Anhui Conch Group Co., Ltd. is a large-scale state-owned enterprise established with the approval of the Anhui Provincial People’s Government on September 3, 1996. Its predecessor, Ningguo Cement Plant, was a key national construction project during China’s “Sixth Five-Year Plan” period. After 30 years of leapfrog development, Conch Group has grown into an international conglomerate with cement and building materials as its core business, achieving synergistic growth across diversified industries. It holds controlling stakes in four listed companies: Conch Cement, Conch New Materials, Conch Environmental Protection, and Conch Materials Technology. With over 620 subsidiaries globally, Conch Group’s total assets exceed 300 billion yuan, and has more than 58,000 employees. It has been listed among China’s Top 500 Enterprises for 21 consecutive years, ranking 193rd on the 2025 China’s Top 500 Enterprises list and 93rd on the 2025 China’s Top 500 Manufacturing Enterprises list. The Group has also received the seventh China Grand Awards for Industry, the highest honor in China’s industrial sector, and has been successfully selected for the list of enterprises to be developed into world-class demonstration companies by State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council.

Among its businesses, cement manufacturing stands as the Group’s core and leading industry. Its subsidiary, Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited, is the first A+H share listed company in the cement industry. Its primary products include cement, commercial clinker, commercial concrete, aggregates, dry-mix mortar, tile adhesives, putty powder, and waterproof coatings. The company holds international credit ratings of A from S&P, A2 from Moody’s, and A from Fitch. The company enjoys the reputation of “China, top of the world in cement industry; Conch, top of cement companies in China.”

Conch Group consistently adheres to an innovation-driven strategy, dedicating its efforts to developing new quality productive forces. It has established a distinctive “112+N” scientific and technological innovation system, achieving a series of world-class and industry-leading major scientific and technological innovations. In its early development stages, by constructing China’s first domestic demonstration line for a 5,000 t/d new dry-process cement production line, the first 10,000 t/d new dry-process production line, and the first 10-million-ton clinker production base, the Group pioneered the low-investment, domestic manufacturing path for major technological equipment in China’s cement industry. In recent years, the Group has completed numerous significant scientific and technological achievements, including the world’s first cement kiln flue gas carbon capture and purification project, the world’s first cement kiln collaborative disposal system for municipal waste, the world’s first zero-purchased electricity cement plant, the world’s first set of carbon dioxide energy storage project, the world’s first large AI model for the cement and building materials industry, and the world’s first full process intelligent cement plant. To date, it has accumulated over 3,700 patents, software copyrights, and other intellectual property rights. It has been awarded the second prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress Award and multiple provincial and ministerial-level first prizes for scientific and technological progress. It has established the Conch “Cloud Industry” Internet platform. The “Conch Cloud Industrial Large Model” won the 2025 Global Inclusive Digital Economy Solution Award. Furthermore, the Group has been successfully recognized as a National Technological Innovation Demonstration Enterprise, one of the first batch of national “Intelligent Manufacturing Benchmarking Enterprises”, and one of the first batch of national “Digital Pioneers.”

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 period, the Group responded to the “Going Global” initiative, establishing operations in countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, including Indonesia, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Uzbekistan. A number of major projects have taken root and flourished, leading to the formation of six overseas development regions: Indonesia and the Western Pacific, the Indo-China Peninsula, Pan-Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and South America. Currently, the Group has invested over 20 billion yuan overseas, owning 44 overseas enterprises across 14 countries and regions. It employs 4,800 overseas staff, with a localization rate exceeding 85%, and its business has reached a global scale.

Entering a new era, Conch Group aims to become a world-class enterprise and is accelerating the establishment of a new high-quality development model called “one foundation and five industries” based on cement manufacturing, with new energy, new materials, environmental protection industries, digital economy, and international trade promoting each other. By the end of 2025, in its main cement business, Conch Group possesses clinker production capacity of 229 million tons, cement production capacity of 415 million tons, aggregates production capacity of 181 million tons, and commercial concrete production capacity of 70.85 million cubic meters. The industrial scale, profitability and technological level are all among the world’s leading positions. In the new energy sector, Conch Group has a clean energy installed capacity exceeding 1GW, ranking first in China’s cement industry. In the new materials sector, Conch Group owns two listed companies, Conch New Materials and Conch Materials Technology. Its production scales for SCR denitrification catalysts, energy-saving, environmental protection, and carbon-reducing materials are  both among the top tier in the industry. In the environmental protection sector, Conch Group owns Conch Environmental Protection, a leading listed company in the industry, with an annual collaborative disposal capacity for solid and hazardous waste exceeding 11 million tons. In the digital industry, Conch Group has incubated technology companies focusing areas such as mine driverless truck, intelligent packaging and dispatching, intelligent quality management, and intelligent logistics supply chain platforms, initially forming an industrial cluster. In the modern service trade sector, it includes key enterprises such as Anhui International Trade, a pillar enterprise in Anhui Province’s import and export trade, and Conch Building Materials Design and Research Institute, which integrates research and development, engineering design, and EPC.