At the beginning of this year, Chairman Yang Weidong the honor of “Fengyun Zhejiang Merchants” in 2021. Recently, invited by the program "Fengyun Zhejiang Businessmen Face to Face" of Zhejiang Television Station Economic Life Channel, the news anchor made a special visit to STL HQ and interviewed Chairman Yang face to face.

In the first half of 2022, despite the complex international environment and severe economic challenges, STL managed to grow against movement and heavy forces. The strong driving power behind this comes from the continuous innovation ability, and the tireless pursuit of "technology-leading" and "management-leading". Chairman Yang said, “To conduct an enterprise, we must have our own unique things, which is the core competitiveness of an enterprise. To be one of the world’s top 500 companies and the top 50 chemical industry companies, it's not just huge scale, but also strong strength at the same time.”

"The germ of a startup is really a simple idea. In the early 1990s, most chemical products were imported, and I wondered if we Chinese could make them on our own." In this way, he began the research and development of polymer emulsion high molecular emulsion, with the courage of "newborn calves are not afraid of tigers" and the tenacity of "insist not relax Castle Peak". After taking the first step, he led the team to break through the technological monopoly and achieve import substitution time and time again. Looking back at the beginning, this most plain ideal, perhaps is the world's most simple and unadorned sense of mission and the rejuvenation of national industry great feelings.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of STL. Along the way, the thing most touching him is a group of ordinary people with the same interests, who time and again make impossible things to be possible, then achieve an extraordinary career.

Time fortifies faith, years witness the original intention. STL under the strong leadership of the board of directors with the Chairman Yang as the core, seized new opportunities amid challenges, focused on the “Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutral” goal, fully opened a new strategic landscape of “creating future by science and technology, based on integration of light hydrocarbon, to build a low-carbon chemical new materials science and technology company”, took concrete actions to lead the company travel on the road to high-quality development.