On August 26, Qingsong Jianhua released its semi-annual report for 2025.

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On August 26, Ningxia Building Materials released its semi-annual report for 2025.

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In the first half of 2025, the operating income was about 2.211 billion yuan, a decrease of 14.56% compared with the same period last year.

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Cement production in Syria has declined over the past few years due to inadequate funding, aging plants, lack of spare parts and the closure of many plants due to Western sanctions. However, a new phase may now be ushered in, which may allow Syria's cement industry to get out of trouble. This change indicates that the Syrian cement industry is facing new development opportunities, and it is expected to overcome many unfavorable factors before and gradually move towards the right track of development.

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Firstly, focus on the main business, seize the opportunity period of market integration in the domestic cement industry, seek merger and acquisition opportunities from the perspective of improving the layout of the main business and enhancing market control, accelerate the pace of overseas development, actively seek high-quality project carriers, speed up the demonstration of the feasibility of potential project development, and strive for the early landing of overseas incremental projects. The second is to extend the upstream and downstream industrial chain in depth, accelerate the early production of aggregate projects under construction, accelerate the layout of commercial mixed industries in central cities, and promote the development of consumer building materials from point to area to form a scale.

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The sales volume of Conch Cement's cement clinker products was 126 million tonnes, representing a year-on-year decrease of 0.35%; the sales revenue of Conch Cement's cement clinker products was RMB34.289 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of 2.11%; the cost of sales of Conch Cement's cement clinker products was RMB24.397 billion, representing a year-on-year decrease of 5.63%; the comprehensive gross profit margin of Conch Cement's cement clinker products was 28.85%, representing an increase of 5.84 percentage points as compared with the same period last year.

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In the overseas market, Western Cement has a total cement production capacity of 13.6 million tonnes with 7 production lines, including cement production capacity of 6.3 million tonnes in Ethiopia, 2.5 million tonnes in Uzbekistan, 2 million tonnes in Mozambique and 1.5 million tonnes in Congo, and cement grinding production capacity of 1 million tonnes in Rwanda and 300,000 tonnes in Tanzania.

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Benefiting from the orderly supply and lower costs, the average selling price of cement and clinker of Western Cement China increased by 4.1% to RMB280 per tonne (30 June 2024: RMB269 per tonne), achieving a gross profit of RMB64 per tonne (30 June 2024: RMB38). The significant increase in overseas sales volume allowed the ASP to be maintained at a more sustainable level of RMB486 per tonne (30 June 2024: RMB739), which led to an average gross profit of RMB181 per tonne (30 June 2024: RMB326).

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For the six months ended June 30, 2025, Western Cement's total charitable donations amounted to RMB1.5 million. Some of the projects funded by Western Cement include the construction of Mudada Village Primary School and Katenbe Manatee School in Mozambique, the Shaanxi Yaobai Student Aid Public Welfare Foundation, which aims to improve the quality of basic education in Shaanxi Province, and the continued donation of "Golden Autumn Student Aid" activities to benefit 115 students in need of educational support.

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The sales volume of cement and hot materials, the main products of Shangfeng Cement, decreased slightly. In the first half of the year, the sales volume of clinker was 1.8761 million tons, with a year-on-year decrease of 8.14%; the sales volume of cement was 7.0308 million tons, with a year-on-year decrease of 3.10%; Prices of main products resumed year-on-year growth, of which the average unit selling price of clinker increased by 7.69% year-on-year, and the average unit selling price of cement products increased by 0.34% year-on-year. In terms of extended business, the cumulative sales of aggregate in the first half of 2025 amounted to 5,190,600 tons, representing a year-on-year increase of 37.46%.

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This time, two companies were shortlisted.

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In the first half of 2025, Vietnam's GDP grew by 7.52%, up 1.1 percentage points from the same period last year, and the economy grew steadily. The construction industry is booming, and Vietnam's cement production reached 49.8 million tons, up 18% year-on-year, driven by accelerated investment in public infrastructure (transportation, affordable housing, etc.). This growth rate is the second high-speed growth after the contraction of cement demand and production in 2023 and the stabilization in 2024.

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On August 22, CGN Nanchuan Coal Mining Subsidence Area 100MW Photovoltaic Project Photovoltaic Area PC General Contracting Project held a commencement ceremony, marking that the project formally entered the substantive construction stage.

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On August 26, the Huaiji Branch of the Bureau of Ecology and Environment of Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, issued a public announcement on the acceptance of the EIA of the first phase of the 100m W Agricultural and Photovoltaic Complementary Project (re-approval) in Lengkeng Town, Huaiji County. Environmental impact assessment documents show that the project is a major change in the re-approval of the project, the construction unit is Huaiji County Huaijian New Energy Co., Ltd., the project is located in Lengkeng Town, Huaiji County, Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, Jiangshan Village, Tongguang Village, Furui Village, Loyalty Village, Hongcun Village, Longcun Village, Langzhao Village and around Tanfu Village, the booster station of the project has been partially completed. Part of the photovoltaic array area has completed the installation of some components.

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Former core technicians Wang Bingquan, Liu Xuewen and Gong Yuliang are no longer responsible for the company's specific R & D projects, and are no longer recognized as the company's core technicians, but continue to work in the company.

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Western Cement has installed waste heat recovery systems in 13 of its 17 production lines in China. The system can reduce electricity consumption by about 30% for each production line and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 22000 tons per million tons of cement production. In 2024, these systems generated a total of 341 million kWh of electricity, saving coal consumption of approximately 136,300 tons and reducing carbon dioxide emissions of approximately 339,800 tons.

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During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China achieved remarkable results in high-quality energy development, enhanced energy supply capacity, accelerated green low-carbon transformation, breakthroughs in scientific and technological innovation, deepened energy system reform, and maintained a high energy self-sufficiency rate, which provided strong support for the realization of the "double carbon" goal and global energy transformation.

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Chen Tiezhi said that Yatai Group has scale, qualifications, talents and technology in real estate, building materials, construction and other fields. As the carrier and platform for the implementation of major project investment, construction and operation, the two sides have highly compatible cooperation opportunities in many cities and projects, such as Dalian New Airport, Marine Ranch, Snow Field Construction and product supply.

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By 2027, we will take the lead in realizing the extensive and deep integration of artificial intelligence with six key areas, the popularization rate of new generation intelligent terminals and agents will exceed 70%, the scale of core industries of intelligent economy will grow rapidly, the role of artificial intelligence in public governance will be significantly enhanced, and the open cooperation system of artificial intelligence will be continuously improved. By 2030, China's artificial intelligence will fully enable high-quality development, and the penetration rate of new generation intelligent terminals, agents and other applications will exceed 90%. Intelligent economy will become an important growth pole of China's economic development, promoting technology inclusiveness and sharing of achievements. By 2035, China will fully enter the new development of intelligent economy and intelligent society.

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The meeting emphasized that we should anchor the primary task of high-quality development and the key task of realizing new industrialization, coordinate high-quality development and high-level security, and focus on the security of mineral resources, the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and the innovative development of new materials industries, so as to promote the high-quality development of raw materials industry to a new level.

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