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TECHNOLOGY

CORPORATE CULTURE

SPECIAL ISSUE

BlueStar Director Gérard Deman Wins 2014 Chinese Government Friendship Award

Xinji Chemical formulates national

inorganic salt standards

Guangming Institute at national carbon

dioxide standards meeting

Anbang Electrochemistry publishes

new technological achievement policy

ChemChina giving back to society

A Day for the Elderly

I’m a happy little volunteer

I love singing

Catching crabs in Jinni Bay

Happy work, healthy life

Ren Jianxin meets with Cabot

president

Cabot Bluestar (Jiangxi) celebrates

its 10th birthday

ChemChina SHE management

system gets a trial at Changyi

Petrochemical

Aeolus Tire gets national recognition

as technical innovation model

Huaxing Petrochemical e systems to

get automated shipment

Aeolus and Double Happiness make

global Top 75 tire maker list

Best ChemChina employee visits

western Hunan on a mission

ChemChina recognizes filial piety

Aeolus Tire takes part in Ocean Race

Qingdao Rubber 6’s R&D center in

operation

Zhenghe Petrochemical makes

national clean production list

ChemChina Storage and Transport

receives international shipping license

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BlueStar Director Gérard Deman Wins 2014 Chinese Government Friendship Award

On September 29, 2014,

Gérard Deman, board member and Strategy Advisor of China National Bluestar (Group) Co., Ltd and Chairman of Adisseo w a s g i v e n 2 0 1 4 C h i n e s e Government Friendship Award and invited to Beijing for the ceremony. In 2006, after BlueStar acquired

Adisseo, Gérard was appointed CEO and Sen io r S t r a tegy Advisor of Adisseo. His efficient management strategy steers Adisseo ahead despite difficulties incurred by surge of raw material price attending the hike of oil price and continual appreciation of euro. As the f irst French chemical enterprise acquired

by an enterprise of the Chinese central government, Adisseo has registered great improvement in post-merger performance, with sales revenue increasing by more than twice, and the company value increasing by 75%. It represents a case of success for Chinese enterprises to go global. G é r a r d , a s C h a i r m a n o f Adisseo ever since 2010, i t deserves special mention that the methionine project with a production capacity of 140,000 tons per year he led in Nanjing redressed the gap of methionine p r o d u c t i o n t e c h n o l o g y i n China. In addition, the Bluestar overseas business cash pool project led by Gérard made headway in 2013.

T h e C h i n e s e G o v e r n m e n t Friendship Award is granted on the basis of the evaluation and se lect ion by the State Adm in i s t r a t i on o f Fo re i gn Experts Affairs, PRC. It is the national top award issued by the Chinese government to foreign experts working in China, intended to express gratitude to and recognition of foreign experts for their remarkably devoted efforts in contributing to social progress, economic, technological, education and culture undertakings as well as talent training in China. The prize is awarded once a year. This year, altogether 100 people win the award.

Han Zhen

Mr. Deman and his wife appreciating a painting of the Great Wall, a gift from Ren Jianxin, President of ChemChina, to mark his 2014 Chinese Government Friendship Award

Premier Li Keqiang met with foreign expert winners of 2014 Chinese government Friendship Prize

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Cabot Bluestar (Jiangxi) celebrates its 10th birthday

Ren Jianxin meets with Cabot president

The Cabot Bluestar Chemical (Jiangxi) Co held a ceremony

at Xinghuo Industrial Park, on Oct 8, to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The company was founded in 2004 as a joint venture of Cabot and Bluestar to produce nano-grade, gas-phase silicon dioxide products using leading technology and

trichloromethylsilane (a byproduct of the silicone monomer production process) as raw material, while returning the hydrogen chloride resulting from gas-phase silicon dioxide production to the Xinghuo Silicone Plant as raw material for synthesis of chloromethane. This forms the cycling of chlorine, silicon and hydrogen for a silicon value chain, where resources are utilized between the silicon and gas-phase silicon dioxide industries. Over the past decade, the joint venture has had a synergistic effect and recycling of resources, while annual gas-phase silicon dioxide output has increased to 14,600 tons, from 4,800 tons, making the company the world’s largest gas-phase, silicon dioxide manufacturing center and a model of a recycling economy in Jiangxi province.

