Opening Welcome

Chui Sai On, Chief Executive, Macao Special Administrative Region

Fang Qiuchen, Chairman, China International Contractors Association

Moderator: 

Fang Qiuchen, Chairman, China International Contractors Association

Speakers:

Yu Jianhua, Vice Minister and Deputy China International Trade Representative, Ministry of Commerce, China

Hartwig Schafer, Vice President, Operations Policy and Country Services, World Bank

Rafael C. Yabut, Senior Undersecretary, Department of Public Works and Highways, the Philippines

Ding Xiangqun, Vice President, China Development Bank

Sun Ping, Vice President, The Export-Import Bank of China

Tomas Kuta, Senior Vice President of Sales, Volvo Construction Equipment

Fang Qiuchen, Chairman, China International Contractors Association

地点：三层宴会厅A-C

Along with social and economic progress, the infrastructure sustainability has gained increasing attentions from the global industry. This can be evidenced by the “UN 2030 Agenda” which identifies building sustainable infrastructure as one of the 17 development goals. Meanwhile, with the rapid development of green finance, successive launching of sustainability-based assessment criteria and widespread application of green technologies and materials, all stakeholders keep revamping and innovating upon, among others, the concept of cooperation, financing tools and business modes, so as to offer fresh impetuses and directions for sustainable infrastructure development.

Moderator: Yang Dan, Director General, Facility Management and Administrative Services Department, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Speakers:

U Kyaw Linn, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Construction, Myanmar

Yasuyuki Sawada, Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank

Khaled M. Al-Aboodi, CEO, Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector, Islamic Development Bank

Fang Qiuchen, Chairman, China International Contractors Association

Lin Yichong, Chairman of Board of Directors, China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd.

Bob De Lange, Group President, Caterpillar

Stephen Jones, Senior Director, Industry Insights Research, Dodge Data & Analytics (formerly McGraw Hill Construction)

Fang Qiuchen, Chairman, China International Contractors Association

Infrastructure construction and industrial development are closely interdependent and mutually reinforcing. All countries, especially who those are accelerating their own industrialization, attach great importance to integrating industrial layouts with overall infrastructure planning, and strive to achieve synergies between local infrastructure construction and industrial development through the alignment of policies and strategies. In the recent years, Chinese contractors are vigorously exploring various investment-oriented business models including comprehensive development, invest-build-operate integration as well as overseas industrial parks, etc., which are the great examples and practice of combination between infrastructure and inter-connected industrial development. Thus industry-promoting infrastructure has become the premise of boosting infrastructure efficiency and realizing coordinated social and economic progress.

Moderator: 

Sun Ziyu, Vice President, China Communications Construction Company Ltd.

Speakers:

David Mabumba, Minister, Ministry of Energy, Zambia

Umar Gambo Jibrin, Executive Secretary, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

Denys Denya, Executive Vice-President, African Export-Import Bank

Li Dang, President, China General Technology (Group) Holding Co., Ltd.

Zhao Jinhua, Chief Economist, China Railway Construction Corporation Limited

Zeng Guang’an, Board Chairman, Guangxi Liugong Group Co., Ltd.

Infrastructure connectivity is an important prerequisite for interactive economic development in the LAC region. A sound connected infrastructure will contribute to a higher level of economic development on a larger scale and further accelerate the process of economic integration in the LAC region. In the recent years, CELAC has prioritized infrastructure connectivity in the pursuit of regional cooperation and looked also for extensive international cooperation. China and CELAC countries will thus embrace more opportunities and potentials to cooperate in the area of infrastructure development. With a focus on the demands for connected infrastructure cooperation in the LAC region, this Forum will probe in depth into, among other issues, the infrastructure vision and planning in the LAC region, the transformation and upgrading of China-LAC cooperation modes on production capacity, innovative financing platform building and operation, and the way to promote infrastructure connectivity in the LAC region under the general framework of China-LAC cooperation.

