During 14 July to 16 July,2012, deputy chairman and CEO Xinhu Tao，executive director and deputy CEO Chunlai Wang, Luoxin Geng、Guoxin Yang and CFO Hong Han attended the midyear working conference of CNMC(China Nonferrous Metal Mining (Group) Co., Ltd) as controlling shareholders.

On July 12, the Planning and Development Bureau of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission under the State Council organized some experts to examine one of the National Science & Technology Support Plan projects undertaken by our company, Study on Key Technologies for Mining, Dressing, and Smelting of the Complex and Hard-to-exploit Copper and Cobalt Resources of Chambishi. The experts highly praised the study result got by the task force and they rated the project as “excellent.”