ChemChina on 

Consigning Social Commission Agency 

for Audit of Project Construction, and 


Audit of Economic Efficiency - were 

issued, and implementation started. 

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Aug. 4 

C h e m C h i n a h e l d i t s E c o n o m i c 

Operation Analysis Meeting for the 

first half year. In accordance with the 

principle advocated in the Central 

Enterprise Directors Seminar, Mr. 

Ren Jianxin initiated the work of the 

second half. 

Aug. 6 

Over 100 new recruits of ChemChina's 

Beijing subsidiaries (2007 university 

graduates) received career training. 

The President of ChemChina, Ren 

Jianxin, and CPC Vice Secretary, Fu 

Xiangsheng, made speeches at the 

training. (Above) 

Aug. 16 

In the Appraisal of China's Top 100 

Professional Industrial Websites 

organized by 51Top100 (http:// 

www.51top100.com), two websites 

sponsored by China National Chemical 

Information Center (CNCIC) - namely, 

China Chemical Information Net 

(www.cheminfo.gov.cn), and China 

Chemical City On Internet (CCCOI, 

www.chem.com.cn) - ranked second 

and third in the chemical sector. 

Aug. 23 

ChemChina held a training class 

in Beijing for saving water. The 

directors and representatives in 

charge of energy conservation and 

emission reduction from more than 

40 of ChemChina's biggest waterconsuming 

subsidiaries participated 

in the training. 

Aug. 25 

Chonche Group Nanjing 7425 Factory 

was awarded a DOT certificate (for 

passing Federal Motor Vehicle Safety 

Standards) from the US Department 

of Transportation (DOT) for selling its 

auto-parts products to the US. 

Aug. 28 

Two projects of Siping Haohua 

Chemical Co., Ltd. that were underconstruction, 

- namely the 200,000 

t/a ion-exchange membrane caustic 

soda project and the 200,000 t/a 

PVC (polyvinyl chloride) paste resin 

project - after gaining the approval of 

the National Development and Reform 

Commission (NDRC), were included in 

the third group of Nationally funded 

projects for revitalizing traditional 

industries in Northeast China. 

BlueStar Water Treatment Co., 

Ltd. won the bid to engineer the 

rainwater utilization for the Bird's 

Nest (the National Stadium) for the 

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, and 

adopted advanced water treatment 

technology in keeping up with the 

goal of "Hi-tech Olympics." 

Sep. 1 

A meeting was held in ChemChina to 

convey the principles of the Central 

Enterprise Energy Conservation and 

Emission Reduction Conference. The 

President of ChemChina, Ren Jianxin 

directed the whole corporation to 

adopt these principles. 

Sep. 10 

ChemChina and the US Blackstone 

Group established a strategic 

partnership. Blackstone invested 

US$600 million (a 20% stake) in 

China National BlueStar (Group) 

Corporation. The combined strengths 

of ChemChina's chemical business 

and Blackstone's international capital 

operation will help build BlueStar 

into a world leading company in the 

fields of advanced chemical materials 

and specialty chemicals. (Right) 

Sep. 11 

ChemChina and Atos Origin signed 

a framework contract for global 

strategic cooperation. The President 

of ChemChina, Ren Jianxin, and the 

CEO of Atos Origin, Bernard Bourigeaud 

were present at the ceremony. 

The State General Administration 

of Quality Supervision, Inspection 

and Quarantine (AQSIQ) held the 

2007 Conference on China's Top 

Brands and China's International 

Top Brand Commendations in the 

Great Hall of the People, Beijing. 

Five products of ChemChina - 

Shenyang Chemical's "XingTa" PVC 

paste resin; Qingdao Rubber6 Group's 

"Rubber6" heavy-duty conveyor belt; 

BlueStar Cleaning's "BlueStar" vehicle 

antifreeze solution; Guilin Latex 

Plant's "GaoBang" rubber condom; 

and Aeolus Tyre's "Aeolus" full-steel 

radial tires - were honored as China 

Top Brands. 

China National Chemical Equipment 

Corporation (CNCE) was awarded a 

class-B license as a bidding agency of 

investment projects financed by the 

central government. 

Sep. 14 

The State-owned Assets Supervision 

and Administration Commission 

of the State Council (SASAC) held 

a Central Enterprise IT Solutions 

Seminar at ChemChina HQ. The 

Deputy Director of SASAC, Mr. Li Wei 

addressed the seminar, and heard a 

report presented by Mr. Ren Jianxin 

representing the administrative 

officers of ChemChina. 

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Sep. 16 

ChemChina organized ten of its 

subsidiaries to exhibit at the China 

(Taiyuan) International Coal and 

Energy New Industry Expo (2007 

CICEN Expo). 

