Taiwan’s leading cement manufacturer, Taiwan Cement Corporation will start plans to build new plants in China as the Guandong provincial government begins to shut down old plants with 5 mtt capacity by the end of the year. Total decommissioned capacity will be 30 million t by 2012. The Fujian provincial government has also announced the closing down of vertical kilns with a combined capacity of 17 million t by the end of 2010. As of the end of last year only 48% of the cement plants in Fujian province were new in terms of production capacity.