Values

　　Culture is the soul of an enterprise. Hebei Donghai Special Steel Group has consistently upheld its corporate mission of “enhancing efficiency, creating wealth, benefiting employees, and giving back to society,” while adhering to the corporate spirit of “innovation, efficiency, integrity, and win‑win cooperation.” The Group attracts top talent, strives for world‑class performance metrics, delivers outstanding results, and builds a first‑rate enterprise—pursuing excellence, driving innovative development, and efficiently supporting the coordinated development of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region and the Belt and Road Initiative’s economic growth strategy. “Valuing virtue and capability, maximizing individual potential, and basing personnel decisions on performance” is the talent philosophy that Donghai Special Steel Group has distilled from its proven systems for recruiting, developing, deploying, and retaining talent. The company champions a people‑centric approach to human resource management: respecting individuals’ needs, cultivating their capabilities, motivating their progress, and helping them realize their full value. It is committed to fostering a workforce characterized by strong team spirit, high personal integrity, and exceptional professional expertise—energetic, creative, and driven. The Group places great emphasis on providing every employee with a safe, comfortable, and inspiring work and living environment. It has established clean, elegant, and well‑appointed facilities, including office buildings, training centers, cultural exhibition halls, employee reading rooms, cafeterias, staff apartments, guesthouses, and cultural‑and‑sports activity centers. Regular events such as basketball and table‑tennis tournaments, safety‑knowledge quizzes, speech contests, and themed essay competitions showcase employees’ talents and abilities, allowing them to fully experience the warmth of a “home away from home” and feel secure, at ease, and content in their work and lives at Donghai Special Steel Group. In turn, each employee repays the company with unwavering dedication and passionate commitment, achieving harmonious, mutually beneficial outcomes for both the enterprise and its people.
 

Talent Philosophy: Appraise people based on both virtue and talent, maximize the utilization of each individual’s strengths, and hire based on performance.
Interpretation:

　　“Talent selection based on virtue and capability, maximizing individual potential, and leveraging performance in hiring” is the talent philosophy that Donghai Special Steel Group has distilled from its proven mechanisms for recruiting, developing, deploying, and retaining talent. The company champions a people‑centered approach to human resource management—respecting employees’ needs, cultivating their capabilities, motivating their growth, and helping them realize their full value—while striving to build a workforce characterized by strong team spirit, sound personal integrity, and exceptional professional expertise, one that is both dynamic and highly innovative.
　　Talent Assessment Based on Virtue and Ability: “Talent is a company’s greatest asset.” At Donghai Special Steel, the sole criterion for identifying and cultivating talent is the combination of virtue and capability. Those who possess both virtue and talent are promoted without regard to conventional constraints; those with virtue but lacking technical expertise are nurtured and developed; those with technical prowess but lacking moral integrity are assigned roles with appropriate limitations; and those who lack both virtue and ability are firmly excluded. Leveraging the advantages of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei integration, Donghai Special Steel draws on the strengths of Beijing—the nation’s science and cultural hub—and Tianjin—the economic powerhouse of northern China—placing people at the heart of its strategy and welcoming top talent from across the country. The company collaborates with prestigious institutions such as Beijing University of Science and Technology, Nankai University, and Northeastern University, establishing robust channels for talent recruitment and expanding its talent pool. As a close neighbor to the two major steel production bases of Shougang and HBIS Group, Donghai Special Steel enjoys a distinct advantage in facilitating the flow and exchange of high‑caliber technical professionals.
　　Maximizing Talent: Human resources are a company’s most valuable asset, the foundation of its growth, and the cornerstone of its competitiveness. Guided by a corporate philosophy that prioritizes human‑resource investment, the company places great emphasis on recruiting and developing specialized talent, fully unlocking employees’ potential to ensure that each individual is matched to their strengths. The company has established long‑term university‑enterprise partnerships, set up dedicated internship and training centers, and built and refined a comprehensive system for talent acquisition, development, and deployment, thereby providing an excellent platform for translating scientific and technological breakthroughs into productive capacity.
　　Performance‑Driven Talent Management: Donghai Special Steel places great emphasis on employees’ enthusiasm, creativity, and initiative. The company has established fair competitive and performance‑evaluation systems, providing all types of talent with ample opportunities and platforms to realize their full potential. This fosters mutual growth between the enterprise and its employees, ultimately achieving a win‑win outcome in which both parties thrive and share in success.
 

View of Technology: Innovation and excellence, unlocking potential for greater efficiency.
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　　Innovation is the lifeblood of corporate development. By adhering to the principle of “innovation and excellence” and leveraging technological advancement to drive transformation and upgrading, Donghai Special Steel has continuously enhanced its competitive edge—this is the key to its success in maintaining a leading position in the industry.
　　Donghai Special Steel adheres to a new‑type industrialization path, centering on enhancing product competitiveness. Leveraging advances in science and technology and technological innovation, the company actively explores and transforms its development model, adjusts its product mix, and strives to extend its industrial chain. It will gradually develop projects involving cold‑rolled sheet, color‑coated sheet, tinplate, and iron‑printed products. Looking ahead, the company plans to introduce an eight‑color iron‑printing production line, adopting a cutting‑edge printing and transfer system to achieve fully automated, intelligent control. At the same time, by targeting the laminated‑iron market, it not only breathes new life into thin sheet products but also significantly boosts their added value.
 

