Jointly build the “One Belt and One Road” initiative to stimulate new momentum for Fuyang enterprises

Recently, the third "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum was held in Beijing. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, Chinese and foreign guests gathered at the National Convention Center in Beijing for the ten-year appointment.

Ten years of "One Belt, One Road" have yielded fruitful results, and the future is promising. Over the past ten years, Fuyang has made positive progress in integrating into the joint construction of the “Belt and Road”. This is inseparable from the pioneering and enterprising efforts of many enterprises. They actively go global, share development opportunities, and become more closely connected with the world market.

This newspaper focuses on five Fuyang companies involved in the joint construction of the “One Belt, One Road” initiative, tells good stories about their active implementation of the “One Belt, One Road” initiative, and shares their excellent practices and experiences.

Fortis Group: Build more information highways for the “One Belt, One Road” initiative

As a high-tech private enterprise dedicated to the field of physical manufacturing, Futong Group has firmly seized the opportunities of the “One Belt, One Road” initiative with a global perspective, actively implemented its brand strategy, continued to increase its efforts in overseas market expansion, and worked together under the “One Belt, One Road” initiative. Build the country to implement industrial and market layout and become an important builder and promoter of the information highway in the new era.

In 2012, Fortis Group built the largest and most comprehensive modern communication optical cable factory in the ASEAN region in the Thailand-China Rayong Industrial Park, as well as the highest quality and most comprehensive product R&D and testing center in the ASEAN region. At present, Futong's optical fiber and optical cable products have been widely used in the construction of urban information backbone networks in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and other countries, and provide high-quality products and services to many major telecom operators in the ASEAN region.

In 2015, Fortis Group and Holley Group jointly established an industrial park in Mexico, North America, to build a high-end industrial chain platform, jointly facing international development, expanding the North American market, and facing the South American market. The Holley Fortis Mexico Industrial Park project is located in Monterrey, the capital of the northeastern state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. It is the second largest industrial town in Mexico. The project has a total area of approximately 8 square kilometers and is planned to be built into a modern large-scale park integrating industry, logistics and commerce.

At present, Futong's Thailand factory is undergoing the second phase of expansion and will become the largest optical fiber and optical cable factory in the ASEAN region, fully serving the information construction of ASEAN countries, including Thailand, as well as South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. In the next step, Fortis Group will be based in Thailand and actively target the market covering 2 billion people in ASEAN and South Asia, focusing on increasing the proportion of South Asia's market share in Fortis Group's international market. At the same time, Fortis Group also actively seizes the strategic opportunity of "China and Africa jointly build the African Information Highway" and participates in the construction of information highways in 56 African countries.

Jingu Co., Ltd.: Striving to become the global leader in wheel manufacturing

As a leading company in China's auto parts and wheels industry, Zhejiang Jingu Co., Ltd. actively implements the "Belt and Road" initiative, and the pace of globalization is also accelerating.

In 2013, Jingu Co., Ltd. established its first overseas factory (Asia Wheel Holdings Co., Ltd.) with 2 trailer lines, 1 truck line, and 1 assembly line. It mainly provides supporting equipment to customers in South America, North America, Europe and other regions.

In 2017, Jingu fully acquired Fontena, a century-old Dutch brand, taking an important step in its global business layout. With a history of more than 100 years, the Fontena brand has exquisite craftsmanship and a tradition of excellence in the manufacturing field. It can provide user-customized craftsmanship and a complete global customer service system for different industrial fields. The equipment's manufacturing process and service system are mainly used in the automotive industry, steel pipe manufacturing industry, aerospace industry, petroleum industry, household appliance manufacturing and metal forming industry, serving customers all over the world. Relying on Fontaine's scientific research results, Jingu Co., Ltd. actively promotes the preparation of smart factory projects and improves the industry's production capacity.

In 2018, Jingu successfully obtained a fixed-point supply contract from GM Group’s Brazilian General Motors plant and officially joined GM Group’s global procurement supply chain, becoming the first domestic steel wheel manufacturer to go abroad and directly supply foreign OEMs.

In 2020, the second phase of the Asia Wheel project will be launched, and the annual supply capacity will reach 3 million sets after it is put into production.

In September 2020, after reaching cooperation with Shanghai Volkswagen, General Motors and other vehicle manufacturers, Jingu Co., Ltd. reached a fixed-point agreement with the German Volkswagen Group on the German local car factory project, which also means that Jingu Co., Ltd.'s products have officially entered the market. The front door of a local European car factory.

