"Since I came to work in the company in August 2022, I have not only learned a lot of working skills, but also have a stable income." U Sint, a mechanical technician at Myanmar Conch, said happily. In the overseas enterprises and factories of Conch Cement , there are more than 4200 overseas employees like U Sint.
As the basic raw material of the national economy, cement industry is indispensable in infrastructure construction. Over the past 10 years since the proposal of jointly building a "the Belt and Road" was put forward, Chinese cement enterprises have vigorously implemented the international development strategy, developed both mergers and acquisitions and new construction, deeply integrated into the local society with funds, technology and teams, promoted the upgrading of local industries and accelerated the realization of high-quality industrialization.
"First of all, it promotes the local economic development, increases the tax revenue of the local government, and solves the employment problem. Secondly, China's cement technology, equipment and management experience, which have reached the international advanced level, have landed one after another, which also helps to optimize the local industrial structure and upgrade the industry to a certain extent." Talking about the changes brought about by China's cement enterprises entering the countries and regions along the "the Belt and Road", Li Kunming, a researcher at the Cement Data Research Institute of China Cement Network, said that it was in close cooperation that the interconnection between China and the countries and regions along the "the Belt and Road" was strengthened. At 14:18
on April 18, with the last section of the kiln body slowly lifted, the main equipment rotary kiln of the Tashkent Conch Project in Uzbekistan was successfully closed. The Tashkent Conch Project, with a total investment of about 260 million US dollars, adopts the most advanced technology and equipment facilities for cement production in China at present, and the builders are working hard to seize the construction period and strive to start production within the year.
According to Li Xin, Assistant General Manager of Conch Cement and Minister of Overseas Business, since 2011, Conch Cement has responded positively to the "the Belt and Road" initiative and vigorously implemented the internationalization strategy to meet the needs of infrastructure construction in countries and regions along the "the Belt and Road" for cement and other building materials products. It has set up more than 20 companies in five countries and regions, including Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Uzbekistan.
By the end of 2022, Conch Cement has built about 21 million tons of cement production capacity and 1 million tons of aggregate production capacity overseas, and has also invested in photovoltaic and energy storage projects, which has become the largest foreign investment enterprise in China's cement industry. The production lines
of Conch overseas projects all adopt the most advanced technology and equipment facilities in China, import advanced equipment manufacturing, process technology and management technology for the countries where they invest, and provide a large number of jobs for the local people, thus promoting the development of related industries and the training of localized talents.
At the same time, Conch Cement has introduced the concept of green development into overseas enterprises and factories to inject new green momentum into the high-quality co-construction of "the Belt and Road" with new energy-saving and environmental protection technologies and equipment. In 2022, the Karshi Conch Waste Heat Power Generation Project in Uzbekistan started construction, which uses the waste heat from the cement plant to generate electricity and uses the generated electricity for enterprise production. The project will be connected to the grid in 2023. In the next step of the Conch Project
in Madwang,
Cambodia, Conch Cement will continue to help promote the high-quality development of the "the Belt and Road", take effective investment as the orientation, take the main cement industry and industrial chain as the long-term industrial investment orientation, focus on the countries and regions along the "the Belt and Road", expand the scope of investment projects in an orderly manner, and promote the development of the project. Improve the market layout, improve market competitiveness, steadily expand the depth of investment industry, strengthen cost control, and optimize the profit model.