On September 24, 2011, in the company of Mi Zengxin, vice president of CITIC Group, Hong Bo, the board director of CITIC Group and chairman of CITIC Construction, Vice Chairman and President Tian Guoli inspected the asphalt project in Kazakhstan, and encouraged CITIC’s constructors to work with Kazakh workers to complete CITIC’s major non-energy project in Kazakhstan. Subsequently, Tian and Mi held meetings with the representatives of PetroKazakhstan, the asphalt plant investor KPI, and CITIC Construction’s asphalt plant project.