Opening Ceremony

Official Welcome

Yu Jianhua, Vice Minister and Deputy China International Trade Representative, Ministry of Commerce, China

Gerson Martinez, Minister, Ministry of Public Works, Transport, Housing and Urban Development, El Salvador

Seminar:

Session One：

Moderator:

Shao Yingjun, Commercial Counsellor (deputy director general level), Department of American and Oceanian Affairs, Ministry of Commerce, China

Speakers:

Yin Hengmin, Special Representative of the Chinese Government on Latin American Affairs 

Antonio Carámbula Sagasti, Executive Director, Uruguay XXI Investment and Export Promotion Agency

Wu Li, Vice General-Director of Global Cooperation Department-Americas & Africa, China Development Bank

Han Deping, President, China-LAC Industry Cooperation Fund Co., Ltd.

Yu Gang, Deputy General Manger, China Energy Engineering Group Co., Ltd.

Session Two：

Moderator:

Song Dongsheng, President, PowerChina International Group Limited

Speakers:

Horace Chang, Minister without Portfolio, Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Jamaica

Gaston Astesiano, Senior Operations Advisor to Vice-President for Countries, Inter-American Development Bank

Du Fei, Vice President, China Road and Bridge Corporation

Wang Yu, Deputy Chief Economist, China Three Gorges Corporation

The demand for infrastructure runs high on a global scale, yet huge financing gaps still exist. But, through constant innovation and development of new financial modes and tools more social capital will be channeled into infrastructure projects. This not only requires all stakeholders to explore their own development paths, but also requires related governments, financial institutions and enterprises to make concerted efforts and unleash their advantages in integrating credits, equities, bonds and other capital market resources, building up diversified financing systems and cooperation mechanisms, and further promoting the development and implementation of BOT/PPP and other new financing modes.

Moderator:

Adam Joseph Worthington, Managing Director, Infrastructure Asia for Macquarie Capital

Speakers:

Allard M Nooy, CEO, InfraCo Asia

Saud Siddique, Co-founder and Executive Chairman, Odyssey Capital and Tigris Infrastructure Partners

Nicholas Grambas, Leading Infrastructure Lawyer, Sidley Austin

Chang Yunbo, Deputy General Manager, China Communications Construction Company Ltd. (International)

Yang Tianfu, Chief Financial Officer of Overseas Business Unit of Power China, Chief Financial Officer of PowerChina International Group Limited

Peter Kazimir, Minister, Ministry of Finance, Slovakia

Katharina Schneider, Deputy Executive Director, Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation

Gilbert Kwok, Partner (Hong Kong), Clyde & Co

Guan Jianzhong, Chairman, Dagong Global Credit Rating Group

The recent years have witnessed a new trend in international engineering projects, featuring larger sizes, more complexities and greater invest-build-operate integration. What underlie the success of such projects are innovative concepts, technologies and models as well as collaborative efforts in planning, investment, construction, and operation. Further strengthened collaboration along the entire industrial chain will not only lead to improved profit model and profitability as well as new business opportunities and values for upstream and downstream enterprises, but also enhance their comprehensive competitiveness in the global arena. In light of this, the government authorities are vigorously pushing forward the invest-build-operate integration for international projects. More and more industrial associations and professional unions are taking shape. It is becoming a consensus of the whole industry to share risks and benefits through closer integrated collaboration. Given the current industrial trend of innovation, cooperation and industrial chain integration, this Forum will invite investors, contractors, financial institutions, equipment manufacturers and relevant industry players to share the success of large projects and conduct in-depth discussion around the cooperation and integration between various industrial links from the perspective of, among others, new concepts, new models and new technologies.

Welcome Remarks:

Xin Xiuming, Vice Chairman, China International Contractors Association

Session One:

Innovation and Collaboration in International Infrastructure Investment, Construction and Operation Mode under New Situation

Moderator: 

Wang Yu, Deputy Chief Economist, China Three Gorges Corporation

Speakers:

Jia Bingjun, Vice President of China Datang Overseas Investment Co., Ltd

President of China Datang Overseas Electric Technology and O&M Co., Ltd.

