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ISSUE 114

November 30th, 2012

To keep employees abreast of the latest technical innovation philosophy and methodology

and to make the organizat ion m o r e c a p a b l e o f d e v e l o p i n g new technology, Bluestar held a company-wide videoconference on November 10. The chief advisor of the Research & Development & Marketing Union, Zhou Hui delivered a lec ture on the pr inc ip les o f enterprise innovation based on core competitiveness to 600 participants including the leadership of Bluestar and subsidiaries, and employees f r o m d e p a r t m e n t s i n c l u d i n g technology, production, planning, finance and marketing.

Executive VP of Bluestar Zhang Lijun delivered a wrap-up speech, noting that in-house innovation is the fountainhead of development and also the key to business sustainability. The new product development efforts at Bluestar must be market-oriented, and an in-house R&D team must be fostered. The policy must be revised to establish and refine the remuneration

Bluestar training presents principles of enterprise innovation based on core competitiveness

Elkem senior executives visit Xinghuo Plant

management and incentive system for R&D personnel and to enable career paths that allow them to move from department to department. These efforts are directed toward establishing a technology development platform that supports the business sustainability of Bluestar within the next three years.

Xi Jinmin

Du Yanqing

Recently, senior executives of Elkem were invited to Jiangxi Xinghuo Organic Silicone Plant (Xinghuo Plant) for a field survey.

Management and technical experts of Elkem also came to help Xinghou people improve the management of safety and critical processes and enhance the overall capabilities and market competitiveness.

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Recently, 70 young managers from Bluestar attended the first training session on ERP management knowledge.

Focusing on SAP supply chain integration, in-house ERP specialists helped trainees develop a deeper understanding of costing, budgeting, sales forecasting, operational planning and the business process from execution to delivery. The lecturers also talked about how to make reasonable use of information systems to support production operations, considering the actual ERP landscape of Bluestar.

Executive VP of Bluestar Zhang Lijun attended the training session and pointed out that implementation of SAP-ERP can help improve the management performance and core competitiveness of Bluestar. Zhang encouraged the trainees to know more about the management rationale behind SAP-ERP and make flexible use in jobs to facilitate rollout and an optimal application of ERP.

It is said that Bluestar will hold ad-hoc lectures on production planning and execution, cost center planning and budget, cost consolidation and allocation, profitability analysis and profit center accounting in light of the needs of the organizational.

Bluestar holds ERP management training

Wang Taotao

Beijing Bluestar receives Argentine and Indian visitors

Executive president of Aditya Birla Chemicals Company Mr. Jhanwar and related personnel

from Kioshi Compresion recently came to Beijing Bluestar to learn personally about the electrolytic tank production line and to explore the possibilities of deeper cooperation.

Zhang Li, Wang Danhao

Xinghuo Plant conducts continuous improvement

Xinghuo Plant has reaped good results from its CI efforts. A task force for improvement of boiler automation and another for boiler thermal efficiency have been established by the metering control center and the power plant, respectively, resulting in remarkable improvements of boiler efficiency with extra profits about 5 million Yuan per year. The picture shows the head of the two task forces discussing a plan for efficiency improvement.

Xiao Du

The 2012 Friendship Cup basketball tournament involving

some colleges and universities, companies and research

institutes in Chaoyang District of Beijing has been underway

for more than a month, with Bluestar basketball team topping

the chart with an all-win record for the time being. Zhu Dong.

Xinghuo Plant’s trade union and the Communist Youth League Committee involved young CYL employees and female employees in a field trip to a local orange orchard during the weekend for team building. Lu Yuanlin.

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Noise and tranquility

I have become obsessed with the songs of Enya Brennan, an Irish songbird, who always brings me tranquility in this noisy world with her soft and

touching intonation.

Walking past roadside stores, I was overwhelmed by successive waves of high-pitched rock & roll, suddenly driven out of a peaceful state of mind. “Noisy,” I hurried off with a sigh. It seems that hullabaloo and tranquility are two individuals that can never come together, but I seem to have gradually found a medium that allows them to coexist.

On one side of the river is a hustling and bustling mall, while on the other side lies a library hidden in woods, and the two exist in harmony. Book lovers can get immersed in the books in air-conditioned rooms, while partiers can walk past different stores in the mall, amid the electrifying rock and roll. Their next stop might be either their cozy homes or the different views right across the river. Right here, noise coexists with tranquility in harmony and without mutual interference.

Some people love noise, others love tranquility. Some people love the roaring water, while others love quiet mountains. What I love is everything in the world.

I love both enjoying the different passion in the noisy world and experiencing the beauty of mountain forest in a tranquil environment. I love both feeling the intensity of surging water and appreciating the solidity of tranquility amid the mountains.

Writers often write in their own world, free from interference, when they are not famous, but all would change if they gained fame. Newshounds and frenetic fans would mess their lives up, bringing them endless noise. Many talented writers are therefore buried under thick layers of dust and hullabaloo.

Like water and oil, how can noise coexist with tranquility? There are many occasions where we should understand that two seemingly opposite things simply lack a suitable medium.

We should understand that throughout our lives what we need to overcome is not the paradoxical existence of things like noise and tranquility, but ourselves, because our attitude toward things around us depends upon our mindset. If we are unfortunately defeated, it is just because we are not strong enough.

Coexistence of noise and tranqui l i ty is not impossible.

Song Tongtong, a child of Nantong Xingchen employee

4BlueStar Communication Chinese Editor: Jiang Bo E-mail: jiangbo@bluestar.chemchina.com Tel:+86-10-61958815 English Editor: Xu Lili

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