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ISSUE 79

March 15th, 2011

Ren Jianxin, Robert Lu Visited Guangzhou Research Institute

Office of Guangzhou Research Institute

February 23, ChemChina General Manager Ren Jianxin and Bluestar General Manager Robert Lu visited Guangzhou Research Institute of Synthetic Materials for a field survey. Ren gave important

guidance on how the institute should make full use of its professional advantage in anti-aging research and become the R&D center of ChemChina in South China: Actively bring in global best practices and draw up a good strategic development plan. Meanwhile, fine management practices should be strengthened and talented personnel drew together to create a first-rate team and corporate culture, accelerating economic development and actively providing technical service and support to relevant ChemChina companies.

Bluestar Holds a Training Seminar forImplementers of HR Informatization Project

Between February 28 and March 5, a training seminar for implementers of ChemChina HR informatization project (Beijing

section) was held at Chaoyang Community College of Beijing. Participants are HR officers and 42 trainees from 11 subsidiaries including Lehigh Engineering, Zhonghao Chenguang Research Institute of Chemical Industry, Changsha Design and Research Institute, Guangzhou Research Institute of Synthetic Materials, Taiyuan Chemical, China Bluestar International Chemical and Malan Company. This training was delivered by IBM consultants and key users of Bluestar, who explained the business processes of organization, personnel, attendance and pay modules for the first phase of the project, demonstrated hands-on practice and provided one-on-one tutoring based on the specific HR management practices of each participating subsidiaries. Bluestar HR Director John James attended the opening ceremony, introducing the overall development of HR informatization and career planning project of ChemChina. Currently, HR informatization project team has held five training sessions in Lanzhou, Shenyang, Nantong, Shandong and Beijing for 120 HR officers and business personnel from 31 Bluestar companies implementing the projects. The smooth promotion of the training program not only laid a solid foundation for the next stage of the project but also helped standardize the HR management process, accelerated knowledge transfer and steadily raised HR management performance across the board.

Bluestar Holds the First TrainingSeminar for Strategic Marketing

Bluestar Sales Dept.

Between February 18 and 22, Bluestar's first training seminar for strategic marketing

was held in Beijing. Following ChemChina's call to learn from the world's best management practices, this training seminar was delivered by McKinsey experts and attended by 54 sales managers. Bluestar General Manager Robert Lu, COO Mark and McKinsey Global Director and Partner Thomas Luedi attended the opening ceremony

at the night of February 18. Robert Lu required all trainees to take this great opportunity to learn, and use the acquired knowledge for marketing improvement in respective companies. This training seminar consisted of four modules, namely, strategic marketing, customer and product mix management, key account management and sales team management. The 54 trainees came from Bluestar, specialized Bluestar companies and directly-aff i l iated subsidiaries, most of whom are sales managers and key salespersons. General managers from some companies also attended this training seminar.

Bluestar HR Dept

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Shenyang Chemical's Newly Developed Paste Resin Becomes

the First of Its Kind in China

Zou Decheng

Recen t l y, Shenyang Chemica l ' s sc ien t i f i c payo f f "industrialization of PVC paste resin for medical gloves" earned the company the first prize for scientific and technological achievement in Shenyang from Shenyang Municipal Bureau of Science and Technology. Shenyang Chemical started developing PVC paste resin specifically for medical-grade gloves in 2006 and after four years of innovation successfully developed a new type of medical glove-special paste resin, the first of its kind in the country, industrialized it and brought it into the domestic high-end market. The successful development and industrialization of this new product changed the complete dependence upon import of such product, brought development for the industry with remarkable social benefits.

BDA East Section's Water Recycling Works Starts Supplying Water

Water Treatment Dept.

February 17, the first phase of water recycling works in east section of Beijing Economic-Technological

Development Area (BDA) bui l t by Bei j ing Bluestar Environmental Engineering Ltd started supplying water. 6,000 tons of high-quality recycled water had been supplied to the G8 line of BOE, a LCD panel maker, as at the reporting date of March 3. This 80.47 million Yuan project has the capacity of 20,000 t/day, employing MF+RO dual membrane method to process the treated water from Jingcheng Reclaimed Water Co., Ltd into high-quality recycled water and providing the same to the BOE G8 project under construction in place of running water for water-saving purposes. The project division was set up in April 2010 and entered the construction site two months later. This project was recognized by all stakeholders as a high-quality one and recommended by the 6th Station of Beijing Quality Supervision Office as a candidate for Municipal Works Great Wall Award along with the general contractor Boda Jingkai Construction Ltd. When the project entered the stage of commissioning, the project division and commissioning personnel worked day and night to complete the commissioning stage within merely five days, setting a new record of key project commissioning in the corporate history of Bluestar. Current ly, the water works are supplying water continuously to the G8 line of BOE.

Recently, Malan employees visited Chemical Industry Museum of China.

Dong Tongtang

On the morning of March 7th, female employees of Jinan Yuxing Chemical engaged in a variety of recreational activities in celebration of the upcoming March 8th International Women's Day.

Chu Yuhui

Bluestar Holds a Symposium among Female Employees for Women's Day

Bluestar PR Dept.

March 8th, Bluestar held a symposium among female employees for Women's Day, where

General Manager Robert Lu recognized the contribution that female employees made to the growth of the company and encouraged all participants to keep improving themselves and make greater contributions to the company. Over 30 female employee representatives from Bluestar companies in Beijing attended the meeting.

