At the end of 2019, the pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus (hereinafter with 2019-nCoV) spread from Wuhan, which was concerned by every employee of China Minmetals. On January 23, Guo Wenqing, President and Deputy Party Secretary of China Minmetals and also Chairman of MCC made important instructions regarding the current outbreak of the epidemic. After that, all the enterprises affiliated to China Minmetals did their best to prevent and control the epidemic situation based on their responsibility to the Party and the state, to the enterprises and to the staff and the public. According to the emergency deployment of relevant work, all direct managed enterprises of China Minmetals attached great importance to, strictly prevented and controlled the epidemic, and took multiple measures to deal with the tough battle.

All units affiliated to MCC promptly implemented the instruction requirements. On January 23, China First Metallurgical Group Co., Ltd., WISDRI Engineering & Research Incorporation Ltd. (WISDRI) and Wuhan Surveying-geotechnical Research Institute Co., Ltd. of MCC (WSGRI) quickly held a special meeting on epidemic prevention and control to make a detailed deployment of epidemic prevention work. China First Metallurgical Group Co., Ltd. established a leading group for epidemic prevention and control with the Party Secretary and Chairman as the group leader, and President and Secretary of Discipline Inspection Commission as the deputy group leader. The duty mechanism was established, and the leaders of the company were on duty. At the same time, all units and departments were required to establish a duty mechanism, and keep daily monitoring and reporting, information tracking of personnel who left Wuhan, ensuring smooth information, epidemic monitoring and protection, and ensure work discipline.

WISDRI urgently established a prevention and control leading group composed of the company's leaders and assistants to coordinate the epidemic prevention and control work, implement the responsibilities at all levels, and strictly implement the local management. The work focused on epidemic monitoring and information reporting, joint prevention and control to ensure the life safety and physical health of employees. WSGRI set up epidemic response organization, formulated early warning plan to keep unblocked communication mechanism and improve safeguard measures, carefully studied the plan of returning to work after the festival, and practically put the life, health and safety of the staff in the first place.

China Minmetals Non-Ferrous Metals Holding Co.,Ltd established the emergency organization and working mechanism led by the company leaders. The President Office issued the Urgent Notice on Prevention and Control of Pneumonia Caused by New Coronavirus Infection to all employees timely, and conveyed the emergency notice of China Minmetals layer by layer, so as to make every employee raise their awareness and attach great importance to it. The first is to make employees understand the main methods of epidemic prevention through the publicity of protection knowledge, so as to strengthen the awareness of protection and health, and suggest that employees should try to reduce the frequency of going out, traveling and dining together during holidays, and avoid visiting the areas with dense personnel and people flow as much as possible. Second, to strengthen personnel management and control. All departments and units collected the information on the departure of employees from Beijing during the Spring Festival holiday, and report to the President Office for reference. Third, the labor union quickly organized manpower to purchase medical masks and other protective equipment for employees, and guided employees to establish the concept of health protection. North China Aluminium Co., Ltd., a production enterprise affiliated to China Minmetals Non-Ferrous Metals Holding Co.,Ltd, has formulated a holiday personnel management and emergency management mechanism. While keeping personnel management and control, it ensured the production and operation, as well  as ventilation, disinfection and other prevention and control work in the workplace, protecting the on-duty employees and front-line staff.

The leaders of HNG made arrangements overnight, requiring all units affiliated to HNG to improve their political ideology, conscientiously perform their responsibilities and implement work measures in accordance with the deployment requirements of the CPC Central Committee, the State Council and China Minmetals to make every effort to prevent and control the epidemic, protect the health and safety of employees and their families, ensure safe  production and resumption during the Spring Festival. To prevent and control the pneumonia, HNG took the following measures: First, comprehensively conduct personnel investigation and monitoring. All affiliated units shall well know the situation of employees and their family members who have visited the epidemic area (especially Wuhan) after the outbreak of the epidemic, and those who have visited relatives from the epidemic area or received them during the Spring Festival. Second, strengthen the training of employees' health awareness. The company carried out targeted health knowledge training for employees, to provide the prevention knowledge such as the harm, prevention and control measures of pneumonia, and guide employees to avoid going to areas with high risk of epidemic transmission. Third,   ensure sterilization and disinfection in densely populated areas to have better epidemic prevention and control. Fourth, strengthen on duty and information reporting. HNG established an emergency duty and information reporting mechanism for epidemic prevention and control, and arranged personnel to be responsible for the information reporting of epidemic prevention and control. At present, HNG has conveyed the requirements of China Minmetals to all subsidiaries, and they have responded quickly and organized the implementation at all levels.

