The private enterprise Hansheng Technology takes Party building as the core of its corporate culture, making the Party organization the backbone of the enterprise.

This is a typical privately-owned high-tech manufacturing enterprise, yet one feels a strong atmosphere of Party building.

This is a "number one in Asia, number two globally" coaxial cable production and R&D base, and also a landmark sample of Party building work in the new economy field.

It is Zhuhai Hansheng Technology Co., Ltd., established in 1985, whose main products are radio frequency coaxial cables used in mobile communication systems and cable television systems.

On August 8, after visiting and investigating Hansheng's Party building work, Tang Fangyu, deputy director of the Secretariat of the Central Leading Group for Party Building Work, gave high praise: "This is my third time to Hansheng, and each time is exciting."

How to "do" and "what to do" in Party building work for non-public enterprises is a topic that many non-public enterprises are exploring. For 28 years, Hansheng has used the Party committee as the core and leader of the company, using Party building to drive the company's production and innovation, making the Party organization the backbone of the enterprise, and Party members the leaders of the enterprise. The Party committee provides support and has created the "Hansheng miracle" of Party building and economic work.

□Lin Yongjun Chen Wenqing

Taking Party building as the core, forging the soul of the enterprise

Regarding Party building work, Shou Weichun, founder, chairman, and general manager of Hansheng, has a definition: "Party building work is the core of Hansheng's corporate culture, the soul of Hansheng, and the foundation of its development."

"Raise the bright red Party flag high at Hansheng." When it was first established, Hansheng only had more than 10 people and 3 Party members, but it immediately established a Party group and put forward a resounding slogan.

"Mature one, develop one." In the 28 years since its establishment, Hansheng's Party member ranks have continuously grown and now number nearly 160. Hansheng has always consciously upheld the core leadership of the Party organization over the enterprise. In the leadership team, the chairman and general manager serve as the Party secretary, and the six Party committee members are responsible for managing the company's production, market, technology, personnel, and trade union work. All 21 middle and high-level managers are Party members; among the 28 business supervisors and the third echelon, Party members also account for more than 90%. In Hansheng, the Party organization is the backbone of the company.

All major issues involving the appointment, assessment, education, training, and supervision of cadres must be discussed and studied by the Party committee meeting or the expanded Party committee meeting. Issues such as the promotion, reward and punishment, and transfer of cadres are also mainly discussed by the company's Party committee, and the opinions of the masses are sought through mass forums and public announcements.

"Focus on Party building around the economy, and promote development by doing Party building well." In Hansheng, Party building and enterprise development are integrated. In order to make Party building work keep pace with the times and better meet the requirements of establishing a modern enterprise system, Hansheng has involved the Party organization in the entire production and operation process, established exemplary Party member employees, and promoted the combination of Party building work and production and operation.

In March this year, the Hansheng Party committee responded to the Party's call and organized all members to carry out Learn from Lei Feng activities. In July, the month was designated as the "Disciplinary Education Month" for Party member cadres, with the Party secretary taking the lead in conducting self-examination activities, and seizing the opportunity to conduct audit work in conjunction with the rectification activities.

In this regard, Wang Zhouyang, deputy director of the Party Building Office of the Hubei Provincial Committee Organization Department, praised Hansheng's Party building organizational life as being well-done and more solid than that of inland enterprises.

Promoting talent with Party building, cultivating an elite team

In March 2008, Hansheng received a large foreign order with a tight deadline, large quantity, and high requirements. Based on the company's production capacity at that time, it was almost impossible to complete.

Orders are commands. To this end, members of Hansheng's various Party branches rushed to the company to fight for it, working continuously for several days and nights. When tired, they would take turns taking a nap before continuing. Without orders or greetings, other cadres from the company came, and workers from other machines also came. In the end, the task was completed on time.

What created this team of talents?

Shou Weichun said that Hansheng's Party committee has always believed that the company's most valuable resource is people. In order to build a good team of talents, Hansheng has made great efforts over the years by strengthening ideological education and skills training.

