Dong Hai Group, located in YINZHOU DISTRICT, NINGBO,ZHEJIANG, made her fortune from making water meter’s movement to developing smart meter and then going abroad to contract for UN construction project, the 71-year-old Chairman, Mr. YUAN LI LIDING, is leading his team in deep exploration in the metering industry for 40 years as one day. He believes that doing business and making product need this concentration on main industry and craftsmanship of keeping improvement.

The latest data from YINZHOU District Economic and Industrial Technology Bureau shows that totaling 73 entities all over this district have presided over or participated in 281 national or industrial standards’ drafting or revising; 70 more YINZHOU-based enterprises ranked Top 3 in the national segment market share.

Mr. HU JUN, a member of standing committeemen of CPC NINGBO Municipal Committee, Secretary of YINZHOU District Committee, called upon all businesses to carry forward the craftsmanship of pursuing quality and keeping improvement in the whole society, give play to the advantage of artisan clusters’ rising, cast YINZHOU Smart Making core competitiveness, create famous and strong district of YINZHOU Brand and promote YINZHOU’s industrial restructuring and upgrading for leaping development.

Only those focusing on one thing can become strong and great. This is the craftsmanship in the understanding of Mr. FU MINGKANG, the Chairman of Sun & Moon Group. Led by his enthusiasm, his business has gained several nationwide wonders: produced the largest ductile iron castings with unit weight of 160 tons inChina, reduced the energy consumption per ton of casting to 155 kilograms of standard coal, which is the national minimum.

What is a craftsman enterprise, Ms. LI LI, the General Manager of NINGBO YONGJIA Transformer Company, said that the enterprise should do what he is good at in a thoroughgoing manner. It is precisely because of this perseverance that the past decade witnessed annual average growth of 5~10% in the enterprise’s scale merit.

In this interview in YINZHOU, the Journalist has deeply appreciated that craftsmen may not be able to become entrepreneurs but the most successful entrepreneurs are equipped with craftsmanship.

In GUANGBO nanometer workshop, 30+ production lines are in an orderly operation. In 2001 when GUANGBO Stationery has become a domestic leading enterprise in stationery industry, the Company announced her determination of entry into the new fields of nanotechnology and new material. In order to obtain uniformed-grain and well-sized nanoscale powder, hundreds of development team members worked day and night. Through eight years’ effort and hundreds of tests, GUANGBO nanotechnology has finally made a major breakthrough. For transition and innovation, impetuous should be avoided by all means and there must be perseverance of craftsmanship, s s aid Mr. WANG LIPING, Chairman of GUANGBO Group.

The adverse economic situation needs more transformation, upgrading and craftsmanship than ever before. Mr. YANG QILUN, the Director of YINZHOU District Economic and Industrial Technology Bureau, said building craftsmen enterprise team is the era proposition for upgrading the manufacturing in YINZHOU.

YINZHOU District has three state-level key vocational school and perfect vocational education system and high quality education system, which has transported a large number of technical personnel and cultivated a large number of craftsmen for local companies.

The Government invests RMB 2 million each year on entrepreneurs’ quality promotion, which is a generous practice in YINZHOU; organizes entrepreneurs going out once a quarter and four times a year to the regions with manufacturing developed and research institutions for view and learning and encourages enterprises to use Internet+ to polish “made in YINZHOU”.

Not long ago, YINZHOU issued Enterprises’ Practical Personnel Assessment Interim Measures to have the policy shining dead corners in the past talent assessment. Those first tier capable brains with low educational degree and less thesis but strong capability, good performance and great contribution are expected to be dubbed YINZHOU GOLDSMITH and YINZHOU SILVERSMITH. The selected YINZHOU GOLDSMITH and YINZHOU SILVERSMITH are expected to enjoy the same benefit given to domestic and overseas high-level talented and advanced personnel and will enjoy material incentive and their problems of real life will be solved.

Craftsman enterprises will directly drive the qualitative improvement of YINZHOU making, just with the support of a group of craftsman enterprises keeping improvement without distractions for decades, for 3 consecutive years YINZHOU has been ranked Number One in the first grade in the comprehensive evaluation ofZHEJIANGProvince’s strong industrial county (city and district) construction.

Quoted from Page 2 of Economic Daily