Li Yuanshi

Li Yuanshi

Li Yuanshi, female, Korean nationality, senior engineer, CPC member, director of technology center of Jilin Tobacco Industry Co., Ltd. In order to develop cigarette products that consumers like, Li Yuanshi evaluates and smokes all kinds of cigarettes with pungent taste, bitter taste, strong taste, light taste, good quality and poor quality, and often over evaluates and smokes them. She has won the honorary titles of "top ten female heroes" in Yanbian Prefecture, Jilin Province, "top ten female workers model" and "National May 1st Labor Medal". He was elected deputy to the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

Personal profile

In 1989, Li Yuanshi graduated from the Department of chemistry of Yanbian University and successively held the posts of technician and director of technical center of Yanji Cigarette Factory. Based on independent innovation, she and her cigarette R & D team have made great contributions to the sound and rapid development of Jilin tobacco industry. At the end of 1999, the company developed the hard red "Changbaishan" cigarette, and won the titles of "famous brand product of Jilin Province" and "top grade cigarette product of China". Yanji Cigarette Factory had its own independently developed flue-cured tobacco products for the first time. Since then, she has developed a soft red "Changbaishan" cigarette, which fills the gap of high-grade cigarettes in Jilin Province, and its sales volume ranks tenth among the 100 brands of cigarettes with the same price in China. In 2004, "Changbaishan" brand cigarette was listed in the national "100 brands of cigarette products catalogue". In October 2006, the "Changbaishan (Oriental verve)" cigarette with tar content of 5mg was successfully developed in Yanji Cigarette Factory. Its nicotine content and carbon monoxide content in cigarette smoke were much lower than the average value of national high-grade cigarettes. It has obtained a number of independent innovation achievements, and has been praised as a landmark brand of Chinese style cigarette "leading China and competing with the world" by the industry.

