Recently, the Central Spiritual Civilization ConstructionSteering Committee, the Office of Spiritual Civilization Construction Steering Committee, the Municipal Committee and the Municipal Government have commended advanced units for mass spiritual civilization development over the state and Taizhou in succession. Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group (YRPG) was granted the titles of "National Spiritual Civilization Construction Advanced Unit" by the Office of Spiritual Civilization Construction Steering Committee and "Example of Taizhou Civilized Unit" by the Municipal Committee and the Municipal Government.
So far, this has been another supreme honor for YRPG. It is an external reflection of coordinated developments among material, political and spiritual civilization. It is supreme award for a unit and it is also the result of all leaders' and employees' joint efforts.
Over the years, YRPG has been attaching great importance to spiritual civilization construction, and address themselves to the problem of both material and spiritual civilization without any letup. YRPG still regards spiritual civilization construction as a strategic target of the YRPG's development and an important part of YRPG's management. A sound and effective system has been being established step by step, which will promote YRPG's good and fast development. Firstly, YRPG regards the spiritual civilizationconstruction as an effective carrier for improving employees' quality and YRPG's civilization level. Spiritual civilization construction runs through YRPG's production and operation processes. Employees' training about culture, behaviors and ideas are also enhanced. YRPG carries out various professional training and competition activities, which focus on learning knowledge, technologies and skills. All these have nurtured many four-have employees(having ideas, having virtue, having culture and having discipline) who adapt to YRPG's development. Secondly, YRPG's development is guided by its culture. This provides mental strength. In addition, YRPG focuses on the concept of "benefiting people with high quality, and developing with innovation" and advocates YRPG'svalue of "industry serving the country and safeguarding all human beings" actively. This has established unique enterprise culture gradually and set up favorable enterprise image. Thirdly, YRPG undertakes social responsibilities positively to make all employees enjoy development. Over the past years, YRPG has played a leading role in various kinds of humanitarian relief activities such as relieving disaster, supporting the poor and army and assisting impoverished students. YRPG has accumulatively donated money and articles with a value of RMB 280,000,000 to the society since its establishment.
With further development of spiritual civilization construction, YRPG has maintained a rapid pace of development for many years. Since 1996, its comprehensive economic benefit has always ranked the first among Jiangsu pharmaceutical enterprises. Since 1997, it has entered into top five in national pharmaceutical industry and has realized win-win situation between economic and social benefits for over consecutive 10 years. YRPG has entered into "China's Largest Top 500 Enterprises" and "National Top 500 Tax-Paying Enterprises" successively. It also has won the honors of "National May Day Labor Award", "National Exemplary Employees' Family" and "National Contract-Observing and Creditworthy Enterprise". YRPG has become an example in the national, provincial and municipal pharmaceutical industry. It has played an exemplary role in the flourishing development of spiritual civilization construction.
The medal of "National Spiritual Civilization Construction Advanced Unit" is an affirmation for YRPG's hard work and efforts of many years. It is an honor, a kind of strength, a kind of pressure even a responsibility and a pursuit. It will encourage YRPG to maintain vitality to develop spiritual civilization construction activities and show the advancement, model and guidance of spiritual civilization construction. It will provide powerful mental strength for YRPG's development and make great contributions to pushing YRPG to be an internationally first-rate pharmaceutical enterprise.