【 Building materials network 】

21:30, October 21

Broadcast on CCTV Finance Channel Special planning report of Dialogue

Zhou Yuxian, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Building Materials Group

Invited to attend CCTV's Dialogue

Systematically describe the "Belt and Road" of China Building Materials ESG Vivid Practice

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host: Jin Qiang

distinguished guest:

Zhou Yuxian, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Building Materials Group

Huang Qunhui, member of the 14th CPPCC National Committee, director of the Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Liu Meng United Nations Global Compact UNGC Asia Pacific Chief Representative

ESG and the "Belt and Road"

host ： Today we have invited Practice “ The Belt and Road Initiative Practitioners, experts and scholars of ESG in the initiative, as well as representatives of the first organization to launch ESG, will jointly discuss how ESG can be empowered and build together in high quality “ The Belt and Road Initiative 。 First of all, we would like to ask Chairman Zhou to say what you understand “ The Belt and Road Initiative And ESG.

Zhou Yuxian ： From the perspective of enterprises, I understand that from the perspective of the spirit of the Silk Road and the requirements of the "Belt and Road", it is highly consistent with the concept of ESG. In this sense, the implementation of the ESG concept can make the "Belt and Road" more smooth and solid. “ The Belt and Road Initiative It can also provide a broader practice space for the transformation of ESG ideas into action.

Because we are “ The Belt and Road Initiative In the process of construction, some countries have relatively perfect ESG systems, and some countries have not yet come up with their own ESG frameworks and guidelines “ The Belt and Road Initiative The implementation of ESG concept in the construction process can promote the improvement of ESG system in the global scope. As far as our enterprise is concerned, to become a world-class enterprise, the first prerequisite is internationalization. ESG is a universally recognized language, which transforms the concept of ESG into “ The Belt and Road Initiative Our actions can better enable our enterprises to speed up the pace of going global.

E - Environmental sustainable development

host ： In the next time, we will take ESG apart and explain it separately. In the ESG concept, E is actually environmental sustainable development, and many of us here may have the impression that in July (2023), we frequently broke the historical record of high temperature weather. At this time, many people focused on our dual carbon goals. Chairman Zhou, we all know that green is “ The Belt and Road Initiative In the traditional sense, many people believe that the building materials industry is a high energy consumption and high emission industry. How does China's building materials respond to the carbon reduction goal?

Zhou Yuxian ： In the past two decades since our country proposed the "30 · 60" (goal), the technology of basic building materials has developed rapidly. The first aspect is environmental protection and emissions. For example, cement The current process of this product is to calcium carbonate As a raw material, calcium carbonate is decomposed into calcium oxide and carbon dioxide through burning (process), so carbon dioxide is discharged. But so far, none of the materials can replace cement, and we will continue to use them. Of course, the products we continue to use should be made more green and environmentally friendly, and we are also constantly reducing carbon emissions.

The cement technical equipment and system integration technology of China Building Materials Group are leading in the world, no matter in terms of particulate matter emissions, carbon dioxide emissions, or other Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide The emissions and technology are the world's top. Our technology is not only applied in developing countries, but also can be truly applied to the technical transformation of some old cement plants in developed countries and developed countries. We should make full use of our R&D technology to research and develop whether it can be solved from the root, without using cement materials like calcium carbonate.

For example, one of our cement owners in France hopes that our achievements can be realized in his place production line Through joint efforts, it has been put into production. As a result, the carbon dioxide emissions per ton of cement can be reduced by 280 kg, or 28%. If such technology is popularized all over the world, the amount of carbon emissions saved will decrease by 1 billion tons. Of course, this is also related to the development stage of each country, especially the degree of commercial development of carbon emissions and carbon trading. If this technology can withstand such commercial value, it can be applied.

host ： In fact, just now you said that key The core point is that the material industry is actually related to the entire industry chain and many industries. Is it environmentally friendly and green? Therefore, the greening of the whole life cycle is very important. What efforts has China Building Materials made in the greening of the whole life cycle?

Zhou Yuxian ： What we are doing is to improve the green of our whole life cycle in all aspects from the design, product supply, investment in ESG products. Let me give you a few small examples. We built a cement plant in Hungary. The external walls of the entire cement plant are all white. Why should we make them white? We should consider the harmony with the surrounding environment from the time of design, so the local residents once said that this is the most beautiful cement plant he has ever seen in the world. After we have the design, our group has developed a lot of environmentally advanced products that are needed for global economic development.

Third, in the whole life cycle of our business, we invest in ESG products. For example, our group is a global business Wind turbine blade The largest enterprise, China Building Materials has become the largest enterprise in Europe PC Solar power plant enterprises.

host ： In fact, I heard so much just now. You can see that investment in technology and talent is, in the final analysis, capital investment. Has China Building Materials considered the input-output ratio when investing in capital?