Peng Dapeng, Deputy General Manager, China Communications Construction Company Ltd. (International)

Lv Lele, Assistant President, CAMCE

Wang Xu, Deputy General Manager, Business Development Department, China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure)

Dennis Wong, Partner (Hong Kong & Beijing), Clyde & Co

Session Two:

Integration among Upstream and Downstream Enterprises of International Infrastructure Industry Chain

Moderator: 

Liang Jun, Vice-President, PowerChina International Group Limited

Speakers:

Zhu Xiaoning, Senior Vice President, JSTI Group Co., Ltd.

Luo Guobing, Vice President, Guangxi Liugong Machinery Co., Ltd.

Han Hongmei, Chairman, CAFIC

Li Tao, Deputy General Manager of Global Financing Department, ICBC

Sun Kaibo, Chairman, Kaibo International Consulting Co., Ltd.

Now, there is a growing demand for the development and construction of smart cities, as an effective means and innovative strategy to solve the issues that have bottlenecked the urban development in various countries. Research reports estimates that by the year 2020, half of the global smart cities will put climate change, demographic change, infrastructure resilience and sustainability as their headline KPIs. While redefining the urban development plans, the governments have never ceased optimizing urban infrastructure design, construction and management through the application of high and new technologies, so as to promote further sustainability in economic, social and environmental dimensions. The development and construction of smart cities and sustainable infrastructure will certainly embrace broader prospects and opportunities.

Moderator:

Zhang Xiang, Secretary General, China International Contractors Association

Wang Rui, Director of Waste Resource Department of China Division, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute

Speakers:

Lotta Liljelund, Counsellor and Head of the Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Embassy of Sweden in China

Enzo de Laurentiis, Chief Procurement Officer, Operations Policy & Country Services, World Bank

Liao Tsung-Shen, Advisor, Taiwan General Contractors Association

Gao Yuyue, Deputy Secretary General, Shenzhen Municipal Government

Gaston Astesiano, Senior Operations Advisor to Vice-President for Countries, Inter-American Development Bank

Tang Wei, Vice President, Shanghai Construction Group Co., Ltd.

Huang Zheng, Vice President, Public Affairs and Communication, Volvo (China) Investment Co., Ltd.

Guo Jinzhang, Vice President, ZTE Corporation

This Forum builds on the UK-China Infrastructure Alliance announced by President Xi Jinping and the UK Prime Minister during President Xi's State Visit to the UK in 2015. Senior government officials and industry leaders will discuss insights and new approaches for key aims of the Alliance: promoting Africa-China-UK partnerships to help deliver high quality sustainable infrastructure in Africa through the Belt and Road Initiative; adapting UK expertise in PPPs and project financing for projects internationally, including in East Africa; and infrastructure and regeneration opportunities for Chinese investors and contractors across the UK including in Scotland, London and the Midland Engine region.

Welcome Remarks:

Stephen Ellison, Minister-Counsellor, Energy, Environment and Infrastructure, Department for International Trade, British Embassy Beijing

Keynote Speeches:

Sir Ed Lister, Senior Advisor for Capital Investment, Department for International Trade, Chairman of the Homes and Communities Agency, Non Executive Director at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Former Deputy Mayor of London

Fang Qiuchen, Chairman, China International Contractors Association

Edward Katumba Wamala, Minister of State for Works, Ministry of Works and Transport, Uganda

China-Africa-UK Cooperation: Opportunities in East Africa

Keynote Speeches:

Yuan Li, Chairman, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation

Ji Weimin, President, CGCOC Group Co., Ltd.

