Inner Mongolia Xizhuozishan Cement Plant has now multiplied four generations of "Xishui people".
Xizhuozishan Cement Plant has made remarkable achievements. Up to now, the enterprise has achieved high profits for 22 consecutive years, and the realized profits and taxes are equivalent to more than 10 times the amount of investment in the construction of the plant in that year. The most difficult thing is that these achievements have been made by enterprises on the premise of shouldering heavy social burdens. The cement production scale of 1 million tons per year has directly and indirectly solved the livelihood problems of more than 10,000 people, and no one in the enterprise has been laid off. In the past, Xizhuozishan Cement Plant has been restructured into Inner Mongolia Xizhuoz ishan Grassland Cement Group Corporation, which jointly initiated the establishment of Inner Mongolia Xizhuozishan Grassland Cement Co., Ltd. with excellent production and operation assets as the main body and other shareholders. Since then, the enterprise has a bright future as vast as the Ordos grassland. More than
40 years ago, when the area was found to be rich in limestone resources for cement production, cement production technicians from Hebei, Shaanxi, Beijing and other places gathered in this barren land and formally built the Xizhuozishan Cement Plant in 1958. In this endless Gobi Desert, the old generation of "Xishui people" still remember the hardships of entrepreneurship. At that time, Wuhai City did not exist, and the first car owned by Xizhuozishan Cement Plant was the first page of the automobile history of today's Wuhai City. The mission of this vehicle is extraordinary. One of its tasks is to "find" people-to "retrieve" those who try to escape the barren land at that time. Although no one wanted to escape, the story of the car was enough to appreciate the difficult working environment of the cement factory at that time.
Scattered mining areas and factories constitute the present Hainan District of Wuhai City, and each mining area and factory area has become a relatively independent "small town", which is more than ten or twenty kilometers apart. In the "small town" of the cement plant, more than 10,000 people live for the production of cement and eat cement rice. Xizhuozishan Cement Plant is the core of the "small town", and all the "institutions" in the town are born of the cement plant and serve the cement plant. There is no town government in the "small town", only because of the existence of the cement plant, a regional office of Hainan Cement Plant has been set up in the area. Post offices and banks that have been set up one after another were born with the development of cement plants, and several decent restaurants and even singing halls that are rarely open have also been deeply branded with "cement". People come to produce cement, organizations exist because of the production of cement, and even the benefits of small restaurants in the town depend on the income of workers in the cement plant. The livelihood and life of ten thousand people are closely related to cement.
Like the cement they produce, "Xishui people" are simple, reliable and pure, which contains perseverance and the spirit of unity and cooperation, so that they rely on their own hands to build a modern large-scale cement enterprise. For more than 40 years, there has never been a major public security case here, and now it is possible to keep the door open at night. Four generations of "Xishui people" live in harmony, either relatives or neighbors. When guests come to the cement plant, nine out of ten people in the "small town" will think you are unfamiliar. Restaurants in the town are cheap and good, two people can eat a full breakfast for 3 yuan, gruel and side dishes are free. The straightforward words are full of sincerity, and the real enthusiasm makes people feel unpretentious. Although there is no noise of modern metropolis, the quiet "small town" life really makes people enjoy what is peace of mind and relaxation.
This is the unique "cement culture" of "small town". The old state-owned enterprises that grew up under the
planned economy are accustomed to the "big pot" life of "you have it, I have it all", although they are not rich. However, in the face of the oncoming market economy, foreign competition has broken the tranquility and reassurance of the "Xishui people" in the past. Without reform and the establishment of a modern enterprise system that directly faces market competition, the development of enterprises will stop until they are eliminated, and "Xishui people" may really lose the right to survive. Reform has become a firm choice for the leadership of Xizhuozishan Cement Plant to lead the workers to seek survival and development.
Through the hard work of several generations of "Xishui people", it has developed into Xizhuozishan Cement Plant with three rotary kiln production lines and an annual production capacity of 1 million tons of high-grade cement, and has become the No.1 large-scale building materials enterprise in Inner Mongolia. In the process from the transformation of the enterprise in 1998 to the further improvement of the modern enterprise system last year, for the "Xishui people" who have long been accustomed to the step-by-step process, this radical change is not so much a revolution of the traditional enterprise model as a revolution of the unique "cement culture". It brings people not only pressure and uneasiness, but also a breakthrough in traditional consciousness and cultural model.
Factory-style "small town" model makes cement the only leading industry here, far away from the city and limited population determine that the service industry and other tertiary industries here are difficult to form a climate, and the ability of society to undertake employment almost does not exist. The unique historical and geographical environment makes Xizhuozishan Cement Plant bear a heavy burden of running enterprises and society. The cement plant not only runs guest houses, canteens, kindergartens, but also schools and hospitals. Even the water, electricity and heating management, radio and television stations, seismic observatories and fire brigades of the town residents have to be undertaken by enterprises. The relative closeness of the region makes the phenomenon of several generations of the same factory common here. Among the 2700 workers in Xizhuozishan Cement Plant, 50% of them are related to others, and their family and friendship are intertwined. "Cement culture" implies the tenacity and endurance of "Xishui people", and the long-term stable life like a paradise shapes the conservatism and inertia of "Xishui people", just as the cement they produce has good stability. This is the unique social and cultural background faced by Xizhuozishan Cement Plant. The reform of old
state-owned factories is difficult, and the reform of Xizhuozishan Cement Plant is even more difficult, because eating cement rice is the only precious choice for generations of "Xishui people" to survive. The region is relatively independent, the economy is underdeveloped, the concept and consciousness are closed, and the interpersonal relationship is complex. These are the unique factors that hinder the establishment of modern enterprise system in Xizhuozishan Cement Plant, an old state-owned enterprise.
