In The Working Meeting of 2022,Zijin Mining Determined Overall Strategic Goal for 2030

In the middle of January,Zijin Mining held the working meeting of 2022 in its Shanghang Headquarter.During the meeting,Chen Jinghe,Chairman of the Board of Zijin Mining delivered a keynote speech themed “Scaling New Heights and Making New Triumphs”.Chen Jinghe highly appreciated the efforts and fruitful achievements made in 2021 by domestic and foreign operation teams and construction teams and all staff of the Company;deeply analyzed current situation and tomorrow of the Company;encouraged everyone to head into the magnificent 2030 goal.Chen Jinghe pointed out that Zijin Mining made overachievements in 2021 in terms of production indicator,operating performance and major project construction.Facing up to the foreseeable and determinable future,the Company decides to re-position the overall strategic goal for 2030 to growing into a “green high-tech first-class International mining group”,so as to better conform to practical future development and get fully devoted to the career of green development.Chen Jinghe put forth six guiding opinions for the new overall strategic goal.1.To rapidly grow into an outstanding player with Zijin characteristics in new energy industry;2.To grasp big projects with sustainable growth;3.To well manage associated segments to get more effective synergy;4.To break the bottleneck of talents and strengthen echelon construction;5.To enhance breakthroughs of key technologies to drive achievements and benefits;6.To build an International benchmark with Zijin characteristics.Zou Laichang,President of Zijin Mining,delivered a working report themed “Forging Ahead and Composing New Chapters.Building a Worldclass Metal Mining Company With The Best Competitiveness”,where he comprehensively summarized the work in 2021 and analyzed important issues,and further introduced the deployments for the production and operation in 2022 in a systematic way.

Zijin Mining made deepened and fruitful achievements in all aspects in 2021.Both International operation system and ESG system have come into an early form.The RMB 4.9-billion acquisition with Canada Neo Lithium Corp.has brought Zijin Mining to the world of new energy and new material.New energy metals such as copper and lithium are expected to become important profit growth point for the Company in the future.The Company decides to re-position the overall strategic goal for 2030 to growing into a “green high-tech first-class International mining group”,indicating that the Company has set new requirements for itself.With this more practical goal,the Company enjoys a broad prospect for development.