ChemChina’s president, Ren

Jianxin, met with the visi t ing p r e s i d e n t a n d C E O o f t h e US’s Cabot, Patr ick Prevost, at ChemChina HQ, on Oct 9, where the two discussed how to improve business management and increase enterprise reforms, as we l l as how to i nc rease cooperation between ChemChina and Cabot in great detail. Cabot, founded in 1882 in Boston, Massachusetts, is a specialty chemicals and applied materials company with a long-standing, r e w a r d i n g p a r t n e r s h i p w i t h Bluestar in the field of organic silicone.

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Du Yanqing

ChemChina SHE management system gets a trial at Changyi Petrochemical

Aeolus Tire gets national recognition as technical innovation model

Aeolus and Double Happiness make global Top 75 tire maker list

Huaxing Petrochemical to get automated shipment

A 7-person delegation of Qenos experts got a close look at Changyi

Petrochemical’s and other ChemChina companies’ compliance with SHE policy recently, in line with ChemChina’s call to build an SHE management system. Changyi Petrochemical, a pilot company of ChemChina, started its ChemChina SHE management pilot recently, so the delegates spoke with the company’s leaders about production, operations, technology, products and status concerning the SHE system, and looked at the team building and SHE management of production crews responsible for the DCC and reforming plants, spoke to managers and workers on the shop floor either at meetings or individually and gave their opinions on the company's SHE culture and management for furthering the pilot program. As a pilot company it will work towards ChemChina’s objective of building its SHE management and applying the Qenos SHE system to improve its SHE management and other activities.

When the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology published its

2014 list of national technological innovation role models recently, Aeolus Tire was a clear stand-out, gaining another national recognition after being named national corporate technical center, Chinese high-tech enterprise, Chinese quality industrial enterprise benchmark, and state-level IP powerhouse. For the past several years, Aeolus Tire has focused on technological innovation and building its R&D pipeline. The company has 297 national patent applications on file, including 28 for inventions and 11 foreign-related, and has 187 patents approved. The company is the industry’s first to develop a personalized online patent navigation system.

When the list of the global Top 75 tire manufacturers was announced

recently, Aeolus Tire was on it, at 26th place, and Double Happiness Tire, at 46th. The two have made the list many years in a row, with Double Happiness making it back on the list, in 2007, after a product readjustment, and where it stayed among the Top 50 for three years in a row. This year it was one spot above its 2013 ranking.

W h e n H u a x i n g Pe t rochemica l ’s new weighing system went into operation in late August, it meant the completion of three systems -- ration loading, automatic loading and d ispatch ing, and automated weighing – and the integrat ion of related functions and data and information, for a fully automated shipment p la t fo rm w i th a da i l y capacity of more than 23,000 tons. These three systems were said to be the first of their kind at an oil and gas company, mak ing t hem a good reference point for similar companies. These three systems cost 4.3 million yuan($704,000). Statistics indicate a daily shipment increase from 12,000 tons to 20,000 tons on average and more than 40-million yuan in daily sales, as a result. The automation of shipping management also reduces labor costs a lot and has increase the company’s output 10-fold and helped it push its marketing changes effectively.

Wei Bin

Xu Guodong, Zhao Mingdi

He Fazhan, Chen Liping, Zheng Yongliang

Li Weiling

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ChemChina recognizes filial piety

B a c k i n M a r c h , L i

Junceng, the son of Li Heng and Li Yi, both of them Bluestar Machinery C o e m p l o y e e s , w a s named a “youngster of filial piety and virtue” in Sichuan province, and w a s n o m i n a t e d a s a candidate for the same title at the national level. C h e m C h i n a ’ s t r a d e union has given a lot of attention to the deeds of its youngsters and some much-needed f inancial assistance to Li’s family. I t has ca l led upon a l l C h e m C h i n a p e o p l e to fo l low the Ch inese tradition of filial piety to support business growth. Recently, when Li and his parents received some ChemChina assistance funds, Li wrote a thank-you letter to express how they feel proud to be a part of the ChemChina family. When Li’s father suffered a serious injury, 10 years ago, that left him unable to use his legs, Li, who was only 4-years-old at the time, learned to take care of his father when his mother was absent, thanks to her influence.