In order to strengthen the treatment of those infected with the virus, Wuhan City urgently called on the China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd and other units to build Hushenshan Clinic as soon as possible by integrating the strongest forces and referring to Beijing's SARS treatment model (Xiaotangshan model). As the core supplier of this company, the staff of Wuhan Iron & Steel (Group) Co., Ltd affiliated to Minmetals Development Co.,Ltd (Minmetals Development), started the emergency supply plan immediately after receiving the steel demand of the project on the morning of January 25, and the relevant personnel quickly completed the internal approval, warehouse delivery, logistics distribution and other processes. At 13:30, the 12mm screw steel urgently needed for the construction of Huoshenshan Clinic was delivered to the construction site on time, and the first batch of strategic materials distribution task was successfully completed. At present, Wuhan Iron & Steel (Group) Co., Ltd has rapidly established an emergency work group led by the company top leadership and heads of departments and units, calling on everyone to keep prevention and control of their own units.

Second, to work together to support colleagues of companies in Wuhan. At present, Minmetals Development has collected more than 500 boxes of drugs and 9000 masks, which will be sent to Wuhan in succession. At the same time, Minmetals Japan Corporation and other overseas companies purchased masks and other protective equipment locally to support the China Minmetals’ subsidiaries in Wuhan. About 10,000 masks have been purchased in the first batch. The subsidiaries of Minmetals Development implemented the requirements of China Minmetals on joint prevention and control of the epidemic, quickly started the emergency planto conduct epidemic investigation, early warning and other work, so as to ensure early detection, and early report, strengthen cooperation and full response, and jointly maintain the health and safety of the company and its employees.

Minmetals Capital Co., Ltd (Minmetals Capital) conducted studies and discussions and developed plans focusing on epidemic prevention, including disseminating knowledge about the early warning, prevention and control of the epidemic, suspending business trips to Hubei Province, and asking employees with Hubei origins to stay in places where they work. After the center for the prevention and control of the 2019-nCoV–infected pneumonia announced the notice on the prevention and control of the epidemic, Minmetals Capital promptly informed its employees and their families in Wuhan City, and called on the cadres and employees to playing a leading role in responding to the calls of the Party and the state, implement the requirements of all levels of disease control departments and adopt proper self-protection measures. Meanwhile, the company has established a daily reporting system to record information of employees from Wuhan who have stayed in the city where they work during the holiday and have made a list of employees who went to Wuhan or its surrounding areas during the 2020 Spring Festival. The company contacted each employee in the list to inform them of necessary precautions and made a tentative decision for employees to work from home the first week following the Spring Festival holiday. Minmetals Capital has carefully studied the situation and put forward three specific requirements for the next step of prevention and control work. First, raise employees’ awareness of epidemic prevention, improve epidemic response plans, and enhance the epidemic prevention and control work of branches in key epidemic areas. Second, strengthen the sense of responsibility, establish an epidemic reporting mechanism for prompt reporting of the epidemic situation. Third, take the overall situation into consideration, pay attention to personal hygiene, devote to prevention tasks, and contribute to epidemic prevention and control of the entire society.

The leadership team of Minmetals Land Limited ( Minmetals Land) had a conference call in time to actively study and deploy epidemic prevention and control work. The conference call clarified several issues. First, the Comprehensive Management Department and the Operation Management Department of the headquarters of Minmetals Land are the epidemic response agencies responsible for making early warning plans, strengthening communication and cooperation, and conducting information monitoring and coordination during the holiday. Second, according to the company’s deployment for phase-two hazard identification and centralized rectification at the turn of the year, Minmetals Land requires all operating units to integrate epidemic prevention and control into their actions and carry out high-quality epidemic prevention and control. Being highly responsible to the Party, the state, the company and the employees, Minmetals Land will ensure the safety of employees and the normal operation of the company. All subsidiary of Minmetals Land have formulated the emergency plans, strengthened the implementation of targeted preventive measures, and refined the epidemic prevention and control plans for the sales markets of the company. Operating units under Minmetals Land in Wuhan and its surrounding areas, including Changsha, have incorporated epidemic prevention into their daily safety reporting and realized seamless connection with the emergency management department of the local government to ensure the thorough dissemination of epidemic-related information. As the focus of epidemic prevention, hotels, property management departments, as well as construction and security units have strengthened publicity over epidemic prevention and hygiene, and collaborated with the community management staff to prepare for emergencies. By now, all hotels, property management departments as well as construction and security units under Minmetals Land have been fully prepared for the prevention of the epidemic.

