On the morning of May 17th, Yantai City held the 2022 Work Summary and Outstanding Entrepreneurs Commendation Conference, aiming to thoroughly implement the spirit of making Shandong Province’s efforts to accelerate the high-quality development of the industrial economy, encourage the vast number of entrepreneurs in Yantai to boost their spirits, make new achievements and new contributions. At the meeting, Yu Xiaoning, chairman and president of Dawn Group, was awarded the title of "Meritorious Entrepreneur of Yantai City in 2022". It was reported that this was the third consecutive year that Chairman Yu Xiaoning won this honor.

As an original private enterprise, Dawn Group, under the leadership of Chairman Yu Xiaoning, has always been adhering to the business philosophy of "product-based, people-oriented, technology-led, and customer-first", and deeply cultivating the industrial chain, product chain, and enterprise chain, which has formed four major advantages of scientific research, industry, park and talents. And it has developed into a modern enterprise group focusing on research and development, polymerization, production, sales and application of new material with the integration of science, industry, trade, logistics and finance. Dawn Group has been selected as one of the top 500 private enterprises in China for successive years.

Leading the high-quality development driven by innovation. Over the past 30 years, Dawn Group has undergone four innovations and transformations. In 2022, it determined the strategic goal of "focusing on one circle and three chains, strengthening the three major industrial sectors, refining related enterprises, realizing management modernization, market internationalization and industry technicalization, and marching towards the hundred billion enterprise and park". Now, it is focusing on the one-stop service ecosystem of the chemical and plastic industry, building high-end polyolefin industry chains, degradable materials industry chains, and titanium industry chains, promoting "management modernization, market internationalization and industry technicalization", and constantly cultivating and upgrading the core competitiveness.

Only by mastering the core technology in own hands, can we truly grasp the initiative of competition and development. Chairman Yu Xiaoning led Dawn's scientific research team to establish the first TPV production line with independent intellectual property rights in China, and its preparation technology won the second prize of the National Technology Invention Award; Dawn made breakthroughs in key technologies of hydrogenated nitrile rubber project and built a thousand-ton hydrogenated nitrile rubber production line; It independently developed and put the first parallel bi-component non-woven fabric production line into production in China, and the fiber fineness reached the international leading level. Dawn leads scientific and technological breakthroughs with originality, achieves high-level technological self-reliance and self-improvement, and owns a national brand with independent intellectual property rights. Many of its core products entered the global competition stage.

"I am honored to be commended by the Yantai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government for three consecutive years. I am very excited and encouraged." Chairman Yu Xiaoning said that in the next step, he would strengthen the original mission, foster family and country feelings, maintain strategic positioning, further expand the development space of Longkou Dawn New Material Science and Technology Industrial Park with the strong support of party committees and governments at all levels, realize the integrated development of natural ecology and industrial ecology, accelerate the formation of beads into chains, clusters of chains, and energy storage into momentum, anchor the thousands of people and hundreds of billions of industrial parks, strive to build a world-class green low-carbon high-end new material manufacturing base, and contribute more "Dawn power" to promote industrial progress and regional economic development