On July 10, 2024, Weng Zuliang, Party Group Secretary and Chairman of China Minmetals, held a meeting in Wuhan with Wang Zhonglin, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Hubei Provincial Committee and Governor of Hubei Province. The two sides had in-depth exchanges on further deepening cooperation.

Wang Zhonglin extended a warm welcome to Weng Zuliang and his delegation for their visit to Hubei for deepening cooperation, and expressed his gratitude to China Minmetals for its strong support to the economic and social development of Hubei. He said that in recent years, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, Hubei's economy had maintained steady and sound growth, to which China Minmetals and other central state-owned enterprises made positive contributions. Hubei possesses outstanding geographical advantages, abundant scientific and educational resources, good industrial foundation and strong supporting factors. At present, the whole province is deeply studying and implementing the guiding principle in the important speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping at the symposium on promoting the rise of the central China in the new era. It is persisting in using technological innovations to lead industrial innovation, and making every effort to build modern industrial clusters. Besides, it is fostering and strengthening new quality productive forces, and accelerating to build a strategic stronghold for the rise of Central China. Given the good foundation for cooperation between China Minmetals and Hubei, he hoped that China Minmetals would further increase its investment in Hubei, expand the space for cooperation and work together to set a new benchmark for cooperation between central state-owned enterprises and local governments in the new era. Wang said that Hubei would continue to improve the business environment, optimize services provided to enterprises, and create favorable conditions for the development of China Minmetals in Hubei.

Weng Zuliang expressed gratitude to the CPC Hubei Provincial Committee and the People's Government of Hubei Province for their long-term support to China Minmetals, and briefly introduced the overall situation of the enterprise. He noted that China Minmetals followed the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era., firmly adhered to its original mission of "serving and reinvigorating the country through the metals and minerals industry", and advanced the building of a world-class powerhouse with global competitiveness in the metals and minerals industry. In recent years, China Minmetals has been continuously expanding its domestic and international layout around the whole system of metals and minerals, for which widespread attention was received. It has taken more and more solid steps on the road towards high-quality development. Besides, China Minmetals attaches great importance to its development in Hubei, and its key subsidiaries such as China First Metallurgical Group Co., Ltd. (CFMCC), WISDRI Engineering & Research Incorporation Ltd. and Wuhan Surveying-geotechnical Research Institute Co., Ltd. of MCC (WSGRI) have long been based in Hubei. The friendly cooperation between the two sides has achieved practical results. He stated that Hubei enjoys outstanding advantages in location, technology and industry. China Minmetals will continue to take Hubei as a key area of investment layout, focus on its primary responsibilities and key business, and leverage its professional advantages to further deepen cooperation in mineral resources, infrastructure construction, strategic emerging industries, future industries and other fields. All these efforts to be made are to achieve complementary advantages, mutual benefits and win-win results, and make new and greater contributions to the high-quality development of Hubei's economy and society.

Attendees included leaders of Hubei Province, including Cheng Yongwen, Wang Taihui and Zhao Jun, as well as leaders of China Minmetals such as Chen Jianguang and Wang Xingquan.