2025, the chairman and general manager of China Communications Construction Group Co., Ltd. (Hereinafter referred to as "China Communications Group"), one of the central enterprises under the jurisdiction of the SASAC of the State Council, changed their names. Song Hailiang, Party Secretary and Chairman of China Energy Engineering Group Co., Ltd. (Hereinafter referred to as "China Energy Engineering Group"), replaced Wang Tongzhou as Party Secretary and Chairman of China Communications Group; Zhang Bingnan, General Manager of China Forestry Group Co., Ltd. (Hereinafter referred to as "China Forestry Group"), replaced Wang Haihuai as Deputy Party Secretary, Director and General Manager of China Communications Group. From June 26 to June 27,
2025, several insiders confirmed the above information to the Economic Observer newspaper reporter. Insiders
from China Communications Group also told the Economic Observer that the personnel change was announced on the evening of June 26, 2025. At present, the column of "Leading Group" in the internal system of China Communications Group has been updated. Including Song Hailiang and Zhang Bingnan, there are nine members of the leading group of China Communications Group. Founded in December 2005 with a registered capital of 7.274 billion yuan,
China Communications Group is the world's leading integrated infrastructure service provider. The group is good at water transport engineering and highway bridge engineering construction. Its holding and major shareholding listed companies include China Jiaotong Construction (601800. Sh/01800. HK), China Jiaotong Real Estate (00736. SZ), Bishui (300070. SZ), Zhenhua Heavy Industry (600320. Sh), Greentown China (03900. HK), and China Jiaotong Design (600720. Sh). In the ranking of Fortune Global 500 in 2024, China Communications Group ranked 63rd, with operating income of 136.671 billion US dollars (about 979.9 billion RMB at the exchange rate of June 2025) and profit of 1.672 billion US dollars (about 12 billion RMB at the exchange rate of June 2025). Song Hailiang, the new chairman of
China Communications Group, was born in July 1965 in Dongming, Heze, Shandong Province. After graduating from the port machinery design and manufacturing major of Wuhan Institute of Water Transport Engineering (now Wuhan University of Technology) in 1987, he joined the Ministry of Communications (now the Ministry of Transport). He has successively served as the assistant engineer and engineer of the Water Transport Planning and Design Institute of the Ministry of Transport, the deputy director and director of the Channel Office (later renamed as the director of the Second Design Institute), the assistant to the dean and the director of the Business Department, the deputy dean and the dean of the Water Transport Planning and Design Institute of China Communications Corporation, and the chairman and general manager of the Water Transport Planning and Design Institute of China Communications Corporation; Assistant to the president and vice president of CCCC (601800.sh/1800.HK), during which he served concurrently as the chairman of Zhenhua Heavy Industries (600320.sh). In October
2018, Song Hailiang was promoted to deputy secretary of the party committee, director and general manager of CCCC; more than a year later, in August 2020, Song Hailiang left CCCC and became secretary of the party committee and chairman of China Nengjian Group. Wang Tongzhou, former chairman of
China Communications Group, was born in December 1965 in Luliang, Shanxi Province. He has successively served as the deputy general manager of China State Construction Hainan Development Company; the deputy general manager of China State Construction Industrial Company and concurrently the general manager of China State Construction Hainan Development Company; the general manager of the general contracting department (domestic business department) of China State Construction Corporation and the executive director and deputy general manager of China State Construction International Construction Company; the general manager of China State Construction Development Co., Ltd.; the director of the Sixth Engineering Bureau of China State Construction Engineering Corporation; Deputy General Manager of Sinohydro Corporation Limited; Deputy General Manager of China Power Construction Corporation; General Manager of China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group Corporation; Party Secretary and Chairman of China Nonferrous Metal Mining (Group) Co., Ltd.; Party Secretary and Chairman of CCCC since August 2020. Zhang Bingnan, the new general manager of
China Communications Group, was born in June 1972. After graduating from Beijing Normal University in 1992, he joined the China Gold Newspaper of the State Gold Administration at that time. Later, he served as president of China Gold News, director of Beijing Gold Economic Research Center, vice president and Secretary-General of China Gold Association, and director of Gold Investment Analyst Professional Qualification Assessment Committee; Assistant to the General Manager of China National Gold Group Corporation, Party Secretary and Director of Liaoning Provincial Gold Administration Bureau, General Manager of China National Gold Group Liaoning Regional Branch, Deputy General Manager of China National Arts & Crafts (Group) Corporation, Deputy General Manager of China Poly Group Corporation, and Chairman of the Board of Directors and Executive Director of Poly Property Group 00119. In March 2023, he was appointed as the deputy party secretary and director of China Forestry Group; in December 2024, he was promoted to the general manager of China Forestry Group. Wang Haihuai, former general manager of
China Communications Group, was born on August 8, 1968 in Nanchong, Sichuan. In 1991, Wang Haihuai graduated from the Department of Waterway and Port Engineering of Chongqing Jiaotong University (now Chongqing Jiaotong University), majoring in port and waterway engineering, and then worked in the Ministry of Transport, and successively served as technician, assistant engineer, deputy director, director and deputy manager of 202 Construction Department of the Second Harbor Engineering Bureau of Ministry of Transport, and assistant to the director of the Second Harbor Engineering Bureau. Deputy Director and Director of the Second Harbor Engineering Bureau of China Harbour Engineering (Group) Corporation; Chairman and General Manager of CCCC Second Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd.; General Manager of the Port and Dredging Division of CCCC; Deputy General Manager of CCCC; Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of CCCC and Deputy General Manager of CCCC; Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of CCCC. In February 2021, he was promoted to Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Director and General Manager of China Communications Group.