Wei Rushan, Vice General Manager of China National Building Material Group, and His Delegation Attend the Annual Conference of the World Cement Association

On October 24-25, the World Cement Association (WCA) Annual Conference was held in Dubai, with leading figures, experts and scholars from nearly 30 countries and regions, including China, Saudi Arabia, Ireland, France, South Korea, Bangladesh, South Africa, Turkey, India and the United Kingdom. Share experience and seek common development around the theme of "coping with the global crisis and improving profitability". Wei Rushan, Vice General Manager of China Building Materials Group and President of China Building Materials Co., Ltd., participated in the conference and exchange talks. On the morning

of October 24, Wei Rushan delivered a keynote speech, analyzing the challenges of overcapacity and carbon reduction faced by China's cement industry, and sharing the measures and experiences of China's building materials industry. He said that in the face of nearly 40% of the excess capacity, China's building materials actively implement measures such as promoting peak staggering production, reducing replacement, regional clinker capacity exchange, and improving capacity concentration. As the largest cement producer in the world, CNBM actively plays the role of a large enterprise to promote the "double carbon" process. It has jointly established a double carbon policy research working group for the cement industry with the China Building Materials Federation and seven major cement enterprises to study and draft a carbon trading plan, make efforts to put forward suggestions for the formulation of carbon trading policies for the cement industry, and promote the cement industry to join China's carbon emissions trading market. On the evening

of October 24, Wei Rushan, as the chairman of the World Cement Association, presented awards to enterprises and individuals who won WCA annual awards such as Lifetime Achievement Award, Model Factory Award, Climate Action Award, Innovation Award and Health and Safety Award. Hangzhou Shanya Southern Cement , a subsidiary of China Building Materials, won the 2023 Model Factory Award, Jiahua Special Cement won the Innovative Product Award, and Sinoma International Tianjin Institute won the Nitrogen Oxide Emission Reduction Award. On the afternoon of October

25, Wei Rushan delivered the closing speech of the conference. He said that with the end of the global epidemic and the urgent need for economic recovery, cement enterprises, especially many WCA members from emerging countries, are facing both opportunities and challenges, which are mainly manifested in how to attach equal importance to social responsibility and shareholder returns, sustainable development and short-term survival, and coordination of overcapacity and transformation and upgrading. He called on WCA to uphold the concept of openness, inclusiveness, sharing and win-win, provide support and support for members and stakeholders, and promote the sustainable development of the global cement industry. On the morning of October

26, the World Cement Association held a meeting of the Executive Committee. Rong Yakun, President of Sinoma Cement , was elected Secretary-General of the World Cement Association. Rong Yakun, President

of Sinoma Cement, Sui Tongbo, Vice President of Sinoma International, Li Heng, Vice General Manager of Green Energy of Sinoma, and Fan Boyu, Vice Minister of Marketing Department of Sinoma Intelligent Technology (Chengdu) attended the conference and shared their experiences and practices on model factories, low-carbon cement, carbon trading and digitalization. Relevant personnel from the International Cooperation Department of China Building Materials Co., Ltd. attended the conference.