BEIJING, Oct. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — A report from Global Times: The 2024 World Science and Technology Development Forum, organized by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), opened on October 22. With the theme “Science and Technology for the Future,” the forum will feature thematic sessions, round-table discussions, and various exchange activities.

Following the opening ceremony in the afternoon, participants visited the exhibition titled “Liu Hui: A Leading Founder of Classical Chinese Mathematical Theories.”

The forum will host over 350 guests from 33 countries and regions, including 14 Nobel, Turing, and Lasker Prize laureates; 27 leaders of international scientific organizations; 41 domestic and international academicians; and more than 200 experts and scholars from top universities, research institutions, and enterprises. The event will conclude in Beijing on October 30. 

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WEIFANG, China, Oct. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — On October 15, China Classification Society Quality Certification Co., Ltd. issued the “Carbon Neutral Evaluation Certificate” to Shandong Bohai Bay Port Group Weifang Port, marking that Weifang has built the country’s first “zero carbon port”.

As early as the beginning of the wind power project, the staff of Weifang Power Supply Company of the State Grid took the initiative to carry out personalized and differentiated services. As the project is the first onshore decentralized wind power project in the province, in order to solve a series of problems such as operation mode and grid-connected scheduling, State Grid Weifang Power Supply Company pioneered a set of decentralized wind power project whole-process management service mode, specialized in deployment development, scheduling, digitalization and marketing, and set up the strongest technical team stationed in Weifang Port to re-optimize the design drawings. The automation, communication equipment to re-coordinate, joint test, the implementation of other technical solutions for “one to one” guidance, after three months of concentrated research, one hidden danger all cleared, one problem all solved, to ensure that the wind power project in September 30 this year successfully connected to the grid, 15 months ahead of the planned grid connection time.

It is estimated that the annual power generation of the wind power project is about 69.15 million KWH, which can not only meet the electricity demand of the entire port terminal equipment and ship shore power of 35 million KWH, but also the remaining power can be connected to the Internet to create income for Weifang Port. In addition, compared with conventional coal-fired thermal power units with the same power generation, it can save 21,000 tons of standard coal and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 57,000 tons per year, which plays an important role in protecting the ecological environment.

In the next step, State Grid Weifang Power Supply Company will continue to give full play to its professional advantages to help Shandong Bohai Bay Port Group Weifang Port build a smart carbon tube control platform, build a green electricity management system, comprehensively improve the level of green electricity consumption, and help build a new ecology of green, low-carbon and high-quality development.

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REDDITCH, England, Oct. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — On August 29, 2024, Circle BidCo ApS (“Circle BidCo”), a wholly owned, indirect subsidiary of A.P. Møller Holding A/S, announced a public offer to the shareholders of Concentric AB (“Concentric” or the “Company”) to tender all their shares in the Company to Circle BidCo at a price of SEK 230 in cash per share (the “Offer”). On October 18, 2024, Circle BidCo declared that all conditions for the completion of the Offer had been fulfilled and that the Offer had been accepted by shareholders with a total of 35,594,579 shares in Concentric, corresponding to 95.36 per cent of the outstanding[1] shares and votes in Concentric.

Circle BidCo has today initiated a compulsory buy-out of the shares in Concentric not held by Circle BidCo and has requested that the board of directors of Concentric applies for delisting of the shares in Concentric from Nasdaq Stockholm.

Against this background, the board of directors of Concentric has, in accordance with Circle BidCo’s request, applied for delisting of the shares in Concentric from Nasdaq Stockholm. Concentric will announce the last day of trading as soon as Nasdaq Stockholm has confirmed the date to Concentric.

The board of directors of Concentric has furthermore, at the request of Circle BidCo, decided to convene an extraordinary general meeting for the election of a new board of directors, among other things. The notice will be published through a separate press release.

For further information, please contact Marcus Whitehouse, Tel: +44 121 445 6545 or E-mail: info@concentricab.com

[1] Exclusive of 970,715 shares held in treasury by Concentric.

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