On September 5, Lin Songtian, president of Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, led a delegation of diplomatic envoys, heads of multinational companies, foreign media journalists and leaders of students studying in China from 24 countries in five continents to attend the Ningxia "Six New, Six Special and Six Excellent" industry promotion conference in Yinchuan and the Expo.
Sanjay Sharma, Vice President of ArcelorMittal Group and CEO of China，and Orlando Ortego, CEO of GONVVAMA participated in the Conference and the Expo.
Lei Dongsheng, Member of the Standing Committee and Secretary-General of Ningxia Autonomous Region Committee, Luis Lugris, Uruguayan Ambassador to China, and Orlando, CEO of GONVVAMA delivered speeches respectively. Wang Heshan, vice chairman of Ningxia Autonomous Region government and officials from relevant departments attended the meeting.
Orlando, CEO of GONVVAMA said in his speech that ArcelorMittal is a global steel company with renowned leadership on innovation and development of steel solutions for the most advanced applications. Produces approximately 6% - 10% of the world's steel. Subsidiaries of ArcelorMittal in China, like GONVVAMA are bringing state of the art technology in equipment and products like the latest lightweight steel solutions for automotive industry. GONVVAMA is now working toward the goal of achieving zero carbon emission by the end of 2030.Ningxia's "six new, six special and six excellent industries" has great potential and broad prospects. Six Emerging is very consistent with the development direction of ArcelorMittal and GONVVAMA.
On the morning of September 6th, as one of the activities of the Expo, members of the delegation arrived at Ningxia Ningdong Energy and Chemical Industry Base by bus. Under the introduction of the staff, they learned about the transformation process of Ningdong Energy and Chemical industry base from traditional coal chemical industry to modern coal chemical industry.
"I am impressed by Ningxia's dramatic transformation in the low carbon sector and the low carbon target Ningxia is pursuing through the use of new technologies and new energy sources. As a multinational company, low carbon is also our development goal, and we hope to look for opportunities to cooperate with Ningxia in this field.""Said Sanjay Sharma, Vice President of ArcelorMittal Group and CEO of China (Source: Xinhua News).
Orlando, CEO of GONVVAMA agrees with Ningxia's "green" development path: "Ningxia's" six new, six special and six excellent ", especially new energy industries, are very interesting to us, which are closely linked to low carbon.Through industrial transformation and upgrading, the added value of Ningxia's industries has been increasing, and more wealth has been created for local people.We also hope to find opportunities for investment cooperation here."(Source: Xinhua News).
This promotion meeting and expo aims to build Ningxia into a demonstration base for promoting China's rural revitalization, ecological civilization construction and telling China's story, and build Ningxia into a practice base for win-win cooperation and common development which can promote the friendship between the people of China and the rest of the world.