Zhou Yuxian ： In the short term, it was a cost for the year, but if you look at it slightly longer, the local environment will be better because of your investment

For example, China Building Materials has built an industrial park in Zambia. When we first went to this industrial park, most of the water used by the people there was rainwater used for their own domestic water, or other water that we thought was not very clean and sanitary, and they were also using it. So when we went there to build an industrial park, the first thing we thought of was that to develop this place, we should first solve the problem of water. So go and help them find water and water wells. When the water is settled, the road is not good, so I went to repair it again.

It seems that the investment in that year was relatively large, but since the production in 2018, the most important thing is that you have won a good environment for co-existence, won the trust of local residents in your enterprise, and more importantly, inspired our own employees, including those recruited in the host country, to think you are a responsible enterprise, Your enterprise is worthy of trust and sustainable development.

Therefore, considering these benefits, your investment in environmental protection at that time is not a burden, but a responsibility you should bear. This responsibility also invisibly promotes its own enterprise, improves its position and faces sustainable development.

S - Social responsibility

host ： In fact, just now we have been talking about the dimensions of ESG and E. Next, we will talk about the pillar of S, namely society. In fact, when ESG proposed the S dimension, many people focused on stakeholders, including shareholders and investors. With the development of time, this concept has also been extended. How do you understand stakeholders, Chairman Zhou?

Zhou Yuxian ： The stakeholders originally thought that there were shareholders and employees directly related to our company, and then at most one upstream and downstream supplier could be expanded. But in fact, as an enterprise, the related parties have gone far beyond this scope. Our group often says that we have 18000 employees overseas, more than 10000 families behind 18000 employees, how many old people and children there are in more than 10000 families. In fact, if you think about it, these are the stakeholders of our enterprise, More broadly, do you think our government? Definitely. Do you think our media friends are.

With the huge expansion of the definition of stakeholder, in fact, one of the problems we need to solve in the process of implementation is how to stand on the stakeholders to see the problem, and then as the main body of the enterprise to solve the demands of stakeholders. I think that as an enterprise, to truly handle the relationship between stakeholders is to truly implement the concept of "S" in ESG through hard, soft and heart connectivity.

host ： How did you do this?

Zhou Yuxian ： I would like to use a giant stone example to illustrate the so-called hard China Unicom. We are choosing to invest in giant stones, and why choose Egypt? Our first thought is that the glass fiber of China Building Materials has the highest market share in the world. Most of the customers we serve are customers from developed countries, and a large number of them are in Europe. Our products are transported from Zhejiang to Jiujiang, which is a long distance. If we can provide such products to customers in Europe or near Europe in a shorter time, with more appropriate and more agile services, it will start to land in Egypt. In the process of landing, we will think about who we cooperate with, and we will want to be able to choose local partners, Then choose an influential organization with a high degree of marketization internationally. So this is the formation of such a company. My products, technology and shareholders come here. This is called hard unicom.

Our Chinese giant stone is just this year, which is the 10th anniversary. In the middle five years or so, we feel that we should do some soft connectivity. We are thinking about how to extend our industrial chain, make better contributions to the local economy, and provide more services for local residents. We cooperated with the Egyptian government to establish a joint laboratory. The joint laboratory has two tasks: one is to solve local raw materials. After five years of implementation, 98% of our raw materials can be "localized". Due to the localization of local raw materials Glass The fiber industry chain has been lengthened, and the number of employees has doubled.

The second is to really establish Egypt's own industrial standards and national standards for glass fiber, and use such standards to train Egyptian employees. As the President of Egypt said, he is proud that they have become the fourth country in the world that can develop and produce glass fiber. Therefore, this kind of soft unicom has reduced the cost of our entire Egyptian company, improved the product quality, enhanced the competitiveness, and achieved the economic benefits as well as soft unicom. We began to work hard on people. After heart to heart connection, the local employees and the local society attached great importance to our enterprise.

G - Corporate governance

host ： As for the three dimensions of ESG, we just discussed the dimensions of E and S. These two dimensions focus more on the external responsibilities of enterprises. Next, we will discuss the dimension of G, "governance", and more about the internal responsibility of the enterprise. In 2019, the European Parliament issued the Action Plan for Sustainable Finance, which formally incorporated the risk factors of ESG into the financial sustainability assessment system. Chairman Zhou, how do you understand the scope of G?

Zhou Yuxian ： In my opinion, it is very important for ESG to guide enterprises to identify risks, especially environmental risks and social risks. When we go to pick up a project, you have to consider the biodiversity treaty, and you have to consider the climate agreement; Where are you going to build a factory? You should first think about the religion, culture and customs there.

I used to invest in a copper mine in Las Paz in Peru. His community needs to be relocated. After thousands of villas have been built, they need to be checked and accepted for relocation. Suddenly during the inspection, the local residents put forward one, saying that you had built one less thing and one less church. You see, this is a big problem. We started to build it right away. You see, time and funds are delayed, and the cost of time is huge. The second acceptance started again, and said that there was still one problem that had not been solved. We said that it had been solved according to the contract, and that every villa had no fence. We think the openness is also good, but the local people don't, so small events like this look like you, but when you grow bigger, it becomes a risk.

So in this corporate governance, we use the concept of ESG, the standard of ESG, and the guidance of ESG. When you operate, as long as you follow this procedure in a down-to-earth manner, combine with your work on such projects, and do not omit to do so, you will find risks, eliminate risks, and also make the project move forward smoothly.

