The brilliant Development Road of China's cement industry - Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China

As the main basic building material, cement not only plays a key role in the world economic development, but also an important cornerstone of the world material civilization. Cement is widely used in airports and ports, railway tunnels, seawall docks, reservoirs and DAMS, oil Wells and nuclear power, roads and Bridges and municipal facilities and other infrastructure and urban and rural construction aspects, is an important material basis for human survival and development.

Over the past 70 years, China's cement industry has provided an important raw material guarantee for the national economic construction, and played an important role in the process of industrialization, urbanization and modernization in China. Today, we can proudly say that the Chinese nation has achieved a great leap from standing up to becoming rich and strong, and the cement industry is indispensable!

First, from small to large leapfrog development from weak to strong cast brilliant

In 1889, China's first cement enterprise - Tangshan fine cotton Soil Factory was founded, producing the first barrel of "foreign ash". Old China, always in a bloody rain, domestic and foreign troubles, frequent wars, natural and man-made disasters, deep water, the national cement industry difficult to start, wind and rain, development is extremely slow. In 1949, there were 35 cement factories in China, with a output of only 660,000 tons, a vast country with a population of 450 million, and less than 1.5 kilograms of cement per capita, China's cement industry lagged far behind Western countries.

The 70 years of development of the cement industry in the Republic of China is the 70 years of hard work and forging ahead, and the 70 years of hard work and unremitting efforts of several generations of cement people. It is the 70 years of great changes, leapfrog development and brilliant achievements. Today, garden-style cement plants with green environmental protection and circular economy are all over the country.

After 70 years of hard work, the cement industry in New China has made remarkable achievements, and a large number of high-quality enterprises represented by conch cement occupy the forefront of the world's cement industry in terms of operation quality and technology research and development capabilities, which is caused by the hard work and joint efforts of several generations of cement people. Through years of scientific and technological innovation and continuous investment in green development, today's Chinese cement industry has embarked on the road of high-quality development of advanced manufacturing and environmental protection industries, not only in terms of capacity scale, benefit contribution, energy efficiency and environmental protection, resource utilization and other aspects of the world's advanced ranks, China's cement overseas investment and overseas project construction scale also accounts for half of the world's cement industry. 70 years of hard work and 70 years of innovative development have demonstrated the brilliant development road of China's cement industry.

Cement production capacity, consumption, varieties, ranking first in the world - China has more than 3,000 cement enterprises, including more than 1,100 cement clinker production enterprises, 1681 rotary kiln production lines, designed clinker production capacity of 1.82 billion tons, the total designed cement production capacity of 3 billion tons. China's rapid economic development continues to drive the demand for cement market. In 2018, China's cement output reached 2.177 billion tons, accounting for 56 percent of the world's total annual cement output, an increase of more than 3,300 times that of 1949. Since 1986, the production capacity and consumption of cement has continued to rank first in the world.

After several generations of efforts, China has developed six systems, seven categories of a total of more than 60 kinds of special cement varieties, widely used in hydropower, nuclear power, coal, transportation, petroleum, offshore industry, national defense and other special engineering fields, to meet the needs of national economic construction. The Three Gorges Project of the Yangtze River, Daya Bay nuclear power plant, all high-speed railway bases, all urban subways, Zhoushan Port pier, Nanhai oil field, Qinling Tunnel, Yuedong-wan Bridge, Beijing Daxing Airport and other national key projects have used special cement produced in China.

Enterprise mergers and acquisitions, transformation and upgrading, two major groups into the world's top 500 - In 2007, China Building Materials Group, Anhui Conch Group and other large enterprises to fully start market integration, a large number of private enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises around the acquisition, rapid expansion of their own capacity scale, accelerate the market layout. In 2016, a series of restructuring events, such as the merger of China National Building Materials Group and Sinoma Group, the reorganization of BBMG Group and Jidong Group, and the integration of Huaxin Cement into Lafarge Ruian Cement assets, have increased the industrial concentration. In 2018, the cement clinker production capacity of the top 50 enterprises accounted for more than 75% of the country's total, and the clinker production capacity of the top 10 large enterprises reached 57%, of which the annual clinker production capacity of China Building Materials, Conch Cement and Jidong Cement in Jinzhou reached 390 million tons, 210 million tons and 110 million tons respectively, ranking first, third and fifth in the world cement ranking. China National Building Materials Group and Conch Group became the world's top 500 enterprises. Anhui Conch cement with its resources, market and management advantages, the annual benefit index has been ranked first in the industry for many years, and has realized the cement dream of "the world's cement to see China, China's cement to see conch".