Minmetals Mining Holding Limited (Minmetals Mining) has set up the epidemic prevention and control leading group led by the Party Secretary and chairman to supervise the epidemic prevention and control work. The leading group has put forth several requirements for departments of the company. First, all departments should be highly politically-minded, take effective epidemic prevention measures, and strictly implement the requirements stipulated in Minmetals Mining’s emergency announcements. Second, the communication mechanism should be further improved and emergency response personnel should be assigned to report on emergent occasions. Third, in accordance with the requirements for the management of offices, public areas and other areas where employees often appear in groups, the corresponding department should take appropriate measures to prevent and control infection and strictly enforce local management regulations. Grassroots departments of Minmetals Mining hold special meetings in response to the arrangements of the company and has set up a leading group to formulate prevention and control plans and carry out prevention and control work in a timely manner. The leading group’s primary task is to prevent the spread of the epidemic among on-the-job staff and get the health status of the staff through investigation, and it has also strengthened the management of employees that move between different places. Employees that have returned home during the holiday are required to avoid epicenters including Wuhan, Hubei when they get back to work. At the same time, close contacts are required to report their information to the company. The company has closed the gates of mines to reduce contact with the outside. Employees getting in and out of the mining areas are recorded and outsiders are not allowed to enter any of the mines. In addition, all departments, relying on WeChat groups, QQ groups or other platforms, have established daily reporting mechanisms to ensure thorough implementation of the epidemic prevention work.

Leaders of Minmetals Luzhong Mining Co., Limited ( Minmetals Luzhong) took prompt actions and fully implemented the requirements of China Minmetals. First, the company has established a leading group for the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)–infected pneumonia and required all the secondary departments and subsidiaries to set up special agencies to lead the epidemic prevention and control work. Second, Minmetals Luzhong has formulated and distributed the Emergency Notice on Efficient Prevention and Control of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)–Infected Pneumonia, requiring all departments to collect information about their members who have visited the epicenters to prevent the spread of the epidemic. Third, the company appealed to leading cadres and employees to reduce gatherings as much as possible, try to avoid densely populated public places and wear masks when going out, and strengthened publicity of the epidemic through multiple channels. Fourth, as the leader of each department is responsible to all the members, all departments are required to report the information of their members in a timely manner. Fifth, for better prevention and control of the epidemic, the company has required the internal hospital to prepare enough masks, disinfectants, thermometers and other necessary devices for distribution among grassroots departments, which lays the foundation for epidemic prevention and control after the holiday. Sixth, the leading group for the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)–infected pneumonia is located in the hospital of the company. The hospital, giving full play to its functions including epidemic prevention, diagnosis, treatment, isolation, observation and consultation, leads and coordinates the overall epidemic prevention and control work.

China Tungsten And Hightech Materials Co., Ltd. ( China Tungsten) has released the Emergency Notice on Prevention and Control of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)–Infected Pneumonia, requiring companies under its direct administration to set up emergency management leading groups and working groups to protect the health of employees effectively. First, the company should undertake the responsibility to earnest prevent and control the epidemic. Second, the company should guide employees to adopt self-protection measures to ensure effective and determined epidemic prevention and control. Third, all departments should report epidemic information in time to guarantee 24-hour epidemic prevention and control. Fourth, the company should purchase the necessary materials to meet the demands of epidemic prevention and control work. On January 26, the company issued A Letter to All Employees on Prevention and Control of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)–Infected Pneumonia of China Tungsten And Hightech Materials Co., Ltd. calling on all employees to believe in science and fight the epidemic together. All departments and subsidiaries of China Tungsten have promptly responded to the requirements of the headquarters and China Minmetals, set up emergency management leading groups, and made specific arrangements in accordance with their own situations.

