Six Decades of Steadfast Progress, Opening a New Chapter in the New Era —— CC7 Holds High-quality Belt and Road Cooperation Conference
On the afternoon of October 18th, 2024, China National Chemical Engineering & Construction Corporation Seven, Ltd. (CC7) successfully held the High-quality Road and Belt Cooperation Conference at its headquarters on the occasion of celebrating its 60th anniversary. The Conference, aimed at advancing the high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), brought together stakeholders with a commitment to deeply implement BRI’s eight key areas of cooperation. Through collaborative efforts across the board, the event aimed to materialize these cooperative efforts into concrete and substantive advancements, ultimately contributing to the vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind.
The Conference thoroughly reviewed CC7’s glorious 60-year journey and looked ahead to the development vision of the new era and new journey. It underscored the need to deepen exchanges, build consensus, and pursue collective exploration to realize mutual benefits and win-win results among parties, thus positively contributing to building a green development community for the countries and regions involved in the BRI.
A distinguished array of guests attended the conference, including Ma Peihua, Vice Chairman of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, alongside other special invitees. Liu Dongjin, Chief Accountant of China National Chemical Engineering Group Corporation Ltd. (CNCEC), was present with other CNCEC leaders. Representing the diplomatic community was Tursunov Batir, Minister-Counsellor of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the People's Republic of China. Liang Yong, Deputy Director of the Department of Commerce of Sichuan Province, joined the event with other guests from the local government. Attendees from the financial sector included Wu Junli, Assistant CEO of the Sichuan Branch of China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation, and other guests from various financial institutions. Shang Runtao, Vice President and Secretary-General of the China Association of Construction Enterprise Management, was also present, accompanied by other association representatives. Academia was represented by Song Yufei from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, among other university delegates. Pan Jianhua, Chairman of Lutianhua Group Inc., was joined by other Chinese enterprise leaders. Harish S. Wadkar, Senior Vice President of Damac Properties, attended with other international business executives. The event also welcomed guests from esteemed vendors and subcontractors, as well as representatives from the Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily, and other invited media outlets. The conference was addressed by Long Haiyang, Chairman of CC7, and hosted by CEO Yi Bingyin.
The Conference proceeded with the readout of congratulatory letters from all sectors of society. The organizer expressed heartfelt gratitude and profound respect to the company’s long-standing supporters, including business partners, sister enterprises, higher education institutions, research institutions and social organizations, for their invaluable contributions and collaborative efforts.
Mo Dingge, Chairman of CNCEC, entrusted Liu Dongjin, the Chief Accountant of CNCEC, to deliver a speech on-site. Additionally, Mo sent a congratulatory video, in which Mo Dingge, on behalf of CNCEC, expressed heartfelt gratitude to the leaders at all levels, and to domestic and foreign partners for their consistent care for and support of CNCEC’s development. He also extended warm congratulations to all the employees of CC7. Mo stressed that, over the past six decades, CC7 has positively served the overall interests of the Nation’s agenda, and played an important role in building China’s basic industrial system. In particular, CC7 was actively involved in the BRI, undertook many major projects with international influence, created many “world-firsts”, and made outstanding contributions to the internationalization of CNCEC. Mo stated that standing at a new starting point of a new journey, CNCEC will fully support CC7’s global development strategy. He hoped that CC7 would strengthen exchanges with partners at home and abroad, deepen cooperation, seek common development, and deeply implement the “dual wheel drive” of technological and management innovation, to comprehensively enhance development quality. He called for accelerating the construction of an engineering company with international influence and competitiveness, making new and greater contributions to CNCEC’s “135” development strategy, and efforts to speed up fostering a world-class enterprise!
