Resource sharing, mutual benefit and win-win situation Chinalco and CATL signed a comprehensive deepening strategic cooperation agreement

On October 21, Aluminum Corporation of China and Ningde Times New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. signed a comprehensive deepening strategic cooperation agreement at the group headquarters. Liu Xiangmin, General Manager and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of China Aluminum Group, Ye Guohua, Party Leadership Member and Chief Accountant; Zeng Yuqun, Chairman of Ningde Times, and Jiang Li, Secretary of the Board of Directors attended and witnessed the signing. He Wenjian, general manager of Chinalco’s operation optimization department, and He Yusheng, director of Ningde Times Supply Chain System, signed the cooperation agreement on behalf of both parties.

According to the agreement, the two parties will follow the principle of “complementary advantages, mutual benefit, resource sharing, and win-win cooperation” to create a full-life cycle cooperation model for aluminum and copper products, explore corresponding cooperation in globalization, deepen the supply and demand cooperation between the two parties, and promote green Cooperation in unmanned smart mines, promoting low-carbon development in the non-ferrous metal industry, and exploring cooperation in the upstream and downstream industrial chains of the new energy industry to strengthen cooperation.

Before the signing ceremony, the two parties had a discussion and exchange on deepening cooperation.

Liu Xiangmin first conveyed the greetings of the group’s party secretary and chairman Yao Lin, welcomed the visit of Zeng Yuqun and his party, and briefly introduced the basic situation and development history of Chinalco. Liu Xiangmin pointed out that after years of development, Chinalco has transformed from a single specialized aluminum company to four core industries such as aluminum, copper, lead and zinc, rare earths, and high-end manufacturing, as well as engineering technology, industrial services, capital finance, and trade logistics. The development of multinational groups. Chinalco Group has a strong market awareness, adheres to the spirit of contract, sincerely cooperates with customers, and strives to provide high-quality products and services through technological empowerment and technological innovation, and continues to create value for customers. Liu Xiangmin said that CATL is the world’s leading new energy innovation and technology company, committed to providing first-class solutions and services for global new energy applications, and has a good foundation and broad cooperation space with Chinalco. It is hoped that both parties will give full play to their respective advantages, establish a normalized cooperation and exchange mechanism and a cooperative contact system, jointly deepen the implementation of the contents of the agreement, achieve complementary advantages and win-win development, and work together to contribute to national development and national rejuvenation.

Zeng Yuqun expressed his gratitude to Chinalco for its support to the Ningde era, and briefly introduced the development history, development strategy and core technological advantages of the Ningde era. He said that Chinalco is the national team and the vanguard of China’s non-ferrous metal industry and has advantages in the entire industry chain. CATL attaches great importance to the strategic cooperation with Chinalco Group, and is full of expectations and confidence in the future cooperation prospects and industrial development. It will use this signing as an opportunity to strengthen communication and docking and further deepen exchanges and cooperation with Chinalco. Zeng Yuqun emphasized that creating a competitive aluminum processing and other raw material supply chain can better promote the development of the new energy industry. He hopes to combine the technical advantages, manufacturing advantages, market advantages, industrial advantages and talent advantages of both parties to jointly explore the research and development of emerging materials and technologies. application. At the same time, the two parties will actively promote the reform of green and smart energy, and carry out wide-field, in-depth, and multi-form mutually beneficial cooperation in scenarios such as wind power + energy storage low-carbon factories, “intrinsically safe” zero-carbon unmanned mines, and zero-carbon smart logistics. Realize a new situation of resource sharing and win-win cooperation.

The heads of relevant departments and strategic units of China Aluminum Group, and the heads of relevant business departments and enterprises of CATL participated in the above activities.