China Minmetals Rare Earth Co., Ltd. ( Minmetals Rare Earth) has set up an epidemic emergency management team with members of the leadership on duty in turns to guarantee proper epidemic prevention and monitoring work. According to the epidemic situation and requirements of upper levels of departments, the company has conducted in-depth studies around future production and operation plans, and distributed official messages about the epidemic in work groups to remind employees to take self-protection measures. Through various channels, the company has purchased masks, disinfectants and other necessary materials and equipment to be fully prepared for employees to return to work after the holiday. On January 23, the Tin Mine Central Hospital of Loudi held an emergency meeting on prevention and control of the novel coronavirus (2019-ncov)–infected pneumonia and launched a targeted training program among the whole medical staff for better examination and pre-diagnosis of the disease. Guangxi China Antimony Co., Ltd. has conducted a thorough investigation of all employees’ schedules and contacts during the Spring Festival and guaranteed the smoothness of the reporting system.

Changsha Research Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Co., Ltd. (the Institute) takes epidemic prevention and control as the top priority. First, it has set up an epidemic prevention and control leading group to supervise the epidemic prevention and control work and give full support to the local governments to prevent the epidemic from spreading. Second, the Institute has earnestly collected and reported data of its members. The Party Committee of the Institute arranged for each Party branch to collect the information of those that have been to Wuhan and tracked their information every day as required by the community. Third, the Institute has mobilized all Party, Workers’ and Youth League organizations to guide public opinion. The Labor Union, the Administrative Office and the HSE Division have earnestly reported the epidemic prevention and control situations in accordance with the requirements of the government and China Minmetals. Besides, the Institute further enhanced the publicity of epidemic prevention and control, reduced gatherings, improved data collection, and increased on-duty shifts. It also actively publicized epidemic prevention and control as well as self-protection measures advocated by official media outlets through official WeChat account, WeChat work groups and other online platforms, and encourage its employees to improve personal hygiene and reduce gatherings to reduce cross infection.

The party committee and leadership team of Hunan Changyuan Lico Co., Ltd. (hereinafter with Hunan Lico) attached great importance to the pneumonia epidemic caused by 2019-nCoV. During the Spring Festival holiday, the important instructions given by General Secretary Xi Jinping and notices released by China Minmetals were informed through the company's WeChat group several times, and employees were organized to study in order to raise the awareness of prevention and control. In consistence with the requirements of superiors, the company not only issued the Notice on Implementing ‘Notice of China Minmetals on Further Clarifying Responsibilities and Strengthening Prevention and Control of New Coronavirus Pneumonia’ and the Tips of HUNAN LICO for the Prevention and Control of New Coronavirus Pneumonia, but also established an leading group and working group to promote the overall strengthening of epidemic prevention and control work throughout the company. The specific principles are as follows: the first is to prevent and control with strict measures and timely investigation. In order to comprehensively prevent and investigate the epidemic, the company requires each department to count and confirm one-to-one employees who have recently traveled to Wuhan for business, or stayed in Wuhan during the Spring Festival, or had fever symptoms; the second is to prevent and control with scientific planning and enhanced protection. In response to changes in the epidemic, the company's Ministry of Safety and Environmental Protection timely improved emergency plans and scientifically guided the company's epidemic prevention and control. In order to ensure the smooth resume of production after the holiday, the company intends to adopt ventilation, disinfection and other prevention and control work for production and operation and workplaces. The union has centrally purchased a batch of temperature detection instruments, protective masks and daily cold medicines, so that employees can rest assured to work.

In order to fully prevent the epidemic caused by 2019-nCoV, China Minmetals Salt Lake Co., Ltd held an emergency meeting on January 23 with the meeting requirements as follows: the first is that statistics on the whereabouts of employees on rotation and at home should be made by each department with one-by-one implementation and without any lie or deception; the second is that all staff in the Yiliping factory should suspend their rotations, and all those who return home are temporarily banned from returning to work in the factory; the third is that employees should be measured for body temperature every day with the purchased masks, thermometers, etc. brought back to the factory area; the fourth is that outsiders should be properly registered, miscellaneous people should be forbidden, and factory personnel should not go out at will; the fifth is that the personnel returning to the factory on the January 31­^th should be taken temperature one by one; the sixth is that the entry time of the foreign construction personnel of the project should be temporarily pushed back and for those who really need to enter the site in time due to production needs a hospital medical examination report should be demonstrated; the seventh is that the supplier should be notified to take protective measures, otherwise they will not be allowed to enter the factory; the eighth is that there should be prohibited from bringing people to the factory in the vehicles going to Golmud and Delhi due to work when returning to the factory.

