Han Zheng attended the comprehensive construction of the BASF (Guangdong) integrated base project and the first set of installation ceremony

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 6th. On September 6, the BASF Group invested in the BASF (Guangdong) integrated base project invested in Zhanjiang, Guangdong held a comprehensive construction and the first set of installation ceremony. Han Zheng, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, attended and announced the launch of the project's comprehensive construction and the first set of devices.

On the morning of the same day, Han was at the Beijing venue. Li Xi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, was at the Guangzhou venue in Guangzhou, and the chairman of the executive board of the BASF Group was at the Zhanjiang venue in Guangdong. Investment ceremony. Relevant persons in charge of the BASF Group, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the relevant heads of Guangdong Province have delivered speeches at the venues of the three places. At 10:20, Han Zheng announced that the BASF (Guangdong) integrated base project was fully constructed, and the first set of devices were put into production.

The total investment of the BASF (Guangdong) integrated base project is about 10 billion euros, which is the largest single project in Germany's investment in China. The project was launched in November 2019. Today, the first installation is officially put into production. The first phase of the project has entered a comprehensive construction stage, mainly including an annual output of 1 million tons of ethylene and downstream processing devices. After the project is completed, Zhanjiang, Guangdong will become BASF's third largest production base in the world. The comprehensive construction and the first set of devices of the BASF (Guangdong) integrated base project is of great significance for Sino -German to deepen economic and trade investment cooperation, deal with the impact of the epidemic, and maintain the safe and stable supply chain of the global petrochemical industry chain.

【Edit: Chen Wentao】

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