On June 21, the opening ceremony and keynote report of the 2024 RCEP Local Government and Friendship City Cooperation (Huangshan) Forum were held in Huangshan City, Anhui Province. Yang Jun, chairman of Conch Group, said in his introductory speech at the meeting that RCEP provided great opportunities for enterprises to smooth trade channels and promote investment development, and made important contributions to promoting the in-depth development of regional economic integration. Conch Group is making every effort to create a world-class enterprise with global competitiveness, and will continue to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with RCEP member countries to promote the construction of a new situation of high-quality development of regional interest community.
"World cement looks at China, Chinese cement looks at conch". Conch Group, headquartered in Wuhu, Anhui Province, is the leading enterprise in China's cement building materials industry and one of the earliest local enterprises in Anhui Province to enter the world's top 500. It holds three listed companies, Conch Cement , Conch New Material and Conch Environmental Protection, and has more than 660 subsidiaries worldwide. Its total assets exceeded 300 billion yuan.
Yang Jun introduced that, driven by the RCEP framework, Conch Group has continuously increased its investment in RCEP and regional economic and trade cooperation. At present, more than 20 companies have been set up in Indonesia, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and other RCEP member countries, and 11 large-scale entity projects have been completed, with an investment scale of about 14 billion yuan. The employment localization rate is over 85%. Since the entry into force of RCEP, the total trade volume between Conch Group and other RCEP member countries has reached 5 billion US dollars.
Yang Jun said that Conch Group will wholeheartedly provide new productivity in the cement industry for RCEP member countries, further improve the layout of international production capacity, and make every overseas project a "complex" of advanced technology, a "purifier" of urban environment, and a "good helper" of the local government. Accelerate the development of local cement industry and cities into a new stage of high-quality development.
Yang Jun said that at present, Conch Group is focusing on the industrial development ideas of "digitalization transformation of traditional industries, large-scale transfer of emerging industries, and industrialization transformation of high and new technologies", speeding up the construction of cement manufacturing as the basis. New energy, new materials, environmental protection industry, digital economy, modern service trade and other five major industries promote each other's "one base, five industries" high-quality development model, which will provide broader cooperation prospects for RCEP member countries in the fields of intelligent manufacturing, green industry, e-commerce, digital trade and so on.
"We will continue to strengthen cultural exchanges with RCEP member countries, take the initiative to fulfill the social responsibility of large enterprises, actively promote the localization of management, use modern industrial production methods to promote local employment, and create more opportunities and space for local people to develop." Yang Jun said that Conch Group will take practical actions to show the role of Chinese enterprises, establish a Chinese brand image, and strive to be a "partner" for high-quality development in the RCEP region.