Sep. 17 


Materials Corporation reorganized 

Dezhou Shihua Chemical Co., Ltd. 

by acquiring 100% of its state-owned 

stocks previously held by the Stateowned 

Assets Management Office of 

Dezhou City, Shandong Province. 

Fujian Sanming Double-Wheel 

Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd. 

received an A1-Level High Pressure 

Ve s s e l M a n u f a c t u r i n g L i c e n s e 

authorized by the State General 

Administration of Quality Supervision, 

Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ). 

Shanxi Synthetic Rubber Group was 

awarded a State High-Tech Enterprise 

Certificate. 

Hunan Yiyang Rubber & Plastics 

Machinery Group Co., Ltd. was 

authorized as a Supporting Enterprise 

for the National Level Enterprise 

Technology Center, jointly approved 

by five ministries and commissions 

including the National Development 

and Reform Commission, the Ministry 

of Science and Technology, the 

Ministry of Finance, the General 

Administration of Customs and the 

State Administration of Taxation. 

Sep. 30 

Provisional Regulations of ChemChina 

on Supervision and Management of 

was 

issued, and implementation began. 

Engineering and Construction 

Oct. 2 

The Vice Director of 

the National People's 

C o n g r e s s ( N P C ) 

Committee, Gu Xiulian, 

accompanied by the 

CPC Deputy Secretary of 

Jiangsu Province, Zhang 

Lianzhen, Vice Director 

of Jiangsu Provincial 

NPC, Bai Suning, the 

C P C S e c r e t a r y o f 

Nantong City, Luo Yimin, 

Nantong Mayor Ding 

Dawei, and President of 

ChemChina, Ren Jianxin, 

made survey tour of 

the construction site at 

BlueStar (Nantong) New 

Chemical Materials Base. 

Oct. 11 

ChemChina held a special meeting 

to advocate the principles of the 

Central Enterprise Intellectual 

Property Right (IPR) Conference, 

and deployed the IPR works of the 

company. 

The State Administration for 

Industry and Commerce listed the 

Crane TM of Southwest China Haohua 

Chemical Co., Ltd. as a Well-Known 

Brand in China. 

Oct. 15 

The Seventeenth National Congress 

of the Communist Party of China 

opened. ChemChina President Ren 

Jianxin attended as a national 

delegate. 

Oct. 22 

The CPC Committee of ChemChina 

held a meeting for party members in 

Beijing. Ren Jianxin, the President 

of ChemChina and ChemChina's 

delegate to the 17 th 

CPC National 

Congress, briefed the audience on 

the substance of the congress, and 

laid out plans in accordance with the 

latest directives. 

ChemChina held its Enterprise IT 

Solutions Meeting to kick off several 

pilot projects in BlueStar, involving 

financial transformation, continuous 

transformation, data transformation 

and ERP projects, etc. 

Oct. 23 


Jianxin, met with Zhou Qiang, 

Governor of Hunan Province. 


Oct. 15 

China National Advanced Chemical Materials Corporation 

(ACM Corporation) and the Japanese Mitsui & Co., Ltd. 

signed a CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) contract for 

nitrous oxide gas emissions purchase. It is expected that by 

2012, Heilongjiang Heihua Group Co., Ltd. (a subsidiary of 

ACM Corporation) can eliminate gas emissions equivalent 

to 900,000 tons of carbon dioxide. (Left) 

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Oct. 24 



Jianxin, was invited to witness the 

launch of China's first lunar orbiter 

"Chang'e-I" in Xichang Satellite 

Launch Center. Mr. Ren exchanged 

ideas with relevant officials and 

attended celebrations together with 

top State leaders. 

Oct. 25 


Safety Assessment Management was 

issued, and its implementation 

began. 

Oct. 27 

The Release Conference of the 7 th 

Ranking of China's Largest Group 

Corporations and the 2 nd 

Ranking 

of China's 500 Most Competitive 

Enterprises was held in the Great 

Hall of the People in Beijing. 

According to the National Bureau 

of Statistics of China (NBSC), in 

2006, ChemChina was listed 35 th 

among China's top 500 largest group 

corporations and China's 100 leading 

group corporations; and 11 th among 

the Central SOEs (State-owned 

Enterprises) based on composite 

index. Within the chemical industry, 

ChemChina ranked first. 

Nov. 2 

Provisional Methods of ChemChina for 

Comprehensive Budget Management 

was issued, and implementation was 

started. 

Nov. 15 

Nov. 8 

China's largest intermeshing GE580 

Banbury mixer, developed and 

manufactured by Hunan Yiyang 

Rubber & Plastics Machinery Group 

Co., Ltd., passed acceptance testing. 

