Nghe An Newspaper Printing Company Limited: Responding well to the printing market

(Baonghean) - Term VI (2010 - 2015) The Party Cell of Nghe An Newspaper Printing Company Limited has focused on leadership to overcome many difficulties and challenges to promote production and business activities.

Outstanding results: Upgrading equipment, paying attention to training, fostering, improving skills, worker qualifications, management knowledge and political level for cadres and party members; rationally arranging production and business lines; promptly and satisfactorily resolving policies and regimes for workers, tightening labor discipline and order. In particular, the unit well implements the democratic regulations according to Decree 60/2013/ND-CP, annually holds labor conferences, evaluates production and business results, promptly supplements internal regulations, rules, and labor norms; maintains a dialogue regime with workers' representatives, listens to workers' thoughts and aspirations, promptly proposes solutions to organize production and business effectively.

Production line at Nghe An Newspaper Printing House. Photo: Sy Minh

Although it has just changed from a purely economic enterprise of the Party to an autonomous business model, with limited capital, but with great efforts, the unit has innovated, upgraded machinery and equipment, gradually meeting the requirements of improving the quality of printed publications on the market and expanding business types. Specifically, in the past 5 years, the unit has invested in Indian roll printers and some post-printing equipment such as bookbinding machines, 3-sided cutting machines, die-cutting machines, corner cutting machines, renovated the book workshop, added equipment to ensure increasingly better working and living conditions, higher productivity, higher labor efficiency, reduced costs, lower prices, increased competitiveness.

In addition to ensuring the printing of documents of the Party, Nhan Dan newspaper, Nghe An newspaper, the unit is also trusted by many customers to print many types of documents and publications such as: documents of the Provincial Party Committee, Provincial People's Committee, internal newsletters of districts, cities, towns and departments, branches and sectors in the province, Nghe An Labor newspaper, Nghe An Police newspaper, Vietnam Agriculture newspaper, 24-hour Sports newspaper and all kinds of books of publishers, yearbooks, forms, propaganda leaflets of organizations and individuals inside and outside the province.

In the economic crisis, the printing industry, especially newspaper printing, tends to decrease, but the unit still always increases the number of printed pages and the revenue each year is higher than the previous year, does business profitably and preserves capital, ensures jobs and increases income for workers, fully and promptly pays social insurance and health insurance for workers and fulfills obligations to the State. Revenue in 2014 reached 22.5 billion VND, average income of workers reached 4.2 million VND/person/month, paid State tax 800 million VND, compared to the beginning of the term, all met and exceeded the set target, in which revenue increased 4.5 billion VND, monthly income per capita increased 1.2 million VND, tax paid increased 200 million VND. Although it is a small enterprise, every year the unit has saved 45 - 50 million VND for charity and humanitarian activities, donated thousands of notebooks to poor students in the province.

Party building and political system building work have been taken care of. The Party Cell has effectively implemented Resolution No. 02 dated September 23, 2014 of the Provincial Business Bloc Party Committee on "Improving the quality of political and ideological education to meet new requirements", Resolution No. 01-NQ/DUK of the Provincial Business Bloc Party Committee Executive Committee (term IV) on "Improving the quality of grassroots Party committees in enterprises", Resolution 09-NQ/TU, Resolution 03-NQ/DUK of the Provincial Business Bloc Party Committee Standing Committee on "Improving the quality of Party members to meet new requirements" and especially effectively implemented Resolution No. 4 of the Central Committee (term XI) on "Some urgent issues on Party building today" associated with implementing Directive No. 03 of the Politburo on "Promoting the study and following of Ho Chi Minh's moral example". Therefore, the leadership capacity and fighting strength of the Party Committee, Party Cell, and of the cadres and Party members in the company are constantly enhanced. Through annual classification, 100% of Party members complete and complete their tasks well, there are no weak Party members, the Party Cell continuously achieves the title of clean and strong. The Trade Union and Veterans Association achieve excellent strength.

Finishing products at Nghe An Newspaper Printing House. Photo: SM

The successful lesson learned in the past term is that the Party Committee and Party cell have led and directed closely, sensitively, with focus and key points, done well in ideological work, raised awareness for cadres and Party members, cared for cadre work, built Party Committees, promoted democracy, maintained internal solidarity, created high consensus among cadres and Party members, especially in the Party Committee and Board of Directors.

Promoting the achieved results as well as the advantages of the operating model of a single-member enterprise owned by the State, in the 2015-2020 term, the Party Cell of Nghe An Newspaper Printing Company Limited determined the direction of operation: Focus on leading the planning and rearranging the organizational structure in the Board of Directors, departments, divisions, and workshops; replace cadres and party members who retired and terminated their contracts according to Decree 91; continue to invest and upgrade factory equipment, especially printing equipment in an advanced direction to serve political tasks such as printing newspapers, documents of the Party, government, departments, branches, unions and high-end products and publications, meeting the needs of the integrated and developed market.

Strive to achieve and exceed the following targets by 2020: 1.3 billion printed pages of 13x19cm size; Revenue of 30 billion VND; Average income of employees reaching 7 million VND/person/month; Party cell achieving the title of exemplary clean and strong, annually having over 90% of party members completing their tasks well, of which 15-20% of party members completing their tasks excellently, during the term admitting 3 to 5 party members; political organizations achieving excellent strength; building the company to become a strong printing enterprise in the North Central region.

Dang Xuan Bang

(Party Cell Secretary, Director of Nghe An Newspaper Printing Company)