Moderator:

Vincent Connor, Chairman of the International Infrastructure Forum of the British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong/Partner and Head of Hong Kong Office, Pinsent Masons LLP

Speakers:

Peter Burnett, Regional Head, Corporate Finance, Great China and North Asia, Standard Chartered

Claire Barclay, Partner, Johannesburg Office, Pinsent Masons LLP

Ye Chengyin, Assistant President and Department Manager of Marketing,  China Road and Bridge Corporation

Denys Denya, Executive Vice-President, African Export-Import Bank

Infrastructure Opportunities in the UK

Liu Xiaokui, Vice President, China International Marine Containers (Group) Ltd.

Simon Parsons, Senior Manager, Scottish Development International

David Leven, Greater China Director, Scottish Development International

David Percival, Managing Director, China International Business Development Group, Deloitte

Nowadays, large infrastructure development around the world is putting greater stress on the environment and on climate change. Tackling these issues has become a key challenge of the industry. High-tech applications, innovative cooperation, and synergetic collaboration have been highlighted as potential solutions. This Forum looks at the value chain of the construction industry, showcasing the optimal solutions for reducing carbon emissions in key areas such as equipment supply, material selection, transport and recycling. It also features best practice case studies for enhancing resource efficiency and energy utilization.

Welcome Remarks:

Francis Sum, President of Sales Region China, Volvo Construction Equipment

Keynote Speeches:

Zhu Yingxin, Vice-dean of School of Architecture at Tsinghua University, Chair of National Steering Committee for Higher Education in Building Environment and Energy Engineering

Tomas Kuta, Senior Vice President of Sales, Volvo Construction Equipment

Sofie Absér, Sustainability Specialist Infrastructure/Head of Sustainable Infrastructure, Sweden Green Building Council, WSP Group Sweden

Rebecca Johansson, Sustainability Specialist Infrastructure/Sustainability Manager Stockholm Subway Extension, WSP Group Sweden

Panel Discussion:

Moderator:

Wang Liwei, Director of Content Solution Center, China Business News

Panelists:

Niklas Nillroth, Vice President of Environment and Sustainability, Volvo Construction Equipment

He Xinchun, Director of Environmental Assessment Center, China ENFI Engineering Corporation

Stefan Henningsson, Senior Adviser Climate Innovation, Climate & Energy Practice, WWF Sweden

Relevant authorities or institutions from CELAC countries will be invited to introduce to investors and contractors their latest infrastructure plans and capacity cooperation projects, so as to effectively connect project owners with investors and contractors.

Moderator:

Felipe Ezquerra Plasencia, Head of Transport, Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), Member of IDB Group

Speakers:

Gillmore Hoefdraad, Minister, Ministry of Finance, Suriname

Horace Chang, Minister without Portfolio, Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Jamaica

Claude Duncan, Vice President, Investment Promotion, Jamaica

Antonio Carámbula Sagasti, Executive Director, Uruguay XXI Investment and Export Promotion Agency

Bayney Karran, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Republic of Guyana to China

Felipe Ezquerra Plasencia, Head of Transport, Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), Member of IDB Group

The international infrastructure market is undergoing profound changes. How do international contractors, which maintain a major and active presence on the international infrastructure market, view the future of the industry? How do they adapt their business strategies to those changes and challenges? What difficulties have they encountered in expanding global footprints? What kind of assistance and supports do they expect from the governments and financial institutions? How can international contractors enhance their comprehensive competitiveness and realize synergies, mutual benefits and shared wins through greater cooperative efforts? This Forum will invite representatives from leading international contractors to exchange minds over such issues based on their own business operations and practices.

Moderator:

Sun Ziyu, Vice President, China Communications Construction Company Ltd.

Speakers:

Zhang Zongyan, President, China Railway Group Limited

Li Jie, Vice President, China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group

Soo-Hyun Jung, President & CEO, Hyundai Engineering & Construction

Juan A.Melgarejo, Senior Vice President, CSA Group

Ian Chung, Leader of Mainland China, Senior Vice President, AECOM

German Correa, President, Empresa Ferrocarriles del Estado (tbc) 

Amílcar de Oliveira Monteiro, Managing Director, IP Engenharia

Sun Ziyu, Vice President, China Communications Construction Company Ltd.

