On the evening of January 19, the 2022 Xuzhou Economic Figures Award Ceremony was held at the Xuzhou Convention Center. Song Lewei, Secretary of Xuzhou Municipal Party Committee, presented the award to Lan Tianshi, Co-CEO of GCL Technology Holdings Limited and general manager of Jiangsu Zhongneng Polysilicon Technology Development Co., Ltd., who won the honorary title of "Economic Figure of the Year" in 2022. Wang Jianfeng, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, delivered a speech. Wang Anshun, Director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress, and Wang Qiang, Chairman of the Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference, attended the ceremony. Han Dongmei, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, announced the commendation decision.

    In his speech, Wang Jianfeng expressed warm congratulations and heartfelt thanks to the commended entrepreneurs and enterprises. He stated that the Third Plenary Session of the 13th CPC Municipal Party Committee made comprehensive deployments for in-depth study, publicity, and implementation of the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress, and mobilize the entire city to comprehensively promote the new practice in Xuzhou through a Chinese path to modernization. We will work hard together with the entrepreneurs to create new advantages in strengthening the city through industry, lay out a new track for future competition, jointly expand the new space of two-way opening, continue to record the new glory achieved by Xuzhou merchants to fully promote the high-quality development of Xuzhou's economy. The municipal party committee and municipal government will thoroughly implement the "Two Unswervings" (unswervingly consolidate and develop the public sector and unswervingly encourage, support, and guide the development of the non-public sector), treat entrepreneurs as their own family members and enterprises as their own affairs, and cultivate a cordial and clean relationship between government and business, thereby better guiding and encouraging cadres, local governments, enterprises, and the general public to have the courage to perform, venture, and take the initiative, and gather great strength for comprehensively promoting the new practice in Xuzhou through a Chinese path to modernization.

Han Dongmei announced the commendation decision. Lan Tianshi and the other 3 comrades won the honorary title of "Economic Figure of the Year" in 2022. Shi Zhixin, general manager of Xuzhou Delong Metal Technology Co., Ltd., and other 9 comrades won the honorary title of "Leading Entrepreneurs of High-quality Development of the Year" in 2022. Eleven companies, including Jiangsu Pomlead Co., Ltd., won the honorary title of "Pioneer Enterprise of Scientific and Technological Innovation", and six companies, including Xuzhou Hootech Co., Ltd., won the honorary title of "Pioneer Enterprise of Pengcheng Plan".

The award words for Lan Tianshi are: Ten years of hard work has made huge waves in the photovoltaic technology revolution, and concentration on zero-carbon "black technology" has drawn a meticulous painting of the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality era. The technical transformation has not only stunned the world but also made GCL TECH shine.

When delivering his acceptance speech, Lan Tianshi expressed his gratitude to the Xuzhou Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Government, and the people for awarding him the 2022 "Economic Figure of the Year" award, which was not only a personal compliment to him but also an affirmation to all GCL TECH's strivers, as well as the joint support from all circles in Xuzhou. There are cycles both in industrial ecology and enterprise development. Herein, confidence is the most important and innovation is the most critical. The GCL-Techs will never forget our original aspiration and founding mission when forging ahead courageously along the green, low-carbon, and high-quality development track to create a brand-new "Technological GCL", "Digital GCL", and "Green GCL" towards the goal of the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality.

At the award ceremony, the flag-awarding ceremony was also held for the "343" innovative industrial cluster enterprise corps. Representatives of young entrepreneurs recited and announced the "Declaration of the New Generation of Entrepreneurs". Participants also watched a video showing the achievements of industrial development in Xuzhou.