Quality Philosophy: Continuously improve and strive for perfection.
Interpretation:
　　Quality is the lifeblood of an enterprise. The company adheres to a strategy centered on “product variety, quality, and profitability,” has obtained ISO 9001 certification for its quality management system, and continuously pursues improvement. It has established a comprehensive product quality control framework and equipped itself with state-of-the-art testing instruments, ensuring that product quality data are timely, accurate, and reliable.
　　Continuous Improvement: This embodies the Donghai Special Steel team’s refusal to rest on its laurels, their commitment to self‑imposed challenges, and their relentless drive for progress. With an unyielding spirit of ambition, they innovate their approaches, accelerate their pace, and strive to achieve the goal of becoming stronger.
　　Pursuing Perfection: The employees of Donghai Special Steel fully leverage their initiative and creativity in their work, continuously refining production processes to achieve the highest standards in product quality, ensuring that every batch meets customer requirements. Superior product quality and impeccable service are the keys to capturing market share, and “Donggang” products have attained a 100% customer satisfaction rate.
 

Security Concept: Life first, safety paramount.
Interpretation:
　　Safety First: The company rigorously complies with laws and regulations on workplace safety, strengthens safety awareness across all employees, establishes and improves comprehensive safety protection systems, intensifies on-site supervision and oversight, and deepens hazard identification and remediation. We have systematically advanced our occupational safety management in a standardized, regulated, and systematic manner. We have also obtained certification under the OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System.
　　Safety First: Safety is the prerequisite for happiness, the foundation of production and operations, and the guarantee of economic benefits.
　　The philosophy that “safety is paramount” underscores Donghai Special Steel’s unwavering commitment to workplace safety. The company consistently adheres to the principle of “safety first, prevention foremost,” treating the safety and well-being of its employees as its highest priority. It has established and rigorously implemented a comprehensive safety production responsibility system, upgraded safety facilities, actively promoted a culture of safety, and worked diligently to build a long-term, sustainable safety management framework. Through these efforts, the company strives to foster a strong safety-conscious environment, thereby effectively safeguarding the health and safety of its workforce and ensuring the smooth operation of its business activities.
 

Environmental Perspective: Beautiful China, Green Special Steel
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　　Innovation, coordination, green development, openness, and shared benefits—these five principles set the tone for economic development during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, as articulated at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee. Among them, green development has been elevated to an unprecedented level. In response to the broader macroeconomic landscape and in alignment with national policy, Donghai Special Steel has deepened its commitment to green development, comprehensively implemented clean production, and strengthened energy conservation and emissions reduction, thereby achieving a green transformation and pioneering a path of harmonious, sustainable growth alongside the city. In light of the steel industry’s evolving dynamics, the company will build on its existing efforts, taking green transformation and clean production as its starting point, further enhancing energy efficiency, reducing emissions, and improving environmental stewardship. It will strive to foster balanced development between the enterprise and society, simultaneously boosting both economic and social benefits, and transition from a profit‑driven enterprise to one that is socially responsible and committed to creating lasting well‑being.
 

Resource Perspective: Integrate resources and eliminate waste.
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　　Integrating resources and eliminating waste: We align with the national energy development strategy, adhering to the principles of conservation, cleanliness, safety, and cost-effectiveness. We are increasing investment in energy management and elevating our energy‑management capabilities. By establishing an Energy Management Center, we leverage information technology to centrally coordinate and oversee secondary energy sources and utility media, ensuring the efficient allocation and delivery of energy flows and optimizing overall energy utilization.
 

Perspective on Crisis: Be prepared for danger in times of peace, and strive for progress in times of peril.
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　　Be prepared for danger even in times of peace: Only by maintaining a sense of vigilance and constant awareness of potential risks throughout the course of development, staying alert at all times, and taking proactive measures to prevent problems before they arise, can an enterprise remain well-prepared and achieve sustained prosperity.
　　Throughout its development, Donghai Special Steel has consistently upheld a crisis‑management philosophy of “remaining vigilant in times of stability and striving for progress in times of adversity,” proactively addressing multiple challenges and pressures—including a sluggish market and environmental‑governance requirements—while further deepening industrial restructuring and upgrading its product mix.
 

View of Dedication: Implement the principle of “remembering the source when drinking water” and “cherishing trees.”
Interpretation:
　　“Planting trees to ensure lasting benefits, and remembering our roots when we drink from the spring”—this is the guiding principle of Donghai Special Steel Group. The company has consistently and sincerely fulfilled its social responsibilities, generously giving back to society and supporting public‑interest initiatives. Over the years, it has donated to charitable organizations to alleviate poverty and assist those in need; contributed funds and supplies to earthquake‑stricken areas to help affected communities overcome hardship; and funded the construction of public facilities and educational programs, thereby bolstering local community development and the advancement of education.