FortuneChina.com and Fortune.com synchronously released to the whole world the latest Fortune “World Top 500” list on the evening of July 7, 2014. China Nonferrous Metal Mining (Group) Co., Ltd. (CNMC), the holding corporation of CNMCL, is again on the list at 398th, some 84 positions better than in 2013 when it first appeared on the list (ranking 482nd).
On June 26 local time, accompanied by Xie Kaishou, executive DCEO of CNMCL and president of Sino-Metals Leach Zambia Limited (SMLZ), Tao Xinghu, vice chairman and CEO of CNMCL, paid an official call on Oliver Kabila, first lady of Congo (DRC), at the presidential palace in Kinshasa.
On June 21, 2014, Li Yuanchao, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice Chinese president, who was visiting Zambia, inspected the Zambia-China Economic & Trade Cooperation Zone (ZCCZ) Lusaka East MFEZ built on the investment by CNMC and visited the Exhibition of CNMC Achievements of Investment & Development in Zambia. During the visit, he was accompanied by Nasaka Ximuboyakula, internal affairs minister of Zambia, Robert Siqinge, trade and industry minister of Zambia, Saikazongge Saikalaige, permanent secretary of the Trade and Industry Ministry of Zambia, Zhou Yuxiao, Chinese ambassador to Zambia, Qin Yizhi, first secretary of the CYL Central Committee of CPC, Yu Hongjun, vice chief of the International Liaison Department of CPC Central Committee, Li Jinzao, vice minister of commerce of China, and Qian Hongshan, assistant foreign minister of China.
On the morning of May 6, 2014 local time, Li Keqiang, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chinese premier, who was visiting Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, attended China-Africa Economic, Trade and Culture Round Table. Tao Xinghu, vice president of CNMC, was given a cordial interview by Premier Li Keqiang as a Chinese entrepreneur representative. Some 30 representatives from the business, educational, and cultural circles of China, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania attended the Round Table.