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Bluestar Children's World

I Love It When It Snows!

Huang Yuhao, Xinghuo Plant

One seemingly normal Wednesday morning, feather-like snowflakes began to fall outside our classroom, exciting my classmates and plunging me into a sea of happiness. Snow piled up

during the afternoon. No sooner the bell ring to signal the end of class than I rushed out of the classroom to find a snow-covered world – snow was everywhere, rooftops, branches… Looking at the unbroken blanket of snow, my classmates and I couldn't help dancing for joy.

After school, I saw meter-deep snow piled on my grandfather’s spacious exposed balcony.

My elder sister and I each made a snowball, and I started rolling mine along the long aisle of the balcony, making the snowball wider than the aisle. Then I put the snowball onto the snowfield and rolled it back and forth five or six times. “Hurry up, sister, it’s getting dark!” I moved the snowball with great effort since it was too heavy for me to lift. Soon we pieced our two snowballs together. My sister’s was much smaller than mine, so we placed it on top. We put pieces of coal onto the snowballs as eyes and buttons, and added a carrot on the upper snowball as a nose. Oh, a new

snowman was in place!

The next day, the snowman was still there, but I did not care about it any more, because it was a great day for a snowball fight! I went to school and a snowball fight broke out immediately after the morning’s first class.

A large crowd of people threw snow far and wide. How splendid it was! I lost no time to join them. A continuous stream of snowballs flew back and forth. When I took a closer look at the crowd, our teacher and the teacher of Class 1 already had their heads covered by snow. At this moment, the Class 1’s teacher threw a large snowball at the teacher of Class 3, yelling, “Teacher Lu!” Almost with this “starting gun,” snowballs poured in on teacher Lu from all directions. As the teacher in charge of my class came, the stream of snowballs was immediately diverted toward him. All teachers fled, covered all over by snow, trying to escape the downpour of snowballs.

The snow melted down in the afternoon, but our urge to have a good snowball fight remained strong. We boy students went out to the playground, soon divided into two groups and started a “large-scale war.” We picked snowballs from the ground as fast as we could and threw them at targets as hard as we could. Between us was a pool of snow broth, and an incoming snowball splashed water onto my shoes. I instantly picked up snowballs to fight back, only to encounter strong resistance. I was hit many more times. Somehow, the “enemy” outflanked us on our left side, and a snowball hit my forehead. We diverted our “firepower” to deliver a heavy blow to the charging “enemy” until the bell rang again for the next class.

How interesting a snowy day is!

I love it!

� BlueStar Communication Chinese Editor: Jiang Bo English Editor: Ma Chao Layout: Ma Changjie

Tie-Dye, a Real "Classic

Fashion"

Tie-dye is a dyeing technique similar with the arts of batik, also adopts dye-resistant technique. The difference is that batik parts of the fabric not intended to be dyed are covered with removable wax; but tie-dye parts of fabric are enlaced and

bundled in order to resist to be dyed. The bundled parts of fabric show the natural color transition generating various beautiful patterns, as the permeation of the dyestuff. Tie-dye has centuries-old history in China. Far back to 1300 years ago, the cloth made by tie-dye technique had been popular in Tang Dynasty. One emperor of Song Dynasty once claimed to forbid the civil use of tie-dye technique and title it for royal family only in 10th centre. The ancients of White Nation, a minority of China, already knew this dyeing technique greatly well over 1000 years ago, and had developed this technique to be a unique part of the culture of White Nation. The tie-dye technique is very special, and the material used is far more ordinary. The wise ancients of White Nation adopt Indigowoad Root, a kind of antipyretic medicine as we know, as the dyestuff. So that the dyed cloths will not harm people's skin and generate natural and inornate color. The cloths for dyeing usually are pure white homemade cloths or cotton-and-hemp blended white cloths. Various patterns will be painted on the cloths before dyeing, mainly composing of dots, anomalous circles and other simple geometrical patterns. Tie-dye made by White Nation draw patterns from various aspects, including local landscapes, clouds, flowers, birds, fishes, bugs and legends etc.

However, producing works in good quality is very hard, even the technique of tie-dye is not so complicated. Firstly, the cloths shall be plasm faded and blanched before dyeing for ensuring the color in equality. Secondly, the cloths will be blended in different ways according to the patterns request. And then craftsman will dip the blended cloths into color plasm over several times, one more time the cloths dip into color plasm, the deeper color will get at last, until the ideal color is reached. At last, the finished cloths will be torn open and pressed with iron after airing. In the whole processes of dyeing, the key step is the methods of how to blend. Various methods of blending could be generally classified into three categories, which also has lots of varieties in each category but could adopt in one single work generating even more vibrant patterns. First, enlacing method: it is a method that enlaces the cloths with cotton thread or hemp rope following the advanced designs, such as holding tight on one point, or wrinkling into strips, or folding in various shapes. Second, twist sewing method. This method uses the ways of twisting, sewing and enlacing to dye. Different methods of sewing make different patterns. This method is easy to use, and could completely use imagination of the designers. Third, nip sewing method uses boards, bamboo boards, bamboo clips or bamboo sticks shaped in circle, triangle and hexagon nip the cloths together and being blended with threads to resist dyeing. The effect of incondite ice pattern appears on the cloths between two plywoods. Comparing with the enlacing method, this method generates more clearly patterns of white and black, and richer color and luster.