尊敬的会长、主席先生、各位贵宾、女士们、先生们，

    很荣幸今天能够在此与各位探讨建设美丽中国以及水泥产业在建设美丽中国中的重要角色。众所周知，水泥可持续发展倡议组织(CSI)与中国的水泥行业已经有多年的合作。

    增长与变化。 在中国，经济的增速、大城市数量的增长、城市人口的增加都令人叹为观止。当然，水泥产业在这种中国式增长中起到的作用十分关键。而同时水泥产业自身也经历着增长和变化。在2000年，我有幸与崔源生教授在北京一起主持了一次会议，探讨当时水泥产业的现状以及CSI当时的初步工作。那时我们就已经意识到，作为世界最大的水泥生产国，中国无疑已经并将继续对环境产生重要影响。

    在2000年的时候， 中国有很多很小的水泥厂（一共有超过10，000家我记得），进行着不可持续的水泥生产。许多厂家使用的是陈旧的技术，生产过程中产生大量污染物，能效很低，水泥质量很差，而且利润率也很低。因此，无论从经济的角度还是环境的角度来说，这些小水泥厂都是不可持续的。

    不到15年后的今天，形势发生了巨大改变。如今的水泥厂，使用的是世界级的先进技术，生产的是高质量的水泥，而且能耗很低，污染排放更少，利润率也总体大幅提升。我想我们可以说中国的水泥工业已经远离了早期的灰色，带上了一丝绿意。虽然将来要做的依旧很多，但如今中国的水泥工业的确已比从前更加可持续发展。CSI非常荣幸能够为中国水泥工业的改变提供帮助，特别是能够与中国水泥协会（CCA）以及五家CSI的成员单位：中国建材集团，中材集团，华润水泥，亚泰水泥和天瑞水泥，以及拉法基、豪瑞、海德堡水泥和其他CSI成员单位的外国合资公司进行合作。

    CSI，众所周知，成立于1999年底，至今已经有13年的历史。在此期间，我们从3家成员单位，发展到10家再到如今的超过20家。我们通过不同的工作组，开发实用的工作途径和方法用以提高水泥工业的环境和社会效应。如今，我们已经有9个工作组，从事一系列水泥企业的相关问题研究，包括：气候保护、原燃料使用、员工健康与安全、大气污染排放、生物多样性和生态系统管理、水的使用和管理、混凝土可持续发展建筑、供应链管理、沟通交流。

    在中国，我们有四个工作组与中国水泥协会和四个成员单位正在进行合作，合作的主要内容涉及：环境保护和排放管理、能源和燃料管理、员工安全、生物多样性管理。
这些工作组定期开会，研究各种方案，用以提高水泥企业的各方面表现。例如，气候保护工作组一直在搜集二氧化碳排放数据，将所有CSI企业的数据放入能源和二氧化碳数据库。这将为全球的水泥企业在能源效率、二氧化碳排放、电耗和燃料使用等方面建立一个良好的全球基准，各个水泥企业可以依据自己的指标判断在全球企业中的排位，进而寻找改善的途径。
 
    除了二氧化碳排放，该工作组也在考虑如何管理和减少重金属的排放，这也是CSI与联合国环境组织(UNEP)合作内容的一个方面。

    能源和燃料管理工作组的核心工作内容是替代燃料的协同处理， 以适应不断增长的城市生活垃圾处理需求。去年，CSI主办了一次欧洲主要水泥生产企业参观，以突出协同处理在提高经济和环境效益方面所发挥的重要作用。大约有40家中国企业单位参与了此次参观。去年秋季，CSI年度论坛在北京和广州召开，论坛的中心议题围绕协同处理以及政府相关政策。

    员工安全工作组致力于帮助企业分享管理司机和承包商行为、在水泥厂施行严格安全措施的好办法、好经验。

    我们也开始投入更多的精力关注对矿山生态系统的管理。CSI基于成员单位在欧洲、日本和美国的经验，已经开发了一套正确行为准则。主要水泥企业已经发现，对矿山及矿山周边区域生态多样性的合理管理可以收获巨大回报，特别是在为动植物提供栖息地、提高水质量和为当地社区娱乐提供场所方面。我们预计会在明年再组织一次对在此方面表现优秀的企业的参观，并将2014年哥伦比亚召开的CSI峰会主题定为与矿山生态系统的管理相关的议题。

    结论：如今，世界主要经济体正在进行一场绿色竞赛，竞赛的主题是关于开发领先的环保、可持续发展科技：也就是对人类有益的科技、对地球、对经济有益的科技。而中国正是这场竞赛的参与者之一。中国的水泥工业将继续在中国的绿色增长的道路上扮演重要角色。 如今，中国的水泥行业有着更强的动力去帮助协同处理城市固体垃圾，贡献社会；使用更多替代能源减少对石油和煤炭的需求；努力减少氮氧化物的排放，减少空气污染；中国的水泥工业正在与CSI合作以减少汞和其他有害污染物的排放，提高公共健康。与此同时，CSI成员单位也开始在他们的矿山范围内践行最好的行为规范，以保护生物多样性和生态资源。随着这些努力的不断付出，中国的水泥正在变得更加绿色，帮助建设一个更加美丽的中国。

Mr. President, Mr. Chairman, Honored Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. 

