Shanxi’s First Private-Enterprise Science and Technology Association || The Pengfei Group Science and Technology Association Established

Release Date:

2019-12-19

On December 18, the Science and Technology Association of Pengfei Group—the first science and technology association established by a private enterprise in Shanxi Province—was officially inaugurated, with its first members’ congress opening to the sound of the national anthem.

Private enterprises are an important component of China’s national economy. As a pioneering leader in the coal‑coking industry, Pengfei Group has made significant contributions to local economic development and social progress. To better harness the innovative R&D and leading role of private enterprises in science and technology, and to promote the sound and rapid development of businesses, the industry, and the broader economy, Shanxi Province’s first science and technology association for a private enterprise—the Pengfei Group Science and Technology Association—was officially inaugurated on December 18, with its first members’ congress opening solemnly to the sound of the national anthem.

The meeting read out and adopted by vote the “Statutes of the Science and Technology Association of Pengfei Industrial Group (Draft),” and elected and approved by vote the 45 members of the first-term Science and Technology Association Committee.

Meanwhile, the first plenary session was convened, at which 19 members of the Standing Committee were elected. Comrades Guo Fengguang, Suo Shengfu, Li Zhiliang, Li Qiang, Hao Bin, and Liu Feng were elected as Vice Chairpersons of the first plenary session, and Comrade Ma Xiaolong was elected as its Chairperson.

Wang Aihua, Chairman of the Xiaoyi City Science and Technology Association, and Ma Xiaolong, Chairman of the Pengfei Science and Technology Association, jointly unveiled the plaque for the “Pengfei Industrial Group Science and Technology Association,” officially marking the establishment of the Pengfei Science and Technology Association.

Chairman Zheng Peng extended a warm welcome and heartfelt gratitude to the leaders attending the inaugural meeting of the Pengfei Science and Technology Association. He noted that the establishment of the association has received strong attention and support from the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, the Management Committee of the Economic Development Zone, and the leadership of the Municipal Science and Technology Association. This is a democratic and harmonious gathering dedicated to jointly pursuing development and advancing science and technology; it is also a unifying event that inspires and motivates all employees. It will have a positive and far-reaching impact on the entire Group, driving technological innovation, boosting production and operations, achieving leapfrog growth, and writing a new chapter for Pengfei.

In his concluding remarks, Wang Enze, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, pointed out:

With strong support from the Economic Development Zone and the Municipal Science and Technology Association, the province’s first science and technology association affiliated with a private enterprise was officially established at Pengfei Group. This marks the beginning of a new wave of technological innovation and industrial upgrading at Pengfei Group, while also representing a significant step in extending the reach of the city’s grassroots science and technology associations to private enterprises. It holds groundbreaking, milestone‑level significance in the broader effort to deepen reform within the provincial science and technology association system.

Wang Enze hopes that all employees of Pengfei Technology will, while staying rooted in Pengfei and looking beyond to the entire city, actively inherit and carry forward the spirit of model workers and the spirit of craftsmanship. They should shoulder, from their ordinary posts, the historic mission of leveraging science and technology to enhance enterprise quality and efficiency and to drive transformation and upgrading. In serving the city’s innovation-driven development and the transition from old to new growth drivers, they should demonstrate the value of their lives, forge tomorrow’s brilliance with today’s achievements, and make new and even greater contributions to accelerating the optimization and upgrading of the city’s industrial structure and to realizing high-quality, green development.