Li Yeqing: Spreading China's Technology, Products, Management and Influence to the World

On October 17, the third "the Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum was held in Beijing, and Li Yeqing, President of Huaxin Cement Co., Ltd., was invited to attend. He said that Huaxin will continue to draw a bright picture of green and high-quality development in the "the Belt and Road" on the basis of win-win cooperation, and contribute to the benefit of the local people and the promotion of friendship among countries. In an interview with Hubei Satellite TV,

Li Yeqing said, "As the most modern cement enterprise in China, we have the ability to build, operate and manage, and upgrade and transform.". In the process of building and developing a "the Belt and Road" country, we can spread China's technology, products, management and influence to the world. "We chose Huaxin Cement because they have experts in the cement industry," said Marco, a representative of

Brazil's InterCement Cement Group. They are the most internationalized Chinese cement enterprises and have been working in African countries for many years. We will continue to deepen our cooperative operations in Africa and seize all opportunities for cooperative operations.

At the "the Belt and Road" entrepreneurs'conference, Huaxin Cement signed an agreement with foreign parties to acquire 100% equity of Natal Cement Company. "After the successful acquisition, the cement business in South Africa and Mozambique will be handed over to us as a whole." Li Yeqing said. The company was originally in Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi and other state-owned businesses, and this cooperation will radiate the company's business to South Africa and Mozambique, which is expected to bring more than 3 million tons of cement market, and will play a positive role in the company's development in the African market.

According to China Cement Network, in the past 10 years, Huaxin has built or operated nearly 20 large-scale cement plants and related industrial chain enterprises in 11 countries along the "the Belt and Road" in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia and Africa, with a total cement production capacity of 20 million tons, annual revenue of more than 4 billion yuan and total overseas assets of about 7 billion yuan. The total number of overseas employees is more than 3300, while driving the export of domestic engineering projects, equipment and spare parts, which has achieved good social and economic benefits, and is a successful model and performance benchmark for Chinese enterprises to "go out". Over the past

10 years, Huaxin has been awarded the "Friendship Contribution Award", "Outstanding Contribution Award for Industrial Development", "Best Tax Contribution Award", "Excellent Industrial Enterprise Award", "Best Environmental Excellence Award", "Annual Corporate Social Responsibility Innovat ion Award" and "Green Development Award" by the governments of the countries where it is invested, so as to benefit the world. It has left a strong mark on the 10-year long volume of "the Belt and Road".