The majority of staff and workers Like them all

Further understand the Group's commitment to the "Belt and Road" initiative

Typical practices made by ESG

It also further deepened the understanding of ESG

Let's listen to their feelings

The high-quality implementation of ESG in the "Belt and Road" not only reflects China's style as a responsible big country and the social responsibilities and obligations of central enterprises, but also is the basis and guarantee for the Group's sustainable and high-quality development.

——China Giant Stone Shen Qi

By learning Chairman Zhou Yuxian's statement on improving ESG governance on the CCTV Finance Dialogue column Beixin Building Materials The first enterprise to go overseas is deeply aware of its great responsibility and glorious mission. We will continue to do a good job in greening the whole life cycle of our products, solidly promote the "one dime" cost saving plan, actively explore blank markets, and bring more green and healthy building materials to the benefit of people around the world.

——Beixin Building Materials Industry (Tanzania) Zhang Yuepeng

Practicing ESG is the common social responsibility of all enterprises and personnel under China Building Materials Group, and also an important means for our group and enterprises to effectively promote sustainable development and improve competitiveness. Sinoma Construction has practiced in many key fields in the past years, including digitalization, greening, internationalization, employee care, environmental management and information disclosure. These practices help the company achieve sustainable development, improve competitiveness, and create more value for customers, employees and the environment.

—— Hu Yongjie, Sinoma Construction France

I am a beneficiary of the Belt and Road Initiative. We are huge In the past ten years, Egypt has practiced the ESG concept and promoted its employees Acquired skills I have grown up. Seeing the CCTV dialogue with Chairman Zhou, I thought Jushi Egypt is very proud of its development achievements.

——Jushi Egypt Company Lu Tianxing

Through this program, we realized that the building materials industry shouldered the important responsibility of "the cornerstone of a big country", promoted green development throughout the life cycle, and demonstrated the "green responsibility" of new energy central enterprises.

——Sinoma Wind Power Blade Shen Wenxiu

From product going out to project going out, and then to technology, service and standard going out together, over the past decade, on the globalization stage set up by the "Belt and Road", CNBM has created a "China Building Materials Business Card" highly recognized by overseas customers with its strong scientific and technological innovation, first-class product quality and technical service ability. In the next decade, we look forward to the early realization of the "building materials dream" of "creating a Chinese building materials overseas"!

——Taishan Fiberglass Li Qing

In accordance with the requirements of Chairman Zhou Yuxian on "innovation driven and digital empowerment", we will deeply implement the "Mount Tai Climbing" plan, increase innovation investment, speed up technological breakthroughs, accelerate the promotion of digital and intelligent chemical plant construction, and promote high-quality development of enterprises.

——Mount Tai Gypsum Zhang Junxing

As Chairman Zhou said, the spirit of the Silk Road is highly consistent with the concept of ESG. As a member of the basic building materials sector, we should grasp the "double carbon" background, promote the construction of ESG, fulfill the social responsibility of state-owned central enterprises, and settle down in sustainable development from design to product supply.

——New Tianshan Cement Zhu Fan

Chairman Zhou Yuxian's systematic consideration of stakeholders has a very high and strong guiding value for project planning, especially the planning of "going global" projects.

——Liang Hongbin, Institute of Artificial Lens

Through this issue of Dialogue, I really understood the concept of ESG systematically and the internal logic of the Group's thinking and practice on ESG. As the vanguard of the Group's "going global", Sinoma International has been practicing the "three principles" of "making contributions to the local economy, cooperating with local enterprises, and serving local residents" for win-win cooperation. In fact, it is fully consistent with the concept of ESG. We should continue to do so in the next step, so that ESG will become the guiding standard for our internationalization.

——Sinoma International Yuan Chao

After watching the ESG practice on the "Belt and Road", we are encouraged. Qinhuangdao Institute will continue to adhere to the new business development model of "technology export co construction project" and contribute to the Group's "overseas reconstruction of a Chinese building material"!

——Qinhuangdao Courtyard Xi Guoyong

Chairman Zhou Yuxian used full and accurate data and vivid cases to analyze the ESG exploration and practice on the "Belt and Road" of China Building Materials. As an employee of the third level enterprise of the Group, I am very proud of the achievements of the Group in ESG. In the future, I will keep in mind the mission of "materials create a better world", insist on being an active practitioner and firm practitioner of ESG strategy, base myself on the post, make contributions, and make my due contribution to the Group's building of a world-class materials industry investment group with youth and sweat.

——Kaisheng Technology Co., Ltd. Nian Lifeng

Chairman Zhou Yuxian's speech from a strategic perspective has important guiding significance for Hefei Shenma's ESG concept in the practice of jointly building the "Belt and Road". Hefei Shenma wants to promote the co construction of national green development and environmental protection, promote local employment, assume more social responsibilities, and boost the sustainable development of the "Belt and Road" co construction of national economy, society and environment.

——Hefei Shenma Import and Export Company Fang Wei