Xinshengda Group: Striving to become the leading enterprise in the whiteboard paper industry in Southeast Asia

In April 2019, at the second "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum, Zhejiang Xinshengda Holding Group Co., Ltd. signed a contract with the Kedah State Government of Malaysia. The two parties will jointly promote the smooth progress of the Malaysian Xinshengda Green Paper Industrial Park project Landed.

Malaysia's Xinshengda Green Paper Industrial Park plans to build a new 2.1 million-ton green environmental protection industrial park, with a total investment of approximately US$900 million in the third phase of the project. This project is also Fuyang’s largest overseas investment project to date.

The project laid the foundation stone on December 4, 2019, and officially started construction on January 11, 2020. Subsequently, due to the impact of the new coronavirus infection, project construction encountered huge difficulties, with a total shutdown time of 6 months. At the same time, it also caused difficulties in transporting technical personnel, and expatriate employees were unable to return home to visit relatives for a long time.

However, with the hard work and dedication of all Xinsheng adults and the full cooperation of domestic and foreign suppliers and third-party service companies, after 25 months of construction, the first 350,000-ton coated white paperboard production line was officially put into operation in early 2022.

According to the plan, Malaysia’s Xinshengda Green Paper Industrial Park will become a new modern industrial park integrating waste paper acquisition, cogeneration, and papermaking industries, striving to become a leading enterprise in the whiteboard paper industry in Southeast Asia.

Solar Optoelectronics: Africa is a rare fertile ground for opportunities

Africa's excellent geographical location, whether from the perspective of supply chain and logistics, or its own energy richness, is a global emerging market full of potential.

Since 2018, Hangzhou Solar Optoelectronics Co., Ltd. has responded to the “Belt and Road” initiative and actively deployed in the African market, building a factory in Nigeria, and transporting domestically produced photovoltaic modules to the factory for assembly.

As for why Nigeria was chosen to build a factory, Jin Yi, chairman of Solar Optoelectronics, believes that the African market is a rare and fertile ground for opportunities for Chinese photovoltaic manufacturing companies. First of all, when Chinese companies go global and invest and build factories in Africa, they will receive local policy support; secondly, they can enjoy the relatively low-cost local labor force; and, Nigeria has relatively complete port conditions and infrastructure facilities, which can better Radiating throughout Africa. The combination of these benefits can continuously enhance the company's product competitiveness.

Qingqi Dust Environmental: Won the bid for the electric heating system of the world’s longest heating crude oil pipeline project

In the first half of this year, Zhejiang Qingqi Dust Environmental Co., Ltd. won the bid for the long-distance oil pipeline electric heating system of the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline Project, an important milestone in China's overseas petroleum energy expansion and a key project of the "One Belt, One Road" initiative. At present, the first batch of goods for this order from Qingqi Dust Environmental has been produced and will be sent to Africa one after another and will soon enter the installation stage.

It is understood that the EACOP project is 1,500 kilometers long and is the longest heated crude oil pipeline project in the world. Upon completion, it will connect the Albert Lake oil field development base in Hoima region, Uganda, and a new oilfield to be built north of Tanga Port in Tanzania. Export port. After the project is put into operation, it will form a total investment scale of 10 billion U.S. dollars, an integrated upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas resource transportation, refining, and distribution system. It will also bring billions of U.S. dollars in annual income to countries in the region and promote the economic development of the eastern African region. develop rapidly.

Due to the high viscosity of crude oil produced in Uganda, the EACOP crude oil pipeline must have the function of heating throughout the pipeline to improve the fluidity of the crude oil in the pipeline. After five years of bidding follow-up, Qingqi Dust Environmental relied on reliable products and innovative construction plans to win the Recognized by the general contractor and investors, we won the bid for the EACOP project heating system design, system material supply, system construction plan design, system construction key equipment supply and system on-site technical service contracts, providing a complete solution for it.

Yuan Jianbo, general manager of Qingqi Dust Environmental, said that the successful bid for the project marks another fruitful result of the company's many years of hard work. It also demonstrates the company's strong strength in the global heating system industry and its full recognition in the international market. At the same time, this also confirms that under the guidance of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, enterprises have implemented high-quality economic development paths and achieved excellent results in brand value and market recognition on a global scale.