To transform China into a manufacturer of quality products, the concrete industry has taken on an honorable mission. There are five important dimensions of high-quality development of the concrete and cement-based products industry.

(1) Green, low-carbon and environmentally friendly are the direction.

(2) In the face of the new situation and requirements, the concrete and cement-based products industry must promote development of the foothold to improve quality and efficiency.

(3) Create a brand of Chinese concrete with excellent quality and obvious advantages.

(4) Intelligence and digitalization are the key to reshaping the concrete industry.

(5) The institutional mechanism for quality infrastructure management will be more sound and rationally laid out, and a higher level of synergistic development will be achieved in metrology, standards, certification and accreditation, testing and inspection.

"Low carbon concrete" has its profound connotation and rich extension. Green development cannot be separated from green low-carbon concrete. There are three key areas and directions for the innovation and development of green low carbon concrete in China: the first is to further strengthen the research and development of industrial solid waste as concrete admixture and lightweight aggregate. The second is to strengthen close cooperation with architectural design and building construction units to realize green manufacturing, intelligent manufacturing, recycling and high-quality resource-based recycling of precast concrete component. The third is to innovate and develop new types of concrete such as ultra-high-strength concrete, eco-concrete, and environmentally-friendly lightweight aggregate high-performance concrete, so as to continuously meet the needs of green building and the development of construction industrialization.

As we all know, concrete is the most used civil engineering material in the world today, volume accounted for more than 90% of the “three materials” in the construction project.

In 2023, there are excellent quality of concrete and cement-based products used in many national key projects, such as the completion of the main project of the world's first bridge accommodating highway and high-speed railroad on same deck, the opening of the domestic largest clear-water concrete monolithic building named Qintai Art Museum in Wuhan, the drilling of the first pile of the world's tallest suspension tower, the commissioning of the world's largest span arch bridge, the opening of the whole line of Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway, the application of ceramsite concrete in the first concrete modular high-rise building in China, the first passing through of China's longest shield highway tunnel, the introduction of the first 3D printed commercial building in China, the intelligent PCCP pipeline configured for Water Resource Allocation Project around Beibu Gulf, the topping out of twin towers of the world's largest span cable-stayed bridge.

In terms of scale and volume, concrete and cement-based products is the largest industry in China's building materials industry, and it is the first industry in China's building materials industry with an annual output value exceeding two trillion yuan. In recent years, the concrete and cement-based products industry has adhered to the direction of green transformation, in 2023, the green development of the whole industry had a good harvest: concrete and cement-based products is the most awarded industry for green building materials enterprises in China.

In 2023, we have seen a number of concrete mixing plants integrated with intelligent logistics system, intelligent scheduling system, unattended weighbridge system, automatic aggregate sampling system, fine aggregate intelligent testing system, powder warehoused integrated system, concrete compressive strength intelligent testing system, and many other intelligent products in the concrete industry, realizing unmanned and intelligent in multiple sessions, such as unattended weighing and sampling of raw materials, the intelligent scheduling of production commands, the intelligent logistics and distribution, and the sampling of concrete.

Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) is the most innovative high-tech cement-based building material of the last three decades, realizing a big leap in the performance of engineering materials.

UHPC is a kind of ultra-high strength cement-based material with high strength, high toughness and low porosity, which is made of cementitious materials, auxiliary cementitious materials, aggregates, admixtures, water, etc. through special mixing. In recent years, UHPC has been called the "King of Concrete" for its vigorous strength in national key projects.

Concrete industry has the valuable property of recycling, which is China's important industry to "eat powder" and "swallow slag", that is, concrete is one of the largest undertaking industries for resource utilization of industrial solid waste and construction waste in China, playing an irreplaceable role in the elimination of industrial solid waste and construction waste. Over the past ten years, China's concrete industry has been actively promoting the circular economy, which has strongly supported the concrete industry's energy saving, emission reduction and carbon reduction.

China Concrete and Cement-based Products Association (CCPA), which takes serving the industry and enterprises as its mission, continuing to build a service platform for the high-quality development of the whole industry.

①China Concrete and Cement-based Products Industry Conference. The goal of the annual industry conference is to gather consensus and wisdom for promoting the high-quality development of the industry, and it has become the largest offline event covering the whole industry chain in the global concrete and cement-based products industry. The organizer, CCPA, mobilizes the resources of more than 30 sub-organizations, and the delegates attending the conference are distributed in the whole industrial chain of the industry, such as production and manufacturing, scientific research and management, marketing, and industrial services, reflecting the unity, convergence., interconnection and sharing of the whole industry.

② China Concrete Exhibition. China Concrete Exhibition is a trade platform for the display and exchange of new technologies, products, equipment and services, which is created by CCPA to serve the high-quality development of the whole industry, based in China and facing the world, and it is currently the largest annual trade exhibition for concrete and cement-based products in China. Exhibitors cover the whole field and industry chain of ready-mixed concrete, precast concrete and concrete machinery, admixtures, sandstone aggregate manufacturing and services in China.

③ C10 Summit Forum. This is a communication platform jointly built by the leaders of head enterprises in the domestic concrete industry.

Investigation and research are not only the foundation of planning and the way to success, but also the basic skill to do all the work well. In 2023, leaders of CCPA insist on going deep into the front line of enterprises to understand their real situation, to reach out to the lower level, and to offer suggestions for enterprises to alleviate their difficulties.

In 2023, the accounts receivable of the whole industry of concrete and cement-based products exceeded one trillion yuan. The head enterprises of ready-mixed concrete industry and several listed companies have suffered from huge accounts receivable for a long time.

China Resources Building Materials Technology Holdings Limited is notable for its thinking and practice. They face up to the industry's accounts receivable problem with innovative management thinking. It took half a year to increase the proportion of current sales to 60% and 90% of new orders are cash orders. The enterprise's ability to receive orders and profitability are gradually recovering.