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Shanghai Ship Design and Research Institute SDARI

In addition to MARIC, CSSC controls a second professional ship-design institute, known as the Shanghai Ship Design and Research Institute, or SDARI. It is smaller than MARIC and is viewed as the "second best" design institute in China. SDARI specializes in developing cargo vessels, engineering ships, harbor boats, and offshore and military support vessels. In recent years, it has designed several classes of offshore supply and support ships.

SDARI has one ship research and development department, three ship design offices, one ship production design department, national ship cabin large volume metering station, national defense capacity measurement professional station and China shipbuilding basic ship cabin volume measurement and testing center.

SDARI was established in 1964, it is a ship design consultant under China State Shipbuilding Corporation(CSSC), stands out as China’s first merchant ship design institute with the vastest variety of ship types, world’s leading technical edge, the most innovative and stable technical team along with the largest market share in domestic China. SDARI’s offshore products include Specialized Engineering Vessels, Offshore Support Vessels, Offshore Engineering Vessels, Offshore Platforms, etc. By the end of 2008, SDARI has received 233 awards, all are provincial level or above.

Established in 1964, Shanghai Ship Research and Design Institute (SDARI) is an internationally influential civil ship design unit of China State Shipbuilding Corporation. SDARI's design products mainly include bulk carriers, container ships, oil tankers, chemical tankers, multi-purpose vessels, ro-ro ships and other transport vessels and rescue vessels, piling vessels, floating docks, three-purpose work vessels, integrated inspection vessels, jackets. Engineering vessels such as launching barges and large-scale hoisting pipelaying vessels have a total of about 800 types, and their product coverage and market share rank first in China. From 2001 to 2006, it won 28 national and provincial-level scientific and technological progress awards.

SDARI follows the quality policy of “exquisite design, quality first, credibility and continuous improvement”, continuously improves the ship's research and development capabilities, improves the design capability from basic design to production design, and provides high-quality services for the shipping industry and the shipbuilding industry. China has become the world's largest shipbuilding country and continues to enhance the value of the SDARI brand.

On 29 May 2018, Lei Fanpei, party secretary and chairman of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation, went to the shipyard to investigate and guide the work. Lei Fanpei stressed that the shipyard should conscientiously study and implement the spirit of the 19th Party Congress and Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics. In politics, it must maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee, strengthen the "four consciousnesses", and strengthen the "four self-confidence." "To improve the position, to build consensus, to work hard, to lead innovation, to achieve high-quality development goals, and to build confidence in building a world-class ship research and design institute." It is necessary to further improve the decision-making ability of the party committee, strengthen the "one post and two responsibilities" and the construction of a clean government, and create a good atmosphere for further development.

Peng Weihua, director of the Leading Group Office and other supervisory board hospital leadership of democratic life met on 25 January 2019. Party committee secretary Wang Lin on behalf of the leadership of the institute discussed the implementation of the 2017 democratic life rectification, each team member conducted a self-checking, carried out criticism and self-criticism.

Director Peng Weihua, on behalf of the supervision team, affirmed the quality of the democratic life meeting. He believed that the board will be fully prepared before the meeting, carefully study and discuss, and extensively solicit opinions from the staff and the masses; check the team and the individual's own problems at the meeting, contact the actual situation, and measure the specifics; criticize each other openly and honestly, see people see things and see ideas, basically meet the requirements Central and group company party group requirements.

On the implementation of the democratic life meeting, Director Peng made three points. First, staff must further understand the political and practical significance of the democratic life meeting. It is a serious democratic life within the party political life, an important carrier of strict political discipline; is unity of thinking and build consensus, strengthen unity, strengthening an important means of communication; practice is "first form" an important manifestation. Second, it is necessary to use Xi Jinping's "new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics" as a guide to strengthen political construction, resolutely implement the decision-making arrangements of the party Central Committee, and ensure that the Party Central Committee with Xi Jinping as the core is consistent in ideological, political, and operational terms. The third is to comprehensively implement the outline of the high-quality development strategy of the party group, to locate the goal of the institute in the "four major industries", improve the medium and long-term development plan, maintain the initiative as the spirit of the spirit, and improve the core competitiveness to achieve high quality development.

Secretary Wang Lin said that the institute will timely inform the staff and workers about the situation of the democratic life meeting, transform the achievements of the democratic life meeting into the driving force for innovation and development, and push forward the work to a new level. First, the requirements of Director Peng will be implemented in daily political life and specific work. Through strengthening communication, the thinking will be further unified, and the team will work together to take responsibility. Second, the team will focus on the spirit of the 19th Party Congress and the high-quality development outline of the group, find the right position and take the initiative, promote the development of the party building and promote the deep integration of party building and center work. The third is to address the problems of the party members and the masses and the problems that the democratic life will investigate, carefully sort out, formulate measures, and do a good job of rectification.

On May 31 , the 12th Youth League Meeting of the Communist Youth League was chaired by Wang Lin, secretary of the Party Committee of the Institute. He put forward four requirements for the new Youth League Committee and the Youth: First, study and implement the General Secretary's May Fourth speech, to achieve "four profound understandings". Second, the youth of the league members should be high-minded, practice hard skills, integrate their own self into the big self of the motherland, and realize the value of life. The third is that cadres should actively engage the youth, listen to the youth, be the intimate friends of the young people, care about the youth, guide the youth, and be the guides of the youth. Fourth, the cadres should be tempered by the work style, based on their own duties, down-to-earth, and not burying their heads. The should let loyalty, cleanliness, responsibility, and sunshine become the vivid background of the cadres. Secretary Wang stressed that building a maritime power is a relay run. Youth members must closely link their youth dreams with China Ship Dream and China Dream, and implement the conviction of self-improvement in every small task and complete each task.