On September 19, Chen Dexin, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Chairman of China Minmetals, and Zhu Kebing, Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, Director and General Manager of China Minmetals, held working talks in Nanning with Chen Gang, Secretary of the CPC Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Committee and Director of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and Wei Tao, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Committee and Chairman of the People’s Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. They jointly attended the signing ceremony of a cooperation framework agreement between China Minmetals and Guangxi Beibu Gulf International Port Group Co., Ltd., Guangxi Critical Metal Industry Development Group Co., Ltd., and Guangxi Investment Guidance Fund Co., Ltd.

Chen Dexin and Zhu Kebing expressed their gratitude to the CPC Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Committee and the People’s Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region for their longstanding assistance and support to China Minmetals, and congratulated Guangxi on the completion and opening of the Pinglu Canal to navigation. Chen Dexin stated that China Minmetals is thoroughly implementing the guiding principles of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on the work of central SOEs, fully grasping the vision of “what the nation needs, what Guangxi can deliver, what Minmetals excels at, and what the future holds”, and making every effort to help accelerate the high-quality development of Guangxi’s critical metals industry. China Minmetals attaches great importance to its strategic cooperation with Guangxi. Since last year, the two sides have worked in concert toward shared goals and carried out extensive work to deepen their strategic partnership. Guided by the principle of “serving the nation, rooting itself in Guangxi, leveraging complementary strengths, and pursuing win-win cooperation”, China Minmetals will give full play to its integrated advantages across the entire metal and mineral industry chain, coordinate and mobilize resources in capital, technology, talent, and management, precisely align with Guangxi’s development needs, and continuously deepen practical cooperation in various fields. It will make every effort to ensure that key cooperation projects deliver tangible results and that industries are upgraded and optimized, jointly write a new chapter in local government-enterprise cooperation, expand into the ASEAN market together, and better serve the nation’s resource security and regional development strategies.

Chen Gang and Wei Tao, on behalf of the CPC Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Committee and the People’s Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, expressed their gratitude to China Minmetals for its longstanding and strong support for Guangxi’s development, and briefed the guests on Guangxi’s economic and social development as well as the completion and opening of the Pinglu Canal to navigation. Chen Gang stated that Guangxi is China’s hometown of non-ferrous metals. The region is thoroughly implementing the important requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s remarks on work in Guangxi, seizing major opportunities including the national inclusive program for artificial intelligence capacity building and high-quality joint development of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor. It will continue to expand opening-up both domestically and internationally, strive to foster ten modern pillar manufacturing industries including non-ferrous metals and critical metal materials, accelerate the development of the Nandan Comprehensive Pilot Zone for High-Quality Development of Critical Metals, develop new quality productive forces tailored to local conditions, and advance high-quality development at a faster pace. The two sides expressed the hope of making the best of the signing of the cooperation framework agreement to focus on what the nation needs and what Guangxi can deliver, deepen practical cooperation in mineral resource integration, exploration and development, and technological innovation, and work together to advance the high-end, intelligent, green, large-scale and cluster-based development of the critical metals industry going forward. They also expressed the desire to jointly explore the ASEAN market, achieve mutual benefit and common development, and better serve the nation’s mineral resource security and overall development. 

Leaders of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, including Cao Zhiqiang and Zhou Yijue, as well as China Minmetals executives such as Wang Xingquan, Cheng Yong, and He Jianbo, attended the talks and signing ceremony.