- 2021-02-10
The footsteps of Anhui under the "One Belt One Road"
Since Mao Zedong's "Red Book" in the 1960s aroused the enthusiasm of millions of people around the world, no initiative in China has been so enthusiastically welcomed. This time, the supporters of the "One Belt, One Road" slogan are no longer young idealists, but politicians, bank analysts and economists with smart suits and usually more stable.
Many figures are impressive: the newly established Silk Road Fund alone has US$40 billion to support private investment, not to mention the US$100 billion expected to be invested by China’s newly established Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
The British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne believes that the investment brought about by the Belt and Road Initiative coincides with its commitment to the development of northern England. In September 2015, he visited Xinjiang, located on the border between China and Central Asia, where ethnic separatist activities existed, in order to evoke people's memory of the Silk Road. During his visit to Xinjiang, he announced that the Hualing Group has invested 60 million pounds in real estate projects in Manchester and Sheffield. The group is known for developing large wholesale markets in Xinjiang.
Others have noticed that there has been a surge in investment in areas that have long been China's close trading partners. As a Southeast Asian trading center, Singapore may receive some capital inflows. Stuart Fuller of King & Wood Mallesons said: "Singapore's position as an important business, financial and trade center in the Asia-Pacific region will only increase."
In China, promoters from all over the country are eager to link local projects with the Belt and Road Initiative. Their enthusiasm and indiscriminate regional distinctions are just like when China put forward the "Western Development" slogan earlier-later. The author eventually developed into a strategy encompassing most of China.
An example is Anhui Province in eastern China. According to statistics from Anhui Province, as of the end of October 2015, the number of newly approved overseas companies in the province exceeded 100 for the first time, indicating that Anhui Province's enthusiasm for overseas investment has increased, and the endogenous driving force of "going out" is strong and the pace has been accelerating. In addition, foreign investment continued to maintain a relatively high growth. Enterprises across the province have made non-financial direct investments in 62 overseas enterprises in 25 countries and regions around the world. In October 2015, foreign direct investment was US$94.14 million, an increase of 4.1 times.
In order to better respond to the "One Belt One Road" strategy, Anhui Province has strengthened its own transportation facilities development. In 2015, a number of railway and highway dedicated lines were built, and passenger railways were promoted to connect the new Eurasian Continental Bridge to connect with the “Belt and Road”.
In terms of aviation convenience, the second phase of Hefei Xinqiao International Airport has been implemented to form a civil aviation service with Hefei Xinqiao International Airport as the center and branch airports such as Huangshan, Fuyang, Chizhou, Wuxuan, and Anqing as nodes, reaching the whole country and some countries. The internet.
Wang Xin, director of the Foreign Affairs Office of Anhui Province, emphasized that the fastest going global is construction and infrastructure. He focused on the typical enterprises that have achieved outstanding results under the "One Belt One Road" strategy: Provincial Foreign Economic Construction (Group) and Conch Group.
Anhui Foreign Economic Construction (Group) Co., Ltd. took the opportunity of undertaking the construction of Chinese government’s foreign aid projects to actively implement the national development strategy of “going out”, and gradually developed into a company engaged in international engineering contracting, real estate development, mineral resources development, jewelry processing and A comprehensive multinational enterprise focusing on sales and hotel chains. According to Vice President Song Xiaomei, the company was the first Chinese company to open supermarket chains and hotel chains in Africa. It has already invested and opened 15 Golden Peacocks in Madagascar, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Grenada in Central America. Hotel chain. In terms of real estate development, it has invested in residential communities in Mozambique and Madagascar. The company also established an international elementary school in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, which is well received by local parents.
"World Cement sees China, and China Cement sees Conch." If you visit Conch Group, you will undoubtedly be attracted by the slogan on the propaganda wall. Conch Group is the largest building materials group in Anhui Province. It has 205 subsidiaries, distributed in 21 provinces, cities, self-service areas in China, and offshore areas such as Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos. As of the end of June 2015, the total production capacity of clinker has reached 233 million tons, and the total production capacity of cement has reached 290 million tons.
Zhuang Changxi, Vice Minister of the Foreign Economic Cooperation Department of Conch Group, stated that through nearly four years of hard work, Conch Group has basically completed its market layout in Southeast Asia. The first overseas project, the first cement clinker production line in Nanjia Conch, Indonesia has been completed. It was put into operation in November 2014. The Xiba and Peacock Port projects are under construction, and self-operated projects such as Baru and Beisu have started. Manos is actively promoting the preliminary work. After the six major projects are put into production, the total production capacity of clinker is estimated to be 20 million tons, and the total production capacity of cement is 25 million tons, accounting for 20% to 30% of the Indonesian market.
In Myanmar, the production and operation of the renovated old line of the Kyaukse project is in order. The 5,000-ton/day production line project in cooperation with the Myanmar Ministry of Industry has started, and the Baan and other projects are in the early stages of work. At the same time, the cooperation agreement on cement projects in Vientiane, Luang Prabang, and Battambang, Cambodia was officially signed.
In Russia, at the end of June 2015, it reached a cooperation agreement with the Ulyanovsk Region Development Group to plan and build a cement project with an annual output of 2.2 million tons, supporting waste heat power generation projects, gas-fired power plants and necessary auxiliary facilities for production and life.
Mr. Zhou Bo, Chief Accountant of Conch Cement, said that during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, Conch Group will focus on the projects that have been basically implemented in Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and other countries, and strive to form 45 million tons of clinker and 50 million tons of cement production capacity. It also invests in Laos highway projects and coal and other energy mining and deep processing projects to truly build Conch into a large-scale international industrial group with strong competitiveness and sustainable development.