Along with the progress of the economic globalization and regional economic integration, the demand of building bi/multi-lateral Free Trade Zone and investing on infrastructure industry is growing rapidly, thus numerous contractors, investors, operators as well as equipment manufacturers expand their global business placement by accelerating their own internationalization. Meanwhile, the Belt and Road initiative provides new driving force for global economic growth, which enables many well-established companies to achieve globalized managements through transforming their governance concept and corporate framework. What strategy would successful multinational corporations take for corporate governance and globalization? Which are the best paradigms of management model for globalized operation? How do they rise to the risks and challenges when conducting the global management? Do they have some knacks in terms of cross-border cultural exchanges and international HR management? This Forum will discuss these hot topics above based on case studies and practical experiences.

Moderator:

Tan Jiaying, Director of Membership and Training Center, China International Contractors Association

Speaker:

Xin Xiuming, Vice Chairman, China International Contractors Association

Chen Qihua, Vice President of Caterpillar, Chairman of Caterpillar China

Woolf Huang, Managing Director of Products, Accenture Greater China

Paul Smith, Chairman, Eversheds Sutherland

Lu Jianzhong, President of CCCC International Holding Limited

Qian Liangzhong, Deputy Managing Director, China Construction (South Pacific) Development Co. Pte. Ltd.

In recent years, most of the Portuguese-speaking countries (PSCs) have been under the important stage of industrialization, thus they have growing needs in strengthening the infrastructure construction as well as perfecting their own industrial system. China and PSCs now embrace tremendous potential opportunities on industry capacity cooperation, which enables them to gain complementary strengths with each other and accomplish mutual benefit and win-win development. Through exchanging insights on new opportunities and innovative models for industrial capacity and financial cooperation, this Seminar expects to intensify the interactions among all relevant governments, enterprises, financial institutions and other stakeholders and look for a better way to utilize Macao, where functions as a service platform for commercial cooperation between China and PSCs, to catalyze pragmatic cooperation in related fields such as manufacturing sector and infrastructure construction industry, so as to achieve prosperity and common development.

Welcome Remarks:

Xu Yingzhen, Secretary-General, Permanent Secretariat of Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macao)

Secretary for Economy and Finance of the Macao Special Administrative Region or his Representative

Han Yong, Commercial Counselor (deputy director general level), Department of Outward Investment and Economic Cooperation, Chinese Ministry of Commerce

Seminar-Production Capacity Cooperation

Moderator: António Trindade, CEO, CESL Asia Ltd.

Speakers:

Carlos Ribeiro Santana, Head of the Investment Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil

Wei Feng, Deputy General Manager, China Gezhouba Group Corporation

Florentino Mendes Pereira, Minister, Ministry of Energy and Industry, Guinea Bissau

Jorge Costa Oliveira, Secretary of State for Internationalization Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Portugal

Seminar-Financial Area

Moderator: Representative of the Monetary Authority of Macao

Speakers:

Jin Guangze, General Manger, China-Portuguese Speaking Countries Cooperation and Development Fund Management Company

Felicidade Soares Correia de Brito Abelha, State Secretary of the Treasury, Guinea Bissau

Luís Saramago, Deputy Director General of GPEARI - Office for Planning, Strategy, Evaluation and International Relations (Ministry of Finance), Portugal

António Aguiar, Director of Heritage, Ministry of Finance, Commerce and Blue Economy, Sao Tome and Principe

Representative of the Bank of China, Macao Branch

Across most of African countries, all governments attach great importance to integrating overall infrastructure planning with local industrialization process, and look forward to promoting related industries and realizing the goal of economic transformation through infrastructure construction. Besides, the Chinese government’s China-Africa Infrastructure Plan and the AU’s Program for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) exhibit shared starting points and considerable complementarity. They encourage synergies and cooperation between China and African countries which will spur further progress of industrialization and integrated infrastructure construction in Africa. The Dialogue will invite industry elites, government officials and relevant researchers for face-to-face exchanges from the perspectives such as how to establish and perfect the mechanism of cooperation, industrial integration through utilizing the development experience accumulated by China and other emerging economies so as to break the bottleneck of industrialization, as well as how to enable African economy transforming and facilitating the process of industrialization for helping Africa to seek for the bright path to economic growth and transformation, etc.

