On August 12, Sha Ming, the Group's General Manager, Vice Secretary of the Party Committee, and Deputy Director of the Activity Leading Group, led a team to conduct research at the metallurgical casting sector – Xingxing Cast Pipe Co., Ltd. headquarters. Through a combination of meetings and questionnaires, they solicited opinions and suggestions regarding the Group's leadership team, group leaders, and headquarters' 'four winds' issues. They also visited the Red Flag Canal to experience the spirit of arduous struggle. The Group's Standing Committee of the Party Committeeand General Manager of Xingxing Cast Pipe Co., Ltd.Zhang Tongboand Xu Jianhua, Standing Committee member of the Group's Party Committee, Minister of Organization Department of the Party Committee, Secretary of the Party Committee of the General Office, and Director of the Activity Officeattended the event.

At the meeting, Sha Ming firstdelivered a speechon the central government and SASACParty Committee'smass line activity spirit,emphasizingthat the learning and practice activities are a necessary requirement to achieve the goals set by the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China,、guarantee the purity and advanced nature of the Party, consolidate the Party's ruling foundation and status,、and resolve prominent problems that the masses strongly reflect.的必然要求It is a fundamental problem and contemporary issue facing Party building.。Sha Ming, combining his own systematic thinking, expounded on the inherent logical relationship of the mass line education practice activities, analyzed the root causes, symptoms, and provided solutions. He pointed out that the four major dangers facing the Party—spiritual slackness, inadequate ability, detachment from the masses, and negative corruption—to some extent manifest as formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance. The specific method to solve the 'four winds' problems that the masses deeply resent and strongly reflect is what General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed: 'look in the mirror, straighten the clothes, take a bath, and cure the disease.' During the Group's rapid development, we must firmly believe in our confidence, eradicate the 'four winds' problems, and promote the realization of the Group's long-term goals and strategies. Sha Ming conveyed General Secretary Xi Jinping'simportant speech during his inspection in Hebeiand combined the recent macroeconomic situation and difficulties faced by the enterprise,emphasizingXingxing Cast Pipe Co., Ltd. achieved the top three performance in the steel industry in the first half of the year under very difficult circumstances, relying onperformanceachievements,which isthe accumulation of long-term managementand the accumulation of long-term cultureIt is the crystallization of everyone's collective wisdom and sweat. The second half of the year is the structural adjustment period, pain period, and policy digestion period of the national economy,Xingxing Cast Pipe Companyleaders at all levels should fully understand the current situation, further strengthen confidence, grasp the main economic tone of the second half of the year, which is 'objective stability, micro-level activity, and social policy support', focus on management innovation and structural adjustment, and combine with the group's mass line education practice activities, listen to the voices of grassroots employees, fully rely on the 'four methods' of 'looking in the mirror, straightening the clothes, taking a bath, and curing the disease', eliminate the 'four dangers' and 'four winds' problems, earnestly rectify and implement, change the work style with practical actions, lay a solid foundation for the next step of carrying out the second batch of education practice activities, and achieve the dual goals of promoting the activities and production operations.
    Subsequently, meetings were held simultaneously in three groups: leadership team, middle management, and employee representatives, to solicit opinions and suggestions on the Group's leadership teamand membersas well as the headquarters.After the group meetings,the Audit Risk Department, AssetFinance Department, Human Resources Department, Party and MassWorkDepartmentand the Youth League Committeeorganized counterpart departments to collect opinions, carefully listening to the opinions and suggestions of secondary sectors on the headquarters’'four winds' problems and functions

business.

At the summary meeting, Sha Ming summarized the opinions collected on the problems existing in the Group's headquarters and leadership team, such as too many meetings, too many documents, and too much official jargon. He answered some of the questions. For the opinions and suggestions on secondary companies, he instructed the secondary companies to provide answers and solutions. At the same time, he hoped that cadres and employees at all levels would continue to put forward opinions and suggestions through various forms and channels.Sha Ming, following the principle of proximity, visited the Linzhou Red Flag Canal, a national patriotic education demonstration base near the headquarters of Xingxing Cast Pipe, to experience the spirit of the Red Flag Canal, both old and new, embodied in “not fearing difficulties, not being confused by wealth, constantly striving for self-improvement, and persistent struggle,” and “self-reliance, arduous struggle, unity and cooperation, and selfless dedication.”The Red Flag Canal is a large-scale water conservancy project built in the 1960s by the people of Linxian County, Henan Province, under extremely difficult economic conditions. It changed the situation of severe water shortage in Linxian County and is a masterpiece that demonstrates that man can conquer nature.At the Red Flag Canal Youth Cave, a key point in canal construction, Sha Ming emphasizedthe importance of learning the spirit of the Red Flag Canal to promote leapfrog development. He pointed out that some group leaders and office staffcame to the Red Flag Canal, a feat of mankind's transformation of nature for the benefit of mankind, to learn and understand the spirit of the Red Flag Canal, which embodies 'not fearing difficulties, not being confused by wealth, constantly striving for self-improvement, and persistent struggle,' and to feel and experience the rich connotations and glorious traditions of the Red Flag Canal spirit,grouppromoting the mass line, boosting morale, and promoting leapfrog development guided by the 1257831 strategy.Currently, the Group has embarked on a new three-step approach of 'becoming a top 500 world company, ranking among the top 30 central enterprises, and striving for a top 500 world brand,' and is in a critical period of transformation, upgrading, and strengthening the second and entering the third stage.就要求groupIn the face of difficulties, it requires all cadres and employees to carry forward“Difficult but fearless” 、“Self-improvement without end”、“Unceasing struggle”spirit.Headquartersshould use the mass line education practice activities as an opportunity to take the lead in changing its style of work, to boldly mobilize employees, to use their work as a platform, and to use transformation and upgrading as a path,Learning“Rearranging the mountains and rivers of Linxian” ofthe heroic spirit,establishing aReshaping the new XinXing JiHua”offirm confidenceself-improvement, self-transcendence, working together in harmony, and striving for a common goal, to create a new brilliant future for XinXing JiHua。

XinXing Casting Co., Ltd. Party Committee, Group Headquarters Party Committee, Group Activities Office, and some department heads of the Group, Li Baozan,Yan Yueping、Yan Xingmin、Liu QiXian,Zhi Wenguang, etc.Onesameparticipated in the above activities。The leadership team, middle management personnel, and some employee representatives of XinXing Casting Co., Ltd. participated in the solicitation of opinions.