As preparations for China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) gather pace, the steel industry is entering a critical stage of transformation and high-quality development. Recently, major steel enterprises including Shougang Group, Ansteel Group, HBIS Group, Hunan Iron & Steel Group, Baogang Group, and Liuzhou Steel Group have intensified educational initiatives on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance. Through Party lectures delivered by senior executives, grassroots investigations, theoretical study sessions, warning education activities, and problem-solving campaigns, these companies are integrating the initiative with reform and development, technological innovation, green transformation, and efficiency improvement to promote sustainable growth across the industry.
At Shougang Group, Party Secretary and Chairman Zhao Minge conducted a special inspection focused on advancing the company’s 15th Five-Year Plan for the new materials sector and promoting education on the correct view of performance. During the visit, Zhao toured Shougang Jitai’an’s centralized control center and wire-drawing workshop, where he reviewed digital transformation initiatives, AI large-model applications, and the production and operation of electrothermal materials.
Zhao emphasized that new materials have become one of China’s strategic emerging industries and that Shougang must seize opportunities arising from industrial restructuring. He called for a “four-wheel drive” development strategy built on capital empowerment, ecosystem collaboration, innovation, and policy support to enhance competitiveness and accelerate growth. He also stressed the importance of leveraging digital intelligence and integrating AI technologies into research, development, and production.According to Zhao, a correct view of performance should ultimately be reflected in solving practical problems and generating tangible business results. He urged management teams to move beyond their comfort zones, adopt market-oriented benchmarks, and transform educational outcomes into concrete achievements in quality improvement and efficiency enhancement.
Ansteel Group further advanced its educational campaign through a Party-building leadership meeting and a dedicated education promotion conference. Tan Chengxu, Party Secretary and Chairman of Ansteel Group, delivered a special Party lecture entitled “Remember the Entrustment, Advance with Gratitude, Establish and Practice a Correct View of Performance, and Contribute More to Chinese Modernization Through Practical Achievements.”
The lecture focused on three fundamental questions: For whom should achievements be pursued? What kind of achievements should be pursued? And by what means should achievements be achieved?Tan emphasized that benefiting the people represents the highest achievement and that high-quality development must become a central component of leadership performance evaluation. He stressed that genuine accomplishments can only be achieved through hard work and practical action.
The conference called for integrating the principles of the correct view of performance into workplace safety, reform and development, technological innovation, and cost-reduction initiatives, ensuring that educational outcomes translate into measurable progress in enterprise development.
HBIS Group’s Party Committee Theoretical Learning Center Group recently held a special study seminar focused on strengthening the competitiveness of the steel business and promoting high-quality development.HBIS Chairman Liu Jian stated that a correct view of performance serves as a value-based guide for high-quality development and that the ability to promote sustainable growth is the key criterion for evaluating leadership performance.
The company plans to further improve its “One Person, One Performance Sheet” management system, ensuring accountability at every level and translating educational achievements into stronger business performance and enhanced competitiveness.HBIS also aims to draw on the successful experience of the HBIS Serbia project to strengthen employees’ sense of mission and responsibility while achieving further progress in cost reduction, efficiency improvement, green transformation, and industrial upgrading.
Hunan Iron & Steel Group has adopted an integrated approach that combines learning, problem identification, and corrective action. The initiative covers all 748 grassroots Party organizations across the company.Through Party meetings, themed activities, and educational programs, employees are identifying operational challenges and developing rectification plans focused on green transformation, technological innovation, and international development.The company stated that it will continue strengthening political leadership and implementing practical measures to accelerate low-carbon development, innovation-driven growth, and international expansion, supporting its goal of becoming a world-class steel enterprise.
Baogang Group recently held a warning education conference featuring analyses of typical negative cases related to performance evaluation and leadership conduct.Meng Fanying, Party Secretary and Chairwoman of Baogang Group, noted that distorted views of performance can undermine high-quality development, harm employee interests, and damage a healthy corporate culture.She urged Party members and managers to draw lessons from these cases, adhere to the principles of serving the public interest, benefiting employees, making scientific decisions, and pursuing practical results through hard work. Educational achievements, she stressed, should ultimately be reflected in stronger business performance and sustainable development.
Liuzhou Steel Group has closely integrated educational activities with business operations. Chairman Li Bin recently led a team to Guangxi Steel and Alloy Company to review production operations, green development initiatives, key projects, and employee welfare programs.Li emphasized that the correct view of performance should be transformed into concrete actions that support the company’s efforts to achieve its mid-year and annual targets. He called for stronger collaboration, green development, lean management, and accelerated project implementation.At the same time, the company will continue advancing environmental protection initiatives, carbon-reduction programs, and workplace safety management while improving living conditions and support services for employees.
Industry observers note that the steel sector is currently navigating a period of structural adjustment, green and low-carbon transformation, and strategic planning for the 15th Five-Year Plan period. By linking education on the correct view of performance with efforts to address operational challenges, advance industrial upgrading, and improve employee well-being, leading steel enterprises are promoting a culture that values tangible results and practical action.
As these educational initiatives continue to deepen, steel companies are expected to build stronger momentum for high-end, intelligent, and green development, laying a solid foundation for a successful start to the 15th Five-Year Plan period and the long-term high-quality growth of China’s steel industry.
Source: SteelNet