In his speech, Long Haiyang reviewed CC7’s glorious history, remarkable achievements, and valuable experiences over the past six decades. Long emphasized that, founded in 1964 in Luzhou city along the bank of the Yangtze River, CC7 answered the call for building national industrial system and meeting the people’s basic needs, thus embarking on its remarkable journey. Moreover, Long noted that CC7, born to serve the nation’s needs, has been in alignment with the state’s objectives over the past six decades. It has courageously acted as a pioneer for China’s Going Global strategy, a forerunner in BRI cooperation and a leader in the global chemical construction. Furthermore, Long stated that CC7 has made significant contributions to promote the economic development of countries along BRI, improve living standards of the local communities, drive social and economic advancement, and ensure the welfare of the people. In the face of unprecedented changes unseen in a century, Long expressed optimism for the company’s promising future, stating that CC7 will forge ahead with determination, take on greater responsibilities, and remain committed to making even greater contributions to the construction of a strong nation and the rejuvenation of the nation.
As for CC7’s development planning, Long stressed that, in the new era and on this new journey, the company will actively engage in national strategies, focus on its core responsibilities and main businesses, seize market opportunities presented by improvement and upgrading of traditional chemical industries, relocation of chemical plants to industrial parks, and construction of zero-waste cities. Specifically, CC7 needs to fully align with the seven major petrochemical bases in China and the petrochemical industries along the Yangtze River, and vigorously implement the “T+EPC” model through the dual engines of technological and management innovation, to support the high-tech, green, and intelligent transformation and upgrading of the chemical industry.
In addition, Long emphasized the importance of scientific and technological innovation for CC7, urging the company to accelerate the transformation of scientific research achievements into real productive forces, make active deployment in strategic emerging industries and future industries, and foster new types of productive forces according to local conditions. By leveraging overseas resource investment, industrial construction investment and technology transformation investment, CC7 will strategically deploy its resources and transform project competencies into tangible industrial growth, accelerating high-quality development.
Finally, Long called on all staff to take advantage of the Conference to collaborate with diverse partners in planning for the future and sharing achievements. He stressed the importance of fully leveraging CC7's role as an international platform of CNCEC, providing essential support to build a higher-quality CNCEC over the next five years and to embark on a new journey of high-quality development. With mutual benefit and win-win results as the core concept of integrated development, CC7 will practice social responsibility at high standards and continue to work hand-in-hand with governments at all levels and partners, strengthening strategic collaboration, promoting the alignment of plans, enriching the connotations of cooperation, and deepening cooperation in green infrastructure, green energy, green transportation, and other fields. CC7 is committed to bringing in advanced technologies and energy products to China, and exporting China's solutions and construction expertise, continuously advancing BRI cooperation, transforming planning blueprints into tangible realities, and achieving even more fruitful results.
Ma Peihua, Liu Dongjin, and Liang Yong delivered speeches, while Tursunov Batir, Pan Jianhua, Hou Jianguo, Mohammed Zunaidi Bin Kadir, Tian Yaqing, Harish S Wadkar, Giuseppe Surace, Cao Ran, Wu Junli and other guests made exchange speeches.
During the Conference, ten outstanding meritorious figures who contributed significantly and created valuable spiritual wealth in CC7’s six decades of reform and development were honored. Liu Dongjin, Long Haiyang, other leaders, and guests presented awards to the recipients.
During the event, under the joint witness of the attending leaders and guests, CC7 signed multiple cooperative framework agreements and project contracts with several domestic and international enterprises, with a total value exceeding RMB 20 billion, covering multiple fields, including petrochemicals, green energy, intelligent agriculture, and others.
The main conference venue was attended by members of CC7's leadership team, external directors, former company chiefs, senior executives, the CEO's assistant, the safety director, deputy chief economist, deputy chief engineer, deputy chief accountant, and the heads of CC7’s branch and subsidiary companies, as well as the directors and deputy directors of the company's headquarters departments. Meanwhile, other members of the leadership, department heads from branch and subsidiary companies, and project department leaders and directors participated in the auxiliary conference sessions. Individuals from various sectors of society who are interested in and supportive of CC7’s progress tuned in to the conference via the CC7 WeChat Video Account.
