On June 12, 2024, Chen Dexin, President and Deputy Party Group Secretary of China Minmetals, visited Minmetals Exploration & Development Co., Ltd., and sent his greetings to its cadres and employees.

After listening to the work report of Minmetals Exploration & Development Co., Ltd., Chen Dexin gave full recognition to its role in supporting the primary responsibilities and key business of China Minmetals, as well as its achievements in resources exploration, cultivation of strategic emerging industries and other fields.

For the next step, Chen Dexin put forward the following requirements: First, the company should raise political stance and enhance its sense of mission, responsibility and urgency in resource guarantee. It should further implement the guiding principles contained in the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on enhancing the security guarantee capabilities in important fields such as energy and resources. It should also focus on the needs of the country and the capabilities of China Minmetals and act as an executor and doer of the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee. Besides, it should resolutely undertake the original mission of "serving and reinvigorating the country through the metals and minerals industry" and continuously improve the security and stability level of the industrial chain and supply chain. Second, the company should focus on its primary responsibilities and key business and take the inspection of the Central Inspection Team for rectification as an opportunity to enhance core functions and improve core competitiveness. Centering on the vision of China Minmetals to build a world-class powerhouse with global competitiveness in the metals and minerals industry, the company should strengthen research on the ore-forming rules of important ore-forming zones at home and abroad and research on prediction and evaluation of target areas, enhance the core functions of exploration and prospecting, and provide support for the resource strategy of China Minmetals. Moreover, focusing on strengthening leading industries, supplementing industrial chains and gathering industrial clusters, it should accomplish various tasks in the graphite industry and improve the resource guarantee capacity in the field of new energy materials. Third, the company should strengthen innovation and use technological innovation to lead industrial innovation and promote high-quality development. It should enhance technological innovation and fully utilize new technologies, new methods and new facilities to improve its professional ability of exploration and prospecting. Fourth, the company should strengthen team building and fully stimulate the enthusiasm and initiative of work and entrepreneurship. It has a high-level professional team that dares to act, is able to act and is good at acting. The team is full of fighting spirit, united and hardworking. It should give full play to the role of leading talents, carry forward the spirit of scientists, model workers and craftsmen, and lead its teams by business and projects. Besides, it should retain capable people by emotions, career, salary and culture to provide guarantee for cultivating a professional talent team. Fifth, the company should adhere to the guidance of Party building, focus on Party building, and promote development through Party building. It should strengthen the implementation of "dual responsibilities for one position", take solid steps to promote full and rigorous governance over the Party, and ensure that all its work is always moving in the right direction. In addition, it should strictly abide by work rules and ensure the standardization and accuracy of resource assessment and exploration. It should build the foundation of corporate culture to lay a solid foundation for the high-quality and sustainable development of China Minmetals.

Zhu Kebing, Party Group Member and Senior Vice President of China Minmetals, accompanied Chen Dexin during the visit, and the heads of relevant headquarter departments participated in the visit.