Ma Weiping: Find the Balance between Green Development and Economic Benefits to Realize the Dual Sustainability of Industrial Ecology and Economic Value

On September 23, the 14th China Cement Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Technology Exchange Conference and the 6th Intelligent Summit Forum, sponsored by China Cement Network, officially opened in Zibo, Shandong Province. Ma Weiping, chairman of OCC, delivered a speech at the conference.

Respected leaders and colleagues in the industry:

Hello! The 14th China Cement Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Technology Exchange Conference and the 6th Intelligent Summit Forum opened grandly

in the critical period of the global green low-carbon transformation and the further promotion of China's "double carbon" goal. On behalf of OCC, I would like to extend my warmest congratulations on the successful opening of the conference! As a basic industry supporting infrastructure, energy saving and carbon reduction in

cement industry is not only the inevitable requirement of responding to the national "double carbon" strategy, but also the core direction of breaking through the dilemma of high energy consumption and achieving sustainable development. Every energy-saving technology landing, every low-carbon process optimization, is to reduce energy consumption, reduce carbon emissions, are to protect the ecological environment, retain green mountains and rivers to contribute to the industry.

However, we should also see that energy saving and carbon reduction is not a single environmental protection task, it requires enterprises to invest resources in technology research and development, update production equipment, which can not be separated from stable economic benefits as a support. If enterprises are in a long-term profit dilemma and lack of capital investment in green transformation, energy saving and carbon reduction will fall into a "powerless" deadlock. Therefore, only by finding a balance between green development and economic benefits, and allowing enterprises to obtain reasonable benefits synchronously in the process of emission reduction, can we stimulate the endogenous power of the industry to promote energy conservation and carbon reduction, and realize the dual sustainability of industrial ecology and economic value. Since its establishment in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province in June 2024

, OCC has always taken industry self-discipline as its core mission, actively responded to the central policy guidance, and resolutely resisted the vicious competition of "involution". We are well aware that in the face of the dual challenges of energy saving and carbon reduction and the pursuit of economic benefits, only when the industry goes hand in hand can we break through the predicament and move forward steadily. In the early days of its establishment, we took the lead in organizing member enterprises to conduct in-depth research on the cement market in the Yangtze River Basin, and accurately sorted out the core pain points such as overcapacity and low-price competition. By promoting peak-shifting production on demand and scientific capacity reduction, it not only effectively optimizes the balance of supply and demand in the market, builds favorable conditions for energy saving and carbon reduction, but also effectively improves the profitability of enterprises and effectively protects the prosperity and stability of the cement industry in the Yangtze River Basin.

Looking forward to the future, OCC will continue to adhere to the unshakable peak staggering production, adhere to the communication and coordination between small and medium-sized enterprises and leading enterprises in the industry, adhere to the market-oriented means to improve industry concentration, adhere to the balance between sales and efficiency, adhere to the four core grasps, and strive to promote the industry to achieve a new leap forward.

This conference gathers group wisdom and aims to promote energy-saving, environmental protection and intelligent transformation and upgrading of the cement industry. OCC is willing to work with all colleagues to take this conference as an opportunity to focus on energy conservation and environmental protection, actively practice the concept of green low-carbon and digital intelligence, move forward bravely on the road of balancing energy conservation, carbon reduction and economic benefits, and jointly write a new chapter of green and high-quality development of the cement industry!

Finally, I wish the conference a complete success! Thank you all!