Setting sail for a new journey in the free trade zone! Zijin Mining's overseas operations center opens in Sanya
On February 28, the unveiling ceremony of Zijin Mining's Overseas Operations Center was held at the Zijin International Center in Sanya, marking the official relocation of Zijin Mining's overseas operations center from Serbia to Sanya. Liu Geng, Director of the Standing Committee of the Sanya Municipal People's Congress, Chen Kebo, Vice Mayor of Sanya, Wu Jianhui, Executive Vice President of Zijin Mining, and officials from the Tianya District Government, the Sanya Central Business District Administration, and relevant municipal departments attended the event.
Zijin Mining's Overseas Operations Center covers overseas project operation, construction, financial management, trade and logistics, talent recruitment and training, digital information technology, ESG, and legal compliance. Leveraging the development opportunities of the Free Trade Port, the center will continue to deepen its role as a crucial platform for coordinating Zijin Mining's overseas resources, business, and operations; an information aggregation and decision support center; and a vital hub for global project collaboration and improved management efficiency.
"This is an important strategic move by the Group to meet its own global development needs," said Wu Jianhui, Executive Vice President of Zijin Mining. He explained that Sanya, as the forefront of the Hainan Free Trade Port construction, boasts unique geographical advantages and overlapping policy benefits, perfectly aligning with Zijin Mining's global development needs and making it an ideal location for establishing an overseas operations center. In the future, Zijin will establish its global management center here, leveraging the Group's strengths in industry, finance, and trade to deploy development across the entire industry chain.
Since its establishment in Sanya Central Business District in 2020, Zijin Mining has registered 14 wholly-owned subsidiaries and held stakes in 3 joint ventures in Sanya, continuously developing its three core businesses: overseas mining investment, international trade, and international financial leasing. Its operations cover 18 overseas countries, including Argentina, Peru, and Congo-Kinshasa. Simultaneously, Zijin has invested in and constructed projects in Sanya such as the Zijin International Center, Zijin Home, and Zijin Gold Industrial Park, built Hainan's first gold refining production line, and was approved as one of the first batch of cross-border fund centralized operation centers in the Hainan Free Trade Port.
Zijin Mining's decision to locate its overseas operations center in Sanya fully demonstrates the company's high regard for the policy advantages, locational advantages, and service advantages of the Sanya Free Trade Port. Currently, Sanya is leveraging the opportunity of the island-wide customs closure to further deepen comprehensive reforms, expand high-level opening-up, accelerate the implementation of core policies of the Hainan Free Trade Port, and expedite the construction of a modern industrial system. Its "investment attraction magnetism" continues to strengthen, and industrial development is "clustering together". Hainan Province's first financial industry cluster with a scale of 100 billion yuan has been established in Sanya CBD, and the "two bases" Sanya demonstration zone is accelerating its construction. Sanya is striving to build a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, rule-of-law based, and internationalized, allowing companies to invest with confidence, operate with peace of mind, focus on innovation, and develop comfortably in Sanya.
