Lijia, director of the Zhonghao Chenguang Research Institute of the Chemicals Industry, is leading the industrialization and "rejuvenating enterprises through science and technology" strategy.
She believes that more responsibility is headed her way.
Following economic growth of the Chenguang Institute at over 50 percent in 2010, from January to October 2011, industrial output surged 117 percent year-on-year; the main business income up 80 percent; profits up 378 percent; tax income up 225 percent.
Its assets-liability ratio dropped 5.22 percentage points. The institute was ranked 410 among top 500 Chinese chemical companies; top 50 of Sichuan industrial enterprises; top 500 largest industrial enterprises; top 30 of chemical materials and products manufacturer in the country.
It was rewarded with honors of Advanced Unit in National Petroleum and Chemical Industry Integration and Advanced Enterprise in Implementing a National Performance Excellence Model.
The institute employs 7,000 staff members with over 100 million yuan ($15.87 million) in sales revenues, nearly went bankrupt ten years ago. It has been transformed into enterprises with 3,000 staff members and sales of 2 billion yuan ($317.35 million). It become a leader in organic fluorine products.
What kind of change is happening? The answer is innovations.