On March 15, Mr. Tang Fuping, China Minmetals’ Party Group Secretary and Chairman of the Board met in Beijing with Mr. Li Shouzhen, Party Group member of All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) and Director of the Auditing Committee for Trade Union Funding, and Mr. Zhao Aijun, Mayor of Anshan City, and exchanged ideas with them on further deepening cooperation.

Mr. Tang Fuping expressed his welcome to the delegation of Mr. Li Shouzhen and Mr. Zhao Aijun. He introduced development of China Minmetals in the past five years. As China’s only state-owned capital investment company in metal and mineral industry, China Minmetals manages assets of RMB 1.68 trillion, records a revenue of RMB 500 billion in 2017, and owns 32 national key laboratories and technological platforms as well as over 20,000 valid patents, ranking fourth among all central government-owned enterprises in China. He said China Minmetals is now carrying out Chentaigou iron mining and dressing project in Anshan City and will make further investment in the future. He hoped to get stronger support from Anshan government.

Mr. Li Shouzhen acknowledged China Minmetals’ continuous support to ACFTU. Together with Mr. Tang Fuping and Mr. Zhao Aijun, he reviewed the economic development and changes in Anshan, shared experiences of attending the National People's Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and discussed the achievements that have been made in the cause of the Party and country since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

Mr. Zhao Aijun expressed that Anshan government has attached great importance to Chentaigou iron mining and dressing project. A special task force and a communication mechanism were set up to exchange ideas regularly and solve problems emerging in the progress of the project through coordination. He said that Anshan government will further improve its business environment so as to benefit enterprises. He hoped the two sides could take this project as an opportunity to deepen cooperation in the fields of metallurgical construction, municipal infrastructure construction and new energy.

Mr. Feng Guiquan, one of China Minmetals’ leaders, attended the meeting. Others present at the meeting included Mr. Zhang Shichao, Director of the Standing Committee of Anshan Municipal People’s Congress, Ms. Zhang Yanlin, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Municipal Committee and Director of United Front Department, Mr. Su Xiaofeng, Deputy Secretary General of Anshan government, Ms. Zou Hongying, Vice President and General Accountant of MCC, and Mr. Dai Guixue, Chairman of the Board of Directors of China Third Metallurgical Group Co,. Ltd.