On September 11, 11 frontline employees at production, operation and management positions were invited to a seminar where they compared notes with Chairman He Wenbo on the Corporation’s challenges and plans of further reform and suggestion on sustainable development. Present were Li Lianhua, Deputy General Manager of China Minmetals Corporation and heads of the General Office, Human Resources Division, and Party Affairs Management Division. Union Chairman Liu Leiyun presided over the seminar.

The 11 representatives were Wu Xiaopeng and Feng Baosheng from Nonferrous Metals SBU, Yang Ruochen from Science and Technology Management Division, Zhu Jiang and Song Gangfeng from Raw Material and Steel SBU, Pan Xinglai from Finance SBU, Sun Yingjie from Real estate SBU, Tian Chuan from Minmetals Exploration, Chen Wen from Changsha Research Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Shen Shuangsuo from Minmetals Hanxing Mining, and Shi Guangxue from Luzhong Mining. During the seminar, they proposed possible improvement, based on their practice and the company’s major operations, in mining management, technical innovation, return to the essence of business operations, implementation of three reform initiatives, capital operations, exploration business expansion, R&D, team building, and efficiency. They also identified serious management challenges and developed well-targeted solutions.

Li Lianhua acknowledged the diligence and outstanding performance of the representatives. He shared his view on how to return to the essence of business operations, enhance work safety, protect the environment, improve mining management, and enhance technical strength.

The conference was concluded by He Wenbo. For all the diversity in speakers’ position, speech content and style, he said, one aspiration was shared - the urge to change. After an exhaustive analysis of global and domestic economic situation and Minmetals’ challenges, he made it clear that operation safety should stand at the top of the agenda, followed by the return to the essence of business operations. Examples in corporate governance were given to illustrate the sense of duty during reform; pathways presented to secure resource supply, innovate industry chain, and prompt circulation upgrading; specific requirements listed for the Union to, under a larger picture of management and operation, mobilize workers to contribute to reform and development.

With such firmness and purposefulness for reform, as he pointed out, measures would soon be taken. He called for everyone’s faith in and commitment to the reform and their duty, so that Minmetals would usher in a brighter future.