Zhao Qiming attended the 2024 Qingdao International Water Conference and delivered a keynote speech
2024-7-3 19:41:02
On July 3, the 2024 Qingdao International Water Conference & Water Exhibition was grandly opened in Qingdao West Coast New Area. The conference is hosted by Qingdao Municipal People’s Government, supported by the IWA, WWC, the Shandong Association for Science and Technology, the Ministry of Water Resources’ International Economic and Technical Cooperation and Exchange Center, the China Industrial Energy Conservation and Clean Production Association, Hohai University, and the State Key Laboratory of Membrane Materials and Membrane Applications, and co-organized by Qingdao Association for Science and Technology, Qingdao Development and Reform Commission, Qingdao Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Qingdao Water Affairs Administration, Qingdao Marine Development Bureau, Qingdao West Coast New Area Management Committee, and Qingdao Adie Desalination Center. Zhao Qiming, Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman and General Manager of SEPCOIII, attended the conference and delivered a keynote speech.
In his keynote speech entitled "China’s Strength on the International Stage: The Contribution of China’s EPC General Contracting to Water Security in Countries Along the Belt and Road", Zhao Qiming pointed out that as a pioneer of the electricity "Silk Road", a practitioner of the Belt and Road Initiative, and an important participant in the country’s "going out" strategy, the company has actively responded to the country’s call, fulfilled its mission with actions, demonstrated its responsibility with performance, and has always unswervingly followed the path of international development. It has made positive contributions to global energy and water security, especially in the field of seawater desalination. Relying on rich engineering performance and excellent core technologies, it has gathered strength with wisdom, strived for strength in the sea, and used scientific and technological innovation to create new development momentum. It has become the world’s largest seawater desalination EPC general contractor, helping the development and safe utilization of international water resources.
Zhao Qiming pointed out that the company regards the desalination industry as a strategic emerging industry that it fully supports for development, and has elevated the creation of core technological advantages in desalination to a strategic level and placed it in a vital position. It adheres to a technical research and development route that combines independence and international cooperation, gives full play to the leading role of scientific and technological innovation, and strives to build itself into the "chain leader" of the desalination industry chain and a source of original technology, striving to become a demand proposer, innovation organizer, technology supplier, and market user of core desalination technology.
Zhao Qiming said that in the process of participating in international engineering EPC, the company actively cooperated with many domestic suppliers in the EPC industry chain to go overseas and develop collaboratively. In the future, it will continue to focus on the field of seawater desalination, do a good job in seawater desalination, and work with Chinese companies to achieve mutual creation and win-win results. It will promote the global seawater desalination cause to move towards a new journey, jointly gather "blue" power to build a community with a shared future for mankind, and strive to write a brilliant chapter in China’s modernization construction.
The theme of this conference is "Water - the source of life and the foundation of development". The conference will last for 5 days. During the honor ceremony, Kong Lingfeng, member of the company’s Party Committee and deputy general manager, was awarded the honorary title of "The 7th China Water Industry Starlight Award-Leader", Saudi Arabia’s Rabigh Phase III desalination project was awarded the "7th China Water Industry Starlight Award-Engineering Star", and Zhang Peng, project manager and party branch secretary of the Hassyan Desalination EPC Project Department in the United Arab Emirates, was awarded the honorary title of "The 8th China Water Production Master Craftsman".
Since 2006, the Qingdao International Water Conference & Water Exhibition, as an all-round communication platform for scientific and technological innovation and industry development integrating water resources, water environment, water ecology and water safety, has made positive contributions to promoting the development of disciplines in the field of water resources development and utilization, assisting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in the water industry, and promoting the sustainable prosperity of the industry.