On May 31st, Liu Zhen, Chairman of Zhong’an Anchan Group, and Zhang Zhenlu, General Manager of Zhong’an Green Decoration visited the Saint-Gobain Asia Pacific headquarters in Shanghai.

Ludovic Weber, Managing Director of Saint-Gobain PAM China presented Saint-Gobain's Multi-Comfort concept and related solutions, which are highly appreciated by Liu Zhen, he indicated that the concept was completely coherent with the development trend of China's green building industry, especially with the construction requirements of Xiong'an New District.

The two companies discussed together the development status and future prospects of China's green building industry, the planning of Xiong'an New District and other topics of common interest and reached a strategic agreement on the cooperation of the business development and green building demonstration projects in Xiong'an New District.

Xiong'an New District is another significant new district at national level after the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and the Pudong New Area of Shanghai. President Xi Jinping proposed to adhere to the “world vision, international standards, Chinese characteristics and high positioning” to build a green ecological livable new city, innovation-driven development leading area, coordinating development demonstration area, and open development pioneer area, to strive for implementing new concept of innovation and development to achieve the goals and expectations of the demonstration zone.

Zhong’an Anchan Group is a state-owned holding company established by the support of ministries and state-owned financial capital agencies. The subsidiaries of the Group are participating in some key green building related projects in Xiongan, led by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Department, such as “Research on Technology Standards and Implementation Mechanism for Green Buildings in Xiong'an New District”, focusing on key technologies for interior decoration pollution control, the safety standards of the entire construction process and the implementation plan etc…. The Group is committed to establishing green building and decoration pollution management standards at technical, institutional and legislative level, to ensure the new district's high standard construction requirements.

Through this strategic cooperation, Saint-Gobain PAM China and Zhong’an Anchan hope to introduce international advanced green building materials in China, based on the core technologies which are “green, safe, smart and energy-saving”, to promote the formulation of standards, norms and policies for China's green building industry and thus to upgrade its technical level. The cooperation also aims at helping the two parties to increase their overall operational efficiency, to reduce operating costs and to create greater commercial value by contributing to the green ecological construction of the Xiong'an New District.