Gao Dengbang: Cement Industry Should Unswervingly Anti-involution

On November 15, the "2024 China Cement High Quality Development Forum and OCC Second Anti-Involution Forum" was held in Tongcheng, Anhui Province. Gao Dengbang, president of

China Cement Association, pointed out in his speech that the current industry has encountered some difficulties, which are caused by many factors. Cement workers have always been not afraid of difficulties and have the courage to open up. In the current market downturn, they should be more determined and high-spirited. We should always uphold the concept of fair competition and win-win cooperation, actively respond to the call of the state on strengthening industry self-discipline, preventing vicious competition and promoting the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure, jointly safeguard the industry ecology, and push the cement industry to a new height with our own efforts. The full text of

Gao Dengbang's speech is as follows:

Dear entrepreneurs,

the Yangtze River is the mother river of the Chinese nation, an important ecological security barrier for our country, and an important support for the development of the Chinese nation. Promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Zone is a major decision made by the Party Central Committee and a major strategy related to the overall development of the country. Since 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping has hosted symposiums on promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Zone in Chongqing, Wuhan and Nanjing, and delivered important speeches to systematically deploy the protection and restoration of the Yangtze River. Cement industry, as a pillar industry, should assume social responsibility, always uphold the concept of Yangtze River protection, and unswervingly support and promote the protection and restoration of the ecological environment of the Yangtze River. Relevant enterprises should strictly demand themselves in the production process and implement the concept of Yangtze River protection into every production link.

Secondly, we must unswervingly oppose involution. At present, the industry has encountered some difficulties, which are caused by many factors. Cement workers have always been not afraid of difficulties and have the courage to open up. In the current market downturn, they should be more determined and high-spirited. We should always uphold the concept of fair competition and win-win cooperation, actively respond to the call of the state on strengthening industry self-discipline, preventing vicious competition and promoting the optimization and upgrading of industrial structure, jointly safeguard the industry ecology, and push the cement industry to a new height with our own efforts.

Third, we should always uphold the development concept of green development and environmental protection priority. We should be willing to make great efforts to reduce costs and increase efficiency and improve the efficiency of enterprises. We should constantly optimize the management mode and promote the implementation of green development through fine and scientific management. We should actively respond to and continue to promote the synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction, make bold investments and make great efforts to truly turn cement plants into green environmental protection factories.

Fourthly, we should thoroughly implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on carbon peak and carbon neutralization, and apply the related technologies of carbon reduction, carbon reduction, zero carbon and carbon sequestration to the production of cement industry. At present, cement production capacity is seriously excessive, and the cement industry is included in the scope of carbon trading, which is a challenge, but also an opportunity. I hope you will actively explore carbon sequestration, carbon tax, carbon trading and other means to achieve a smooth transformation of the cement industry. Trees move to death, people move to live, we should dare to increase the intensity of transformation, dare to explore and innovate, early transformation, early income, late transformation, will eventually have no way to go.

Finally, I believe that the current difficulties faced by the cement industry are temporary. I hope that the cement workers can work hard, dare to be the first, do their work well in a down-to-earth manner, contribute to the local economic development, and realize the value of the industry with achievements, contributions and status.