On October 20, Chen Dexin, Party Secretary and Chairman of China Minmetals, held working talks with Chen Haiqiang, Party Secretary and Chairman of CZBANK, who was visiting China Minmetals. The two sides exchanged in-depth views on further deepening bank-enterprise cooperation. Pan Huafeng, Member of the Party Committee and Vice President of CZBANK, and Duan Wenwu, Member of the Party Leadership Group and Chief Accountant of China Minmetals, attended the talks.

Chen Dexin expressed gratitude for the support extended by CZBANK and briefed it on China Minmetals’ development history and business profile. He stated that over 76 years of development, China Minmetals has grown into a modern metals and mineral resources group marked by five distinctive features: mineral-resource orientation, a diversified core business portfolio, diversified structure, transnational operation and large‑scale integrated conglomerate operation. China Minmetals has formed full-industry-chain advantages covering resource exploration, design and construction, development and operation, smelting and processing, trade and logistics, technology industry, financial capital, real estate development and asset management services, comprehensively strengthening its capacity to safeguard the supply and security of the nation’s strategic mineral resources at every link of exploration, production, supply, stockpiling and sales. CZBANK is one of China’s important joint-stock commercial banks, with distinctive strengths in supply chain finance, sci-tech finance, cross-border finance and industrial finance. The two sides have maintained sound cooperative relations over a long period of time. He hoped to take this round of talks as a new starting point to further strengthen strategic alignment, improve regular communication and coordination mechanisms, and carry out deeper and higher-level pragmatic cooperation in credit financing, bond business, international business and other fields, jointly making new and greater contributions to serving the real economy and the overall work of the Party and the country.

Chen Haiqiang thanked China Minmetals for its trust and support and briefed it on the bank’s development strategy and operating performance. He said that CZBANK anchors itself to the vision of “a first-class commercial bank”, takes reform, innovation and improved governance as its fundamental path and risk prevention and sound development as its bottom-line requirement, continuously builds differentiated competitive strengths, and has developed a six-pronged business matrix covering sci-tech finance, supply chain finance, CZBANK Financial Markets, cross-border finance, CZBANK Financial Leasing and CZBANK Wealth Management. He remarked that CZBANK and China Minmetals enjoy a solid cooperation foundation, profound mutual trust and ample room for collaboration. He hoped that both sides would further strengthen communication and alignment, improve cooperation mechanisms, broaden and deepen pragmatic cooperation, actively promote the delivery of more cooperation projects in supply chain finance, sci-tech finance, cross-border finance and other areas, and leverage high-quality financial services to support the high-quality development of the real economy.

Relevant personnel from CZBANK, heads of relevant departments at China Minmetals headquarters and heads of relevant directly managed enterprises attended the talks.