When the 2014-2015 Volvo Ocean

Race got off to a breezy start, at 2:00 pm, on Oct 11, Aeolus Tire was

present onboard China ’s D o n g f e n g v e s s e l , a s a s t r a t e g i c p a r t n e r o f t h e Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Co. The Volvo Ocean Race is the world’s most influential and challenging sailing event of its kind, and is known as the Everest of sailing, or offshore F1, and the world’s longest sports event.

The Zhuzhou Institute’s Li Meihui, who has been recognized as the

best employee of ChemChina, joined more than 10 others in visiting a primary school in the town of Langxi, Hunan province, October 18 - 19, to make a charitable contribution, as part of the institute’s charity initiative. Li donated all of a monetary reward she had gained from the company, of 13,000 yuan($2,100), along with nearly 20,000 yuan donated by 105 institute employees. Part of the funds were used to help poor households and the rest to purchase desks, chairs, musical instruments, uniforms for the school drummers, and other items. Li, who works in a lab, has been helping poor students in three villages in Hunan’s Yongshun county, since 2007. And her charitable impulse has played a model role at the institute, as more employees joined the generosity of their own accord. Li got the ChemChina best employee award, in May 2014. So far, she and her colleagues have given more than 500,000 yuan to around 150 needy students. This is a true sign of how the best ChemChina employees choose to give something back to society, an act that is well received by everyone for its financial assistance to needy students and contribution to the general morality.

Tang Anshu

Jin Jixiang

Li Xuri

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Best ChemChina employee visits western Hunan on a mission

Aeolus Tire takes part in Ocean Race

November 2014

Zhenghe Petrochemical makes national clean production list

Qingdao Rubber 6’s R&D center in operation

ChemChina Storage and Transport receives international shipping license

The Ministry of Industry

and Information Technology and Finance Ministry recently published their list of national industrial clean production d e m o n s t r a t i o n p r o j e c t s f o r 2 0 1 4 , w i t h Z h e n g h e Petrochemical standing out for its DCC flue-gas-denitration, desulfurization and de-dusting device. According to ministry regulat ions, 20 percent of capi ta l investment in th is project, just above 20 million yuan($3.27 million), will come from government funds. The pro jec t cos t i s es t imated at 109 mil l ion yuan and is planned to go into operation by the end o f December. I t cons is ts o f fou r un i t s : preheat boiler reformation, flue gas denitration, flue gas desulfurization and de-dusting, and desulfurization wastewater treatment, along with support faci l i t ies. This project wi l l effectively reduce industrial pollution discharges and water and energy consumption and will contribute to local pollution control efforts by acting as a role model.

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Conveyor Belt Co announced the completion of a branch factory in the Chengyang high-tech district of Qingdao, on Sept 25, and at the same time, began work on two innovative products -- the MT830 coalmine-specific laminated fabric conveyor belt and a high-strength Aramid fiber conveyor belt. -- two new-generation developments to meet the industry’s environmental and energy-saving needs, which are in wide use in the mining, steel, coal, cement, electric generation, and port industries. A ChemChina-China Rubber Corp plan called

for a 30-million-m conveyor b e l t f a c t o r y r e l o c a t i o n a n d reconstruction, back in April 2011. This project was an important part of ChemChina’s conveyor belt strategy and a major move to help the company become a high-tech conveyor belt R&D and manufacturing center. The first phase cost 430 million yuan($70.4 mil l ion) for a 10-mil l ion-k2/a conveyor belt production line, with estimated sales of 620 million yuan and profits of 25 million yuan. After project completion, the production capacity is expected to reach 30 million m and profits at around 200 million yuan.

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After getting its license as a

non-vessel-operation carrier, the ChemChina Storage and Transport Co app l ied fo r in te rna t iona l shipping agent status and got the license on Sept 6. After it applied for NVOCC status, in March 2014, the company got a domest ic shipping agent license, the first time domestic cargo forwarding and NVOCC in rapid succession.

