A correspondent from China County Economy Daily visited Pengfei Group for an on-site inspection and research.

Release Date:

2019-01-07

On January 6, Xi Zhaoping, head of the Shanxi bureau of China County Economy Daily under the Economic Daily Group, led a delegation of ten reporters from the newspaper—covering Fujian, Jiangsu, Anhui, Guangxi, Hebei, and Shanxi—for a visit and research tour to Pengfei Group. Zhang Zaiqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Xiaoyi Municipal Party Committee and head of the Publicity Department, accompanied the delegation. Wang Qi, deputy general manager, chief engineer, director of the Chief Engineer’s Office, and chief commander of the coking project, along with Lü Xiaofang, head of the General Affairs Department, received the visitors.

On January 6, Xi Zhaoping, head of the Shanxi bureau of China County Economy Daily under the Economic Daily Group, led a delegation of ten reporters from the newspaper—covering Fujian, Jiangsu, Anhui, Guangxi, Hebei, and Shanxi—for a visit and research tour to Pengfei Group. Zhang Zaiqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Xiaoyi Municipal Party Committee and head of the Publicity Department, accompanied the group. Wang Qi, deputy general manager, chief engineer, director of the Chief Engineer’s Office, and chief commander of the coking project, along with Lü Xiaofang, head of the General Affairs Department, received the visitors.

The research delegation visited the multimedia exhibition hall and watched the group’s promotional video, expressing keen interest in Pengfei Group’s “maximizing resource utilization” approach and its vertically integrated, closed-loop, full‑cycle industrial chain.

At the symposium, Zhang Zaiqiang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Xiaoyi Municipal Party Committee and Head of the Publicity Department, provided an overview of Xiaoyi’s topography, cultural heritage, education system, economy, and honors. He also highlighted the significant contributions made by Pengfei Group—designated as a model enterprise in Xiaoyi’s industry—in scaling up and strengthening the city’s coal‑coking sector, extending and refining the industrial chain, and achieving comprehensive resource utilization.

Wang Qi provided a detailed overview of Pengfei’s clean, green, environmentally friendly, and highly efficient coal‑coking and cogeneration closed‑loop, full‑cycle industrial chain. He also highlighted Pengfei’s domestically leading, world‑class SCP unit, its innovative resource‑utilization technologies—such as the coking‑gas processing technology recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology as a model for green development—as well as its pioneering carbon‑source‑supplemented syngas process and its suspended‑bed hydrogenation project for the preliminary processing of coal tar, all built on a foundation of refined, high‑level park‑level development. Furthermore, he noted that, amid rapid growth, the Group has set new standards for talent development, establishing partnerships with top universities, research institutes, and academician workstations to attract industry leaders to join Pengfei, while also inviting professors from Renmin University to deliver specialized courses.

During the subsequent Q&A session, reporters raised a series of questions, including the group’s efforts to ensure a stable supply of LNG for both industrial and residential use, how it is leveraging the Belt and Road Initiative to achieve robust local growth, what technological strengths have enabled it to stand out among China’s many coking enterprises, and how the company is responding to the nation’s stringent environmental protection standards.

In response to reporters’ questions, Wang Qi provided a detailed explanation of how the Group, as Shanxi Province’s largest LNG storage and supply hub, is fully committed to fulfilling its critical political mission of ensuring public welfare. He also recounted how, in September 2018, Chairman Zheng Peng accompanied Shanxi Provincial Party Secretary Luo Huining on an official visit to Europe, promoting Shanxi and Pengfei’s development strengths. Additionally, he highlighted the grand “Belt and Road” seminar on green development in the coal‑coking chemical industry, held on November 25, 2018. Furthermore, he outlined Pengfei’s integrated system of industrialization and informatization, which leverages “Internet Plus” to achieve automation of production equipment and digitalization of management systems. Finally, he introduced the company’s extensive environmental protection projects undertaken in 2018, underscoring Pengfei Group’s unwavering determination to win the battle for cleaner skies.

It has been noted that refined chemical processing, leveraging resource advantages, scaling up the industry, and fostering circular industrial systems have become the prevailing trends in the green development of the coal‑coking chemical sector in the new era. As Lüliang advances the green transformation of its coal‑coking chemical industry, Pengfei is confident and well‑positioned to spearhead a new wave of sustainable growth, striving to take the lead in this critical endeavor.