At Hansheng, the Party committee and the trade union have continuously held Party lesson study classes, inviting provincial and municipal leaders, well-known professors, and model figures to give lectures, and sending cadres to Yan'an Cadre College, revolutionary sites, Party schools, and advanced units for study.

At the same time, Hansheng also pays attention to exercising the work abilities of Party member employees in practice, formulating a sound long-term training mechanism, focusing on training, and even spending a lot of money to send Party member backbones to advanced countries such as Europe and the United States for further studies. Today, most Party members have become business backbones or taken on leadership positions.

In addition, Hansheng's Party committee also cooperates with colleges and universities in Zhuhai to run a business administration junior college class, inviting teachers to give classes to registered employees every week. After 3 years of hard work, all the students of the junior college class graduated successfully.

Hou Lanying, manager of the technical department, was originally a high school-educated girl working part-time. After years of training by the Party organization and diligent self-study, she has now obtained a master's degree from a foreign university and is the youngest expert in the national cable industry standardization committee, known as "Hou Standard" in the industry.

"Cultivate backbones into Party members, and forge Party members into exemplary models." At Hansheng, this is not just a slogan, but also the ultimate goal of Hansheng's Party building.

Using Party building to guide employees, constructing corporate culture

"An enterprise without cultural nourishment is like a body without a soul. Corporate culture is also a productive force." Corporate culture is something Shou Weichun has always emphasized.

In the opinion of the general manager of Hansheng Company, the first thing to build corporate culture is to "listen to the Party," that is, red culture. In the company, ordinary employees have their own understanding of this: to follow the rise of the motherland and devote themselves to national rejuvenation.

Integrating the corporate philosophy into the national concept of national rejuvenation, this has created the concept of Hansheng culture.

Slogans such as “Work with all our might, strive to be the best, build Chinese-style socialism quickly, well, economically, and efficiently,” and “Revitalize China’s national industry and catch up with the world’s advanced level” were everywhere. The phrase, “If you don’t contribute, I don’t contribute, who will contribute? If you take, I take, from whom do we take?” particularly resonated with Wang Yang, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Party Secretary of the province, during his 2009 inspection. He commented, “This is so well written; the people of the Special Economic Zone should have this spirit.”

Guided by the concept of red culture, Hansheng Company also carries out various cultural activities with unique characteristics.

The Hansheng Art Troupe, winner of international awards, has always been a popular topic of conversation, but this is only the tip of the iceberg of Hansheng Company’s cultural construction. At Hansheng, a wealth of leisure cultural activities add color to employees’ lives.

Group birthday parties, matchmaking events, group weddings, mountain climbing, tourism… Hansheng Company’s Party Committee organizes a series of extracurricular cultural activities every year to improve employee quality and enhance the cohesion of the Party organization. This summer, the company’s Party, Trade Union, and League jointly organized a swimming summer camp, ballroom dance training, and embroidery competition, among other activities. In May of this year, the Hansheng version of ‘If You Are the One’ was successfully held, with 12 young couples holding hands and embarking on a romantic eight-day trip to Bali.

The Hansheng Party Committee also organizes cadres to go abroad for inspections based on the company’s production situation, combining inspections with learning to make it a ‘learning journey.’

Every July, the company sends newly hired university graduates, cadres, and key employees to military camps for rigorous military training to cultivate a spirit of perseverance and willpower.

Led by Party members, company employees have repeatedly participated in fundraising activities organized by the company’s Party Committee for the people in the disaster areas of the Southwest drought and the Wenchuan earthquake.

In 2006, the Hansheng Party Committee was awarded the title of “National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization” by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee. In 2007, Hansheng was named a national model enterprise with harmonious labor relations by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.

Different Party building creates different cultures, and different cultures cultivate different employees. Vodafone UK—the world’s largest mobile communications operator—commented on Hansheng during a meeting in Beijing: “This company is different; we are deeply moved by the spirit and temperament of its employees!”

Excerpt from August 23, 2012, Southern Daily