The "China International Forum on Sustainable Mineral Supply Chain and Supply Chain Sustainable Development Week" created by the 2020 Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Minmetals and Chemicals and international authoritative organizations was held in Beijing recently.
This forum is the first comprehensive international conference on mineral supply chain governance held in China. With the theme of "Rule Reform and Governance Improvement in the New Era", the forum consists of 1 main forum, 1 seminar and 5 sub-forums. It is broadcast live simultaneously online and offline, bringing together people from international organizations, government departments, and standards organizations., Relevant leaders and authoritative experts in various fields such as enterprises in various links of the mineral supply chain, investment institutions, and non-governmental organizations.
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At the forum, Jiang Hui, President of the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Minmetals and Chemicals, Su Yu, Second-Class Inspector of the Department of Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce of China, Dai Ningxi, Minister Counsellor of Economic and Trade Policy of the British Embassy in China, and Kind-Rieper Tobias, Global Director of Metals and Mining Industry of WWF, delivered opening speeches. From the OECD (OECD), the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region of Africa (ICGLR), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the International Labor Organization (ILO) and other international organizations, the World Gold Council (WGC), the International Council of Metals and Minerals (ICMM), the Responsible Jewelry Council (RJC) and other international industry organizations, representatives of Huayou Cobalt Company, Luoyang Molybdenum Group, China Minmetals Corporation, Anglo American Resources Group and other enterprises in the upper and middle reaches of the mineral supply chain, representatives of downstream enterprises such as Unilever, Volvo Cars and Ningde Times, non-governmental organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and PACT, as well as leaders and experts of financial rating agencies such as the London Metal Exchange (LME) and Standard & Poor's delivered keynote speeches, this paper expounds the viewpoint, policy interpretation, experience sharing and trend research on the improvement of supply chain governance.
Jiang Hui, President of China Minmetals and chemical industry import and Export Chamber of Commerce, said at the opening ceremony of the forum that the forum focused on the hot spots, difficulties and focus issues of supply chain governance, and aimed to build an authoritative platform for policy advocacy, cooperation and consultation, mutual recognition of standards, capacity building, communication and voice, brand promotion, achievement release and experience sharing. It is hoped that through the ideological collision of this forum, China's mineral supply chain enterprises will find a new position in the new development pattern with the domestic large cycle as the main body and the domestic and international double cycle promoting each other, so as to contribute more to the modernization of the industrial chain supply chain and better connect the domestic and international markets.
Forum site also held the results of the release ceremony. The ceremony was presided over by Liu Danyang, vice president of the Minmetals Chamber of Commerce. The results showed in the form of short films a series of achievements made by the Minmetals Chamber of Commerce in the past decade in the aspects of standard setting, tool development, industry initiative, training consultation, risk due diligence, etc.
The forum also held a "seminar on risk management of mineral supply chain" and five thematic sub-forums. The sub-forums were held online with the themes "Responsible Mineral Traceability", "Building a Sustainable Natural Rubber Value Chain", "Responsible Governance and Challenges in the Cobalt Value Chain", "EU Conflict Minerals Legislation" and "Climate Risks in Investment and Trade in Agricultural Commodities".
It is reported that the forum received special support from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Yilin International (Proforest), and the China-UK Forestry Sustainable Development Project (InFit). The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Secretariat of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region of Africa (ICGLR), the London Metal Exchange (LME), the International Council of Metals and Minerals (ICMM), the European Corporate Social Responsibility Alliance (CSR Europe), the World Gold Council (WGC), the Responsible Jewelry Council (RJC), the Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI) and other nearly 30 authoritative institutions and forums in the field of sustainable development partnership. On the first day of the forum, more than 2000 people participated online and offline.
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