However, "Xishui people" finally achieved a breakthrough in the closure and their own breakthrough, and embarked on a bright road. The success of this breakthrough stems from the tenacity, loyalty and unity of "Xishui people", from the firm reform of the company's leadership, such as Party Secretary, Chairman Jiang Benhua and General Manager Yu Zhongyuan, and from the exquisite ideological and political work of the enterprise and the implementation of the mass line. The "Xishui people" who
have been tempered by hardships and hardships have resolutely given the greatest understanding, support and participation in the face of the radical enterprise reform involving their own interests. In a short period of time, the old state-owned enterprise Xizhuozishan Cement Plant quickly and smoothly transited to Xizhuozishan Grassland Cement Group Corporation, established Xizhuozishan Grassland Cement Co., Ltd., achieved a historic breakthrough in the organizational structure and operating mechanism of the enterprise, and established a modern enterprise system to meet the needs of market economy competition.
Successful Innovation
Today's Prairie Cement Co., Ltd. feels brand new. The regular cement road in front of the factory, the flower beds on both sides of the factory gate, the brand-new electric gate, the perky police and the hardened factory pavement in the fence have completely replaced the mud road, the earth gate and the gray scene in the past. The newly afforested factory area, together with the original large forest in the factory, together with the green on the "small town", constitutes a rare piece of greenery on the Ordos grassland.
Walking into the office area, the first brand that catches our eyes is the Marketing Department of Xizhuozishan Grassland Cement Co., Ltd. Compressing organizations, reducing staff and increasing efficiency are the key points and entry points of the enterprise reform. After the reform, the organization of the joint-stock company has been reduced by 30%, the number of personnel has been reduced by 49%, of which the number of managers has been reduced by 44.8%, the number of middle-level cadres has been reduced by 64% through diversion, stripping and competition, and the number of front-line production personnel has been reduced by 14.65%. Such a substantial reduction of staff, such a comprehensive reorganization of personnel, in the "small town" can be described as earth-shaking. However, among the 1200 employees who were diverted and stripped from the company, none of them appealed or made trouble, and the process of enterprise reform was fast and smooth.
Why did such a big shock not cause waves? There is only one experience: a comprehensive mass line. For the selection of middle-level cadres, the company leaders gave this power to all employees. The assessment team went deep into the branch factories, departments, teams and workers, and listened extensively to the opinions of the workers through democratic appraisal, public opinion polls, democratic recommendation and other procedures. Eventually, all the recommended candidates who concentrated the opinions of the staff and workers were employed by the joint-stock company, and a group of young cadres who were smart and capable, emancipated their minds and trusted by the staff and workers stood out. The reform started with cadres and won the support of the people, thus greatly promoting the reform of the labor and personnel system in the whole factory. How to resettle
a large number of diverted personnel? According to the principle of "diverting more and laying off less, opening canals first and then releasing water", the joint-stock company has successively established five subsidiaries, namely, economic security, environmental sanitation, water, electricity and heating, transportation and mechanical and electrical repair. These companies are independent legal entities, operating independently, assuming sole responsibility for profits and losses, and employing themselves. While absorbing most of the diverted personnel, the five companies also achieved the goal of "earning back the money earned, saving the money saved and cutting off the money flowing away", rather than simply moving the personnel. Yu Zhongyuan, the general manager of the
company, has a simple way to invigorate the five subsidiaries: to make full use of the interest-driven mechanism under the market rules. Previous maintenance tasks were rigidly assigned by the leaders of each workshop, and the maintenance personnel not only lacked enthusiasm, but also could not guarantee the quality of work. After the establishment of the new maintenance branch, the joint-stock company will directly send the approved maintenance funds required by each workshop to the workshop according to the equipment status and quantity of each workshop, and the maintenance branch will earn food from each workshop. In this way, the maintenance workers take the initiative to compete for work in various workshops. Not only that, while completing the enterprise's own maintenance tasks with quality and quantity, the branch factory also took the initiative to work outside. The establishment of the insurance company has eliminated the phenomenon that some employees shoplifted the property of the enterprise in the past, while the environmental sanitation company has taken on the responsibility of cleaning the factory area and beautifying the environment. After the establishment of the transport company, in the case of increased production capacity and coal consumption, not only did it not increase expenditure on vehicles, but it had a surplus of transport capacity, and its legs extended to the outside world of its own enterprises. The establishment of water, electricity and heating companies has changed the old tradition of free water, electricity and heating in the past, not only feeding a group of people, but also innovating the old concept of "Xishui people".
This is the true effect of the old state-owned enterprises through reform, and this is the new face of "Xishui people" today. Through the reform, the output value of Grassland Cement Group increased by only 3.98% last year, while the profits and taxes increased by 150% and 49% respectively. The spiritual outlook of the majority of cadres and workers has undergone a qualitative change, and the dynamic management mechanism of post employment has given them a sense of crisis and a sense of urgency to learn new knowledge and skills. The perfect restriction mechanism gives employees a sense of responsibility, while the incentive mechanism of heavy rewards and penalties promotes the technological progress of enterprises to achieve new results. The
enterprise reform has rejuvenated the youth of "Xishui people", and the company system transformation has added new competitiveness to "Xishui people".
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