    It is a pleasure to be here today to speak with you about building a beautiful China and the role of cement in that building process.  As many of you know the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) has been working in China with the cement sector for many years. 

    Growth and change. In China the pace of growth of the economy, the increasing number of large cities, and the growing population in cities is truly amazing.  And of course the cement industry has played a key role in making this growth possible.  The cement industry itself is also characterized by growth and change.  In 2000 I was fortunate to co-host a meeting in Beijing with Prof. Cui Yuan-Sheng to discuss the state of the cement industry at that time and the early work that the CSI was doing.  We recognized then that China, as the world’s largest cement producer, did and would continue to have a major impact on the environment. In 2000 there were many, many small cement plants (more than 10,000 in total I think) whose production was unsustainable.  Many used old technology, produced lots of pollution, had poor energy efficiency, made generally low quality cement, and were not very profitable.  So they were unsustainable both economically environmentally. 

    Today, less than 15 years later, the situation is very much changed.  Modern plants using world class technology, producing high quality cement, with good energy efficiency, lower emissions, and generally improved profitability. I think we can say the industry has moved from the gray of earlier days to a certain shade of green.  While there are still more changes ahead, the industry is much more sustainable today.   The CSI has been pleased to help with these changes, and particularly pleased to work with the Chinese Cement Association (CCA) and the five companies who are today members of the CSI:  CNBM, Sinoma, China Resource Cement (CRC), Yatai, and Tian Rui, along with the foreign joint ventures of Lafarge, Holcim, HeidelberegCement and other CSI members.

    The CSI, as many of you know, was organized in late 1999, so has now been operating for more than 13 years.  During that time we have grown from 3 to 10 to more than 20 companies today.  We work through various Task Forces, developing practical tools and methods for improving cement industry environmental and social performance.  There are nine Task Forces today working on a variety of issues of concern to cement makers including:

    •Climate protection

    •Fuels and raw materials use

    •Employee health and safety

    •Airborne emissions

    •Biodiversity and eco-system management

    •Water use and management

    •Sustainable construction with concrete

    •Supply chain management, and

    •Communications

    In China we are working with CCA and our members in four Task Forces, which follow the CSI themes:

    1.Climate protection and emissions management

    2.Energy and fuels management

    3.Employee safety, and

    4.Managing Biodiversity

    These task forces meet regularly and work on specific ideas to improve the companies’ performance. For example, the climate protection task force has been working to inventory CO2 emissions and join the Energy and CO2 database for all CSI companies.  This data provides good global benchmarks of energy efficiency, CO2 emissions, electricity and fuel use, etc. so that individual companies can identify their standing globally and find ways to improve. 

    In addition to CO2 emissions, the Task Force is also considering how to manage and reduce emissions of heavy metals as part of a partnership between CSI and the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP). 

    The task force on energy and fuels management has focused on co-processing alternative fuels, to support the growing processing of MSW.   Last year CSI hosted a European tour of major cement producers to highlight how co-processing was used to improve economic and environmental performance.  About forty Chinese members participated.  Last fall, the annual CSI Forum was held in Guangzhou and Beijing and focused on co-processing practice and government policy.
The employee safety task force works to share good practices for managing driver and contractor activity, and putting strong safety measure in place in each cement plant.

    We are beginning to put more attention of managing the ecosystems that are part of our quarries.  CSI has developed a set of good practices based on members

experience in Europe, Japan and the Americas.  Leading companies have found that proper management of the biodiversity in and around their quarries pays big dividends

in terms of providing habitat for a variety of animals and plants, improving water quality, and providing areas for local community enjoyment.  We expect to organize

another tour of best-practice companies next year, and focus the 2014 CSI Forum on this topic when it meets in Colombia.

    Conclusion

    Today leading economies are engaged in a green race to develop leading environmentally sustainable technologies:  technologies that are good for people, good for

the planet and good for profits.  China is one of the participants in this race.  The cement industry will continue to play a strong and important role in China’s

green growth.  Today it is beginning a strong push for co-processing municipal solid waste (MSW) to contribute to society by helping manage wastes from cities; it is

beginning to use more alternative fuels to reduce the need for oil and coal, it is working to reduce NOx emissions which contributes to air pollution, and it is

working with CSI to reduce mercury and other harmful emissions to improve public health.  At the same time CSI companies are beginning to identify and use best

management practices for the biodiversity and ecological resources that are part of their quarries.  As these efforts move forward, the cement is turning greener,

helping to build a more beautiful China.