Xiwang Group

Xiwang Group was founded in 1986 and has developed into a large-scale national private enterprise mainly engaged in two real industries: corn deep processing and special steel. It holds controlling stakes in 3 listed companies, 1 finance company, and 4 high-tech enterprises. Currently, it has total assets of 50 billion yuan and over 16,000 employees. It has been titled "China Sugar Capital" and "China Corn Oil City" by the China Food Industry Association. It is a "National Key Leading Enterprise in Agricultural Industrialization", a "National Environmentally Friendly Enterprise", and a "Key High-tech Enterprise under the National Torch Plan". It has received honors such as "National Advanced Primary Party Organization", "Number One in National Starch Sugar Industry", "Top Ten Enterprises in China's Light Industry Fermentation Industry", "Top 100 Enterprises in China's Food Industry", and "Green Factory".

The company holds a significant position in the domestic corn deep processing and special steel industries, with its own brands and core technologies. In the corn deep processing sector, it has been engaged in deep processing of corn for over 30 years, establishing a unique full-industry-chain development model with Xiwang characteristics, transforming from traditional industries to industrialized, large-scale, information-based, and intelligent operations, becoming the leading force in the national corn deep processing industry. It processes 3 million tons of corn annually, leading the country in scale of intensification. It produces 1.8 million tons of glucose annually, holding 50% of the domestic market share, and 85% of the domestic market for pharmaceutical glucose. It produces 600,000 tons of corn oil annually, holding 60% of the domestic market share. Through strategic cooperation with the National Grain Science Research Institute, it invested over 1 billion yuan in the research and development of crystalline fructose, breaking the monopoly of developed countries in Europe and America and compensating for China's shortfall in sucrose supply. It has formed the Xiwang health industry with corn oil, fructose, pharmaceutical glucose, and sports nutrition products as its core. In the special steel sector, it produces 3 million tons of steel annually and is the only private steel listed company in Shandong Province and the only steel enterprise in Shandong Province awarded the "National Economic Mobilization Center". It has been recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology as a company meeting the requirements of the steel industry's standard conditions. Xiwang Special Steel has strategic cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where the Institute of Metal Research contributed ten core technologies as equity, transforming the academy's core technologies, and jointly building the first national and internationally advanced "Clean Intelligent Demonstration Production Line for Steel for High-end Equipment", fully applying new special steel technologies including rare earth technology from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, successfully developing and launching over 120 high-end special steel products for high-end manufacturing, promoting the localization of high-end equipment, solving the country's "bottleneck" problems in certain areas, and becoming a technology transformation base for the Chinese Academy of Sciences, accelerating the transformation to high-end equipment manufacturing.

Team building: Establish a long-term mechanism for talent cultivation, smooth channels for talent promotion, establish sound mechanisms for retaining, cultivating, and utilizing talent, and strive to achieve the best use of each person's talents. Actively introduce "dual-high" talents with high education and high professional titles, absorbing over 8,000 graduates from universities and technical schools, over 100 doctoral and master's degree holders from home and abroad, and over 300 senior management, technical, and marketing talents, building a young, knowledgeable, and professional cadre team. According to the twelve-character employment policy of "trust, delegation, support, supervision, motivation, and tolerance" and the employment strategy of "promote and reuse those with both virtue and talent, cultivate those with virtue but lacking talent, restrict those with talent but lacking virtue, and resolutely refuse those without virtue or talent" as well as the eight cadre standards of "health, inspiration, boldness, passion, perseverance, morality, knowledge, and ability", we promote management cadres with both moral integrity and professional competence, and cultivate core teams.

Technology innovation: Continuously enhance technological innovation capabilities, hold over 300 independent intellectual property rights, and over 30 research achievements such as the key technology research and development for crystalline fructose production, all of which have passed provincial and ministerial scientific and technological achievement appraisals. Two research projects have been included in the National 863 Program. The enterprise technology center is a national-level enterprise technology center, China Glucose Quality Testing Center, and national laboratory, and the enterprise has been approved to establish a post-doctoral research workstation. Four companies, including Xiwang Sugar, Xiwang Food, Xiwang Pharmaceutical, and Xiwang Metal Technology, have been recognized as high-tech enterprises. In cooperation with the National Grain Science Research Institute, it established the first national corn deep processing industry technology innovation center, dedicated to the research and development of core technologies in corn deep processing, promoting product quality improvement and upgrading. The Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences contributed ten core technologies as equity in the listed company Xiwang Special Steel and established the Shandong Technology Center of the Institute of Metal Research at Xiwang Special Steel, and with the approval of the National Steel Standardization Committee, set up the industry's first special steel national standard research workstation at Xiwang Special Steel, dedicated to the research and production of high-end special steel, leading the development of the special steel industry.

