On March 21, 2016, Zhang Dejiang, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the Standing Committee of National People's Congress (NPC), who was attending the 134th Congress of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and paying an official goodwill visit to Zambia, came to visit the Lusaka Subzone of Zambia-China Economic & Trade Cooperation Zone (ZCCZ) invested and constructed by China Nonferrous Metal Mining (Group) Co., Ltd. (CNMC), accompanied by Inonge Wina, Vice President of Zambia, Wang Chen, Vice Chairman and Secretary General of the Standing Committee of NPC, Fu Ying, chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of NPC, Zhang Yesui, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Yang Youming, Chinese Ambassador to Zambia.
On 20 March, 2016, Zhang Keli, general manager and secretary of party committee of the holding group of CNMCL as well as his delegation were accompanied by Tao Xinghu, president and chairman of the board directors to call on Zambian minister of Finance, Mr. Chikwanda while they were making a survey about the companies they funded in Zambia. Two sides held an in-depth discussion in the fields of mining investment, tax policy and related matters in Zambia.
March 8th, 2016, CNMC, the Holding Group of CNMCL, signed the special agreement in terms of financial cooperation in central and southern Africa with China Development Bank and China-Africa Development Fund Co., Ltd in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. This agreement has provided strong guarantee for expanding business and fully implementing ‘going out’ strategy in central and southern Africa by CNMC and CNMCL.
Recently, the 2015 annual China Nonferrous Metals Industry Science and Technology Award announced the “key technology research on Chambishi Copper Mine gently inclined cracked orebody mining and paste filling” maily completed by NFC Africa Mining PLC has won the first prize. It is the sixth year continuously for Zambia Branch of our company to win the first prize of industry science and technology award, which fully shows our company’s competitiveness and influence on science and technology innovation.
