Yang Jun

Yang Jun serves as Chairman of Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited, China's and the world's largest cement manufacturer by production volume. Headquartered in Wuhu, Anhui Province, Conch Cement operates over 300 cement production lines with annual capacity exceeding 380 million tonnes of clinker and cement. The company's scale, operational efficiency, and access to premium limestone reserves in the Yangtze River region give it a significant cost advantage over competitors. Conch Cement faces the structural challenge of China's cement demand having peaked as the property sector contracts and the era of massive infrastructure construction matures. Industry overcapacity has put downward pressure on cement prices and margins. Yang's response has included supply discipline (coordinating with industry peers on production curtailments), cost reduction through automation and digitization of production processes, and diversification into overseas markets in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Central Asia. His key decisions involve managing production volumes in a declining demand environment, the pace of international expansion, investment in carbon capture and green cement technologies (cement is one of the largest industrial CO2 emitters), capital allocation between capacity maintenance and shareholder returns, and potential industry consolidation through acquisitions of distressed competitors.