Moderator:

Hai Helen, Goodwill Ambassador of UNIDO, Chief Executive Officer of Made in Africa Initiative

Speaker:

Justin Yifu Lin, Former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, Professor and Honorary Dean of National School of Development, Director of Center for New Structural Economics at Peking University

Agi Veres, Country Director, UNDP China

Kwasi Amoako Attah, Minister, Ministry of Roads and Highways, Ghana

M.C.Okpo, Acting Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Nigeria

Chi Jianxin, Chairman, China-Africa Development Fund

Ji Weimin, President, CGCOC Group Co., Ltd.

Joyce Zhang, Vice Director-General, Finance Center for South-South Cooperation 

Jane Xing, Deputy Director of Program Related Investments, Bill & Melinda Gates foundation (Representative Office in Beijing)

Face-to-face talks shall be arranged between infrastructure owners and interested investors and contractors, where detailed project information can be exchanged and mutual understanding be enhanced for further concrete action.

Moderator:

Zhang Chun, President, China Machinery Engineering Corporation

Speakers:

Vivencio B.Dizon, President and CEO, Bases Conversion and Development Authority, the Philippines

Osman Nurković, Minister, Ministry of Transport and Maritime Affairs, Montenegro

Alain Akouala Atipault, Minister, Ministry of Special Economic Zones, The Republic of Congo

Brent Anderson, Officer-in-Charge of Washington D.C. Office, UN Development Business

Nebojša Koharović, Ambassador, Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in Beijing

In line with the trend in international infrastructure cooperation, the Roundtable shall probe into, among others, the improvement of the Joint Action Plan for International Infrastructure Cooperation, the enhancement of relationship among international industry associations, and the promotion of mutually beneficial cooperation among their member companies.

Moderator: 

Yu Xiaohong, Vice Chairman, China International Contractors Association

Representatives from Signatory Associations of the Joint Action Plan:

John A Afful, National Vice Chairman, Association of Road Contractors, Ghana (ASROC)

David Prat, Lead Director for Infrastructure, Energy and Environment, China-Britain Business Council (CBBC)

Ranjith Gunathileke, President Elect, Chamber of Construction Industry, Sri Lanka (CCI)

Fang Qiuchen, Chairman, China International Contractors Association (CHINCA)

Mario Rendulić, President of Presidency, Chinese Southeast European Business Association (CSEBA)

Bishnu Bhai Shrestha, Senior Vice President, Federation of Contractors' Associations of Nepal (FCAN)

Park, Kee-Poong, Chairman, International Contractors Association of Korea (ICAK)

Miranda Lui, Chairlady, Hong Kong Region of Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (ICES)

Lau Yew Mun, Council Member, Master Builders Association of Malaysia (MBAM)

Tang Hon Cheong, Council-President, Macau Construction Association (MCA)

Chen Hwang-Ming, President, Taiwan General Contractors Association (TGCA)

Representatives from Other Present Associations:

Philippe Dessoy, President, European International Contractors (EIC)

Aberra Bekele, Chairman, Construction Contractors Association of Ethiopia

Mariet Ayupo, Executive Director, Uganda National Association of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors

Kazuyuki Yahara, General Manager of International Planning Division, The Overseas Construction Association of Japan Inc.

Jorge Pazos, Executive Secretary, Chamber of Construction of Uruguay

Fuldien Li, Chairman, Chinese Arbitration Association, Taipei