From March 25th to 27th, on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France, President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to France. On March 26, the second meeting of the Sino-French Entrepreneur Committee was held in Paris. President Xi Jinping and French President Macron jointly received representatives of Chinese and French entrepreneurs at the Elysee Palace and witnessed the signing of some Sino-French business cooperation agreements. Song Zhiping, Chairman of China National Building Materials Group, was invited to participate in related activities. Under the witness of the leaders of China and France, he signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Sanchez, President of Fives Group, on behalf of both parties, and then participated in the leaders of the two countries and the members of the Sino-French Enterprise Committee. Group photo and French welcome dinner.
At the second meeting of the Sino-French Entrepreneur Committee, Song Zhiping spoke as the Chinese chairman of Sino-French cooperation and third-party markets, and communicated with the participating Chinese and French entrepreneurs on further in-depth cooperation. Subsequently, entrusted by the Sino-French Entrepreneur Committee, Song Zhiping and other entrepreneur representatives went to the Marini Palace in the French Presidential Palace to report the results of relevant work to Chinese Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan and French Minister of Economic Affairs Le Maire.
Song Zhiping pointed out that as the world's largest comprehensive building materials company, China National Building Materials actively implements the "Belt and Road" initiative, continues to promote international production capacity cooperation, and has established good cooperation with well-known French companies such as Saint-Gobain, Lahao, Schneider, and Fives. relationship. The cooperation between Chinese and French enterprises has a very good complementary effect, and the potential for future cooperation is huge. The combination of French high-performance technology and equipment with China's cost-effective EPC project capabilities has produced great competitiveness, which not only highlights the high technology, energy saving and emission reduction of the project, but also highlights the competitiveness of the project. He stated that through group discussions, everyone reached a consensus: First, continue to promote cooperation between Chinese and French enterprises, play a good platform role, establish a regular communication mechanism, strengthen organizational construction, and ensure that it plays an efficient and pragmatic role. The second is to explore the key business areas of Sino-French third-party market cooperation, share advantageous regional resources, and constantly summarize and improve in project cooperation. The third is to further introduce financial and fund institutions to provide conditions and guarantees for the joint development of third-party markets. Finally, Song Zhiping stressed that Chinese and French enterprises should pay more attention to the protection of intellectual property rights in the process of cooperation.
The Fives Group is an industrial engineering group, a leader in the cement and mineral industries, offering significant and sustainable technology, process equipment and ancillary services. China Building Materials and Fafu have reached a consensus. On the one hand, they gather superior resources, cooperate to establish a platform, promote the application of advanced technology, promote energy conservation and emission reduction, improve product quality, and continue to promote the industrial upgrading process of the building materials industry in China and the world; on the other hand, give full play to their advantages, Clear division of labor, and jointly develop third-party markets. The two sides adhere to the principle of complementary advantages, make use of their respective technical and market advantages to achieve more success in the international third-party market, and strive to become a model of Sino-French enterprise cooperation on the basis of achieving win-win results.
During his stay in France, Song Zhiping and his entourage were also invited to visit the Central Institute of Technology in Paris and were warmly received by Soubeyran Romain, the dean. The two sides had in-depth exchanges on innovation, school-enterprise cooperation and other matters.
Peng Shou, President of China Building Materials Co., Ltd. and General Manager of Kaisheng Technology, and Ma Mingliang, Vice President of China Building Materials Institute and General Manager of Beijing Kaisheng, accompanied them to participate in related activities.