Nov. 7 

ChemChina President 

Ren Jianxin, invited 

b y t h e l e a d i n g 

American periodical 

, 

a t t e n d e d t h e 

p u b l i c a t i o n ' s 1 1 t h 

Annual CEO Forum, 

which was held in 

Beijing. In the forum, 

Mr. Ren met with Mr. 

Tony Blair, the former 

Prime Minister of the 

United Kingdom. 

B u s i n e s s W e e k 

T i a n j i n M a y o r D a i 

X i a n g l o n g , a n d 

ChemChina President 

Ren Jianxin laid the 

foundation stone at the 

formal groundbreaking 

of the BlueStar Tianjin 

Lingang New Chemical 

Material Base. 

A f t e r t h e 

g r o u n d b r e a k i n g 

c e r e m o n y o f t h e 

BlueStar Tianjin Lingang 

New Chemical Material Base, Zhang Gaoli, a member of the CPC Political Bureau 

and the Secretary of the Tianjin CPC Committee, arranged a meeting with the 

President of ChemChina, Ren Jianxin. Mr. Zhang expressed his support as well as 

thanks to ChemChina for building its largest advanced chemical material base 

in Tianjin Lingang Industrial Area (TLIA). He expressed hope that the Tianjin 

government will make every effort to help construction progress as scheduled. 

The Drying Technology and Equipment Engineering Technology Research Center, 

sponsored by Tianhua Institute of Chemical Machinery & Automation, won 

the approval of the Ministry of Science and Technology to become a National 

Engineering and Technology Center. 

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Nov. 22 

C h e m C h i n a p u t f o r w a r d a 

management idea of "zero discharge" 

as a strategic measure to intensify 

energy conservation and emission 

reduction in accordance with the 

Scientific Development Concept, 

striving to build a resource-saving 

a n d e n v i r o n m e n t a l l y f r i e n d l y 

enterprise. 

The Director General of the State 

Administration of Work Safety, Li 

Yizhong made survey tour of Harbin 

Petrochemical Co., Ltd. After hearing 

a report on production safety, he 

affirmed Harbin Petrochemical's 

achievements and encouraged the 

company to further strengthen its 

management of safety and worker 

health. 

Nov. 30 

A large meeting about ChemChina's 

preparation for the company's 2007 

final accounting and for training 

related to the new accounting 

standard was held in Beijing. 


addressed the meeting. 

Harbin Petrochemical Co., Ltd. 

successfully completed its 20,000 t/a 

maleic anhydride (MA) technology 

improvement project. The new unit 

came on stream. 

Haohua Yuhang Chemical Co., Ltd. 

put its 200,000 t/a PVC unit and 

200,000 t/a ion-exchange membrane 

caustic soda unit on stream. 

Zhenghe Petrochemical Co., Ltd.'s 

120,000 t/a acrylic acid and ester 

project (phase I) was completed and 

commissioned. 

Dec. 22 

The 36.00R51 giant all-steel radial 

engineering tires that were selfdeveloped 

by Haohua South China 

(Guilin) Rubber Co., Ltd. and 

listed in the State Science and 

Technology Supporting Program, 

were successfully manufactured. 

The products incorporated several 

patented technologies and other 

IPRs, unprecedented in this field 

domestically. 

Xinjiang Zhongtai Chemical Co., 

Ltd. launched its 120,000 t/a PVC 

unit and its 100,000 t/a ion-exchange 

membrane caustic soda unit. 

The reconstruction and upgrading 

of the soda ash unit of Xinjiang 

Chemical Group Co., Ltd. was 

completed successfully and this new 

200,000 t/a unit went on stream. 


Nov. 28 


Jianxin, was invited by Peking 

University to give a special speech 

in the main meeting hall of the 

university. Mr. Ren's talk, "The Three- 

Word Principles of ChemChina's 

Overseas Acquisition," was ardently 

welcomed by students and attracted 

attention from the media and from 

scholars. (Above) 

Dec. 10 


Assets Management was issued, and 

implementation began. 

Dec. 19 

ChemChina decided to make China 

BlueStar Petrochemical Corporation 

its directly managed subsidiary. 

Dec. 29 

The annual meeting of ChemChina 

was held in Beijing. President Ren 

Jianxin gave a keynote speech about 

advancing the pace and quality 

of growth. In his speech, Mr. Ren 

reviewed the development of the 

three year old ChemChina and the 

achievements of 2007. He also 

outlined what should be done in 

2008. At the conclusion, the CPC 

Committee Secretary of ChemChina, 

D u G u o s h e n g s u m m a r i z e d t h e 

meeting. (Above) 

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