on April 21, a group of people including the company president Yi Shuguang and vice general manager Zeng Zhongliang paid a visit to Wakayama sinter plant in Japan, and they conducted friendly exchanges with the project owner. The project undertaken by CIE is to export complete set of China metallurgical equipment to developed countries for the first time. It is reported that on April 23, the last batch of sintering equipment left Shanghai port for Japan.