The Daqing Zhonglan Petrochemical Co arranged an eight-month contest for its workers, with 908 people taking part. The idea is to improve their skills and further improve safe production of devices and facilities at full capacity. The company came up with 28 contest areas in line with production needs, with nine production and support units taking part. To prepare for the contests, the company held training sessions, with 15,927 people taking part.
The contests helped improve workers’ operational skills and ensure safe and reliable operations, along with cutting production costs. Company’s statistics show the amount of raw materials processed for the year at more than 1.3 million tons, an increase of 4.91 percent from the previous year. The output of light oil increased 1.75 percentage points and processing losses down 0.11 percentage points, while overall energy consumption was cut 8.19 kg/ton of standard oil refined. This indicates that all major economic indices reached their best level ever.