On August 20, 2021, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises of South Africa held a ministerial video dialogue meeting. Hao Peng, Director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, and Gordan, Minister of State-owned Enterprises of South Africa attended the meeting and delivered speeches respectively, jointly announcing the structured exchanges on the reform and development of state-owned enterprises in China and South Africa. The project officially started. Xu Lirong, chairman of COSCO SHIPPING Group, attended the meeting and made an exchange speech on behalf of Chinese enterprises.

Hao Peng said: China and South Africa continue to strengthen the exchange of experience in state-owned enterprise governance, continue to expand the areas of cooperation, and enhance the level of cooperation. The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of South Africa is willing to jointly implement the important consensus reached by the heads of state of China and South Africa with the South African Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and continue to promote exchanges and cooperation at the departmental and enterprise levels of the two countries.

Gordan said: Both South African and Chinese state-owned enterprises are important forces to promote the development of the national economy. The South is willing to continue to strengthen communication and cooperation between state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises in various fields with China.

Xu Lirong said: COSCO SHIPPING in South Africa is mainly engaged in shipping, logistics, land transportation, warehousing, ship repairing, etc., operating 3 sets of Far East-South Africa container routes, and investing in the Johannesburg Railway Operation Center project, which has strongly promoted the development of local shipping and logistics industries. . In the future, we will further uphold the principle of win-win cooperation. While continuously improving service quality, we will further strengthen cooperation with South African state-owned enterprises in the shipping industry chain and jointly create a regional integrated logistics supply chain service ecosystem. As the Chinese chairman unit of the BRICS Business Council, COSCO SHIPPING Group has maintained close contact with South African industrial and commercial circles for many years and has established a good communication and cooperation mechanism. In the next step, COSCO SHIPPING will play its role as a platform of the BRICS Business Council, actively respond to the “Belt and Road” initiative, work closely with South African companies, and continuously promote China-South Africa and global economic and trade cooperation to a new level.

Keywords: central enterprises, engineering construction information

The heads of COSCO SHIPPING's Administrative Affairs Division, Strategy and Corporate Management Division, Operation Management Division, and Public Relations Division participated in the above activities.Editor/Xing Wentao