Jan 7: ChemChina sets up SHE committee.
Jan 12: ChemChina holds its annual conference, in Beijing, with Ren Jianxin, the GM and Party secretary reporting on work developments and a proposal being made to focus on structural adjustments, better management, and higher quality and benefits. That same day, ChemChina workers hold a conference, in Beijing, with 155 representatives taking part, 43 of them receiving the China Chemical excellent worker award.
Jan 15: Li Rongrong, deputy director of the Party’s economic committee and the former head of SASAC visit ChemChina to get a look at its development over the past several years, with Li making some suggestions on its future and management improvements.
Jan 21: Qingdao Rubber Six’s high-temperature conveyor belt gets an international patent for invention, making it the only product of its kind in China’s rubber industry.
Jan 29: There is an 11th anniversary celebration at the Jiangxi Xinghuo Organic Silicone Plant, for its zero accidents and continued safe production.
March 3: The Hangzhou Water Treatment Technology Development Center forms a national seawater desalination industrial alliance.
March 8: Ren Jianxin, ChemChina’s GM and Party secretary; Wang Feng, deputy Party secretary of China National Tire and Rubber and chairman and GM of Aeolus; and Li Jia, the GM of Zhonghao Chengguang become representatives to the 12th National People’s Congress.
April 9: ChemChina Assets Co gets a Best Organization for State-owned Equity Transactions award for the third consecutive year.
April 17: Zhonghao Chengguang’s 1,000-ton fluororubber industrialization technology gets a national quality investment award.
May 7: Changyi Petrochemical’s Gasoline IV goes on the market, with the company being ChemChina’s first to provide the product.
May 13: The Tianhua Institute joins Yellowsea Rubber, paving the way for a scientific regrouping.
May 23: Elkem takes the team, individual and scientific contribution awards at the American Foundry Society’s casting and metal casting expo.
May 24: The Marine Chemical Research Institute’s key marine coatings lab passes a Science and Technology Ministry inspection.
May 25: There is a meeting in Beijing for ChemChina’s young cadres, under the theme “Honing your skills to shoulder responsibility”, where 136 young cadres from several dozen ChemChina companies in China and abroad gathered to discuss their experiences.
June 4: Peng Zhishen, deputy chief engineer of Yiyang Rubber and Plastics Machinery, is named Excellent Economic Woman.
June 6: Changsha Institute’s feasibility study report for Sinohydro Mining (Laos) Co’s 120,000-ton-per-year potash project, in Vientiane, takes 1st-place in the 2012 national engineering consultation achievements awards.
June 14: Southwest Research & Design Institute’s fine industrial fume particles and flue gas purification filter development and applications project gets support from national sci-tech support plan.
June 20: Chinese Chemical Science Academy’s first science and technology forum takes place in the city of Zhuzhou, Hunan province, with displays of the latest in scientific research and industrialization from all its departments, and research experiences being shared.
July 1: ChemChina ranks 355th on the latest Fortune 500 rankings, with annual sales worth $32 billion, moving it up 47 slots.
July 20: The 24th Bluestar International Summer Camp opens under theme “Beautiful earth, city and Bluestar”, with 22 sites across China and 980 campers in all, 26 of them the children of employees at five foreign companies and Chinese students from Gansu province, who get special support from Bluestar.
Sept 2: Five ChemChina products get famous product recognition from China’s petroleum and chemical industry.
Sept 15: ChemChina holds its 5th Yuan Baohua Enterprise Management Gold Award forum.
Oct 11: Five ChemChina collectives get advanced State-owned collective recognition and eight individuals get State-owned company model worker titles.
Oct 12: Lian Wentao wins State-owned Company Youth May 4th medal and Luo Xiongxiong is nominated for the medal.
Nov 8: Haohua becomes a model patent enterprise for Beijing.
Nov 17: Aeolus makes China’s most valuable brands list for 2013, at 69th place.
Nov 20: A new technology that Dezhou Shihua and the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed proves successful in pilot testing, using mercury-free catalytic reforming to produce vinyl chloride.
Nov 21: Bluestar is among the first to national intellectual property rights demonstration enterprises.
Dec 24: ChemChina’s microfilm “Bluestar, Going Beyond Dreams” takes second-place at SASAC's online film competition.
Dec 15: Bluestar Aerospace, the Xinghuo Plant, Liming Research Institute, Guangming Research and Design Institute, China Bluestar Chengrand, Zhonghao Chengguang, and Nantong Xingchen provide the propellant and auxiliary items for the Chang’e lunar mission, while the North Paint & Coatings Research and Design Institute contributes the national flag for the moon landing.
