Beijing, Aug. 10 -- The fifth meeting of HT’s third board of directors was held smoothly. Chairman Xu Lie presided as directors, shareholder representatives and senior management gathered to review the company’s first-half performance and set plans for the second half.                                      

Han Dong, HT’s general manager, reported on the company’s first-half results for 2025. Wang Shuangping, chief financial officer, presented the half-year financial performance and the annual budget targets.

Facing a challenging domestic and international market, HT said it mobilized its management team to pursue opportunities within adversity and achieved breakthroughs through pragmatic actions. The company said it cultivated two major markets. Domestically, it focused on Shanxi, Shandong and Inner Mongolia, highlighting environmental-oriented policies, standby CDQ and ultra-low-emission retrofit projects. Overseas, HT reported progress in Africa and Russia, along with new operation-and-maintenance contracts.

HT cited its commitment to technical innovation as the engine of growth. The company advanced more than ten research projects in the first half of 2025. It plans to deploy vertical heat-recovery coke-oven technology in Africa, and accelerate several innovations, including ultra-high-temperature and ultra-high-pressure reheating CDQ power generation, and primary cyclone dust-removal CDQ systems. The smart-coking plant CDQ section project has been efficiently deployed at Ma Steel, Xilin Iron & Steel, and other sites, aided by digital and intelligent technologies to improve quality and efficiency.

Participants included Chen Xiaoguang, director of HT and chairman of Qinye Engineering & Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.; 

Wang Liang, director of HT and vice president of Beijing Jianlong Heavy Industry Group Co., Ltd.; 

and Liu Baikuan, director of HT and chairman of the board of Puyang Refractories Group Co., Ltd.

The board and shareholder representatives reviewed the company’s development proposals, including overseas investment and capital increases, and systematically laid out the second-half tasks. The company acknowledged continued challenges in the second half of 2025 but said directors and shareholder representatives expressed strong confidence and full support.

Plan highlights for the second half include:

Go all out to meet annual marketing targets.

Ensure the smooth landing and initiation of key overseas projects.

Intensify research and development to turn more innovations into results.

Strengthen safety and quality management to solidify the development foundation.

Accelerate digital transformation and complete core business-process mapping and system construction as planned, empowering efficient operations through digitization.

All HT employees were urged to align with the board’s directives, face tough challenges with resolve, and strive to achieve the company’s annual goals while opening a new chapter.