CMEC Leaders Visit Shanxi Pengfei Group
On April 17, Fang Yanshui, deputy Party secretary and general manager of CMEC, and Xie Ke, deputy general manager of CMEC and general manager of CMEC’s Operation Management Department, visited Shanxi Pengfei Group.
Pengfei Group was founded in 1993. Through nearly 30 years of development, it has become a modern coal chemical company with a closed-cycle industrial chain of coal mining, washing, coking and chemicals, featuring large-scale production, advanced equipment and high technology. The Shanxi-based group has the advantages of the whole industrial chain of “5G plus smart coal chemical industry”. With total assets exceeding RMB 60 billion, it has been staffed with 20,000 employees, yielding an annual operating revenue of RMB 30 billion. In 2020, Shanxi Province included the development of hydrogen energy into the government work report, seeking to shift from “coal capital” to “hydrogen capital”. Pengfei Group, serving as the pacesetter of green low-carbon energy in the field of coal chemical industry, is pushing for its transition in the energy sector.
Accompanied by Pengfei Group Vice President Tian Zhengguo and Assistant to President Ma Xiaolong, Fang Yanshui visited the Hydrogen Energy Industrial Park in Pengwan Hydrogen Port, Pengfei Coking Plant, Pengfei Methanol & LNG Production Base and the 5G plus Intelligent Centre for Dispatching, Command and Management.
With a total planned investment of RMB 20 billion, the Hydrogen Energy Industrial Park will introduce advanced hydrogen energy technologies from the United States, Germany and Japan to build the full industrial chain of hydrogen production, storage, transportation and application. Currently, the company has implemented the phase-I project of the industrial Park. It is responsible for the EPC engineering construction of 20,000 t/a hydrogen production from coke oven gas.
In the Industrial Park, Mr. Fang listened to the planning and construction program of the Park and inspected the construction site of the first-phase project, giving important instructions on the project implementation. He required the project department to complete the construction on schedule with high quality in a bid to build CMEC’s demonstration one in China.
At the headquarters of Pengfei Group, Fang Yanshui visited “Pengfei 5G plus Intelligent Centre for Dispatching, Command and Management”. The smart digital centre for centralized dispatching and operation has developed its 5G-enabled coal coking scenarios. The factory has been covered by high-definition eagle-eye cameras featuring ultra-long-distance tracking and amplification and real-time playback of HD videos. Such a centre has unleashed new momentum for the transformation, upgrading and high-quality development of the traditional industry. At the Pengfei digital showroom, the leaders experienced the real-time production of a Pengfei mine 200 km away, through an immersive space presented by the cutting-edge fusion technology.
Fang said that CMEC will follow the new development concept and explore new fields and models. He discussed with Pengfei Group on new technologies, new materials and new business forms. He expanded the cooperation between the two sides in technological innovation, hydrogen energy, high-end industrial products, and transformation and upgrading of coking industry seeking green circular development.