江苏神通：公司加强了产品研发和工艺创新，推动降本增效措施落实

Group 1 - The core viewpoint is that Jiangsu Shentong is facing challenges due to a decline in the steel metallurgy industry's prosperity, leading to reduced market demand for its valve products and increased competition [2] - The company is enhancing product research and development, as well as process innovation, to address these challenges and implement cost reduction and efficiency improvement measures [2] - Jiangsu Shentong is increasing marketing efforts for its "Valve Butler" service to enhance brand influence and market share [2] Group 2 - The capital expenditure pace in the global and domestic chemical and refining industries is slowing down, resulting in intensified competition for the company's energy and chemical products [2] - The company plans to continue investing in research and development in the energy and chemical sector and innovate marketing models to gradually increase its market share in the energy and petrochemical valve products [2]