The international shipping agency license allows the company to arrange portside operations of vessels more effect ively and provide vessel services more cost effectively, which can accelerate ship turnover and reduce transport and un load ing cos ts fo r the company’s oil products a great deal.

Yan Xiaoqiang, Shi Guiqing

Cai Jie, Yu Tao

Ma Mingze

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Xinji Chemical formulates national inorganic salt standards

Guangming Institute at national carbon dioxide standards meeting

Anbang Electrochemistry publishes new technological achievement policy

When Xinji Chemical was

asked by the Tianjin Chemical Industry Research Inst i tute t o h e l p d r a w u p i n d u s t r y standards it was a significant move toward contributing to the standardization of inorganic salt industry methods, and to improving technical indicators and testing methods for the company’s products. I t also makes the company bet ter known in the industry. The standards included a national “Code of Practice for Treatment and Disposal of Waste Hydrogen Sulfide”. In recent years, the

company has been act ively c o m m i t t e d t o i n c r e a s i n g business through quality and credibility and is now one of the major corporate drafters of national standards for barium carbonate, strontium carbonate, barium sulfate, barium nitrate and sodium sulfide. It has also helped formulate around 10 industry standards and is a domestic and international leader technological ability and product quality and was recognized as China’s barium salt city way back in 1994.

There was a meeting at the

Dalian Jinshitan International Convention Center recently to discuss a national standard for liquid carbon dioxide as food additive, at which the Guangming Institute’s test center was the major organizer, working with 16 other organizations. Participants

discussed the current national standard for carbon dioxide as a food additive in detail and related scientific principles and ensuring public health, as a basis for a national standard, national conditions, and the revision of national food safety standards.

The Anbang Electrochemistry

Co looked over its scientific and technological achievements in corporate IP recently and its new company policy on scientific and technological achievement rewards. As a result, it recognized 5 pending Chinese invention patents, 2 invention patents, 8 domestic trademarks, and 12 outstanding corporate papers. The company has been building its technical innovation system by improving technology management and planning, and by improving its technical innovation policy and increasing competitiveness by combining innovation and R&D with technology development, market ing and serv ices. A newly-pub l ished company policy covers technological a c h i e v e m e n t s , p r o d u c t development, IP, research papers, other publications, and other achievements. The policy calls for up 500,000($81,800) yuan in rewards.

Liu Yingliang

Yu Guohui Zhang Ming

Lu Zengbo

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As of this year, Oct 17 has been designated as the national

Poverty Reduction Day, with State Council approval, an important move in conveying Chinese and socialist values in friendship and mutual assistance, by getting everyone involved in poverty alleviation and bringing poorer areas a better way of life. And ChemChina has been giving a lot of attention to poverty alleviation by fulfilling its social responsibility. And its companies have implement the poverty alleviation policy across the country by looking for people in need of financial assistance and introducing poverty reduction methods with the focus on practical results.

Zhenghe Petrochemical employees give schoolbags, books, and basketballs to 19 underprivileged primary school students. Photo by Yan Xiaoqiang.

Nanjing Adisseo foreign employees visit orphans in Xinji, Guannan county as part of the company’s charity initiative.

Shenyang Chemical gets its employees involved in book donations for children in poverty-stricken areas and needy children of employees. Photo by Luo Xiaoyun.

Liming Institute’s young volunteers helped a volunteer initiative with the theme “Tour of Luoyang for Children in Mountainous Areas”. The photo shows Liming Institute volunteers with the children. Photo by Zhang Yunzhong, He Hongzhen.

Yiyang Rubber Machinery Co., Ltd’s employees help exceptional children eating. Photo by Li Zhonghong.

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ChemChina giving back to society

November 2014

A Day for the Elderly

On the eve of Double Ninth Festival, many ChemChina companies showed their care for retirees in a variety of ways, for example, giving them a tour of parks, playing fun games with them, putting on stage performances, or visiting them at home.

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Zhuzhou Institute leaders visit retired managers and explain them what’s happening at the company, while asking their advice.

The 24th Longevity Cup snooker competition of the Daqing Municipal Office for Retirees, has three of them from Oil & Gas (Daqing) -- Wang Xianding, Hu Shouming, and Tian Xiaomeng – taking the 5th runner-up with teamwork and indomitable spirit award.

