CFHI and CGN Hold Exchange Meeting to Jointly Tackle HPR1000 2.0 Demonstration Project

On August 6, China First Heavy Industries (CFHI) and China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) held an exchange meeting at CFHI's nuclear power and petrochemical equipment manufacturing base. Leaders from both sides, including Lu Zhiqiang, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of CFHI, and Pang Songtao, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of CGN, attended the meeting. The two sides reviewed and summarized two decades of cooperation achievements, jointly mapped out a blueprint for coordinated development across the entire industrial chain, and presented flags to the “Joint Party Member Task Force for the HPR1000 2.0 Demonstration Project”. Zhang Wenping, Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Chief Accountant of CFHI, presided over the meeting.

As two central state-owned enterprises serving the national energy power strategy, the two sides have built a solid collaboration system in multiple fields since undertaking the first domestically produced Hongyanhe million-kilowatt-class reactor pressure vessel in 2006, including nuclear island main equipment, special forgings, nuclear three-waste treatment equipment, and complete wind turbines, jointly breaking the overseas monopoly on large nuclear power forgings, supporting the localization breakthrough and batch commissioning of the “HPR1000”, and jointly consolidating the foundation for the safe development of China's nuclear power industry.

During the exchange, CFHI Nuclear Power and Petrochemical reported on manufacturing support and progress of ongoing projects; CGN Engineering Company put forward standard requirements and schedule milestones for project construction. Meanwhile, the two sides reached consensus on project tackling, joint technology research, capacity coordination, and industrial chain extension.

Subsequently, the two sides jointly initiated the establishment of the “Joint Party Member Task Force for Main Equipment and Key Forgings of the HPR1000 2.0 Demonstration Project”. Lu Zhiqiang and Pang Songtao presented the flags to the task force, with Feng Dongxu, Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of CFHI Nuclear Power and Petrochemical, and Ma Limin, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of CGN Engineering, receiving the flags on behalf of the team. This exchange established a two-way channel for industrial collaboration and joint Party building between the two central state-owned enterprises.

Going forward, CFHI will leverage its full-process manufacturing advantages in casting, forging, and nuclear island equipment, deepen joint scientific research and innovation, and continue to expand in-depth cooperation across the entire chain of nuclear environmental protection and new energy, safeguarding the safety of the nuclear power industry through the synergy of central state-owned enterprises, and injecting sustained momentum into the national “dual carbon” goals and the high-quality development of clean energy.

Relevant persons in charge from CFHI and CGN affiliated units attended the exchange.