Ulupure's 2017 Mid-Year Work Summary Meeting Concluded Successfully

It's that time of year again for year-end reviews. Ulupure's 2017 first-half review was conducted in three phases.

The first phase was employee reviews, from early July to July 23rd. These were conducted by department, chaired by department heads, and involved employee self-presentations followed by comments from department supervisors and managers.

The second phase was for reviews by supervisors and above, held separately at the factory and operations offices. These reviews involved self-presentations, comments from department heads, comments from other departments, and comments from supervising leaders. On the afternoon of the 24th, the factory review meeting was chaired by Deputy General Manager Lu Gang. Supervisors/managers from production, R&D, quality control, supply, marketing, finance, and warehousing—Ling Tongqiang, Huang Zheng, Feng Lei, He Zongli, Li Songbai, Song Jinfeng, and Xie Chengdi—presented their work for the first half of the year. Department heads provided detailed comments, other department heads offered opinions and suggestions, and finally, supervising leaders provided comments. On the afternoon of the 26th, the operations office review meeting was chaired by Deputy General Manager Dai Xiyan. Zhang Xiaoping, Zhao Liping, Liu Hui, Wang Junmei, Lin Bo, and Wang Jie from the sales team; Ye Na, manager of the customer service department; and Yu Haiying, manager of the administration and human resources center, gave summaries. Leaders at each level provided corresponding comments.

The third phase was the senior management summary. This was held throughout the day on the 27th in the factory's conference room, chaired by Chairman and General Manager Zhan Wei. Xie Jiacheng, Liu Xianfu, Fang Jun, Song Manli, Liu Jiyong, Yang Haomin, Tang Xinhua, Wang Chenhong, Li Yesheng, Zhu Xiong, Dai Xiyan, and Lu Gang gave detailed presentations on the work of their respective departments. General Manager Zhan Wei listened attentively, asking questions until each middle-level and senior manager's summary was fully heard. General Manager Zhan Wei offered new perspectives, new ideas, and new solutions regarding the departments' summaries on topics such as technological innovation efforts, product upgrade cycles, procurement of key components, the relationship between marginal cost and benefit of human resources, and the formulation of pricing systems for various models. Meanwhile, General Manager Zhan expressed satisfaction with the company's overall management improvement and praised the rapid enhancement of the cadres' forward-thinking and systematic thinking abilities. He affirmed the achievements of the first half of the year and put forward rectification requirements for existing shortcomings and delays in certain areas.

The month-long mid-year summary work concluded successfully.

This summary work had three characteristics: First, it did not conceal mistakes, directly addressing problems and crux of the issues, and confronting the confusion and powerlessness in the work; second, the peer review and evaluation were unconventional and free of personal emotions, focusing on objective problems, presenting facts and reasoning to help identify errors or process defects in the work; third, the summary reports were beautifully formatted, with most PPTs being of high quality.

Through the in-depth analysis of the gains and losses of the first half of the year by all employees, serious self-examination and correction, and targeted peer review and evaluation, communication and exchange between positions, departments, and superiors and subordinates were promoted, resolving difficult issues and subjective misunderstandings in the work process. It unified thinking, consolidated strength, and fully charged up for the successful completion of the goals and tasks in the second half of the year. (Text/Photo: Zhang Ling)