Gangbov Mining Launches the "Decisive Battle for 300 Days to Guarantee Early Production"
25 Sep 2020

Recently, Gangbov Mining Co., Ltd. (Hereinafter referred to as Gangbov Mining) held a kick-off meeting for the "Decisive Battle for 300 Days to Guarantee Early Production", announced the plan, made clear the time node of the campaign and the task requirements of each stage, and issued a call to the vast number of builders to "grasp safety, seize progress, ensure compliance, reverse schedule, operate according to plans, and ensure the early completion and operation of the project".

Kickoff Meeting for "Decisive Battle for 300 Days to Guarantee Early Production"

Affected by the Covid-19, Gangbov Mining, which was in the critical period of construction, was facing practical difficulties such as shortage of on-site personnel and delay of equipment and materials entering the site. In order to coordinate the prevention and control of the epidemic and the construction of the project, Gangbov Mining has adhered to the "four strictness", strengthened the work scheduling, fully organized and mobilized, effectively overcome the difficulties, ensured the smooth progress of various work, caught up with the progress of the project against the trend, and laid a solid foundation for early production.

Strict epidemic prevention and control. In view of the fact that the global epidemic prevention and control has entered the reality of "going with the epidemic", Gangbov Mining promptly adjusted the epidemic prevention and control level from "emergency" to "normal", adhered to the principle that the standard should not be lowered and the intensity should not be reduced, established the idea of normal epidemic resistance and long-term operations, formulated the epidemic prevention and control work plan under the new normal, integrated various prevention and control measures into every link of the project construction, and built a solid firewall. At the same time, overall consideration was given to the construction progress of the site project, the continuous working hours, physical health status, actual family difficulties, personal psychological status and job needs of the Chinese employees, and reasonable arrangements were made for the Chinese employees to return to China for vacation to ensure the physical and mental health of the employees.

Strict safety in production. Gangpov Mining has always adhered to the principle of "people-oriented safe development", practiced the concept of "active safety and intrinsic safety", strengthened safety publicity and education, improved the security network system, stepped up safety supervision, brought the participating units of the project construction into the scope of safety management, strengthened safety supervision and hidden danger investigation on the project construction site, earnestly implemented safety protection for dangerous links such as open-air stripping and hoisting operations, did a good job in safety prevention in advance for rainy seasons, and earnestly safeguarded the safety of lives and property of overseas employees.

Strict compliance management. Gangbov Mining has guided managers at all levels and all employees to deeply understand the importance of compliance management and risk prevention and control through in-depth execution of "greater studies, greater discussions and greater practice", and has taken compliance performance as the basic criterion to guide the company's daily operation and management. During the work, the Company's Articles of Association, the joint venture agreement, supplementary agreement and the provisions and requirements of local laws and regulations were fully implemented, the local customs, living habits and thinking modes of the Democratic Republic of Congo were carefully studied, the Company's rules and regulations, business contracts and internal control procedures were continuously improved, and the Company's capabilities in operation and management, business expansion and risk prevention and control were comprehensively improved. In addition, in view of the exchange risks and impacts caused by the current devaluation of Congolese franc, Gangbov Mining carefully sorted out the risk points, conducted a comprehensive inventory of the Company's compliance work throughout the year, prepared a compliance work plan, and completed the tasks one by one. 

Favorable opportunity in dry season was seized to speed up construction

Strictly reverse the construction period. In view of the shortage of personnel on site and the delay of equipment and materials in entering the site, while doing a good job in the allocation of engineering operators, Gangbov Mining has coordinated the procurement of domestic materials and equipment, made every effort to push forward the construction progress, ensured safety and reduce costs, and made use of the favorable opportunity before the rainy season to speed up the construction progress, focusing on epidemic prevention and control and project construction at the same time to ensure the early completion and operation of the project.
Author: Sun Zhongyi