The publicity work conference of national petroleum and chemical industry opens in Guiyang on September 4. Gu Xiulian as vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People’s Congress gave a speech to representatives at the video conference. Li Yongwu, president of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association, attended the conference and delivered a work report. The awarding ceremony of the first China Petroleum and Chemical Industry News Publicity Prize was held as well. Southwest Research & Design Institute of Chemical Industry received the honorable title, “ Advanced Unit for News Publicity Entities in National Petroleum and Chemical Industry”. The prize is the highest reward over its news publicity work of national petroleum and chemical industry and is granted once every two years according to evaluations by China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association and China Chemical Industry News.
The Communist Party Committee of the Institute values the news publicity work. It has also launched the Journal of Southwest Research & Design Institute of Chemical Industry and Southwest Research & Design Institute of Chemical Industry website. The Institute has published more than 60 press releases and more than ten pictures on Science and Technology Daily, China Chemical Industry News and Information Morning Post in the past three years.