The 2016 Shanghai Mayor's Quality Award Ceremony was held this morning (25th), and Xie Jihua, General Manager of Shanghai Electric Power Plant Equipment Co. and Shanghai Yangpu Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Center Co. and Tao Hailong, Deputy General Manager of Shanghai Automotive Group Corporation Passenger Vehicle Branch, received the Mayor's Quality Award. Ying Yong, deputy secretary of municipal party committee and mayor, presented the award to the winning organizations and individuals and made a speech. Deputy Mayor Xu Kunlin read out the list of award winners and introduced the basic information.

Ying Yong pointed out that quality development is related to the future of the city and people's lives, and excellent cities need excellent quality. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to promote the transformation of China's manufacturing to China's creation, China's speed to China's quality, and China's products to China's brand. The Central Committee of the Party and the State Council have issued the Guidance on Launching Quality Improvement Action. In the face of the new situation, new requirements and new tasks, we should firmly establish the awareness of quality first, closely link up with the construction of a scientific and technological innovation center with global influence and a pilot free trade zone, and accelerate the construction of a quality highland with international competitiveness. We should pay more attention to improve the quality of supply, deepen the supply-side structural reform, carry out quality promotion action, promote the real economy to upgrade its level, and create Shanghai quality and Chinese brand; we should pay more attention to deepen the reform of quality supervision, establish and perfect the institutional mechanism to promote quality development, and constantly improve the quality supervision service level to meet the requirements of market economy and innovation and development; we should pay more attention to optimize the quality development environment, and improve the quality of the development of the market economy. Quality development policy system, standard system and safety system, vigorously promote the spirit of artisanship, let value quality, create quality become deeply rooted social fashion. Quality development is a significant, arduous task of systemic engineering and long-term project. We should, in accordance with General Secretary Xi Jinping's request to Shanghai to continue to be the national reform and opening-up pioneer, the pioneer of innovation and development, in-depth implementation of quality strategy, and constantly improve the level of quality development, in order to achieve a higher quality, more efficient, more equitable and more sustainable development to make new efforts.

Successive municipal Party committees and municipal governments have attached great importance to quality work, the city's overall quality level has been significantly improved, and the city has received A grade in the national quality work assessment for three consecutive years, and the manufacturing quality competitiveness index has ranked first in the country for eight consecutive years.

Ying Yong presented the award to Mr. Xie Jihua, General Manager of Shanghai Yangpu Science and Technology Innovation Center Co.

Ying Yong awarded the prize to Tao Hailong, Deputy General Manager of SAIC Motor Passenger Vehicle Company.

The Shanghai Electric Power Station Equipment Co., Ltd. Shanghai Generator Plant, which was awarded the Mayor's Quality Award, is mainly engaged in the research and development, manufacturing and service of complete sets of large generators, and has established a "three-in-one" quality improvement mode of all-round improvement, all-round problem tracing and all-round process perspective, and has become one of the largest suppliers of power generation equipment in the world. Xie Jihua, General Manager of Shanghai Yangpu Science and Technology Innovation Center Co., Ltd. insists on exerting the leading role of performance excellence standards in quality improvement, establishing and improving the management system and quality management mode, and the park under his management has become the largest technology enterprise incubator in Shanghai with the largest assets and the most complete service functions. Tao Hailong, Deputy General Manager of SAIC Motor's Passenger Vehicle Division, has made outstanding contributions to the improvement of product quality and the construction of a lean production system for its own brands by leading the company's manufacturing and quality assurance teams with his persistent pursuit of excellent quality.

(The photo shows Ying Yong presenting the award to the representative of Shanghai Electric Power Generation Equipment Co.

(Source: Shanghai Watch)