<strong>China: Changde Tobacco Machinery Wins Titles of Honor for Management Improvement</strong>

Changde Tobacco Machinery Co., Ltd. in Changde City of south central China's Hunan Province -- a leading Chinese tobacco machinery manufacturer -- has won two titles of honor for improving management in terms of safety in production, product quality, environment and occupational health of workers.

Recently, after inspection and assessment by Changde City Federation of Trade Unions and review and recommendation by Hunan Provincial Federation of Trade Unions, Changde Tobacco Machinery received the title of honor as a "winner in the 2013 national 'Safety-Health Cup' competition jointly granted by All-China Federation of Trade Unions and the State Administration of Work Safety. Besides, the Trade Union of Changde Tobacco Machinery won the title of honor as a "model unit in Trade Union work of Changde City for the year 2013".

Over recent years, Changde Tobacco Machinery, with winning in the national 'Safety-Health Cup' competition as a target, has kept improving and promoting its systems of management over product quality, the environmental and occupational health, effectively promoting control over safety in production, development of a safety culture, and development of education and training on occupational safety and health, extensively launching diversified popular production safety activities, practically enhancing the awareness of the entire workforce about safety, enhancing their self-protection capacity and professional techniques and skills, and effectively preventing accidents in various forms. Enditem