From January 25 to 26, 2024 Work Conference of the company and the 2st Congress of the 19th Staff (Member) was held in the headquarters of the company.Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era,Comprehensively implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference, conscientiously implement the deployment requirements of the group company’s 2024 work conference, comprehensively summarize all work in 2023, arrange and deploy key tasks in 2024, and strive to create a new situation for the high-quality development of the company’s business .

Zhao Qiming, secretary of the company’s party committee, chairman and general manager, gave a work report titled "Strategy leads the way to increase momentum, improve management and control, improve efficiency, reform and attack strong momentum, hold high the banner of "the third time to start a business", focus on value creation and promote high-quality development". Li Junwei, deputy secretary of the company’s party committee and chairman of the labor union, presided over the meeting. Feng Zhengwen, the Member of the Party Committee and Chief Accountant of the company, conveyed the spirit of POWERCHINA’s 2024 work conference. The company’s external directors Ding Zhengguo, Liu Hong, Li Donglin, and Yu Yin attended the meeting via video. Company leaders Liu Fangjiang, Ren Jianhui, Chen Yunpeng, Dai Zengli, Kong Lingfeng and Zhu Hui attended the meeting.

The meeting pointed out that 2023 is an extremely important, critical and milestone year in the company’s career development history. Faced with the extremely severe and complex external situation and the very arduous and arduous reform and development tasks, the company’s Party Committee insisted on facing reality and thinking systematically, starting with reform and solving problems with development, uniting and leading all cadres and employees to withstand the pressure, move forward courageously, and start the " A new journey of "the third time to start a business".

Zhao Qiming emphasized that in the face of the current extremely severe and complex situation, the company must always keep a clear head, maintain a strong sense of crisis and urgency, unswervingly implement the decisions and arrangements of the company’s party committee, and assume the responsibilities of hard work and full-effort. We work together to overcome the difficulties. In 2024, all cadres and employees must be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party and the requirements of the Central Economic Work Conference, conscientiously implement the group company’s decisions and arrangements, and focus on “building a leading international engineering EPC” The overall strategic goal of "First-class Enterprise", adhering to the "14th Five-Year Plan" strategic plan as the guide, taking loss reduction and efficiency improvement as the main goal, taking increasing revenue and reducing expenditure as key measures, solidly carrying out the "Business Management and Control Year" activities, going all out to expand the market and optimally perform contracts , promote innovation, prevent risks, focus on work style, gather talents, strengthen party building, work together and work hard, hold high the banner of "three entrepreneurships", focus on value creation and promote high-quality development of the company.

Zhao Qiming requested that for the key tasks in 2024, the company must adhere to strategic guidance and comprehensively build new advantages for future development. We will unswervingly consolidate the traditional advantages of internationalization, go all out to create leading advantages in the solar thermal and seawater desalination industries, and strengthen the construction of the "three reservoirs" function. Second, we must adhere to efficiency first and win the battle to upgrade operations and control in an all-round way. We will closely follow the management theme of the year of operation and control to develop practical measures, closely focus on the main goals of reducing losses and increasing efficiency, and focus on key measures to increase revenue and reduce expenditure to achieve real results. Third, we must insist on improving both quantity and quality, and comprehensively build and strengthen the dual engines of marketing. Create a new overseas marketing situation of strong alliances and mutual benefits, and create a unified domestic market with multi-polar support and diversified development. Fourth, we must adhere to efficient linkage and take the initiative to fully implement project contracts. After making a decision, plan the project well, optimize resource allocation around the center, strictly guard the safety line of defense, and strive for excellence to build a model project. Fifth, we must adhere to bottom-line thinking and fully adhere to the red and yellow lines of risk control and compliance. We will build a solid defense line for legal compliance management, strengthen the management and control of major operating risks, and strive to promote the resolution of legal dispute cases. Sixth, we must persist in selecting the best and matching the strongest to comprehensively enhance the combat effectiveness of the cadre team. Focus on improving the work style of the cadre team, comprehensively improve the overall quality of the cadre team, continue to improve the cadre team selection mechanism, and focus on strengthening the assessment and evaluation of the cadre team. Seventh, we must adhere to the party’s leadership and comprehensively carry forward the main theme of party building. Effectively enhance the political awareness of "two maintenances", effectively transform the results of thematic education into vivid practice to promote high-quality development, implement "two consistent", and do a good job in "double guidance and dual construction" benchmarking and improvement In all work during the year, we will pay close attention to correcting the work style, discipline and anti-corruption, create a development environment with upright conduct and clean work, and implement publicity and group work to provide a strong ideological guarantee and strong spiritual power to promote the company’s high-quality development. Quality party building leads the way to ensure that the company’s high-quality development is in an unbiased direction, with a more stable foundation and full of vitality.

The meeting commended advanced collectives, advanced workers, outstanding project departments, gold medal project managers and outstanding project managers in 2023. The participating representatives held group discussions, put forward opinions and suggestions around the work report and the company’s business reform and development, and reviewed and approved relevant reports.

Zhao Qiming signed a collective contract with Li Junwei, and signed a 2024 operating performance responsibility letter with representatives of branch companies and project. MKD,CCD,EMC,OPC,IFEC,HFC, Iraq Anbar Project,Tibet Zabuye Projectexpressed their stance as representatives speak.

Li Junwei put forward requirements for the implementation of the spirit of this meeting. All units must study carefully, deeply understand, and do a good job in publicizing and implementing the spirit of the meeting. First, focus on the overall strategic goal of "building a first-class enterprise that leads international engineering EPC" and continuously improve the company. core competitiveness; the second is to focus on comprehensively building new advantages for future development and continuously improving the company’s innovation; the third is to focus on strengthening the construction of the "three reservoirs" function and continuously improving the company’s control; the fourth is to focus on the company’s three major areas of "energy, water and city" business segment to continuously enhance the company’s influence; fifth, focus on implementing various tasks and deployments of the “Year of Operations and Control” and continuously improve the company’s ability to resist risks.

This meeting was held using the "onsite + video" method. The headquarters had one main lecture hall, one 417 sub-venue, and each business unit had 55 video sub-venues. A total of 774 people attended the meeting.