On the afternoon of October 14, China Minmetals held its 2026 Q3 Benchmarking and Target-alignment Analysis Meeting and October Business Analysis and Coordination Meeting to review and advance key ongoing work. Chen Dexin, Party Secretary and Chairman of China Minmetals, attended and addressed the meeting. Zhu Kebing, Deputy Party Secretary, Director and President of China Minmetals, chaired the meeting. Top executives Wang Xingquan, Cheng Yong, Duan Wenwu and He Jianbo were present.

The meeting conveyed and studied General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on developing advanced manufacturing. It noted that, standing at the strategic height of advancing Chinese modernization, these important instructions profoundly expound the great significance, direction and priorities of developing advanced manufacturing on the new journey, and provide fundamental guidance and an action framework for promoting high-quality manufacturing development during the critical initial phase of the 15th Five-Year Plan. China Minmetals must earnestly study and comprehend the instructions, maintain strategic resolve, regard the development of advanced manufacturing as a key strategic task and make sustained, long‑term efforts, continuously strengthen and expand advanced manufacturing, and march unswervingly toward the goal of building a manufacturing powerhouse.

The meeting noted that China Minmetals maintained sound and improving momentum in its business performance for the third quarter. The mineral-resources-first strategy achieved fruitful results. By balancing development and security, China Minmetals effectively responded to various risks and hidden dangers and achieved inspiring development results. It must focus on breakthroughs in key issues such as R&D investment, turnaround of loss-making enterprises and reduction of operating assets, to ensure full completion of the annual targets and tasks. China Minmetals should make strategic plans based on the modern industrial system and actively foster its “second growth curve”. It must also strengthen the political and organizational functions of Party organizations around the central work of production and operation, and use high-quality Party building to lead and safeguard the high-quality development of China Minmetals.

The meeting required China Minmetals to keep production and operations stable, ensure effective implementation of major projects, press ahead with sci-tech innovation, refine digital development, and hold firm on safety and stability in the fourth quarter, going all out to complete all annual targets and tasks.

The meeting also received briefings on China Minmetals’ Q3 safety and environmental protection, production and operation, routine assessment, R&D investment and special governance. Several units shared their experience in the management of accounts receivable and inventory.

The meeting was held in a hybrid format, combining on-site participation and video link. Attendees included the Assistant to the President, the Chief Auditor, and the Chief Engineering Director of China Minmetals; the Head of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group stationed at China Minmetals; the principal heads of headquarters departments; the heads of the Party Leadership Group’s inspection teams, its inspection commissioners and relevant full-time directors; as well as the leadership teams of directly managed enterprises and key subsidiaries and heads of their relevant departments.