General Manager of ChemChina Ren Jianxin met with a visiting delegation headed by Akihiro Nikkaku, CEO of Toray Industries, Inc. on December 25, 2014 in Beijing. As long-term business partners, ChemChina and Toray conduct a high-level strategic meeting at the end of each December, to exchange views on the macroeconomic circumstances and the prospects of their cooperation, and to foresee the future development trends.
During the meeting, Akihiro Nikkaku briefed on the major operations of Toray in 2014, showed satisfaction at the notably further lowered cost of Toray Bluestar Membrane Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. in which the two sides have cooperation, and congratulated ChemChina on its growing into an even more remarkable multi-national company after acquisition of new enterprises.
Ren Jianxin expressed his gratitude for Toray’s positive comments, introduced ChemChina’s restructuring efforts over the past year, and showed optimism about the cooperation prospects between the two sides. Additionally, he emphasized the Chinese and Japanese economies are complementary and the Chinese “new normal” economy is set to bring an even broader outlook of cooperation for both sides, and he wished they could have further cooperation in the fields of materials and environmental protection.