New Year’s Speech by Zhang Jianhua, Chairman of Xinhua Jin Group, in 2025.
The wind and rain are raging, and the road ahead is long and arduous. Living in this world full of uncertainties, we have also gone through the baptism of violent storms. Facing difficulties and challenges, all Xinhua Jin people have united as one and moved forward hand in hand. They have gathered the strength to overcome difficulties through their actions, growing through wind and rain and moving forward by climbing over obstacles.
The changing weather of wind and snow cannot stop us from trekking through mountains and rivers. A great man once wrote, “One should take a broad view of the scenery and things.” From a global and historical perspective, even in the midst of difficulties and challenges, there lies hope, flowing ceaselessly and never ceasing.
In the past year, our efforts have been continuous. We have taken the initiative to seek changes. Leading enterprises have accelerated their efforts to go global, vigorously explored emerging markets, and stabilized the basic situation of international trade. We actively integrate into the new development pattern, promote the integration of domestic and foreign trade, develop new forms of cross-border e-commerce, and constantly explore new boundaries of industrial development. We strive for excellence in optimizing our services, continuously driving tens of thousands of small, medium and micro enterprises to expand overseas markets, enhancing the management and service levels of the medical and health care industry, and earnestly practicing the culture of responsibility.
In the past year, our exploration has been vigorous and continuous. We are accelerating the digital transformation and have been approved to build the Qingdao Cross-border Trade Digital Transformation Empowerment Center. Our self-developed digital technology foreign trade service platform has started testing, and we are riding the “data” to build a solid digital foundation for industrial development. We are accelerating the development of new quality production capacity. The expansion of the 1,000-ton isostatic graphite production line has been completed, and the large-scale production of porous graphite has been initiated. The carbon materials industrial park has become a powerful driving force for moving towards “innovation”.
In the past year, our progress has never ceased. The group was awarded the title of “Chain Leader Enterprise of Modern Trade Industry Chain” by the municipal committee of the Communist Party of China and the municipal government, and was recognized as a high-end brand cultivation enterprise in the service industry of Shandong Province. Xinhua Jin and Jimo Old Wine have been shortlisted for the cultivation of the new generation of “Qingdao Golden Flowers” and the leading benchmark private enterprises in Qingdao for three consecutive years. The group ranked 263rd on the 2024 list of China’s Top 500 private enterprises, 67th on the 2024 list of Shandong’s Top 100 Enterprises, and 11th on the 2024 list of Qingdao’s top 100 enterprises. Its comprehensive strength and brand influence have been continuously enhanced.