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Anhui Conch Cement

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ545565
Source-derived summary

Anhui Conch Cement Co., Ltd. known also as Anhui Conch or Conch Cement, is the largest cement Manufacturing Company seller in the mainland China, headquartered in Anhui Province. Its business scope covers the manufacture and sales of cement and clinker.

Its H-share was listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on October 21, 1997, while its A-share was listed in the Shanghai Stock Exchange on February 7, 2002.

Shareholders

The largest shareholder of Conch Cement was Anhui Conch Holdings (Chinese: 安徽海螺集团有限责任公司), which was owned by the Anhui Provincial People's Government via wholly owned subsidiary Anhui Provincial Investment Group Holdings Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 安徽省投资集团控股有限公司) and subsidiary China Conch Venture Holdings (SEHK: 586, Chinese: 中国海螺创业控股有限公司). The second largest shareholder, Conch Venture Investment (Chinese: 安徽海螺创业投资有限责任公司) is owned by trade unions and other private shareholders.

Editorial summary

“Anhui Conch Cement” enters the record as company. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Anhui, Conch and Cement can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997-09-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Anhui, Conch and Cement.
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Why this record matters

“Anhui Conch Cement” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Anhui, Conch and Cement provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q545565. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997 and 2002.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Anhui Conch Cement”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Anhui Conch Cement primary sources, Anhui Conch Cement archive and Anhui research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Anhui Conch Cement”?
  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
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This entry incorporates text from Anhui Conch Cement” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.