OREANDA-NEWS. October 24, 2011. The 45 annual conference of World Steel Association (Worldsteel) was held in Paris. In this conference, Dr. Zhang Xiaogang, President of Ansteel Group Corporation was elected as Chairman of World Steel Association for a one-year term, in one of the first incidences of a Chinese Manager taking the helm of World Steel Association, reported the press-centre of Angang Steel. 
 
  The World Steel Association is one of the largest and most dynamic industry associations in the world. Over the past forty years, World Steel Association has become a communication platform of the global steel industry, on which the leaders of the global steel industry have made the all-directional strategy communication about the major issues in the sustainable development of the industrial economy and environment and society.
 
Ansteel joined in World Steel Association in 2004, the first one among the Chinese steel producers and it is a member of the executive committer of World Steel Association. In recent years, Ansteel as one of the leading steel groups in China has enhance the corporate strength through a variety of means such as the technical innovation, merger and reorganization, investment and cooperation, etc. and acquired great achievements in the globalization development strategy and green steelwork construction. For building the global industrial chain and layout, Ansteel Group Corporation takes a more active stance in carrying out the deepened cooperation in various ways with other enterprises in the steel industry and related industries in the world.