Announcement: Rizhao Steel Awarded Multiple Honors Including 2024 "Economic Development Meritorious Enterprise" in Rizhao City

On February 5, 2025, the highly anticipated Citywide Project Enhancement Year and High-Quality Enterprise Development Conference was grandly convened. Rizhao Steel distinguished itself by securing four prestigious honors: "Economic Development Meritorious Enterprise," "Outstanding Contribution Enterprise for the 'Project Breakthrough Year'," "Leading Manufacturing Enterprise," and "Leading Foreign Trade Enterprise," solidifying its pivotal role in Rizhao City's economic development landscape. 

**Review of 2024 Achievements:** 

1. **Outstanding Production and Operation Indicators:** 

Annual steel output reached 18.3 million tons, with a total output value of 167.25 billion yuan. The company contributed 5.9 billion yuan in taxes and completed 3.8 billion yuan in fixed-asset investments, injecting robust momentum into local economic growth. 

2. **Equipment and Technological Advancements:** 

Commissioned five 3,000-cubic-meter blast furnaces and three 300-ton converters, achieving industry-leading production metrics. Recognized with the "Qilu Champion Furnace" honor. 

3. **Transformation Milestones:** 

- Its full-process smart factory industrial digital transformation project was listed among Shandong Province's 2024 Key Digital Industry Initiatives. 

- Successfully operationalized the industry's largest, most comprehensive, and highest-integration Iron Zone Intelligent Centralized Control Center. 

- Pioneered intelligent, unmanned rail transport for steel coils. 

- Passed national acceptance for its electronic voucher accounting data standardization pilot, leading industry-wide intelligent transformation. 

4. **Scientific Breakthroughs:** 

- "R&D and Application Demonstration of Green High-Efficiency Manufacturing Technology for Thin Wide-Steel Strips" won the Second Prize of Shandong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, the sole recipient from Rizhao City. 

- "Rizhao Steel Zinc-Kiln Direct Reduction Technology" secured the First Prize of Shandong Energy Conservation & Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award and Second Prize of Shandong Circular Economy Science and Technology Award. 

- Established a joint research center with Academician Mao Xinping and the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) to enhance innovation capabilities. 

5. **Market Leadership:** 

- Global market share leader in container weathering steel. 

- 1.0mm patterned steel plate filled a domestic gap, capturing 100% market share. 

- Automotive steel sales exceeded 1.2 million tons, including nearly 1 million tons of ESP automotive steel (low-carbon, high-strength, high-precision, customizable), achieving 17% market penetration. 

6. **Corporate Culture Recognition:** 

Awarded honors including National-level Green Factory, Environmental Performance Grade A Enterprise, China Excellence Steel Enterprise Brand, and National Quality Benchmark. Jinghua Rigang (Rizhao) Information Technology Co., Ltd. earned "High-Tech Enterprise" certification and attained CMMI Level 3 accreditation, demonstrating international-standard IT maturity. 

**2025 Outlook:** 

Rizhao Steel enters 2025 with unwavering resolve to fully implement the new development philosophy. Committed to advancing digital-green integrated development and industrial revitalization, the company strides confidently toward its vision of becoming a world-class steel enterprise.