“Quality is the life for both an enterprise and its staff”. On March 3, Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group organized the 21^st"Quality Month" activity. Managers from the R&D Department, Production Department, Quality Assessment Department and Operation Department attended the meeting to work out a plan to improve quality.
With the theme of “seeking progress all the time and safeguarding all human beings”, this activity publicized the quality laws and regulations among the staff, and worked out a scheme for implementing the regulations and quality assessment measures. According to the plan, YRPG follows up the 20th "Quality Month" and put up quality improvement proposals from 9 aspects such as standard research, solving technical problems, labor competition, supplier management and GMP verification.
Liang Yuantai, YRPG’s Manager Assistant, pointed out at the meeting that quality and innovation were essential for an enterprise to survive global financial crisis. "Quality Month" plays a significant role in YRPG. The activity is essential for nurturing YRPG’s internal core competition and shaping YRPG’s quality culture and innovation brands.
Liang Yuantai required that all relevant departments shall unify their thoughts, understanding and actions and make efforts in "Four Changes" (Changes in mentality, awareness, actions and convention) to make medicines produced by YRPG safe and widely known. Besides, he also required YRPG to strengthen their employees' disciplines and quality training and adopted the quality responsibility system to implement GMP and SOP strictly. YRPG should also keep self-check and self-correction to ensure a successful Quality Month.
YRPG also formulated their own "Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces" on quality, which represented their standards for quality management. This can help employees to set up correct values and outlook on life and form a good working ethos.
YRPG has been holding two "Quality Month" activities each year over the past 10 years. The idea of "Relentless pursuit of the best" and "Quality comes from production and design, not test" have rooted in every employee's mind and helped them improve quality management.