DSIC launches a New-type Guided Missile Destroyer

On June 26, the eve of the founding of the CPC, another new-type guided missile destroyer for China Navy was launched successfully from the No.2 slipway of DSIC under CSIC. CSIC Party Secretary and Chairman Hu Wenming cut the rope and made a speech in person while certain China Navy Guided Missile Destroyer Division leaders and Qiqihar Municipal Party Secretary Sun Shen witnessing the ceremony together. CSIC Party member and Deputy GM Yang Jincheng, China First Heavy Industries Vice President Liu Changren, the Guided Missile Destroyer Chief Designer Wu Hongmin, and DSIC leaders Liu Zheng, Xiao Shi, Han Hui, Cai Zhuyi and Ding Yi attended the ceremony. 

Hu Wenming pointed out,  another new-type guided missile destroyer for China Navy was launched successfully on the eve of the founding of the CPC, which is  a blessing and gift for her 96th anniversary from all CSIC employees, and which is also a specific activity of CSIC to fulfill duty of focusing on major business and strengthening military products. DSIC No.2 Slipway to accomplish this launching task is weather-beaten with a long history, which has made outstanding achievement for development of DSIC and CSIC, and construction of China Navy equipment, witnessing leapfrog development of China shipbuilding level. Upon launching of the guided missile destroyer today, she has finished her historic mission with a consummate curtain call, carrying glory and dream of China Navy equipment. From now on, DSIC will bid farewell to a slipway time of warship construction and fully step into a new era of docking construction.  

Hu requested, taking the opportunity of launching the new-type guided missile destroyer this time, DSIC and various units involved in manufacture should further enhance “Four Consciousnesses”, focus on major business and main duty,  gather every effort to strengthen production of military products, stay firm in developing orientation of civil-military integration, stay firm in innovation driven development, stay firm in restructuring and transformation of developing force, bear the mission in mind, never forget initial determination, and roll up sleeves to work harder so as to contribute new achievement to naval equipment and greet triumphant opening of the 19th Congress of the CPC with a new result of major warships’ construction for China Navy.

Later on, Hu Wenming and his party went deep into construction site of the first homemade aircraft carrier project, checking project progress, quality and production safety and secrecy, knowing completion status of target milestones, and examining establishment of basic Party organizations and Party building work at project site.

Hu pointed out, since the first homemade aircraft carrier launched, project construction is under smooth progress. We not only have to hold progressive milestones not delayed based on the launching one month ahead of schedule, but fully realize that working tasks are more arduous and  pressure of quality, safety and secrecy keeps increasing when entering the phase of mooring and commissioning. He requested all the employees at the whole line of project firmly implement  General Secretary Xi’s spirit in his serial important speeches,  bear his request on construction of armament and naval equipment, carry on the aircraft carrier spirit of “Patriotism, Innovation, Science, Strive and Collaboration” and craftsmanship to make it better, treasure historic opportunity, assume historic duty, and successfully accomplish historic mission, tackle tough and forge ahead, stick to quality, promote progress, and guarantee milestones and safety, and complete various tasks for construction of the aircraft carrier project smoothly so as to greet triumphant opening of the 19th Congress of the CPC with excellent achievement.  

Hu pointed out, currently, DSIC has assumed construction tasks for many a key project, all of which are crossing and parallel. Therefore, we must go all out, and put all hearts into it with high sense of responsibility and mission, more resolute attitude, more powerful measure, seriously and meticulously, under strict and persistent prevention and treatment so as to enable strong dressing awareness and core awareness to reflect on continuous improvement of product quality and level of production safety and secrecy, and to ensure engineering practice of research and manufacture tasks for key projects to carry forward in an excellent, safe and smooth way. Well planed and under targeted organization, production task of annual military products must be guaranteed to accomplish comprehensively and smoothly. 

Hu stressed, the interim Party Committee for the first homemade aircraft carrier construction site should make full use of political advantage and organizational superiority  in grasping overall situation and coordinating various parties, effectively organize Party members of all units involved in research, battle and commissioning to play their exemplary vanguard role and Party organizations’ battle fortress role, stick to the principle of starting Party building with work and proceeding work with Party building, promote production, assure quality and guarantee safety by grasping Party building, extend Party building work into grassroots units and break down to teams or groups, implement it into every post so as to truly make Party building at project site more strict, more solid and stronger. The Party committee and Party branches through the whole line of the project should give full play to their roles in core and fortress, and direct at the forefront so as to assure quality, safety, production and progress by grasping Party building. Party members should play their exemplary vanguard role, learn from Zhang Jin to be an example, with “aircraft carrier Party member demonstration posts” to be seen everywhere at key project site, turn the Party’s political advantage and organizational superiority into competing advantage and development advantage so as to furnish smooth accomplishment in R&D and production tasks for military products with political and ideological guarantee and organizational and talent safeguard.  

Besides, CSIC Assistant GM Wang Liang, Military Overall Department and No. 701 Institute major heads attended the activity.