Organizational management: In accordance with the requirements of modern corporate governance structure, establish a control model with Xiwang characteristics. With comprehensive budget management as the main grasp, build a large financial management system to enhance centralized financial control capabilities. Vigorously promote information construction, optimize resource allocation, establish an all-round intelligent big data control system, and promote the high integration of enterprise informatization and industrialization. Passed ISO9001:2015 quality management system certification, ISO14001:2015 environmental management system certification, and HACCP food safety system certifications. It is a national first-class safety production standardization enterprise and has been awarded the "Shandong Province Quality Management Award", "Shandong Province Enterprise Management Innovation Award", and "Shandong Province Governor Quality Award" by the provincial government.

Circular economy: Vigorously promote cleaner production, develop a circular economy, conserve energy and reduce emissions, and strive to build a resource-saving and environmentally friendly enterprise. On the basis of raw material recycling and product cascade development, multiple circular chains have been formed between group internal enterprises and social resources, with comprehensive recycling of energy and water resources, achieving waste resource utilization and harmless treatment, realizing low input and high utilization, obtaining maximum economic, ecological, and social benefits at the minimum cost, forming a circular economy development model combining light and heavy industries. The circular economy enables the total raw material utilization rate to exceed 99%, and the total product yield to exceed 97.5%.

Brand building: Focus on the brand operation of terminal brand consumer products such as corn oil, fructose, sports nutrition and weight management products, innovate marketing strategies and brand communication models, build a market network system, increase product brand extension and promotion, and enhance the brand value of Xiwang. The enterprise has successively had 12 Shandong famous brand products, 2 China well-known trademarks, and the starch sugar series products have been rated as Chinese famous brand products.

Corporate culture: Based on the grand vision of "building a century-old foundation and constructing a modern Xiwang", promote the corporate values of "healthy Xiwang, honest Xiwang, crisis-conscious Xiwang, and happy Xiwang", shoulder the mission of "benefiting the people and serving national development", adhere to the Xiwang spirit of "never forget the original intention, never give up, strive for excellence, and contribute to the country", build a distinctive Xiwang culture, promote the integration of corporate culture and brand building, revitalize the brand through culture, and prosper the enterprise through the brand, promoting sustainable development, and strive to achieve the goal of making "Xiwang villagers the happiest villagers and Xiwang employees the happiest employees".

At present, Xiwang Group is focusing on the two main businesses of corn deep processing and special steel, integrating enterprise development into the national strategy, building on national needs, and fully implementing the two major development strategies of "expand grain and oil, refine special steel", and creating two national-level bases: the "National Grain and Oil Innovation Development Demonstration Base" and the "National High-end Rare Earth Special Steel New Material Support Base". Among them, in the corn deep processing sector, it vigorously develops the grain and oil industry, integrates grain and oil resources, establishes grain and oil circulation channels, builds the "National Grain and Oil Innovation Development Demonstration Base", strives to build a large-scale "vertically integrated" domestic grain and oil enterprise, serve national grain and oil security, and create a Chinese national brand with international discourse power in grain and oil. In the special steel sector, by deepening strategic cooperation with the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, it develops high-end bearing steel new materials, builds the "National High-end Rare Earth Special Steel New Material Support Base", promotes the extension and industrial upgrading of the national high-end bearing industry chain, replaces imports, and solves the "bottleneck" project of domestic high-end bearing steel. The company will be based on its main businesses, around the "two strategies" and "two base" construction, accelerate kinetic energy conversion, improve development quality, and contribute Xiwang strength to expanding national grain and oil brands, maintaining national grain and oil security, and undertaking major national scientific and technological innovation tasks!