On the evening of the 9th, Shandong Sun Paper Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Sun Paper") issued an announcement on the establishment of Nanning Sun Paper Co., Ltd. According to the announcement, Sun Paper intends to set up a wholly-owned limited liability company in Hengzhou Liujing Industrial Park, Nanning City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and the company name is tentatively set up as Nanning Sun Paper Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Nanning Sun"). The company has a registered capital of 100,000,000 yuan and Sun Paper owns 100% of the shares.
According to the announcement, Nanning Sun's general business projects include paper manufacturing, paper product manufacturing, paper product sales; tree planting and operation; primary agricultural products purchase, timber acquisition; building materials sales; port cargo loading and unloading activities, port tally, loading and unloading; investment activities with its own funds. Licensed business projects include power generation business, transmission business, power supply (distribution) business, and port operation.
However, why does Sun Paper focus on layout outside of its Shandong headquarters? What do they value in Guangxi?
Guangxi's geographical location, climatic conditions and rich forest resources are obviously very compatible with the industrial development needs of Sun Paper. According to the disclosure, the forest area of The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is 223 million mu, and the forest coverage rate is as high as 62.5%, ranking third in the country; the total output value of the forest and grass industry has reached 766.2 billion yuan, ranking second in the country; the timber output is 36 million cubic meters, ranking first in the country for many years and is the most important timber production base in the country; the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is the province with the largest planting area of plantation forests and Sufeng forests on the mainland, and Guangxi's rich timber resources have created unique conditions for the papermaking industry.
Similarly, Sun Paper chose Guangxi for two reasons, one for marketing reasons and the other for facilitating synergy with the Beihai project and the Laos base "Forest Pulp and Paper Integration" project.
According to the disclosure, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is the best implementation area for the implementation of the "forest pulp and paper integration" project in China, according to the actual development of the company, the newly established company will take Nanning City as the investment place for the proposed implementation of the project, continue to expand business in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning City is the capital of Guangxi, the current Guangxi in the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" period put forward a strong capital strategy, to "the capital industry Dongrong bearing area, advanced manufacturing main position, the integration of the development of the port city demonstration zone" as the goal to create a new look of industrial development and urban quality double improvement. The implementation of the proposed investment project of the new company established by the company in Nanning will further integrate and complement each other with the Beihai project of the Guangxi base and the "integration of forest pulp and paper" project of the Laos base, forming synergy, which will help the company to build a complete raw material supply system and realize the transformation and upgrading of the enterprise, continuously enhance the company's core competitiveness and sustainable development capabilities, and open up a broader space for the company's growth.
The announcement also mentioned that on the basis of full investigation, research and scientific planning, the relevant projects will be carried out in the Liujing Industrial Park of Hengzhou, Nanning City, Guangxi Province, and the capital and technical advantages of Sun Paper will be combined with the rich forest resources and logistics and transportation advantages of the investment areas in Guangxi, and it is planned to take the road of green, low-carbon and recyclable development in accordance with the "integration of forest pulp and paper" model. Under the background of the transformation and upgrading of the national development strategy and the advocacy of "green GDP", the new company will make useful explorations on accelerating the development of the green industry in the paper industry, realize industrial transformation and upgrading, and actively apply emerging technologies such as digitalization, intelligence and intensification to build the proposed project into a world-class project of ecological energy saving, low carbon environmental protection and scientific and technological intelligence.
Previously, the investment in the construction of the Guangxi base Beihai project was an important measure for the transformation and upgrading of Sun Paper, which realized the synergistic interaction with the Lao raw material base on the "Belt and Road" and formed a high-end papermaking industry chain cluster from raw materials to consumer terminal products. Beihai is a bridgehead to the ASEAN sea, with outstanding location advantages, can achieve synergistic interaction with the Laos raw material base on the "Belt and Road", with the help of the outstanding location advantage of the North Sea, the Beihai base and the Laos raw material base on the "Belt and Road" to achieve collaborative interaction, to create a complete Southeast Asian raw material supply system and Guangxi forest pulp and paper integration industrial chain. At the same time, Guangxi is the largest fast-growing forest base in the country, which provides a strong guarantee for the supply of wood chips for the project. In terms of market, the Beihai base and the Shandong base echo each other from north to south, complement each other, and achieve effective coverage of the South China and Southwest markets, as well as paper exported to ASEAN, the Middle East, South Asia and other countries along the Belt and Road, will be supplied through the North Sea base.
It is not difficult to see that the layout of Nanning Sun will single-handedly support the bases and markets in the north and south, and at the same time, strengthen the improvement of the industrial chain, coordination and coverage of key markets.
It is understood that Sun Paper, founded in 1982, is the world's leading forest pulp and paper integration listed company, China's papermaking leading enterprises, ranked among the world's top 20 papermaking enterprises, China's top 500 enterprises. The group employs more than 15,000 people, with an annual pulp and paper production capacity of 10 million tons, a total operating income of 60 billion yuan, and a total of 19.6 billion yuan in tax revenue for the country since the 18th National Congress. As a national high-tech enterprise and a national "green factory", it has 492 core intellectual property rights, 378 invention patents, undertakes 1 national 863 program project, more than 10 national and provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, and won many national scientific and technological innovation awards such as the first prize of national science and technology progress and the commendation award of China Industry Award.