Taking Social Responsibility and Writing Youthful Chapters

Du Xiaofang, general manager of Hebei Yongyang Special Steel Group Co., Ltd. has always taken "running an enterprise, supporting a factory staff, living a village economy, and enriching a side of the masses" as the development drive and goal of the enterprise, and has invested a total of 650 million yuan to support the village construction of Du Liugu Village where it is located, with all the streets hardened, and all the water, electricity, gas, and network connected and enjoying subsidies. Starting from 2005, four batches of new residential construction have been carried out successively, and all 1026 households in Du Liugu Village have lived in buildings; more than 100 million yuan has been invested to build kindergartens, schools, nursing homes and hospitals for the village, which ensures high quality of early childhood education, learning and teaching, labour, new housing, old age, medical treatment and support for the weak.

Yongyang invests more than 3 million yuan annually to provide villagers with the New Rural Cooperative, New Rural Insurance and accidental injury insurance, and gives each person a monthly subsistence allowance of 50 yuan and an annual subsidy of 1,000 to 2,000 yuan to each villager over 65 years of age. For villagers who have suffered natural or man-made disasters and have special difficulties in life, the maximum relief will be given to 50,000 yuan, and villagers with major diseases will be reimbursed 30-50 per cent of their medical expenses. For the sons and daughters of Du Liugu Village who get into graduate school and undergraduate school, they will be rewarded 20,000 yuan and 15,000 yuan respectively, and 293 students have been granted financial assistance with the amount of 3.96 million yuan. Yongyang Company has arranged for 2,350 people from Du Liugu Village to work in the company, making more than 80 per cent of the villagers become workers "without leaving home".

Yongyang Company has donated 87.15 million yuan to build wells, roads, schools, streets and natural gas for the neighbouring villages, solving the problems of water, schooling, medical treatment and travelling. Invested 10 million yuan to plant 2,000 acres of economic forests for the villages around the new factory, such as Gao Yao, Lou Li, Hu Jia Gou, Li Meng Wan, etc., encouraging the people to plant melons and fruits in the woodland and helping the people to get rich. Yongyang company for many consecutive years in the teacher's day to yongnian first high school, yongnian second high school, jiehe shop main school, lluvia state middle school, the sixth experimental school teachers for condolences, distribution of condolences 3.22 million yuan. Donate 8 million yuan to support the development of education in yongnian.

During the Xin Guan epidemic, Yongyang donated 6.6 million yuan and 1 million yuan of anti-epidemic materials to fully support the front line of the fight against the epidemic. Actively responding to the call of the provincial government, Yongyang Logistics Centre, which covers an area of 200 acres, is free of charge as a transfer station for anti-epidemic materials, and it goes all out to provide manpower and material resources to help win the battle against the epidemic.