On January 8, CECEP Chairman Liu Dashan met with Mr. Bert Hofman, World Bank’s Country Director for China, and his accompanying delegation. Both sides reviewed their past cooperation and had discussions on promoting cooperation in green finance, green fund and credit and loan. Consensus was reached between the two sides on the establishment of a long-term cooperative partnership.

From December 20 to 22, CECEP Deputy CEO Yu Honghui headed a team to Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region for an inspection on the work of targeted poverty alleviation.

Beginning in 2015, the Capital Holdings Co., Ltd. and Huayu Fund Management Co., Ltd. under CECEP, the principal performers of the project, spent nearly three years preparing and establishing the fund. During the period from 2015 through 2020, ADB should provide a policy-based loan not exceeding US>500 million each year to help China tackle the daunting problem of air pollution in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. As part of a years-long, multi-sector support program, the fund is expected to contribute to the improvement of air quality in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and generate considerable social benefits.

On December 8, CECEP Oriental Shuangyashan Building Materials Equipment Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “CECEP Oriental”) signed a contract with Hexagon Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Bangladesh’s Edison Group, at the headquarters of Edison Group to build a production line with a capacity of daily manufacturing 100,000 sintered bricks.

On December 4-5, 2017, the third Chinese and Japanese Business Executive and Former Senior Officials’ Dialogue was convened in Tokyo. CECEP Chairman Liu Dashan gave a speech as a representative of the Chinese side.

On November 7, the central and eastern African branch of China Geo-Engineering Corporation (CGC), a second-tier subsidiary of China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP), signed a contract with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Works of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on building the 56-kilometer Lovua-Tshikapa highway.

The ground-breaking ceremony for the Grande Comore section of the Hahaya-Mitsamiouli highway and the Dindi-Lingoni highway, built by China Geo-Engineering Corporation (CGC), a second-tier subsidiary of China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP), was held at the CGC base camp in Grande Comore, Comoros.

On September 12, CECEP Chairman Liu Dashan met with Eric Solhei, chief of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), at CECEP headquarters in Beijing. They exchanged ideas on issues such as urban energy projects and regional energy assessment criteria, and signed an MoU, the first between UNEP and a Chinese company engaged in energy conservation and environmental protection. The document is expected to help Chinese companies in this sector to embrace international rules and practices and promote Chinese environmental technologies globally.