On March 14, the 14th China Cement Industry Summit and TOP100 Award Ceremony hosted by China Cement Network was held in Hangzhou. Ma Weiping, Chairman of OCC (Yangtze River Cement Enterprise Alliance), made a keynote report "OCC-Building Industry Ecology to Promote High Quality Development".
According to Ma Weiping, OCC is proposed by some cement enterprises, led by China Cement Network, in response to the central "to strengthen industry autonomy, to prevent" involution "vicious competition." The cement industry organization was established in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province in June 2024. The aim is to prevent involution and adhere to peak-shifting production and capacity reduction on demand. Maintain the prosperity and stability of the Yangtze River cement industry and achieve high-quality development.
OCC operation mechanism, the first step is to negotiate the output, through repeated consultation, the enterprises along the Yangtze River reach a consensus on common peak staggering production, and restore the benign industry ecology. The second step is to take the initiative to reduce production capacity, set up a merger and acquisition fund to reduce production capacity, and use leasing, contracting, acquisition of kiln indicators, stock exchange, mergers and acquisitions, etc. Since its establishment, OCC has been promoting industry self-discipline, promoting communication and cooperation among enterprises, promoting the concept of anti-involution/on-demand production, and making suggestions on behalf of small and medium-sized enterprises. The focus
of OCC's work in the next step:
1. Deepen industry self-discipline and cooperation. We will continue to strengthen the construction and improvement of industry self-discipline mechanism, promote cooperation and coordinated development among enterprises, deepen the concept and practice of anti-involution and anti-dumping, maintain market order, and promote resource sharing and complementary advantages among enterprises.
2. Establish and improve the industry supervision mechanism. Establish and improve the industry supervision mechanism, strengthen the supervision of enterprise production, promote the transparency of market production along the Yangtze River, guide enterprises to jointly maintain the ecology, and maintain the good image and market order of the industry.
3. Promote mergers and acquisitions in the industry. OCC set up a merger and acquisition fund to accelerate the merger and reorganization of the industry, and further enhance the concentration of the cement industry by means of leasing, equity cooperation and index exchange.