At present, firmly grasping the primary task of high-quality development and developing new productive forces according to local conditions have become major propositions of the times. Among them, how to promote the development of new industries, new models, and new driving forces, use new technologies to transform and upgrade traditional industries, and actively promote high-end, intelligent, and green industries has become the key to industry development and the success or failure of enterprises.

Tianjin Rongcheng Xiangtai Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd.(hereinafter referred to as Rongcheng Group), which entered 2024, has a long history and good news spread frequently.

On March 1, at the beginning of the new year, the factory area of Rongcheng Steel Group (hereinafter referred to as Rongcheng Group), a subsidiary of Rongcheng Group, located in Jinnan District, Tianjin City, was a busy scene.

That morning, 35 hydrogen energy heavy trucks loaded with strip steel products drove out of the factory and headed for customers in Jinghai District, Tianjin City. These 35 hydrogen energy heavy trucks replaced the original national six-emission standard fuel vehicles for finished products transportation, opening a new pattern for the hydrogen energy transportation of finished goods by Rongcheng Group in Tianjin City. Ronggang Group has become one of the first batch of steel companies in Tianjin City to achieve a clean transportation ratio of more than 80%.

Just two months ago, Rongcheng people, who had just passed New Year's Day, welcomed the first good news of the New Year. The country's first batch of integrated freight hub replenishment and strengthening projects-Rongcheng Group's zero-carbon freight green hydrogen energy production, storage and processing The integrated project has been successfully tested in a one-time manner, marking the official implementation of Tianjin's first and first "Green Electricity Processing, Storage and Hydrogenation Integration" ecological closed-loop scenario project in the entire hydrogen energy industry chain.

Rongcheng zero-carbon freight green hydrogen energy production, storage and processing integrated project is invested and constructed by Rongcheng New Energy Technology Group, a subsidiary of Rongcheng Group. The project uses fishery and light complementary surface photovoltaic power generation as power supply and reclaimed water after urban sewage treatment as water source. The hydrogen production station has a production capacity of 99.999% purity hydrogen of 1300 standard cubic meters per hour, and produces green hydrogen through 1000 kilograms of self-use hydrogen. The station supplies Rongcheng hydrogen fuel cells for heavy use. The by-product oxygen is used for production in the Ronggang Group factory, achieving "zero use" of new water and "zero emission" of wastewater and carbon dioxide. It has created a closed loop of the entire industrial chain of green hydrogen energy production, storage and addition in the freight field, and has been selected as one of the first batch of national comprehensive freight hub replenishment and strengthening chain projects.

At the same time, starting from March, Rongcheng Group's short-distance coal transportation in Tianjin City will achieve 100% hydrogen energy transportation. The first batch of short-haul transportation of materials in the factory will be launched from National Six Emission Standard Fuel Vehicles to Hydrogen Energy Vehicles. After the upgrade of the scenario, more than 30% of the capacity will be converted to hydrogen energy transportation. All coal transportation of the group will realize the clean transportation method of "railway transportation + hydrogen energy transportation." The addition and upgrading of these scenarios will accelerate the construction of infrastructure related to the hydrogen energy transportation industry in the region, open up bottlenecks in hydrogen energy logistics and transportation in the region, further reduce hydrogen energy transportation costs, and help the high-quality development of the regional economy and regional enterprises.

All of these happy events are a vivid practice of "promoting high-quality development through the development of new productive forces."

Over the years, Rongcheng Group has always insisted on taking high-quality development as its top priority and achieved green, low-carbon, high-quality coordinated development through digital intelligence to promote transformation. In terms of ecological structure adjustment, Rongcheng Group has achieved new breakthroughs in building a transportation power by deeply cultivating the field of new energy and hydrogen energy. Focusing on the entire integrated hydrogen energy industry chain of "manufacturing-storage-transportation-adding-utilization", Rongcheng Group innovatively integrates the hydrogen energy transportation system and the multimodal transport system to create a four-in-one "hydrogen +" economic and industrial pattern, forming a green and low-carbon modern logistics system that integrates online and offline, providing a pilot template for energy conservation, emission reduction and sustainable development in the transportation field.

In the past year, Rongcheng Group has firmly promoted the promotion of hydrogen energy transportation applications, and its operation scale and data have been significantly increased.

At the beginning of 2023, Rongcheng Group operated 3 hydrogen refueling stations with a daily hydrogen refueling capacity of 4000 kilograms; it owned 122 hydrogen energy heavy trucks, with a cumulative transportation volume of 1.76 million tons, a driving mileage of more than 2.06 million kilometers, and reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 1897 tons. As of March 2, 2024, Rongcheng Group has put into operation a total of 5 self-use hydrogen refueling stations and hydrogen refueling skid stations, operating 275 hydrogen energy heavy trucks, with a driving mileage of 12.2419 million kilometers, a transportation volume of 14.6372 million tons, and emission reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 11269 tons. It has become the entity enterprise with the largest number of vehicles actually carrying out hydrogen energy heavy truck transportation business on municipal roads in China.

In addition, as of now, Rongcheng Group has operated three hydrogen energy transportation demonstration application scenarios, namely the "Tianjin Port-Jinnan Ronggang Factory-Jinghai Client" line, the "Tianjin Port-Hebei Dingzhou" pendulum transportation line, and the "Tianjin Ronggang Factory-Hebei Bazhou" line.

According to the preliminary plan, Rongcheng Group will use two years to achieve the goal of upgrading and replacing 2000 hydrogen energy vehicles through the Rongcheng Intelligent Transport Platform, and gradually open up more hydrogen energy transportation scenarios to realize the extension of Rongcheng cargo trunk transportation scenarios, promote the logistics industry to actively implement the "double carbon" goal and promote high-quality development of the industry.

As an explorer and practitioner in the field of hydrogen energy applications, Rongcheng Group not only accelerates the layout of hydrogen energy transportation business, but also leverages its own advantages to extend upstream and downstream with the help of the industrial chain, so as to supplement and strengthen the chain. At present, Rongcheng Group is accelerating the promotion and application of the integrated model of hydrogen energy production, storage and addition in Inner Mongolia and many places across the country such as Cangzhou, Zunhua, and Handan, and is accelerating its investment in hydrogen fuel cell systems and hydrogen energy heavy truck vehicle manufacturing. Investment layout in the field of equipment manufacturing.

At the same time, Rongcheng Group takes hydrogen energy heavy truck demonstration application scenarios as market traction, increases green infrastructure construction efforts, promotes hydrogen energy transportation equipment, arranges hydrogen energy big data platform development, leads green logistics practice in the commercial vehicle field, and contributes to transportation. Energy conservation, emission reduction and sustainable development in the field of transportation contributes to Rongcheng solutions.

Rongcheng Group's leading demonstration in the hydrogen energy industry has been widely recognized by the society. It has successively won honors such as the "Leading Enterprise Award" of the Second Century Hydrogen Energy Conference, the First National Green Logistics Demonstration Case, and the Top 100 Enterprises in New Transportation Business Forms.

In the future, Rongcheng Group will continue to give full play to its own advantages, focus on developing new productive forces, accelerate green and high-quality development, and further strengthen the joint efforts of various industrial sectors such as steel energy, economic and trade services, digital technology, new energy technology, and cultural health to promote the green and low-carbon development of enterprises. Collaborative innovation capabilities in low-carbon development, continue to upgrade business formats, and achieve accelerated upgrading and quality improvement in its own and upstream and downstream industrial chains, adding points and weights to China's economic development.

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