Source: CNBM Date: Aug 1, 2016 On July 29, Song Zhiping, Chairman of China National Building Materials Group Corporation (CNBM), met with Michael Charlton, British Minister-Counsellor in China and Director General of UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) in China, at the headquarters of CNBM. The two sides exchanged their ideas on CNBM's business development and planning, such as new energy and new housing in the UK, the business cooperation in the UK, as well as other issues. Song welcomed Charlton, thanking the British Embassy in China and UKTI for their long-term support to CNBM. He introduced CNBM's businesses such as building materials manufacturing, R & D and logistics. As the world's largest building materials manufacturer, CNBM has been ranked among Fortune Global 500 for six consecutive years, and CNBM's businesses such as new energy and new housing have made great progress in the UK, said him. He stressed that Chinese and British enterprises are facing good development opportunities, the two sides should employ respective advantages to carry out in-depth and extensive cooperation, and the cooperation between the two sides should not be limited to bilateral cooperation only but cover the joint development of third-party markets. Charlton spoke highly of CNBM's achievements in its projects in the UK. He is delighted to provide necessary support for CNBM's operations in the UK. The UK is still a hot destination for global investment, and the British government will keep an open environment for business cooperation, will not change its fundamental principles for investors, and will remain determined to build more housing for people. Green town and new energy are good concepts, said Charlton, expecting the two sides to further deepen bilateral cooperation to create more successful models for future cooperation. Wei Feng, President Assistant of CNBM and General Manager of the Department of International Cooperation; Peng Shou, Vice President of China National Building Material Company Limited and Chairman of China Triumph International Engineering Group Co., Ltd.; Ash Rehman, the president of Welink Energy (UK) Co., Ltd. and other executives were present.

Source: CNBM Date: July 15, 2016 On July 14, China International Roofing & Waterproofing Expo'2016, organized by China National Building Materials Group Corporation (CNBM), co-organized by CNBM Waterproof Material Corp. and China National Building Waterproof Association (CNBWA), kicked off at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center. Zheng Weihua, inspector from the Department of Supervision over Product Quality, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine; Yao Yan, Vice Chairwoman of China National Building Materials Group Corporation (CNBM) and President of the China Building Materials Academy (CBMA); Karl-Heinz Schneider, President of the Central German Roofer Trade Association; Michael Olszewski, President of the International Federation for the Roofing Trade; Zhu Dongqing, Secretary-General of CNBWA and other leaders attended the opening ceremony and cut the ribbon. During the exhibition, Yao visited the booths of domestic and overseas top roof systems and waterproofing companies such as the Suzhou Waterproof Research Institute, China Building Materials Academy, Dongfang Yuhong, Shenzhen Joaboa, GAF and Vedag, inquired about world leading building waterproofing technologies and products, and visited the demonstration sites of major construction of renowned domestic and foreign enterprises to watch construction demonstration. Yao and other leaders also attended and witnessed the inaugural ceremony of the National Center for Quality Supervision and Inspection of Waterproof and Water-saving Materials established by China Building Material Test & Certification Group Co., Ltd. As China's only of its kind, the center has been capable of testing hundreds of types of waterproof building materials and their parameters, passed the review and inspection by the Certification and Accreditation Administration of the People's Republic of China (CNCA), and been officially authorized by CNCA. The exhibition has been hosted successfully 13 times. After years of prosperity, the exhibition has become one of Asia's largest waterproof exhibitions and the world top three waterproof exhibitions. This year, the exhibition brought together a lot of top exhibitors, as well as world leading roof and waterproof system technologies and products, improved in scale and grade compared to the previous editions, covered an area of 30,000 square meters, and attracted 260 renowned enterprises from 16 countries and regions.

