According to the data, the total output value of Chenzhou non-ferrous industry hit 101.6 billion yuan in 2013. It was the first one-hundred-billion industrial cluster available in Chenzhou city, which helped to popularize Chenzhou city’s name card as “non-ferrous city of the world” and also helped to keep Chenzhou city placed in the first phalanx of Hunan province on industrial economy.

In order to promote the further development of non-ferrous metal industry and upgrade its competitiveness and international fame, Chenzhou Municipal Party Committee and Chenzhou Government released some implementation comments on the construction of strategic system of “five-one”- one series brand enterprises, one national quality control center, one price index, one exchange platform and one exhibition platform.

Better resource integration for concentrated development

Some flagship enterprises should be upgraded for Chenzhou non-ferrous metal industry to promote its concentrated development and accelerate the improvement of profound processing of advantageous minerals. The first part of the “five-one” strategic system is one series brand enterprises. According to the explanation for this part, 10-15 advanced enterprises should be selected out to implement “five-one project” as one advantageous mineral, one strategic investor, one industrial plan, one municipal leader and one supporting policy, on this point, a communication mechanism between leading group and brands can be formed accordingly. More policy and resources support should be granted to the brand enterprises to guide the construction and protection of brands, promote the technology innovation and upgrading, encourage the usage of capital market, and etc. 14 leading enterprises of Chenzhou non-ferrous industry as Yuteng Non-ferrous, Jingui Silver and others were selected as the major cultivation targets. More attention would be placed on their reorganization, promotion of listing, upgrading of brand level, etc. Jingui Silver was successfully listed in the market on January 28, 2014, which became the first private listed company of Chenzhou city. 

Better innovation to accelerate the development

Technology innovation was one of the driving forces for the continuous development of Chenzhou non-ferrous industry. In order to well play the supporting role of patent technology on innovation of the non-ferrous industry and promote the transformation and industrialization of innovation results, Chenzhou city carried out a “promotion plan for patent transformation” and figured out “implementation solution for 2013 Chenzhou’s special action of upgrading of industrial quality and brand” and “Chenzhou city’s administrative measures for approval of enterprise technology center”. All of those were purposely to enhance the brand cultivation, technology innovation, upgrading of brands’ core competitiveness and upgrading of industrial products’ technological standards. More attention was placed on the construction of national non-ferrous metal quality control center on the basis of Chenzhou city’s practical condition. More talents were introduced to settle down in Chenzhou city, which helped to upgrade the quality control center to be a trusted organization with the capacity of inspection, science research, standard formulation and service. International advanced inspection devices and methods were selected by the quality control center to enable it to be placed on the leading place of China and advanced place worldwide. 95% more non-ferrous precious metals were studied and inspected by the center, covering many provinces and cities of south, central, east and southwest China. Xiongfeng Rare and Precious Metal Company was approved as Hunan provincial enterprise technology center in 2013. Shizuyuan Non-ferrous Co., Ltd. and Baoshan Non-ferrous Co., Ltd. were confirmed as pilot enterprises of “cultivation project for intellectual property of industrial enterprise”by the State Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. They also won second prize of National Technology Progress Award on “development and application of multi-flow Sb-level intensified flotation technology”.

Better transformation of technology achievements to reach breakthrough

One index, one exchange and one museum helped to provide the comprehensive achievements exhibition platforms for Chenzhou non-ferrous industry. “Hunan Non-ferrous Metal (Chenzhou) Price Index” was formed on the basis of 21 leading companies price’s information, which became the indicator of Chenzhou non-ferrous industry. It aimed to be forged as national authorized and international influential non-ferrous metal price index in future.

Hunan Nanfang Rare and Precious Metal Exchange is the first nationwide rare and precious metal exchange platform. More than 30 rare and precious metal settlement bases were planned to be constructed in China to forge a commercial platform of “physical settlement base+ financing + e-commerce”. It aimed to be a comprehensive service system with the capacity of exchange, financing, marketing, warehousing and logistic. The total trading volume hit 2273.1 billion yuan in 2013. Daily trading volume would hit 20 billion yuan in 2015, which would drive 10 billion yuan private flow and develop more than 500 comprehensive members. All of those would promote Hunan Nanfang Rare and Precious Metal Exchange to be a rare and precious metal and non-ferrous metal exchange center with the largest scale, most complete network and best service of China. It was purposely to promote the integration of industry, market and finance to grant a supply platform of rare and precious metals to the enterprises and form a nationwide complete network system with the headquarter of Chenzhou city.

The World’s Non-ferrous Metal Museum project was launched in 2013. Followed with the target to be improved as national geology science education base, the museum was constructed with the high level planning and standard at the very first step. Once finished, series top level and unique minerals would be exhibited on the museum and different forms.