Characters and deeds

There are packs of cigarettes piled on Li Yuanshi's desk. She always lights a cigarette first and then starts her day's work. As a technical staff of cigarette research and development, evaluating and smoking cigarettes is an important part of her work. She basically does not smoke outside of work. She worked in Yanji Cigarette Factory and was shocked to learn that she was assigned to the technical section. After all, she didn't know about this position. There are fewer women engaged in cigarette R & D in the tobacco industry. To be qualified for this position, women have to live far more than men. She saw diversiform tobacco leaves, tall and short vessels, and various flavors and fragrances on the workbench. Not to mention product research and development, is familiar with a variety of raw and auxiliary materials, not a year and a half can not come down. After many sleepless nights, Li Yuanshi quickly mastered the professional knowledge of cigarette leaf group formula, tobacco flavor, process specification and so on. The most difficult thing is to master the skill of cigarette evaluation. Smoking is not so easy for women, and in the Korean traditional customs, women are not allowed to smoke. At the beginning of learning to smoke, Li Yuanshi couldn't find the feeling of "smoking". After smoking for a while, he vomited out. He could not feel anything except the bitterness in his mouth. The master said that he was smoking "smoke out of the chamber". He must swallow the smoke as he inhales. According to the master's instructions, she coughed and became dizzy after smoking one or two cigarettes, not to mention evaluating the intrinsic quality of cigarettes. Smoking evaluation is an essential skill in the development of cigarette products, and there is no shortcut to master this skill except to smoke more and smoke more. Since then, Li Yuanshi has been smoking at work and after work. Drunk smoking is a common occurrence, dizziness, tongue blistering, nausea, vomiting and can not spit out, sitting is not, standing is not, lying is not, just want to squat on the ground. During that period of time, she was often sallow and had no spirit to participate in some activities organized by the unit. Family looked distressed, advised her to say: "this is not a woman's job, hurry to change a post." However, Li Yuanshi, who was never willing to fall behind, never wavered and never thought of giving up this post. After constant exploration and practice, Li Yuanshi's smoking evaluation level has been significantly improved. She not only skillfully mastered all kinds of smoking evaluation methods, but also put dozens of different brands of cigarettes together. She can tell the score and type of cigarettes as long as she takes a few puffs. Li Yuanshi later won the first national cigarette sensory evaluation committee of Yanji Cigarette Factory and became one of the only two female cigarette smoking judges in the tobacco industry. the former Yanji Cigarette Factory, because there is no dominant independent brand, the enterprise benefit is poor. At that time, there were more than 2000 employees in the factory, which was the pillar enterprise of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. Its survival was related to the development and stability of the frontier. Li Yuanshi, who was just over thirty years old, was appointed director of the technical center of the factory when he was in danger. Full of a strong sense of mission and responsibility, Li Yuanshi is determined to develop a marketable brand with its own characteristics, so that the enterprise can get out of trouble. From then on, she forgot to eat and sleep, did not know fatigue, ignored pain, and devoted herself to the research and development of "Changbai Mountain" series brands. Every time she came back from a business trip, instead of going home to wash away the dust, she went straight to the unit and plunged into the laboratory. Once, Li Yuanshi came back from France. After arriving in Yanji at more than 5 p.m., he rushed to the unit to participate in an experiment in the evening. She didn't leave the laboratory until after eleven o'clock in the night. Due to fatigue, jet lag and other reasons, headache unbearable, high blood pressure, she had to be helped home by colleagues. During the research and development of "Changbai Mountain" (Oriental verve 5mg), due to the accuracy of the test requirements, it is necessary to continuously evaluate the absorption. In the hot and dry weather of June, after smoking six or seven cigarettes in succession, Li Yuanshi had nosebleed unconsciously when he spoke. Everyone urged her to go back to rest, but she believed that the research and development of corporate brands could not stop for a moment. She iced her head with cold water, wiped her face, stopped the bleeding, and soon got involved in a new round of evaluation. Li Yuanshi led the technicians to successfully develop "Changbai Mountain" series brands. As Yanyan people's life brand to win self-esteem and happiness, "Changbai Mountain" was born to save the enterprise in crisis. Li Yuanshi is well aware of the competitive situation of the cigarette market and that only innovation is the magic weapon to remain invincible. With the pace of time and unyielding fighting spirit, she measured the height of the steep mountain of innovation. As a member of the Korean tobacco society, she felt the trend and trend of the world's cigarette science and technology development in foreign technical exchanges, and learned and absorbed advanced technology. Li Yuanshi led the R & D personnel to absorb the physical coke reduction technology of Korean cigarettes and investigate the coke reduction performance of British cigarette holders. Through a variety of coke reduction measures, the average tar content of cigarettes in Yanji Cigarette Factory decreased at an average annual rate of 0.65mg. In particular, due to the adoption of the core technology of independent innovation such as adding latent aroma substances in the formula and adopting air flow drying in the process, the tar content of soft red "Changbaishan" cigarette, the main brand of the enterprise, is controlled within 12mg, which is not only recognized by consumers, but also greatly reduced the harmful components. 8 mg tar content of flue-cured tobacco is a barrier that is difficult to cross. After the achievement of aroma preservation and harm reduction, Li Yuanshi began to challenge the authority and focused on the research and development of ultra-low tar cigarettes, developing 5mg cigarettes. The loss of aroma is the key problem that restricts the coking of flue-cured tobacco. In order to overcome this problem, Li Yuanshi and her R & D team first started from the formula, broke the traditional formula idea, boldly used burley tobacco, sun cured tobacco, oriental tobacco and other different types of tobacco leaves, as well as a variety of slices processed by special technology, so that various aroma components coordinated with each other, and the product maintained a certain aroma concentration. After many trials, Li Yuanshi led the R & D team to successfully develop the "Changbaishan" (Oriental charm) cigarette with the lowest tar content and only 5mg in China. In addition to the research and development of independent innovation products themselves, reducing product costs is another topic for Li Yuanshi and her R & D team to carry out technological innovation. Due to various reasons, Yanji Cigarette Factory has overstocked more than 100000 low-grade tobacco leaves, some of which have been overstocked for more than 10 years. Li Yuanshi and the relevant departments formed a research group. In more than two months, he made physical and chemical analysis and sampling inspection on 133 varieties of 100000 tons of overstocked tobacco leaf samples one by one, and then made different tobacco leaves into samples respectively, and evaluated and smoked the same way. He just kept evaluating and smoking the samples for eight days. Finally, a part of tobacco leaves were selected for the production of existing products and the development of new products, and a part of cut tobacco was exported to foreign countries, so that most of the overstocked tobacco leaves were effectively utilized. This alone revitalized the enterprise's non-performing assets of more than 80 million yuan. Since 2001, Li Yuanshi and her R & D team have reduced the cost of cigarette formulation by 12 million yuan, saving more than 9.2 million yuan in cigarette filter rod and packaging cost every year. Li Yuanshi often comes first in the morning to clean up the office and make good tea for his colleagues. She brought the new honey for everyone to drink. At one o'clock in the morning in winter, she took her coat to the airport to welcome her colleagues back from business. She kept the welfare of the employees in mind. She led others to send warmth when they were in trouble. She insisted on donating to a girl from a poor family in Antu County for several years. She works meticulously, especially when it comes to products and brands. At the same time, Li Yuanshi always does everything that is good for brand development, regardless of personal gains and losses. In order to hire well-known experts, she pays close attention to the cottage; in order to retain talents, she actively helps build a platform with broad mind. She imparts to the young people the essentials and accumulated experience she has mastered for many years. With the efforts of Li Yuanshi, Yanji Cigarette Factory has built four doctor's studios with domestic and foreign research institutes, hired six experts and introduced them

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