en.Wedoany.com Reported - On May 15, the Jiangsu Anfeng Marine High-End Marine Equipment Manufacturing Project, jointly invested by China's Hebei Anfeng Steel Group and Jiangsu Haitong Marine, signed an agreement to settle in Changjiang Town, Rugao City, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province.
Rugao Party Secretary Wang Minghao, Standing Committee Member and Party Working Committee Secretary of Rugao Port Industrial Park Du Xiaofeng, Deputy Mayor Sun Deli, Chairman of Hebei Anfeng Steel Group Co., Ltd. Zhang Yuchun, and Chairman and General Manager of Jiangsu Haitong Marine Engineering Equipment Co., Ltd. Jin Xing attended the signing ceremony.
It is reported that Hebei Anfeng Steel Group Co., Ltd. is a diversified private steel conglomerate that has been listed among China's Top 500 Private Enterprises for many consecutive years. Its products are widely used in various industries such as building materials, machinery manufacturing, home appliances, and automobiles. Jiangsu Haitong Marine Engineering Equipment Co., Ltd. is a key shipbuilding and offshore engineering enterprise in Rugao City, recognized as a National High-Tech Enterprise and a Jiangsu Province "Specialized and Sophisticated" SME, and is currently experiencing strong development momentum.
In recent years, with the sustained recovery of the shipping market, the demand for new shipbuilding and offshore engineering equipment has grown significantly. Hebei Anfeng Steel Group Co., Ltd. and Jiangsu Haitong Marine Engineering Equipment Co., Ltd. have formed a joint venture to implement a high-end marine equipment manufacturing project. The project has a planned total investment of 3 billion yuan, covering a total area of approximately 520 mu. Once completed and reaching full production, it is expected to generate an additional annual sales revenue of 5 billion yuan.
It is understood that Jiangsu Anfeng Marine Engineering Equipment Co., Ltd. was registered and established on May 13, with a registered capital of 280 million yuan. Its registered address is No. 6 Inner Harbor Road, Changjiang Town, Rugao City, which is the current factory site of Jiangsu Haitong Marine. This joint venture is 35% owned by Jiangsu Haitong Marine and 65% owned by Yangpu Shunbo Technology Service Co., Ltd., an affiliated enterprise of Anfeng Steel.
According to its official website, Hebei Anfeng Steel Group Co., Ltd. is located in the Circular Economy Industrial Park, Changli County Economic Development Zone, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province. Founded in 1999, the company has a registered capital of 8 billion yuan and employs over 10,000 staff. It is a diversified private steel conglomerate integrating coal chemical industry, cement, glass, steel, real estate, education, medical and elderly care, agricultural industrialization, and comprehensive resource utilization.
Anfeng Steel has been ranked among Hebei Province's Top 100 Private Enterprises and Top 100 Private Manufacturing Enterprises for consecutive years, as well as China's Top 500 Private Enterprises and China's Top 500 Manufacturing Private Enterprises. It has been awarded titles such as "Contract-Honoring and Trustworthy Unit" and "Advanced Unit for Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction" by provincial and municipal functional departments. It is a member unit of the Hebei Metallurgical Industry Association, Hebei Energy Conservation Association, and China Iron and Steel Association. The company's main products include hot-rolled wire rods, hot-rolled coils, cold-rolled coils, full hard coils, galvanized coils, and galvalume coils, serving both construction and manufacturing steel sectors.
Jiangsu Haitong Marine Engineering Equipment Co., Ltd. was founded in 1992 and operates two production sites: Nantong Tongzhou Haitong Ship Repair & Building Co., Ltd. and Jiangsu Haitong Marine Engineering Equipment Co., Ltd., with a total investment of nearly 2 billion yuan and a designed annual steel processing capacity of 250,000 tons. The company covers an area of over 500,000 square meters and has a 660-meter outfitting quay. Adopting a modern shipbuilding model, it features a 400m × 50m dry dock equipped with one 300-ton and one 1,100-ton gantry crane, and two 32/72 portal cranes; a 100,000-ton class outfitting quay equipped with two 40/75 portal cranes; and main production workshops including a steel plate pretreatment workshop, cutting workshop, block assembly workshop, pipe workshop, and painting workshop, covering a total area of 100,000 square meters and equipped with over 1,000 sets of various modern production equipment.
It is worth mentioning that Anfeng Steel had previously ventured into the shipping business. Its subsidiary, Hainan Anfeng Shipping Co., Ltd., was established in August 2020, primarily engaged in China's waterway bulk cargo transport. It has initially built a specialized bulk cargo fleet mainly for thermal coal transport, supplemented by steel transport, with operations radiating to major ports along China's coast and the Yangtze River basin. Anfeng Shipping has previously commissioned Haitong Marine to build multiple 76,000 DWT domestic trade bulk carriers, including "Anfeng 06," "Anfeng 07," "Anfeng 08," and "Anfeng 09."
On behalf of the Rugao Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, Wang Minghao extended a sincere welcome to all guests attending the signing ceremony and expressed warm congratulations on the project signing. He pointed out that Rugao, bordering the river and embracing the sea, is located in the core area of the northern wing of the Yangtze River Delta, where the golden waterway of the Yangtze River meets the coastal economic belt. Rugao's shipbuilding and offshore engineering equipment industry cluster has been selected as a provincial-level characteristic industry cluster for SMEs. The coordinated development of talent aggregation and industrial revitalization continues to highlight the advantages of clustering. He expressed hope that the enterprise would take this settlement as a new starting point, accelerate project construction, and promote the project to reach production and achieve efficiency as soon as possible. Rugao will organize dedicated personnel and teams for service, provide comprehensive element guarantees, assist the enterprise in rooting, developing, and growing stronger, and achieve mutual benefit, win-win cooperation, and common growth between the locality and the enterprise.
Zhang Yuchun detailed the development history and industrial layout of Anfeng Steel. He stated that Rugao boasts a superior geographical location, a solid industrial foundation, and a high-quality business environment, offering a favorable development ecosystem and growth space. The enterprise will leverage its technological and resource advantages to fully empower the quality improvement and upgrading of Rugao's high-end marine equipment manufacturing industry, contributing to Rugao's high-quality development.
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