Director-General Jiang Chengkang of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA) inspected Honghe Cigarette Factory of the HongyunHonghe Tobacco Group in southwest China's tobacco-producing Yunnan Province on April 15, hearing working reports and giving instructions on future business development.
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Accompanied by Deputy Governor Cao Jianfang of Yunnan Province and other officials, Jiang firstly heard working reports given by President Wu Yi of the HongyunHonghe Tobacco Group. In light of the business development situation of China's tobacco industry and HongyunHonghe's targets for the development of competitive brands, Jiang put forward the requirements of "setting new targets, increasing the sense of responsibility and creating the first rate on a full scale" in terms of promoting cigarette production to a higher level.
Visiting production workshops at Honghe Cigarette Factory, Jiang and Cao learned about the processes of quality control, raw materials consumption, physical distribution, etc at HongyunHonghe, and affirmed management over the site of production by the tobacco group.
Afterwards, Cao presided over a meeting on reporting the work of HongyunHonghe. Recalling his several inspections at Honghe Cigarette Factory, Jiang said that Honghe Cigarette Factory's corporate management spirit of "systemic innovation, emphasis of efficiency, making perfection more perfect, and striving to create the first rate" is of great reference value in the whole tobacco industry of China.
In light of the business development situation of China's tobacco industry and HongyunHonghe's targets for the development of competitive brands, Jiang put forward the requirements of "setting new targets, increasing the sense of responsibility and creating the first rate on a full scale" in terms of promoting cigarette production to a higher level:
On the setting of new targets for HongyunHonghe, Jiang said that HongyunHonghe is a leading key enterprise of China's tobacco industry, and that its well-known cigarettes brands of Yunyan and Honghe have always been of very great influence and a very powerful status at cigarette markets in China.
In the course of development, HongyunHonghe has much experience that deserves earnest summation, that can be further promoted and that can be inherited and carried forward, Jiang said. Under the new situation of development, HongyunHonghe needs to stick to the policy of keeping innovation and development and to set new targets for development, he said.
While maintaining the successful experience and approaches in the past, HongyunHonghe needs to keep innovation and development in light of the new situation of development and new tasks. Specifically for HongyunHonghe, it needs to further define its development guidelines and specify its development targets in light of the general requirement of the national tobacco industry for promoting cigarette production to a higher level, and in light of the specific requirement for promoting the tobacco industry of Yunnan to a higher level, according to Jiang.
On the development of HongyunHonghe under the situation of reform and restructuring of China's tobacco industry, Jiang pointed out that increase of the sense of responsibility and the sense of identity on the part of employees to HongyunHonghe will be part of the core motive force for promoting its development.
For all employees with HongyunHonghe, they should take pride from being members of HongyunHonghe, should contribute to the development of the tobacco group, and should join hands in holding high the banner of HongyunHonghe.
Jiang emphasized that presently, what are crucial to promoting cigarette production to a higher level are how to realize promotion and how to embody the higher level, with the core being the creation of the first rate in all aspects of the work. Only by guaranteeing a high starting point, high standards and the first rate and by embodying the first rate in all aspects of the work including the establishment of exclusive raw materials supply bases, the development of technologies and human resources, marketing and management, can we provide powerful support and guarantee for the advantage of scale that we already have, and can we realize sustainable development, he said.
Finally, Jiang noted that the current inspection meant the first time for him to directly hear formal working reports from the new leadership of HongyunHonghe since a recent leadership reshuffle of the tobacco group. He expressed the belief that the new leadership will certainly succeed in carrying out its assignments, will be dutiful and will wholeheartedly plunge itself into the new cause of the tobacco group, and that it will certainly be able to make new efforts for and new contributions to realizing further development of HongyunHonghe and promoting cigarette production by China's tobacco industry to a higher level on a full scale.
Speaking on the same occasion, HongyunHonghe Board of Directors Chairman Yao Qingyan, on behalf of all staff members and workers of HongyunHonghe, expressed gratitude to the STMA and the provincial government of Yunnan for their great care and support, and expressed the readiness to meet the requirements of Jiang for the work of HongyunHonghe by setting the relevant new development targets as early as possible, and by strengthening the supply of raw materials supply, scientific-technological innovation, basic management and the development of human resources, in order to make new and greater contributions to realizing promotion of cigarette production by China's tobacco industry to a higher level and realizing greater local economic development. Enditem