Minmetals Exploration & Development Co., Ltd. attached great importance to the notification of relevant requirements, and in a responsible manner towards employees and the society, quickly deployed and implemented epidemic prevention and control work, mobilized the company to take full action, and adopted relevant measures to ensure the health and safety of employees including: the first is to put forward specific requirements with high concern that the leaders should obtain the information of staff’s safety and health at all times through various methods, emphasize the risk of the epidemic and improve the prevention and control work for the protection of the staff to the utmost extent in accordance with the spirit of China Minmetals' emergency notification while all expatriates should go to the business trip with the permission of the company after the Spring Festival; the second is to perfect the communication mechanism with which the company can quickly calculate the whereabouts of employees, register in time, and arrange to keep in touch with them for smooth communication; the third is to strengthen publicity and education by sending timely information in terms of epidemic prevention and control through the company's WeChat group to frequently warn employees against the virus, and communicating through SMS, WeChat, and email etc. in terms of work; the fourth is to prepare such supplies as masks and disinfectant purchased during the Spring Festival holiday and distributed to the employees for the prevention and control of the epidemic after the Spring Festival.

Minmetals Finance Co., Ltd. resolutely implemented China Minmetals' important instructions for the prevention and control of the epidemic, and implemented the epidemic prevention and control work in a responsible manner to employees and the society. On the one hand, the company immediately transmitted the "Emergency Notice on Effectively Preventing and Controlling the 2019-nCoV Pneumonia Epidemic " issued by China Minmetals, and made corresponding requirements for employee travel, daily routine, and daily protection. All the employees must strictly implement the company's various arrangements, never believing or spreading rumors, wearing medical masks when going out, and never going to crowded places. On the other hand, the company adopted a shift watch mechanism with the leaders as the holiday liaison officers while the departments, including Information Management Department, Settlement Department, Export Settlement Department, Import Settlement Department, Financial Accounting Department, Comprehensive Management Department and Risk Management Department arranged on-duty personnel to ensure the normal operation of the company's system during working days and holidays, contributing to the victory in fight against epidemic prevention and control.

Each branch of Minmetals Capital Co., Ltd. actively implemented the relevant requirements of China Minmetals. For example, the party branch of MCC Taxi Company carried out driver WeChat notification and phone deployment to guide the prevention and control in accordance with the real-time epidemic situation as soon as they received the notification. The specific personnel are arranged to notify each manager and driver all times while all employees are required to execute the company's epidemic prevention and control plan including the suspension of driver meetings, the drivers’ frequent hand washing, and the frequent ventilation and regular disinfection of the cars and the on-duty mask wearing. The operation center of Minmetals Plaza, the Minmetals buildings located in Sanlihe and Asian Games Village informed each household involved of the strict epidemic prevention and control requirements in accordance with the prompts in the notice that they should be equipped with temperature detectors (including hand-held ones) at the entrance of the office area under the guidance for the prevention and control of the epidemic, as well as suggestions for the division of duties, disinfection schemes, disinfection of garbage rooms , supplies preparation, multi-faceted publicity work etc. According to the requirements, Shangri-La Hotel has adopted active health prevention and control measures, including increasing regular disinfection of guest room facilities and public health areas, placing guest letters and other safety tips, strengthening management of food procurement and processing, and providing employees and guests with temperature measurement and protective gear etc.

All the directly-managed enterprises of China Minmetals must recognize the extreme importance and practical urgency of epidemic prevention and control, and ensure that the epidemic prevention and control is efficient and orderly during the Spring Festival. Under the strong leadership of the China Minmetals’ Party Group, we should go hand in hand and forge ahead to take the responsibility of the central enterprise, and to win the fight against the contagion with all-out efforts.