Source: CBMA Date: July 28, 2016 On July 27, Yao Yan, Vice Chairwoman of China National Building Materials Group Corporation (CNBM) and President of the China Building Materials Academy (CBMA), met with Petr Necas, former Prime Minister of Czech during his visit in Beijing, as well as a delegation from the New Silk Road Infrastructure Construction and Technology Association (New Silk Road Association) of Czech. Ma Mingliang, Vice President of the China Building Materials Academy and General Manager of Beijing Triumph International Engineering Co., Ltd., chaired the meeting. Yao warmly welcomed Necas and the delegation. She introduced the industrial status, technology advantage and overseas business development of CNBM and CBMA. CBMA has implemented a lot of international technology cooperation projects in recent years, including European cooperative projects such as technology output and product output, she said. With deep friendship, political stability, and long culture and history, the two sides have huge space for cooperation. Hopefully the meeting will promote mutual understanding and lay the groundwork for future exchange and cooperation. Necas was honored to visit CBMA and astonished by its technology achievements. The Chinese government and the Czech government have actively promoted the cooperation and exchange between the two sides, currently Czech's building industry is developing rapidly, and it is foreseeable that the prospect of cooperation between the two countries in the fields of building and building materials will be rosy. As a bridge of exchange, the New Silk Road Association can help CBMA develop the European market, especially the Central Europe market and the Eastern Europe market. He expected the two sides to employ respective advantages, forge a longstanding partnership and achieve win-win. In 2015, the "Belt and Road" initiative proposed by China was advanced in an accelerated and all-round manner. Located in the center of Europe, connecting Central Asia and Western Europe, Czech is the only way to the ancient Silk Road. Czech made a positive response to China's "Belt and Road" initiative. Founded in 2016, the New Silk Road Association aims to establish a forum based on the mechanism of the Summit of China and 16 Central and Eastern European Countries (1+16 Summit), and host it in Prague and China annually, to promote bilateral exchanges in economy, technology and culture; and to promote exchanges among the enterprises in the "16+1" region, as well as cooperation in fields such as technology, product promotion and project contracting. Accompanied by Yao and Ma, the delegation led by Necas visited the exhibition room and the three-board one-column light-steel anti-seismic energy-efficiency township model house of CBMA.

Source: CNBM Date: July 20, 2016 July 20, 2016, In the latest edition of Fortune magazine,the  World Top 500 Enterprise list released. By the global economic slowdown, the threshold list were down 11.8 percent from last year to $ 20.92 billion. China Building Materials Group actively respond to complex economic situation, in 2015 the initiative to adjust its business structure in order to profit at the core moderately lower revenue targets, operating income of $ 31.71 billion, the sixth year in a row to enter the Fortune 500 list, ranked No. 327, China's building materials industry is the only enterprise ENTRY. At the same time the list of French building materials company Saint-Gobain also ranked 196, ranked 411 Irish CRH, Holcim, Lafarge ranked 438.

Source: CNBM Date: June 1, 2016 On May 30, 2016, at the “FAC Signing Ceremony of VCM Guangfu 5000TPD Clinker Line Project” held in the 3F meeting room of the office building of Hefei Cement Research & Design Institute (HCRDI), HCRDI was awarded the final acceptance certificate (FAC) of the VCM Guangfu 5000TPD Clinker Line Project by Viet Nam Construction Material (VCM). The ceremony was attended by Mr. Giuseppe Maniscalco (President of VCM), Ruan Nansheng (GM of VCM), Mr. Yang Tingji (Accountant-general of VCM), Zhu Bing (Executive Deputy Director of HCRDI), Hong Yun (Executive Deputy GM of HCRDI Engineering Company), Zhang Pinghong (Deputy GM of HCRDI Engineering Company), Cao Wenpeng (Project Manager, etc.). Ruan Nansheng and Zhang Pinghong signed the FAC on behalf of VCM and HCRDI, respectively. The construction of the project was formally commenced in 2012. Under the principle of lean management, HCRDI fulfilled all the tasks of the project on schedule in accordance with the quality requirements, through scientific, reasonable and optimized organization, and brought all the technical indexes up to or above the requirements in the master contract. The FAC award symbolized that the project was completed with satisfactory results.

