At 17: 30 on April 24th, in the deep Atlantic Ocean, 30 nautical miles away from Vega Port, COSCO Shipping "Xinglong", which is owned by COSCO and loaded with more than 220,000 tons of bauxite in Guinea Phase I Project, hangs the banner of "Warmly Celebrating the Successful Shipment of Bauxite in the First Ship of Guinea Aluminum Industry Development Project of China Power Investment", and sailed smoothly and shipped back to China, and will arrive at the domestic port in 45 days.
Since the first phase of the National Power Investment Project in Guinea started on May 29, 2019, it has overcome multiple difficulties such as the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, the political turmoil in the presidential election in Guinea, and the construction in the rainy season. It firmly grasps the two main lines of "ensuring quality to catch up with progress and ensuring safety control of cost". The effective construction period only takes 13 months to realize the delivery of bauxite. The epidemic situation is "zero infection", the safety and quality are "zero accidents", the project progress is "zero delay", and the project cost is ". It has set a record of the fastest construction speed of similar bauxite projects in Guinea and the shortest debugging time of shipment equipment, and created the "China speed" of overseas mine construction and operation in China, which shows the good responsibility and social image of central enterprises.
During the construction of the project, Guinean Company firmly grasped the four major controls of "safety, quality, investment and construction period". Under the influence of Covid-19 epidemic and rainy season, it worked hard with contractors to overcome many difficulties such as lack of materials, poor traffic, limited health and medical conditions, national conditions and cultural differences, etc., and opened the road every mountain and bridged the bridge in case of water, defying difficulties and tenacious struggle, and constantly pushed the project construction node forward, creating a new project
The effective construction period of the project took only 13 months, which was completed more than 70 days ahead of schedule; It takes less than 100 days for diesel power generation, belt conveyor transportation, ship loader installation and joint commissioning test, creating the fastest construction speed of similar bauxite projects in Guinea; The power source has built Guinea's current 1.2 MW photovoltaic new energy power station and 4 diesel generator sets through the small-scale energy storage design of "Chai Guang Complementary", which provides strong support for the overseas development of green energy, new energy+strategic data collection and industrialization experiments of the Group. At the same time, the construction and operation of the project provided a large number of jobs for local people.
The aluminum industry development project of Guinea invested by China Power Investment Corporation is a significant landmark project for China Power Investment Corporation to actively implement China's "the belt and road initiative" initiative, continuously deepen China-Africa pragmatic friendly cooperation, accelerate the globalization development layout, and enhance the sustainable development capability. It is also a "resource and loan cooperation project" between China and Guinea.
The first shipment of bauxite indicates that the first phase of the project has been transferred from capital construction to production and operation. The follow-up delivery of bauxite to China will have a great impact on promoting the establishment of long-term strategic partnership between China and Guinea and promoting Guinea's economic and social development. It is of great strategic significance to improve the mineral structure for sustainable green development of China's aluminum industry, to supply and reserve bauxite resources for the country, to play an important role in improving the important mineral resources guarantee capacity of the national power investment aluminum sector, and to provide a strong guarantee for the national power investment to enhance the global resource allocation capacity and cost competitiveness and speed up the construction of enterprises.
