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On September 3rd, the press conference for the innovative achievements of high-quality utilization of natural graphite and the establishment of the Heilongjiang Graphite Purification and Processing Center was held in Hegang City. This is a continuation of the recently concluded 2024 China Industrial Transfer Development Matching Activity (Heilongjiang), and it is also a powerful practice of the central and local cooperation to jointly do a good job in the big article of industrial transfer.

This meeting is jointly held by the People's Government of Hegang City, the China Non-metallic Minerals Industry Association and China Minmetals Corporation (Heilongjiang) Graphite Industry Co., LTD. Nearly 300 academicians and experts from all over the country, as well as industry insiders from the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, gathered here to focus on the high-quality utilization and development path of China's natural graphite industry and jointly discuss the opportunities for innovative development of the industrial chain. At the meeting, Minmetals Graphite released a number of innovative achievements in its industrial chain, and the Heilongjiang Graphite Purification and Processing Center was officially inaugurated.

Academician Wu Aixiang of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Wang Jionghui, Vice President of China Minmetals Corporation and Chairman of Minmetals Graphite, Wei Fei, Professor of Tsinghua University, Wang Wenli, Executive Vice President of the China Non-metallic Minerals Industry Association, Huang Zhenghong, Professor of Tsinghua University, Zhang Zhe, Deputy Director of the Department of Science and Technology of Heilongjiang Province, and Wang Yu, Second-level Inspector of the Department of Industry and Information Technology of Heilongjiang Province Wang Xingzhu, Secretary of the CPC Hegang Municipal Committee and Mayor of Hegang, Zhou Changyou, Member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Committee and Executive Vice Mayor, Xiao Zhangda, Vice Mayor of the Municipal Government, Gao Jian, Vice Mayor of the Municipal Government, and others attended the meeting.

Academician Wu Aixiang pointed out in his speech that the global economy is transforming from "fuel-driven" to "material-driven", and the era of key minerals for new energy has already arrived. Natural crystalline graphite is an important strategic mineral with advantages in China. However, in terms of high-quality application, the core technologies of some high-end products are still monopolized by a few Western countries. Facing the rather severe resource security situation in our country, China's mining industry should apply new quality productive forces to achieve high-quality development and further move towards green, intelligent and international directions. For graphite resources, we should strive to enhance our technological innovation capabilities, increase the added value of products, and extend the industrial chain, so as to truly transform resource advantages into economic advantages. China Minmetals has actively entered the natural graphite industry, planned and constructed the high-quality utilization industrial chain project of natural graphite in Hegang, focused on the breakthrough of key "bottleneck" technologies, and established a natural graphite application technology innovation platform from research and development to pilot production and application. It has built the world's largest green and intelligent mine in terms of production capacity and an industry-leading industrial chain It has set a new benchmark for the industry and led its new development.

Zhang Zhe pointed out in his speech that Heilongjiang Province and Hegang City attach great importance to scientific and technological innovation work, insist on giving full play to the role of scientific and technological innovation as a booster, support China Minmetals and other parties to carry out in-depth cooperation, provide strong support in major scientific research projects, achieve large-scale industrial application of many key technologies and equipment, and obtain good economic and social benefits It has played a leading and exemplary role in the transformation and upgrading of peer enterprises and provided important technical support for our province to build a graphite industrial cluster worth hundreds of billions of yuan.

Wang Xingzhu said in his speech that Hegang City regards the graphite industry as the top priority for transformation and development. In recent years, the graphite industry led by China Minmetals has achieved rapid development, and the "1+N" graphite industry system is accelerating its formation. This event focuses on the future development of the graphite industry, pooling the wisdom of all to empower the industry and jointly build a "Graphite Industry Capital of China" with higher technological content, longer industrial chains and better market prospects.

