From September 3 and September 4, the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in 2018 was held in Beijing. The theme of this summit was “win-win cooperation for a closer China-Africa      community of common destiny”. The summit was the diplomatic event of the largest scale and attended by the most foreign leaders hosted by China this year. Leaders of many African countries and Chairman of the AU Committee attended the summit. The UN Secretary-General, as a special guest, and 27 international and African regional organizations, as observers, attended the summit activities and discussed the cause of friendly cooperation and development between China and Africa in the new era.

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".