Ding Yanzhang Visits Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo

On September 2, Energy China  General Manager Ding Yanzhang visited Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo who paid a state visit to China and attended the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. Both parties had a friendly exchange on further deepening the win-win cooperation. Chen Xiaohua, President and General Manager of CGGC, President and Secretary of the Party Committee of CGGC International, also attended the meeting.

Friendly Talk

First of all, Ding Yanzhang extended his welcome to President Nana Akufo-Addo and his delegation. He noted that as a comprehensive central enterprise integrating planning & consultation, survey & design, engineering contracting, equipment manufacturing and investment & operation, Energy China ’s business scope covers diverse fields such as electric power, energy, transportation, housing construction and municipal engineering. As a backbone enterprise of Energy China , CGGC has rich investment and construction experience in African markets. Ghana is an important strategic market of Energy China  in Africa, and Energy China  is willing to fully leverage its advantages in integrated industry chain and powerful resource integration abilities, and extensively participate in the investment and construction in Ghana in such fields as water, civil explosion, new energy and infrastructure.

President Nana Akufo-Addo noted that Energy China  and its subsidiary CGGC has built a remarkable number of national livelihood projects in Ghana by virtue of good performance capacity and high sense of social responsibility, and has made great contributions to the economic development and improvement of people’s livelihood of Ghana, being a trusted partner of Ghana. The Ghanaian Government will always support Energy China ’s development in Ghana, and create a more equitable and orderly investment and construction environment. He also hoped that both parties could establish more extensive and in-depth cooperation in the future.

Ghana is located in western Africa and houses abundant mineral resources. The Ghana Kpong Water Supply Plant Expansion Project undertaken by CGGC is the largest water supply project in Ghana so far, and has won the certificate for high-quality project issued by the Ministry of Health and Water Resources of Ghana. Completed in January 2017, the 360MW Combined Cycle Power Station (Phase II) of Sunon Asogli Power (Ghana) Ltd. with Energy China  Guangdong Power Engineering Co., Ltd. as EPC contractor is the first power station invested by China in Africa.

Guests Take Group Photos

Among the attendees were also Deputy Chief of Staff of Ghana’s Presidential Palace, Minister of Finance, Minister of Railway Development, Minister of Trade and Industry, Xue Danfeng- Director of Energy China  International Business Division, Yuan Baoyi- Deputy General Manager of CGGC International, and principals of CGGC Ghana Branch.