Chairman Wang Tongzhou said in exchanges with Chinese and foreign guests that CNMC will follow the spirit of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, thoroughly implement the new policies, new ideas, new actions and new measures put forward by Chairman Jinping, carefully observe SASAC’s deployment and requirements, further improve its operation and development in Africa, and inject new vitality and make new contributions to consolidating and developing the traditional friendship between China and Africa, deepening mutually beneficial cooperation, and build a closer China-Africa community of destiny.

As a large-scale central enterprise managed by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, CNMC actively participates in mining investment and development in Africa and has invested more than 3 billion dollars in African countries such as Zambia and Democratic Republic of the Congo. The company has set up 24 companies at all levels, built three mines, six smelters, and one overseas state-level economic and trade cooperation zone, created more than 15,000 stable jobs for Africa, and made various donations of more than 30 million US dollars, and that is why it is known as "the best interpreter of friendship between China and Africa".