Source: CTIEC Date: June 13, 2016 The second-stage clinker line cement construction project ofMongolia, with an annual output of 1 million tons of cement production and contracted by China Triumph International Engineering Co., was successfully ignited according to the plan on June, 10th. As an important step in the overall construction in Mongolia project, the successful ignition of the second stage of the project indicates that the project will officially enter the stage of overall and regular production. This is a pilot project for the Belt and Road initiative and “Going Global” strategy of China’s building materials industry. The successful construction and the operation of the project will not only lay a solid basis for the global development of building materials and cement industries, but also promote the building materials industry and the local economic development in Mongolia.  The project construction suffered from low temperature, extreme coldness and blizzard and other extreme weather that occur only once-in-a-century in Mongolia since its inception. In March, the local temperature was still below 30 degrees, creating a major obstacle for the project construction. Meanwhile, since this year is the election year of the Mongolia, complex local political environment led to the difficulties in ensuring the progress of the project construction. Faced with obstacles such as the huge remaining engineering quantity, restricted work visa, more than 1/3 shortage of the planned staff and delayed work resumption of more than a month, the project department reasonably makes full use of local labor resources through wise staff deployment and prioritizing key routes and shift work. After painstaking efforts, the goal set up by China United Cement Co., of “ensuring the long-term and steady operation through one-off ignition” was realized successfully.

Source: CNBM Date: June 27, 2016 Hebei Hallof Great Hall of the People was ablaze with lights in the evening of Jun 25. The signing ceremony for major projects was grandly held here after the talks between the heads of China and Russia. At the ceremony, the agreements of a few major governmental and commercial projects, including the strategic cooperation agreement between CNBM and Eurocement Group, were signed in the presence of the heads of China and Russia. Song Zhiping (Chairman of CNBM) and Galchev (Chairman of Eurocement Group) signed the agreement on behalf of CNBM and Eurocement Group, respectively. The important partnerships established between the two countries during the visit of the President of Russia will be bound to lay an important foundation for accelerating the pragmatic cooperation. The signing of the agreement symbolized that the long-term friendly cooperation between CNBM and Eurocement Group entered a new stage featuring pragmatism and high efficiency. As the Russia’s largest and world’s fifth largest cement group, Eurocement Group owns 19 cement plants in Russia and the other countries of CIS, and outputs 50 million tons cement every year. According to the agreement, the two parties will cooperate tightly in the fields of cement, glass, new-type house, new energy and building materials industry park, and upscale their respective benefits and businesses based on continuous expansion and deepening of cooperation, to finally achieve the goals of reciprocity and win-win cooperation. Following the ceremony, Song Zhiping attended the evening reception for the heads of the two countries, on invitation.  

Source: CNBM Date: June 14, 2016 A series of International Production Capacity Cooperation Activities during the 4th China-South Asia Expo, co-sponsored by National Development and Reform Commission and Yunnan provincial government, was solemnly launched in Kunming, Yunnan. Vice Premier of the State Council Wang Yang attended the opening ceremony and delivered the speech. The 5-day event includes the international production capacity cooperation exhibition and global production capacity forum and so on. The CNBM delegation, led by Huang Anzhong, Deputy General Manager of CNBM, participated in related activities. As one of the highlights of this international production capacity cooperation, China-South Asia Expo launched the first ever international production capacity pavilion. As the only representative enterprise in the building materials industry, CNBM was invited to join the expo and displayed cutting-edge equipment such as the cement and the flat glass as well as key projects implemented in south Asia countries through various forms such as videos, digital interactions and physical model. Vice Premier Wang Yang and Director of the National Bureau of Statistics Ning Jizhe visited the pavilion and thought highly of the achievement in the fields of international production capacity cooperation and equipment manufacturing. Political leaders from South Asia and Southeast Asia also paid a visit to the exhibition stand of CNBM, to express their willingness for potential cooperation. During the expo, CNBM was also invited to take part in the 2016 China-South Asia Forum on Global Production Capacity Cooperation. Heads of government from China and abroad attended the forum and delivered keynote speeches on “Deepen the cooperation, share development achievements”.