The 2nd session of the 3rd member representative meeting & the 6th session of the 3rd council board meeting of China Agricultural Association for International Exchange was held in Beijing on September 27, 2018. Approved by State Organs Work Committee of the CPC Central Committee and filed by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Chen Xiaojia, Chairman of CITIC Construction, officially took office as President of the Association.
Chen Xiaojia, Chairman of CITIC Construction, paid a courtesy call on Lebanese President Michel Aoun at the Presidential Palace in Beirut, capital of the country, on September 14, 2018. The two sides exchanged views on cooperation opportunities in such fields as infrastructure reconstruction and electricity in Lebanon.
CITIC (Angola) Aluminum Extrudate Plant (CITIC Aluminum) achieved a complete success in a load test run on September 5, 2018 after the establishment and equipment installment that lasted for nearly two and half years, and it passed the performance evaluation smoothly. The load test run finished by CITIC Aluminum, the first modernized factory that is equipped with the comprehensive productivity in the casting, extrusion and spray of aluminum alloy in Angola or even southwest Africa, has signified that it is completely equipped with the conditions for investment and production.
Chairman of CITIC Group Corporation Chang Zhenming held talks upon invitation at the China World Summit Wing, Beijing with Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia of Algeria at noon on September 5, 2018. Algerian Prime Minister was in China for the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.
Wang Jiong, President of CITIC Group Corporation paid a courtesy call on Muhammadu Buhari, President of Nigeria at Beijing Hotel NUO on September 5, 2018 upon invitation. Nigerian President was in China for the Beijing Summit of Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC).
Chairman Chen Xiaojia paid a courtesy call on President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique on September 2, 2018, who was in Beijing for the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. The two sides had an exchange of views on opportunities for future cooperation in social housing, infrastructure, agriculture and other fields. Mozambique's Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Ambassador to China, Director of the Department of National Budget of the Ministry of Finance, Director of the National Road Administration and other officials as well as Tao Yang, President of the CITIC Construction and Hu Ping, Vice President of the CITIC Construction, were present at the meeting.
A handover ceremony for the Central Laboratory of CITIC Construction in Venezuela was co-held by the Latin America Division of CITIC Construction with the Bolívar Academy of Engineering of Venezuelan Ministry of the People's Power for Defense in Fort Tiuna in Caracas on August 22, 2018 local time in Venezuela. The ceremony was attended by Colonel Galicia, Director of the Bolívar Academy of Engineering of Venezuelan Ministry of the People's Power for Defense, and the leaders of the Latin America Division of CITIC Construction.
Ms. Marilena and Ms. Carlinda, two experts at Angolan President’s Civil Office, were designated by Angolan Minister of State for Economic and Social Development to visit and make an inspection tour to the CITIC BN vocational school upon the invitation of Chen Xiaojiao, Chairman of CITIC Construction on the morning of July 4th, 2018.
CITIC Construction was evaluated as “Leading Company”, the highest award in 2018 CSR Performance Evaluation of Chinese International Contractors held by China International Contractors Association in June 2018.
On June 7, 2018, Chen Xiaojia, Chairman of CITIC Construction, held talks with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture Umirzak Shukeyev of Kazakhstan who was visiting China at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing and witnessed the signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation of Cattle Breeding and Agricultural Irrigation Project. Yang Jianqiang, Assistant President of CITIC Construction, and Mukhamedzhanov, Director of Export Contracts Department of “Food Contract Corporation “National Company” JSC, signed the memorandum documents on behalf of respective parties.