Through 2 rounds of fierce competition, Mao Jianong, Deputy General Manager and Board Secretary of Sinochem International ranked 21st, winning New Fortune 2007 "Gold Metal Board Secretary".
The competition lasted for 6 months, covering 1437 candidates. From last October, the name list of 100 board secretaries respectively from Shenzhen and Shanghai listed companies was produced with the recommendations for relevant organizations and the online voting of individual investors. Then the supervisory agencies, institutional investors, securities analysts and journalists on finance and economy choose the final top 50 "Gold Metal Board Secretary" from the name list of 200 candidates.
With full circulation in 2006, the value of board secretary is becoming increasingly evident. The company performance is no longer the only criteria judging the quality of an enterprise, instead, some soft indices such as the effectiveness of corporate governance, and the relations with the investors are important references in the assessment of a listed company.
Sinochem International, in recent years, has been improving corporate governance mechanism through a series of measures such as introducing S&P rating and taking the social responsibility of an enterprise as its core competitiveness for sustainable development, which exemplified among listed companies in China.