The 2024 China Guanxian Steel Plate Industry Opening-up and International Precision Procurement Conference held in Guanxian County, Shandong Province

The People's Government of Guanxian County

GUANXIAN, China, July 3, 2024 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/Dataxet

The 2024 ChinaGuanxianSteelPlate IndustryOpening-up and International PrecisionProcurement Conferenceunder the theme of "ShandongGood Products for GlobalTrade"was heldin GuanxianCountyfrom June 26 to 28.

The steel plate industry is a distinctive pillar industry of GuanxianCounty, with 1,233 steel plate processing companiesand over 35,000 employees, processing various types of steel plates totaling 16 million tons annually. Products are exported to over 120 countries and regions in Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America.Manysteel plate"star products"from GuanxianCounty are used in major projects at home and abroad. GuanxianCounty has become the largest fine steel plate processing industry cluster in the country, as well as a demonstration base and characteristic industrial cluster for the transformation and upgrading of Shandong Province's high-quality steel plate foreign trade.

The conference, organized by the People's Governmentof GuanxianCounty,featureda series of activities including SGS "Global Procurement Base"certification, factory inspection, procurement matchmaking, and cooperation agreements. During the event, GuanxianCounty was certified as the SGS "Global Procurement Base"for the steel plate industry, and over 100 overseas buyers engaged in in-depth discussions and exchanges with more than 110 local steel plate companies on steel plate procurement and market expansion.

GuanxianCounty promotes green and intelligent development through optimized industrial processes, improved technological equipment, enhanced comprehensive waste utilization, and digital transformation. Focusing on innovation-driven development, the county is strengthening the new advantage of "digital and intelligence +"to accelerate the development of new quality productive forces through industrial optimization and unimpededtrade channels.

Source : The People's Governmentof GuanxianCounty