As the 2026 Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays approached, Chen Dexin, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Chairman of China Minmetals, conducted remote inspection of work safety operations at China Minmetals’ mining enterprises in Peru, and warmly greeted the cadres and employees who remained at their posts on the mining frontline, extending festive wishes to them all.

During the video link, Chen Dexin listened to reports from China Minmetals’ Latin America Regional Headquarters, the Las Bambas mine, and the Northern Peru project on safety management, production and operations, emergency response, holiday duty arrangements, and employees’ work and living conditions. He fully affirmed the achievements of the cadres and employees of the mining enterprises in Peru in emergency response, project operations, refined management, and localized integrated development despite the high-altitude environment and complex geological conditions. He extended sincere greetings to the cadres and employees who remained at their posts on the mining frontline and expressed heartfelt gratitude to the employees’ families for their support and dedication.

Chen Dexin pointed out that it is necessary to reinforce work safety safeguards, always put the lives and health of employees first, and approach work safety with a sense of responsibility and mission that keeps us constantly on our toes, firmly tighten and fulfill work safety responsibilities, implement various risk prevention measures in a detailed and thorough manner, and uphold the bottom line and strictly observe the red line for work safety. It is necessary to do a good job in building the talent team, earnestly implement the working guideline of “taking our own people as the mainstay, integrating Chinese and Western approaches, leveraging complementary strengths, and pursuing coordinated development”, further cultivate and enhance the ability to handle complex business situations, and build a high-quality, versatile talent team that is politically reliable, professionally proficient, united and collaborative, and mindful of the overall picture. We should accelerate the development of young teams through mentorship and guidance. It is necessary to focus on long-term development, implement China Minmetals’ 15th Five-Year Plan, steadily advance the development and construction of greenfield mines as well as reserve increases and stable production at operating mines, actively fulfill overseas social responsibilities, and establish China Minmetals’ positive international image as a responsible enterprise committed to sustainable development.

Chen Dexin stressed that relevant headquarters departments and affiliated enterprises should earnestly strengthen care for overseas employees, ensure the supply of work, daily living, and medical materials, and make every effort to safeguard the personal safety and health of overseas employees. Trade unions at all levels should serve as a strong backing for the domestic families of employees stationed abroad, respond to their appeals in a timely manner, resolve their urgent difficulties and concerns, and effectively relieve the worries of frontline personnel stationed overseas, so that employees and officials in foreign lands can truly feel the warmth of the “Minmetals family”.

Heads of relevant headquarters departments and directly managed enterprises of China Minmetals participated in the video link greetings.