On March 27, Western Cement held its 2022 annual performance conference in Hong Kong. Zhang Jimin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Western Cement, Cao Jianshun, Chief Executive Officer, Wang Fayin, Executive Director, Chu Yufeng, Chief Financial Officer, and Chen Jingxiu, Company Secretary, attended the conference. At the
press conference, Chu Yufeng first introduced the company's 2022 annual performance overview, Cao Jianshun introduced the company's overall operation and market dynamics, and finally Zhang Jimin summarized the domestic and foreign annual performance of Western Cement, and elaborated on the company's future strategic layout.
In 2022, the company's total sales of cement (including clinker ) reached 19.3 million tons, down 4.9% year-on-year, aggregate sales of 4.61 million tons, up 4.8% year-on-year, and commercial mixed sales of 1.74 million cubic meters, up 29.9% year-on-year. The annual sales revenue reached 8.49 billion yuan, an increase of 6.1% over the same period last year, and the overall profit of the company was higher than industry average. At present, the company's main business is distributed in Shaanxi Province, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Guizhou Province, Sichuan Province and Mozambique, Congo (Kinshasa) and Ethiopia in Africa. In the
past 2022, the international situation has been changing, the epidemic haze has risen and fallen, the demand of the whole cement industry has been weak, the profit has fallen off a cliff, and the western cement industry has also suffered the most arduous test since 2016. Faced with the severe situation, all cadres and staff, under the correct leadership of the board of directors, work together to overcome difficulties and strive to promote the annual task objectives and various tasks. Yaobai Group takes "improving quality and increasing efficiency, reducing cost and increasing efficiency, optimizing compilation and increasing efficiency, innovating and increasing efficiency" as its grasp, and makes every effort to minimize the impact of macro-market, so as to lay a solid foundation for the long-term sustainable development of enterprises and accumulate stamina. The rotary kilns of five companies in the group have been running continuously for more than 100 days, and the rotary kilns of Zhenan Company have been running continuously for 205 days, reaching a record high. Nine major process quality indicators, coal consumption per ton of clinker and electricity consumption have reached the best level in history. Xikong Group actively promotes project construction, pays close attention to production and operation, strengthens basic management, and steadily develops various businesses. Congo (DRC) Great Lakes Cement has been put into operation smoothly, becoming the only production line of the whole industry chain in the western cement industry.
Looking forward to 2023, the company will seize the opportunity of global economic recovery, strengthen basic management, cadre team building and corporate culture inheritance, strengthen confidence in the development of the main industry, strengthen and optimize the cement industry and upstream and downstream industrial chains, promote the coordinated development of environmental protection, new energy and digital industries, and take green, low-carbon and sustainable development as the goal. Continuously improve operational efficiency and quality, deepen brand promotion and channel construction, fulfill corporate social responsibility, actively promote carbon peak and carbon neutralization, and accelerate the pace of transformation and innovation. In order to improve the core competitiveness and enhance the core function positioning as the two cores of high-quality development, we should comprehensively improve quality and efficiency, make unremitting efforts to promote high-quality development, rank among the industry leaders and world-class green building materials enterprises, and create greater value for shareholders with practical actions.
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