On the morning of June 19, Xu Fushun, deputy director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), had a cordial meeting with Song Zhiping, chairman of the Group Corporation, Hao Zhenhua, deputy party secretary and chairman of China New Building Group Corporation, and LOTHAR, president of AGN Group, and his party, at the meeting room on second floor of Xibianmen office area of the SASAC. Xu Fushun gave a high appraisal on the technical cooperation between China New Building Group Corporation and AGN Group, and gave an important instruction. Xu Aibo, deputy director of Bureau of Foreign Affairs under SASAC, and Bai Ying, deputy director of Planning Bureau, also attended the meeting.

Xu Fushun highly affirmed outstanding achievement made by China National Building Materials Group Corporation led by chairman Song Zhiping, and specially praised good achievement made by the Group Corporation in the first quarter. He said that, in face of highly competitive industry environment and international environment with obvious downward pressure, China National Building Materials Group Corporation, under the leadership of the management team, made great contribution to transformation and upgrading, structural adjustment, energy conservation and environmental protection of China’s building materials industry.

Xu Fushun pointed out that, green energy-saving new housing business of China New Building Group Corporation is an important part of “Three News” strategy of China National Building Materials Group. In recent years, China New Building Group Corporation has actively explored the business model which is mainly based on PC green building, and has played an important role in urbanization construction and green rural development in China. In today’s economic globalization, countries around the world are increasingly linked, and Sino-German cooperation is increasingly deepened, the technical cooperation between China New Building Group Corporation and AGN Group completely conforms to the fundamental interests of the two countries, and will effectively promote technology upgrading and innovation development of new housing business of China National Building Materials Group Corporation. Both parties will offer benefits to each other, complement each other's advantages, and achieve a win-win situation. According to Mr. Xu, based on good development momentum and clear strategic positioning of new housing business of China National Building Materials Group Corporation, there is a good opportunity for making the business stronger and more perfect, China National Building Materials Group Corporation will center around the development strategy of “internationalization of building materials”, seize the opportunity, take this cooperation as an opportunity, vigorously promote the process of China’s urbanization construction, and hope that the two sides will conduct cooperation in a broader field, input active efforts into the development of Sino-Germany bilateral economy and trade and make more contributions to the development of China’s new housing business.

Song Zhiping thanked Director Xu for his guidance to and full recognition of new housing business of China National Building Materials Group Corporation. He reported to Mr. Xu applicable scope, technical characteristics, green building materials, and the characteristics of energy conservation and environmental protection of new housing business of the Group Corporation, as well as AGN Group’s advanced concept and technology in building energy-saving field. Mr. Song believes that its Encana technology will have an important significance to the development of new building business of China National Building Materials Group Corporation. He said that, under the leadership of the SASAC, it is imperative to promote the cooperation in order to make positive contribution to the transformation and upgrading of economic structure in China, green urbanization development in China and the bilateral economic and trade exchanges between China and Germany.

LOTHAR, president of Germany-based AGN Group, expressed sincere thanks to Mr. Xu for receiving them. He said that the technology and scale of new housing business of China National Building Materials Group Corporation left him a deep impression. Based on broad space of China’s new housing business and the good complementarity of both parties’ businesses, he expressed full confidence about the future cooperation between the two parties.

In the afternoon at the same day, at the headquarters of the Group Corporation, Chairman Song Zhiping conducted further communication on new housing business with LOTHAR, president of Germany-based AGN Group, and his party. Hao Zhenhua and LOTHAR, on behalf of China New Building Group Corporation and AGN Group respectively, signed a cooperation agreement. Zhang Qin, director of International Division of National Development and Reform Commission, Guang Zhaoyu, secretary of board of directors of the Group Corporation, Wei Feng, General Manager Assistant of the Group Corporation, Zhang Zishan, general manager of China New Building Group Corporation, MATTHINAS, managing director of Germany-based AGN Group, design director STEVEN and others attended the meeting and signing ceremony.