The two enterprises under the Hanggang Group jointly organized this conference, which is not only an honor for us, but also a responsibility and commitment as a part of the manufacturing industry, a pillar of the national economy. Today, technical elites, equipment experts, and R&D personnel from the domestic manufacturing industry, especially the steel sector, have gathered together, bringing more inspiration and thoughts for the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry, and injecting new wisdom and vitality into the development of the equipment operation and maintenance field.

On the date, Wu Dongming, General Manager of Hanggang Group, affirmed in his speech at the 5th Plenary Session of the Second Council of the Metallurgical Equipment Branch of the China Iron and Steel Industry Association.

图为吴东明。

Wu Dongming introduced the development of Hanggang Group and Ningbo Iron and Steel during his speech, and elaborated on the importance of metallurgical equipment for the high-quality development of the steel industry. "Equipment, as the foundation of enterprise production and manufacturing, plays a crucial role in the high-quality development of enterprises," Wu Dongming stated. In recent years, with the state vigorously promoting new industrialization and the accelerated penetration of technologies such as artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, significant efforts have been made to upgrade equipment and technology, with a focus on safety production, digital transformation, intelligent upgrading, and flexible development. This has greatly enhanced the capabilities of enterprises in areas such as safety production, intelligent manufacturing, product quality, and economic operation.

Wu Dongming introduced that Hanggang Group was founded in the year and is the first modern steel enterprise in Zhejiang's history. Adhering to the corporate spirit of "doing things, building businesses, and serving the country with the will of steel," it has gone through three stages of entrepreneurship, forming an "+" industrial development pattern with strategic advantage industries in steel intelligent manufacturing and modern circulation, and strategic emerging industries in energy conservation and environmental protection, and digital technology, thus charting a path for the comprehensive transformation and upgrading of traditional urban steel plants.

Currently, Hanggang Group owns wholly-owned and controlled primary enterprises, including controlled listed companies, namely Hanggang Co., Ltd. and Feida Environmental Protection. In the year, Hanggang Group achieved operating income of . billion yuan and total profit of . billion yuan, consecutively ranked among the Fortune Global 500 for years, achieving a milestone leap. Wu Dongming stated that Ningbo Iron and Steel and Feida Environmental Protection are the leading forces and mainstay of Hanggang Group's two pillar industries of steel intelligent manufacturing and energy conservation and environmental protection, serving as the backbone for building a world-class enterprise.

He introduced that Ningbo Iron and Steel has always remembered President Xi Jinping's earnest instructions during his tenure in Zhejiang, where he urged Ningbo Iron and Steel to "take the innovative path of institutional innovation, technological innovation, and product innovation, making Ningbo Iron and Steel truly a world-class steel enterprise." Focusing on the high-quality development direction of "green, low-carbon, intelligent, and high-end," Ningbo Iron and Steel has successively won honors such as the National Green Factory, National High-tech Enterprise, National Metallurgical Science and Technology Award, and China's Steel Enterprise Development Quality and Comprehensive Competitiveness Level Enterprise. It has also passed the certification of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's two-integration management system. On a certain date this year, Ningbo Iron and Steel became one of the first batch of steel industry enterprises to be publicized as "Double Carbon Best Practice Energy Efficiency Benchmarking Enterprises."

He further introduced that Feida Environmental Protection has long been committed to environmental protection equipment and "dual carbon" research and application in the fields of coal-fired power plants, steel, non-ferrous metals, cement, paper, chemicals, and waste incineration, including dust removal, desulfurization, denitrification, ash conveying, and electrical control. It is one of the world's largest suppliers of dust removal equipment for coal-fired power stations, a leading enterprise in the national flue gas treatment industry, a first-batch unit relying on major national environmental protection technology equipment, and a national base for the localization of major technology equipment. It has been awarded the title of a national science and technology reform demonstration benchmark enterprise, a national intellectual property demonstration enterprise, and one of the first "Eagle Enterprises" in Zhejiang Province.

"Let us jointly look forward to the innovation and progress in the manufacturing and steel industries, driving further development in the national equipment management sector, and bringing new opportunities for the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and the high-quality development of the national industry," said Wu Dongming.