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Steering committeeSteering committee members:
Mr Jean-Marie COUTANT, Integration Director and General Manager of Terex Changjiang. US-based Terex Corporation is the world’s third largest manufacturer of construction equipment after Caterpillar and Komatsu. In 2006, it acquired a 50 per cent stake in Sichuan Changjiang Engineering Crane, China’s third largest hydraulic crane manufacturer and leading producer of on-highway truck cranes. The plant employs 1,500 workers and is located in Luzhou, the most westerly major port along the Yangtze trunkline.
Mr Coutant has managed several joint venture projects in Europe, South America and Asia in a long and distinguished career in the industrial sector. Since 2005, he has been running the Sino-US joint venture in Luzhou, some 2,500km away from Shanghai. He has first-hand experience of the challenges of operating in China’s interior.
Mr GU Qiangsheng, Deputy General Manager of Wuhan Port Group, 55% owned by Shanghai International Port Group. The highest ranking official seconded by SIPG to Wuhan, Mr Gu is also general manager of the group’s subsidiary Wuhan Port Container Co, which currently handles the bulk of container traffic in Wuhan.
Mr Gu has a reputation of being efficient as well as scholarly. His depth of knowledge about the Yangtze is widely respected among his peers.
Mr HUANG Qiang, Party Secretary, the Yangtze River Administration of Navigational Affairs, Chinese Ministry of Transport
Still in his 40s, Mr Huang belongs to a new generation of communist officials who are knowledgeable and passionate about the industry they oversee. After rising through the ranks in the Yangtze Waterway Bureau, Wuhan Waterway Industrial Institute and the Three Gorges Dam Administration, at the age of 42, he became the youngest-ever director of the Yangtze River Administration of Navigational Affairs under the Chinese Ministry of Transport, in charge of the whole of the Yangtze. In August 2005, he was promoted to the position of its Party Secretary. Over the past decade, he has been the driving force for open governance along the Yangtze.
Professor LI Shirong, Deputy Director of Chongqing Foreign Trade & Economic Relations Commission, is responsible for the promotion of foreign investment in Chongqing. Between 2003 and 2006, she was a vice mayor of the municipality, with responsibility for urban development and construction.
Professor Li is also a part-time professor of construction management at Chongqing University, having been an academic for more than 20 years before working for the local government. She was awarded an MSc degree in construction management in 1987, and received a PhD from the University of Reading in the UK in 1998, specialising in Construction Economics and Management.
She is an executive board member of China Construction Industry Association and vice chairman of Chongqing Construction Industry Association.
Mr TANG Guanjun, Director of the Yangtze River Administration of Navigational Affairs, Chinese Ministry of Transport. Until December 2008, he was director of the Yangtze Waterway Bureau where he was in charge of modernising the waterway, with the goal of promoting safety and good sailing conditions for all shippers.
Mr Tang was involved in the management of Gezhouba Dam Shiplocks for over 10 years before being transferred in 1996 to the Three Gorges Dam project, responsible for navigational affairs. Between January 1998 and October 2003, he was first the chief of director’s office and then executive Deputy Director of the Administrative Bureau of Navigational Affairs of the Three Gorges Dam. In April 2000, he was promoted to the position of Deputy Director of the Yangtze River Administration of Navigational Affairs. Since July 2005, he has been director of the Yangtze Waterway Bureau, spearheading the multi-million-dollar ‘digital waterway’ programme.
Mr XU Shaolin, Chief Justice, Wuhan Maritime Court. The jurisdiction of Wuhan Maritime Court stretches more than 2,800km of the Yangtze and its tributaries, covering an area that encompasses half of the country’s population and its most important industrial hinterland. More than 40% of the court’s annual caseload involves foreign parties, and a further 50% concerns domestic parties outside Wuhan and Hubei province.
Chief Justice Xu obtained his law degree from the Shanghai Maritime University and went on to gain his Master’s and PhD in Wuhan University. Between 2003 and 2004, he studied UK and international maritime law as a visiting scholar at the Institute of Maritime Law, Southampton University. He chairs the court’s judging committee, a panel of nine senior judges who decide over major cases that have profound social and economic implications.
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