"In memory of Mr. Koo Chen-fu (Gongliang), former chairman of Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation and an important founder of Taiwan Cement Group, Taiwan Cement Group named its mainland operation headquarters the Gongliang Building.". It is not only a bridge across the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, connecting the East and the West, but also a bridge for the industry built by Taiwan Cement to cross the infinite future. On June 19, 2023, Zhang Anping, chairman of Taiwan Cement Group, said at the capping ceremony of Gongliang Building in Hangzhou.
"Mr. Gong Liang is like a bridge-builder."
Thirty years ago, Mr. Koo Chen-fu tried his best to carry out an ice-melting journey to bridge cross-strait relations. The "Wang-Koo Talks" held at the Haihuang Building in Singapore opened a new page for cross-strait non-governmental exchanges. Until he was dying, he was still extremely concerned about cross-strait peace.
Koo Chen-fu once said frankly that he had learned a lot about life philosophy from watching and acting. Among the historical figures, he loved Zhuge Liang and loved to sing "Empty City Plan". Others described him as Zhuge Liang in Empty City Stratagem, with a feather fan and silk ribbon scarf, as steady as Mount Tai, and full of fire when things happen. He once used the Beijing Opera actor's "splashing sleeves" as a metaphor: the sleeves look soft and weak, but as long as they are used properly, they can be as fast as lightning and as powerful as a rainbow. This is like cross-strait relations, which need to flow slowly in peacetime, accumulate quantitative changes and create qualitative changes, and will eventually come to fruition. On the first floor of the Taiwan Cement Corporation headquarters building
https://img7.ccement.com/richtext/img/b6z6oee3e6b1688717510165., Chang An-ping deliberately recreated Koo Chen-fu's study as it was. "I think this is what Dad (Koo Chen-fu) might like." Koo Huai-ju, the wife of Chang An-ping and the daughter of Koo Chen-fu, personally selected all the photos and decorations at the scene. On the table was a manuscript of Koo Chen-fu's speech written in beautiful small characters, as if he were working as usual and going to the next decade with Taiwan Cement. In Zhang Anping's view, Taiwan Cement has been following Mr. Gong Liang's ideas along the way, serving the society, but the times are different, the needs are different, and the things it does are different.
"Mr. Gong Liang symbolizes the spirit of the bridge, and his emphasis on the tolerance and harmony of" reaching out "is the essence of the bridge. He is always ready to listen, to pursue harmony, to play the role of connection and bridging. Bridge is the most important spiritual communication, want to take the initiative to communicate. Gongliang Building will inherit the spirit of the bridge and play the role of creating, communicating and connecting ancient and modern China and foreign countries in the future. Zhang Anping said.
Gongliang Building is located in the core area of Qianjiang Century City, with a total floor area of 184481 square meters and a total height of 210 meters. The design of the building is inspired by the cultural integration of the ancient Silk Road and the "the Belt and Road", and draws on the elements of Chinese Peking Opera sleeves and calligraphy art that Mr. Gongliang likes. The overall project started in December 2019 and will be completed in the second quarter of 2024. With the core concept of "green, health and wisdom", it adopts the low-carbon cement developed and produced by Taiwan Cement and the world's leading photovoltaic and energy storage technologies on a large scale. After completion, it will become a modern building integrating green energy saving, intelligent office, leisure and shopping, and will also become one of the bright landmark buildings along the Qiantang River. An important symbol
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communication and connection. In the core belief of Taiwan Cement Corporation, the appearance of cement allows the bridge to extend further. The main function of the bridge is to connect and communicate. When the two sides of the river are inaccessible, the bridge becomes the most important channel.
Zhang Anping has a more extended imagination of the bridge, looking at the gurgling water under the bridge and the bustling crowd on the bridge. He believes that in human life, there is a need to connect and cross over. It is not only a spatial or geographical barrier, but also a psychological, intellectual or conceptual barrier. At this time, all kinds of tangible and intangible bridges are needed. "In today's era of individualization, differentiation, emphasis on self and subject, so that there are more and more contradictions and deeper gaps between each other, I hope that everyone can consciously step out of themselves and make themselves a bridge to live in peace with the world." Speaking of this, Zhang Anping's eyes sparkled. Obviously, this idea is highly consistent with Mr. Gong Liang.
