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WEST CHINA CEMENT LIMITED

中 國 西 部 水 泥 有 限 公 司

(Incorporated in Jersey with limited liability, with registered number 94796)

(Stock Code: 2233)

Voluntary Announcement

Completion of Phase I of the Lantian Cement Kiln Waste Sludge Treatment Facility.
The board of directors of West China Cement Limited (the ''Company'', and together with its subsidiaries, the ''Group'') is pleased to announce that as part of the Group's on-going efforts in energy conservation and environmental protection solutions, the Group has completed Phase I of its first Waste Sludge Treatment Facility (the ''Facility''), located at the Group's Lantian cement production plant (the ''Lantian Plant'').
The Facility has been established under the auspices of the Shaanxi Provincial and Municipal Environmental Protection Administrative Department to co-treat industrial waste produced by the new manufacturing plant of Samsung (China) Semiconductor Corporation (''Samsung'') in Shaanxi Province.
The Facility is the first cement kiln sludge treatment facility in Shaanxi Province and in the Northwest of China and, when Phase II of the Facility is completed, will have a capacity to treat 210,000 tons of industrial and municipal waste sludge per annum. The technology makes use of the consistent high temperature environment of a cement kiln to incinerate the waste sludge. Gases and ashes generated in the incineration process are absorbed and solidified thereby overcoming the issue of secondary pollution and resulting in harmless waste disposal and part recycling in the cement production process.
In addition to treating the waste sludge produced by Samsung, the Facility will treat other industrial and municipal waste sludge in Xi'an and the Xi'an-Xianyang New Area. This will help ease the increasing pressure for waste treatment in this area, as well as promote environmental protection solutions in the cement industry and in Shaanxi Province. The Group expects that at full utilization, the fully completed Facility can generate approximately RMB100 million of profit for the Group per annum.

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Taking this waste treatment opportunity with Samsung as its first step, the Group plans to take advantage of the strategic location of its plants to install similar waste treatment facilities at its other cement production lines that have a capacity of 2500t/d and above within the next two to three years. This will result in the Group's waste treatment capacity increasing to 2.8 million tons per annum and will become a significant new income stream for the Group whilst maintaining current cement production costs and manifesting the Group's efforts in energy conservation and environmental protection solutions.
By order of the Board of West China Cement Limited Zhang Jimin
Chairman
Hong Kong, 23 January 2014
As at the date of this announcement, the executive directors of the Company are Mr. Zhang Jimin, Mr. Wang Jianli, Ms. Low Po Ling and Mr. Tian Zhenjun, the non-executive directors of the Company is Mr. Ma Zhaoyang and Mr. Ma Weiping, and the independent non- executive Directors of the Company are Mr. Lee Kong Wai, Conway, Mr. Wong Kun Kau and Mr. Tam King Ching, Kenny.

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