Xu Jianguo, Chairman of Shanghai Electric Co., Ltd. denied the overcapacity of wind power in the Mainland

Xu Jianguo, chairman and chief executive of Shanghai Electric, denied a surplus of wind power in the mainland at the press conference. He pointed out that with the development of technological progress, it is expected that the market will continue to expand, and he believes that the elimination of low-quality companies in the market is a normal phenomenon. In the future, the company will further focus on the development of new energy business.

Assistant Secretary of the company Li Chongguang said that Shanghai Electric's new energy sector in the first half of the new orders increased by 5.4 billion yuan to 31.5 billion yuan, while thermal power business increased by 13.9 billion yuan in the first half of the year, to 119.5 billion yuan, at present The company's thermal power business has US$10 billion in handheld overseas orders, and the industrial equipment business has added 10.9 billion yuan in orders to 66.4 billion yuan. In the first half of the year, the gross profit margins of the company's new energy, high-efficiency clean energy, industrial equipment, and modern service industries were 14.3%, 18.3%, 19.2%, and 7.6%, respectively, with year-on-year growth of 0.3%, 4 percentage points, no rise, and fall. 2.3%; the overall gross profit rate in the first half of the year increased by 1.8 percentage points year-on-year to 16.9%.

Xu Jianguo said that the company's target of high-efficiency clean energy and industrial equipment can have orders of RMB 20 billion each year, while new energy and modern service industries can have orders of RMB 10 billion per year. Chief Financial Officer Yu Yingui stated that the company’s current cash on hand is approximately RMB 20 billion, and no mature acquisition plan has been negotiated at this stage.