| Feb.
16, 1999 |
The
year 1999 is the year of Int'l Elderly. On the first day of
the Chinese lunar year, all the driving and managerial staff
from the headquarters of Dazhong and "Pudong Dazhong"
donated 110,000 yuan to Shanghai Elderly Foundation as the
fund to subsidize those in need. |
|
| Mar.
15, 1999 |
In response to the guiding principal of Shanghai Municipality,
the company reduced taxi drivers' rental chargers by 350 yuan
each to lighten the burden of drivers and speed up the building
of a professional driving team. The company thereby split
an annual 40- million-yuan of its revenue. |
|
| Apr.
27, 1999 |
Yang Guoping, general manager of "Dazhong Transportation",
was invited to attend the '99 China Enterprise Summit organized
by the World Economic Forum. |
|
| Apr.
28, 1999 |
A picture album in commemoration of the tenth anniversary
of the founding of "Dazhong Transportation" was
published. The album truthfully reflected the growth of the
company and many events the company had involved with a large
amount of precious pictures. |
|
| Apr.
30, 1999 |
Results of the 3rd session of the selection for "Outstanding
Youth of Dazhong" came out. Feng Wei, Fu Baohui, Sun
Xiaojie, Wang Zixin, Li Qiang, Chen Lihua, Chen Jingfeng,
Ji Yong, Tang Ying, Gu Yan and Jia Weiling were on the list. |
|
| May
18, 1999 |
Shanghai
Dazhong Int'l Forwarding &Trans Co. Ltd. was open for
business, marking a remarkable stride forward into the field
of air freight. |
|
| June
19, 1999 |
Shanghai
Dazhong Int'l Travel Service organized a thousand Shanghai
residents heading for Yuyao of Zhejiang province to take part
in the Festival of Red Bayberry there. The activity aimed
to promote the economic and cultural exchanges between Shanghai
and Yuyao, and also a Dazhong Hope School was established
in the poverty-stricken area of Yuyao by the donation of Dazhong. |
|
| June
28, 1999 |
"Dazhong
Transportation" set up a Dazhong State Guest Fleet. The
newly-established fleet was equipped with 100 cars of Benz
and Buick, each installed with the state-of-the-art GPS equipment. |
|
| June
29, 1999 |
"Dazhong
Transportation" held its 1998 Shareholder's General Meeting.
The meeting discussed and passed the "1998 profit distribution
plan" of the company, and proposals on the changing of
the company name and on the additional offering of 140 million
legal person shares to Shanghai Pudong Dazhong Taxi Co., Ltd. |
|
| July
1, 1999 |
The
whole fleet of "Dazhong Taxi" adopted the annual
replacement system, not only guaranteeing the sound interior
and exterior conditions of Dazhong taxis but also facilitating
the overall improvement of the taxi appearances in the whole
taxi industry of Shanghai. |
|
| July
14, 1999 |
"Model
Stand" and "Shanghai Model Unit" of "Dazhong
Transportation" held their unveiling ceremonies in the
activity of the creation of national spiritual civilization
carried out by the company. |
|
| July
14, 1999 |
Dazhong
Hotel was successfully appraised as a three-star hotel by
China National Tourism Administration and held the celebrating
ceremony. |
|
| July
30, 1999 |
The
company convened the 4th provisional meeting of board of directors.
At the meeting, the bill on the investment of 120 million
yuan to purchase shares of Guotai Jun'an Securities Co., Ltd.
was discussed and passed. |
|
| Aug.
2, 1999 |
"Pudong
Dazhong" and the company changed their names respectively
into Dazhong Enterprises of Science and Technology (Dazhong
Sci-tech for short) and Dazhong Transportation (Group) Co.,
Ltd. (Dazhong Transportation for short). |
|
| Aug.
2, 1999 |
Dazhong
Express Co., Ltd. was open to business with the first batch
of 100 transportation vans being put into operation. |
|
| Sep.
3, 1999 |
5,000
Dazhong taxis were installed with brand-new roof-top lamps
which was unified in the taxi trade, becoming the first taxi
company in Shanghai accomplishing the two-uniformity-roof-top
lamp and the enterprise color of the taxi cabs. |
|
| Sep.
15, 1999 |
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Dazhong cars participated in the opening ceremony of the newly-built
middle section of the elevated Yan'an Rd. Till then, the company
had successively taken part in the opening ceremonies of many
key projects of Shanghai Municipality, such as Yangpu Bridge,
Inner Ring Elevated Rd., Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo
Expressways and so on. |
|
| Sep.
24, 1999 |
With
the investment of 1.5 million yuan, a cruiser named after
Dazhong was launched from the shipyard of Suzhou creek. The
cruiser was mainly responsible for the tasks of cruising and
reception on Suzhou creek. |
|
| Oct.
1, 1999 |
Pudong
Airport Public Line 3 run by "Dazhong Bus" was put
into operation. |
|
| Oct.
13~16, Oct. 19~22 1999 |
Chairwoman
of the board of directors of "Dazhong Transportation"
Zhou Xiuhua, assistant general managers Zhang Xilin and Zhao
Weilun, department managers of the headquarters and managers
of the subsidiaries of Dazhong went to Guangdong and Shandong
respectively, exchanging ideas with noted entrepreneurs in
Huawei of Shenzhen and Haier of Qingdao. |
|
| Oct.
26, 1999 |
Punan
Dazhong Public Transportation Co. was established with "Dazhong
Transportation" holding 37 % of its shares. The business
scope of the company mainly covered passenger transportation
and coach leasing in the suburban areas of Jinshan and Fengxian. |
|
| Nov.
6, 1999 |
Shanghai
Municipal Party Committee, Shanghai Municipality and Shanghai
Garrison Command rewarded Yang Guoping, general manager of
Dazhong, the title of "Advanced Individual on Defense
Education". |
|
| Nov.
18, 1999 |
99'
Shanghai Int'l Urban Transportation Seminar was co-organized
by "Dazhong Transportation". Experts, scholars and
managerial personnel of large-scaled public transportation
operation companies and taxi companies from Germany, Australia,
Japan and China gathered together to talk about the prospects
of the development of the urban transportation in the new
century. |
|
| Dec.
30, 1999 |
Dazhong
Taxi Operation Co. introduced "zero-mistake service"
to the society. And cooperated with Shanghai Guomai Communications
Co., Ltd., Dazhong-Guomai intelligence calling system was
opened, providing nearly 12,000 drivers of Dazhong with uniformed
pagers offering information services in Chinese. |
|
| Dec.
30, 1999 |
Dazhong
Ticketing Center was opened to business. |