Conch Group

Anhui Conch Group Co., Ltd. is a large state-owned enterprise approved by the People's Government of Anhui Province on September 3, 1996. Its predecessor, Ningguo Cement Plant, was a key construction project of China's "Sixth Five-Year Plan". After 30 years of leapfrog development, it has grown into an international enterprise group with cement and building materials as its core business, and diversified industries developing synergistically. It holds controlling stakes in four listed companies: Conch Cement, Conch New Material, Conch Environmental Protection, and Conch Material Technology. With over 620 subsidiaries globally, total assets exceeding 300 billion yuan, and a workforce of over 58,000 employees, it has been ranked among China's Top 500 Enterprises for 21 consecutive years, ranking 193rd in the 2025 China Top 500 Enterprises and 93rd in the 2025 China Top 500 Manufacturing Enterprises. It has also won the highest honor in China's industrial field—the 7th China Industrial Grand Award—and was successfully selected into the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission's demonstration enterprise list.

Among its businesses, cement manufacturing is the group's core leading industry. Its subsidiary, Anhui Conch Cement Co., Ltd., is the first A+H share listed company in the cement industry, mainly engaged in cement, commercial clinker, commercial concrete, aggregate, dry-mix mortar, tile adhesive, putty powder, waterproof coating, etc. Its international credit ratings are S&P A, Moody's A2, and Fitch A, and it enjoys the reputation of "The world's cement looks to China, and China's cement looks to Conch".

The Conch Group consistently adheres to an innovation-driven strategy, vigorously developing new quality productive forces. It has established a "112+N" characteristic scientific and technological innovation system and has successively achieved a series of national and industry-level major scientific and technological innovations. In the early development stage, by building China's first daily output 5,000-ton new dry-process domestically produced demonstration line, the first daily output 10,000-ton new dry-process line, and the first 10-million-ton clinker production base, it pioneered the low-investment and domestic production of major technical equipment in China's cement industry. In recent years, the group has completed the world's first cement kiln tail flue gas carbon capture and purification project, the world's first cement kiln co-processing domestic waste system, the world's first zero external power purchase cement plant, the world's first CO2 energy storage project, the world's first cement and building materials AI large model, and the world's first fully intelligent cement factory, among many other major scientific and technological achievements. It has accumulated over 3,700 patents, software copyrights, and other intellectual property rights, and has won the National Science and Technology Progress Second Prize and multiple provincial and ministerial first prizes for scientific and technological progress. It has built the Conch "YunGong" industrial internet platform, and its "Conch YunGong Large Model" won the 2025 Global Inclusive Digital Economy Solution Award. The group has been successfully selected as a National Technological Innovation Demonstration Enterprise, one of the first national "Smart Manufacturing Benchmarking Enterprises", and one of the first national "Digital Leading Enterprises".

Conch Group is a pioneer in the international development of China's building materials industry. As early as the beginning of the 12th Five-Year Plan, it responded to the "Going Global" call, with industries spread across Indonesia, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Uzbekistan, and other countries jointly building the "Belt and Road". A number of major projects have taken root and blossomed, forming six overseas development regions: Indonesia and the Western Pacific, Indo-China Peninsula, Central Asia, Middle East, Africa, and South America. Currently, the group's overseas investment exceeds 20 billion yuan, with 44 overseas enterprises in 14 countries and regions, over 4,800 overseas employees, and a localization rate of over 85%. Its business covers the globe.

In the new era, the group aims to create a world-class enterprise and accelerates the construction of a new high-quality development model of "One Foundation, Five Industries", based on cement manufacturing and promoting the coordinated development of five major industries: new energy, new materials, environmental protection, digital economy, and modern service trade. By the end of 2025, in the cement main business, it will have clinker production capacity of 229 million tons, cement production capacity of 415 million tons, aggregate capacity of 181 million tons, and commercial concrete capacity of 70.85 million cubic meters. Its industrial scale, profitability, and technical level all rank among the world's top. In the new energy industry, it has a clean energy installed capacity of over 1 GW, ranking first in the national cement industry. In the new materials industry, it has two listed companies, Conch New Materials and Conch Material Technology, with products such as SCR denitrification catalysts, energy-saving, environmental protection, and carbon-reducing materials, all ranking in the industry's first tier. In the environmental protection industry, it has the industry-leading listed company Conch Environmental Protection, with an annual co-processing capacity of over 11 million tons of solid and hazardous waste. In the digital industry, it has incubated technology companies such as mine unmanned driving, intelligent packaging and delivery, intelligent quality management, and intelligent logistics supply chain platforms, with an initial industrial cluster formed. In the modern service trade industry, it has Anhui International Trade, a pillar enterprise in Anhui Province's import and export trade, and Conch Building Materials Design and Research Institute, which integrates R&D, engineering design, and general contracting.