During the keynote report session of the conference, Wei Fei delivered a special report titled "Application of Carbon Nanotubes and Other Carbon Materials in Batteries", Wang Wenli gave a special report titled "Thoughts and Suggestions on the Current Situation and Future Development of China's Graphite Industry", and Huang Zhenghong presented a special report titled "Progress in New Natural Graphite Materials".

During the innovation achievement release session, Wang Jionghui, the chairman of Minmetals Graphite, publicly announced a number of innovative achievements in the Minmetals Graphite industry chain, including new technologies such as collaborative mining of graphite resources and source reduction of solid waste, "pillar-machine joint" quality separation and flake protection of graphite, multi-disc high-yield sphericity, preparation of high-capacity anode materials from spherical graphite tailings, and preparation of high-purity graphite. New equipment such as flash flotation machines, high-yield spheroidization complete sets of equipment, and the first domestic continuous high-temperature purification furnace have reached the international leading level in many technologies.

As a major achievement announced at the press conference, Wang Jionghui released the latest product of Minmetals Graphite. After years of technological research and development, the company's scientific research team has overcome the key technology of high-temperature purification of graphite and successfully developed ultra-high-purity graphite products with a purity of over 99.99995%. This marks that China's ultra-high-purity graphite products have reached the international leading level and filled the domestic gap. It has played an important role in ensuring the stable supply of key raw materials for China's strategic emerging industries.

Wang Jionghui stated that Minmetals Graphite has simultaneously laid out chemical purification production lines and high-temperature purification production lines, possesses the world's largest crystalline graphite mine, and has built an industry-leading 200,000-ton graphite beneficiation plant and deep processing industrial chain. It is currently one of the world's largest suppliers of crystalline graphite raw materials and is accelerating the development of high-purity graphite products such as nuclear-grade natural graphite and graphite for third-generation semiconductors.

The conference held the establishment ceremony of the Heilongjiang Graphite Purification and Processing Center. Wang Yu and Wang Jionghui unveiled the plaque for the processing center. This center is located in the High-Quality Utilization Park of Hegang Graphite. Relying on the high-quality graphite resources and industrial advantages of Hegang City, as well as the purification capacity and related supporting facilities that have been built by Minmetals Graphite, with the strong support of the provincial, municipal and county governments, it strives to build a first-class graphite purification and processing industrial cluster with the largest domestic production capacity, the most competitive comprehensive cost, and green, low-carbon and environmentally friendly features. It provides important support for the high-end and high-quality development of China's natural graphite industry.

During the cooperation signing ceremony, the People's Government of Hegang City and the China Non-metallic Minerals Industry Association signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Both sides will deepen cooperation in the development and utilization of graphite resources, promoting the standardization and normalization of the industry, and comprehensively enhance the development level of the graphite industry in Hegang City. They will further promote the high-end, intelligent and green development of the graphite industry. Help Hegang build a graphite deep processing industrial cluster. China Minmetals Exploration and Development Co., Ltd. signed a cooperation agreement with Heilongjiang Beidahuang Agricultural Co., LTD. The two sides will cooperate in the development of graphite resources, the construction and operation of green and intelligent mines, and the application of innovative graphite-based new materials in the field of crops. China Minmetals Corporation (Heilongjiang) Graphite Industry Co., Ltd. and China Power Investment Ronghe New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. signed a cooperation agreement. The two sides will cooperate in the research and development, manufacturing and development of advanced batteries, as well as the downstream application demonstration of zero-carbon smart mines, to jointly promote the research and application of advanced battery technology and drive the green transformation and sustainable development of the mining industry. China Minmetals Corporation (Heilongjiang) Graphite Industry Co., LTD., GEM Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Benzheng Fangcheng Graphene Technology Co., Ltd. signed a cooperation agreement. The three parties will cooperate in the research and development of graphite recycling, reuse and purification technologies, the research and development of high-performance anode materials, the expansion of application scenarios and market promotion.

That afternoon, the participants visited the site of the Wumin Graphite Industry Project in the High-Quality Utilization Park of Hegang Graphite.