The unprecedented grand occasion of experts gathering
On September 3, the 2020 China Copper Processing Industry Annual Conference and China (Tongling) Copper Industry High-quality Development Conference with the theme of "Great Changes? New Opportunities" was held in Tongling, Anhui Province. On the unprecedented grand occasion, more than 1,100 representatives including above 450 people at the level of deputy general manager from more than 500 related enterprises in China's copper processing industry gathered in Tongling,. Cao Jianguo, the Chairman of the Board of Hailiang Group, and Zhu Zhangquan, the Chairman and General Manager of Zhejiang Hailiang Co., Ltd. attended the meeting.
The conference was co-sponsored by China Nonferrous Metal Processing Industry Association, Tongling Municipal People's Government and Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group Holdings Co., Ltd. it was undertaken by Tongling Economic and Information Bureau, Tongling Copper Association and Tongling Jingda Special Magnet Wire Co., Ltd. and it is Co-organized by 34 companies including Zhejiang Hailiang Co., Ltd., Chujiang New Materials and China Huazhong Copper.
The content of the conference is so rich that include the opening ceremony, investment environment promotion and signing ceremony and celebrating excellence, theme report meeting, dean forum, etc.
Work hard and win the honor again
During the conference, Zhejiang Hailiang Co., Ltd. was awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award for China's Copper Tube Industry and the title of The Third China Top Ten Copper Bar (Row) Companies. Zhu Zhangquan, the Chairman and General Manager of Hailiang Co., Ltd., was awarded the title of Excellent Entrepreneur in China's Copper Tube Industry.
Hailiang was established for copper and associated with copper for more than 30 years. Now it has been one of the largest copper processing companies around the world. Through years of development, Hailiang well knows the risks of the copper processing industry and takes the lead in establishing a risk control system such as net inventory. Hailiang understands the importance of innovation in leading and takes technological innovation leading industry development as its social responsibility and strives to build the commanding heights of technology and management. Hailiang firmly believes that talents are the most precious wealth so it has invested heavily in the establishment of a copper processing research institute and an intelligent manufacturing demonstration base. It owns a national enterprise technology center and academicians and post-doctoral scientific research workstations to gather teams of experts and backbone which have become the company’s most important core competitiveness. Hailiang believes in the market's strong resource allocation capabilities and builds 15 production bases continually in Asia, the United States and Europe. It has achieved full product range and whole geographic coverage. It leads the integrating global resources capabilities and comprehensive customer service capabilities of the industry.
Holding fast to the major business and striving for new progress
The output of copper processing materials in 2019 was 18.16 million tons with a year-on-year increase of 1.96%, accounting for about 65% of global output. It imported 503,300 tons and exported 524,600 tons. And it realized net exports for the first time, which was 21,300 tons. It indicated the quality of the outer cycle of copper processing had been further improved and the concentration of the copper processing industry has further increased. The output of copper processing materials of the top 10 companies in 2019 was about 6.1 million tons with an increase of 6 percentage points from 2017, accounting for 34% of the entire industry. The role of leading companies has become more obvious. And their international competitiveness has been further enhanced.
Hailiang Copper Tubes won the title of Manufacturing Individual Champion Product in 2018. Hailiang achieved a sales volume of 550,000 tons of copper tubes in 2019, which market share keeps ahead globally. Hailiang Co., Ltd. will take this conference as an important opportunity to focus on high-quality development requirements and continuously improve the Company's core competitiveness in the copper processing industry. It will change the copper processing industry’s heavy pollution and protect the environment and achieve green development by continuously researching and developing technologies and upgrading workmanships and equipment. In addition, it will uphold the spirit of ingenuity and serve the society and people’s livelihood with high-quality products and make due contributions to promoting economic development.