Shanxi Rubber holding its 26th sports meet for the elderly to celebrate the double ninth festival, and let retirees put on a wonderful dance.

Volunteer employees from Zhonghao Chenguang visit a nursing home in Yongnian, Fushun county to put on a stage performance and greet and bless the elderly.

Photos by Guo Yu, Chen Guijun, Xing Jiwei, Shi Shaojun,

Guan Qi.

Guizhou Crystal Co holds recreational activities, such as a stage performance, tour of parks and chess match to inspire and entertain retirees.

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CORPORATE CULTURE

I’m a happy little volunteer

I love singing

Catching crabs in Jinni Bay

This painting is a gift that Li Anran, the child of a Changyi Petrochemical employee, intended for a senior citizens nursing home where Anran did volunteer work. Other children volunteered to sing and dance or played a musical instrument for the old people at the home, and some young volunteers presented handmade ornaments as gifts. Anran gave one of his paintings to these elderly folks in hope that they will live longer and that their children will be able to time with them.

I do not love either painting or calligraphy, I love singing. Every Saturday, I go to the children’s culture palace in Wuxi to practice with a chorus, excited and happy, no matter what the weather’s like. Once, I got a fi sh bone stuck in my throat when I was eating fi sh, and it was painful and I couldn’t talk. Nonetheless, I still went to the palace to practice singing. Currently, I practice singing a while every day to keep myself ready, something that some people think is a bit crazy. In fact, I am pushing myself to the highest possible standards. I am a little girl committed to singing.

Several days ago, my mom took me to Jinni Bay in suburban Dongying to catch some crabs. After an hour’s drive, we got there and the place was so fascinating that I couldn’t help yelling. What came into sight fi rst was a sea and red grass on the beach, which extended far beyond the horizon and looked like a red carpet. I picked up a pail and walked on the red carpet barefoot, feeling so good with a spongy feel. Then a sudden pricking brought me back to reality and I saw a little crab waving its big pincers attacking my toes. I attempted to catch it right away with my hands, only to get my index fi nger squeezed by the crab so hard that I yelled out. The more I tried to get away from the pincers, the more pain I felt. It did not let go of my fi ngers until I exhausted my strength pulling it off. After I succeeded in getting it off my fi ngers, I threw it into my pail angrily, saying, “I don’t think you can defeat me,” to comfort myself. After seeing what had happened to me, my mom said patiently, “Catching a crab requires technique. They can’t clamp onto you if you grab them by the lower part of the pincers or by the shell.” She’s right, you know. I tried out what she told me. As we moved on, there was more sand and we caught more crabs, and I picked up many beautiful shells along the way. Several hours passed before we even noticed it, and Mom hurried me back to the shore, which I was reluctant to do until I was exhausted. That night when I got home, I had a sweet dream of being a little fi sh swimming in the endless sea.

Huang Ruitian

Chen Jianing

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Happy work, HealtHy lifeIt’s important for employees to relax through physical exercise sometimes during their off hours. And ChemChina companies encourage their people to work and live in a healthy, civilized, happy way and they like to get them involved in companywide physical exercises, for example, with the Lantern Festival fun game, the employee sports meet on Women’s Day, and outreach training on Youth Day. There are always a variety of ball games, such as basketball, football, ping pong, volleyball, billiards, or badminton that are popular with the

many young employees. And there are various games that have a lot of employees taking part, including blowing up balloon, shuttlecock kicking, running with legs tied together, a newspaper pass-along, and a gesture guessing game. The participants can show what they’re capable of doing during these activities and learn a little more about each other as colleagues, which is very important for a corporate culture of harmony. The idea of happy work and healthy life is shared by all the employees.

The coolest pose, at Dalian Institute, Photo by Zhu Guoyou.

Grabbing a gold pouch. At Guizhou Crystal, Photo by Chen Guijun. Floating clouds and flowing water, at Haohua Yuhang,

Photo by Fu Haiping.

Flying man, at Siping Haohua, Photo by Liu Yang.

November 2014

Slam Dunk, at Oil & Gas (Daqing), Photo by Song Liang.