, Chairman of Taiwan Cement Corporation, https://img7.ccement.com/richtext/img/ersadkabr281688717528072., in China's cement industry." Taiwan Cement Group, which has been deeply engaged in the mainland market for more than 20 years and has invested in 12 provinces across regions, is not the largest in scale. But Zhang Anping has won the respect of industry leaders for his elegance, frankness and initiative in communication. Especially his persistence in carbon reduction, in recent years, he has carried out green sustainable action in an all-round way, and established three new core undertakings of low-carbon building materials, resource recycling and green energy. Since 2019, he has called on the industry to take the initiative to shoulder its responsibility to the earth and mankind, eliminate backward production capacity through the establishment of a carbon trading system, and promote the high-quality development of the industry. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of TCC in 2021, Zhang Anping put forward the goal of benchmarking the Paris Agreement and opening up a new horizon, and wrote "commitment, action" with a brush to express his expectations for colleagues. "Doing something as a job is totally different from doing it as a mission."
Zhang Anping believes that factories should be a bridge to carry the dialogue between industry and society, so that cement plants can play different roles besides production. "For example, a factory can truly become a part of community life through connection and dialogue with society. It can be a school without walls, or a conservation area for native animals and plants, or an ecologically beautiful park or a paradise for parents and children to play, all of which are not for profit." Driven by this concept, DAKA Park of Hualien Peace Cement Plant in Taiwan, which opened to the outside world in 2020, has become the first open ecological recycling plant in Taiwan, and has been visited by more than 6.6 million visitors so far; After the completion of the Taiwan Cement Factory in Shaoguan, Guangdong in 2021, there is a water park in the factory area, which is open to the residents of the surrounding villages and towns free of charge. It is a good neighbor in another way that is closer to the community. Every holiday, the villagers nearby have fun with their families.
In 2017, Koo Cheng-yun, the former chairman of Taiwan Cement Group, passed away unexpectedly. Because Koo Chen-fu said to Chang An-ping in his study at home, "If Taiwan Cement encounters difficulties in the future, you must help", Chang An-ping, the son-in-law of the Koo family, is duty-bound to shoulder the heavy burden.
At the time of taking over, the main business and profit source of Taiwan Cement mainly came from the cement industry on both sides of the strait. However, when the cement industry is booming in both production and marketing, Zhang Anping, with his insight into the historical cycle of fluctuations in the international cement industry, believes that the cement industry in mainland China is likely to experience the pain of rapid decline in the high platform period in the near future. He immediately asked his cement factories to increase the layout of the environmental protection industry that uses cement kilns to co-dispose of solid waste and hazardous waste to become "city purifiers", and vigorously promote alternative raw materials and alternative fuels to reduce costs, save energy and reduce carbon. It is precisely because of the preparation for a rainy day that the old Taiwan Cement has created infinite possibilities in the process of the second take-off.
At the same time, Zhang Anping keenly grasped the general trend of international energy transformation and participated in changing the new energy of the future world. In just a few years, the performance has shown explosive growth. Therefore, Zhang Anping has the courage to say that by 2025, the business income of Taiwan Cement's non-cement business will account for more than 50% of the whole group.
for the Gongliang Building. "In the future, it will serve as the office space of the mainland operation headquarters of Taiwan Cement Group, including the important R & D and innovation institutions of photovoltaic, energy storage and environmental protection, which will be stationed one after another. On the one hand, it highlights the long-term commitment of Taiwan Cement to the mainland market, on the other hand, it hopes to create more possibilities for the industry to cross the infinite future through cooperation."
In his plan, the Gongliang Building will become a bridge between the East and the West. "There are also high-end shopping and leisure places and hotels in this building, and we will introduce abundant high-quality resources at home and abroad to cooperate with Hangzhou's goal of building a high-end modern service industry into an international metropolis." Zhang Anping, who is familiar with European history and culture, has successful experience in running hotels and restoring castles in Italy. He very much hopes to have the opportunity to introduce the most representative Italian food culture and fashion culture in Europe to Hangzhou, as well as the representative culture of Hangzhou to Europe.
"I still remember the last time Mr. Gong Liang came on stage to sing Peking Opera, especially when he left the stage and waved his sleeves." He wants to make it a reality. "After completion, the facade of Gongliang Building is like two sleeves, seemingly soft, but actually tall and straight, continuous, momentum like a rainbow." Under Zhang Anping's description, Gongliang Building symbolizes the future of high-quality development of Taiwan's green and sustainable cause.Perhaps, this will remind Zhang Anping of Mr. Gong Liang's unforgettable back, and shoulder the heavy trust, do not change the original intention of watching the "bridge".
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