The company was established in June 1992 with the approval of the Anhui Provincial Sports Reform Commission. It was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on October 24, 1996, and became the first stock in China's copper industry sector. The company was one of the first seven enterprises included by the National Development and Reform Commission to meet the “Copper Smelting Industry Entry Requirements”. The company has successively established cooperative relationships with many institutions such as Tsinghua University and Central South University, and has become a national innovative enterprise, a national technological innovation demonstration enterprise, and has a national technology center and nationally accredited laboratories. The company is a large-scale copper manufacturer with a full industrial chain integrating copper mining, smelting, processing and trading. The main products include cathode copper, sulfuric acid, gold, silver, copper foil and copper strip. Corporate honors include National Innovative Enterprise, National Technological Innovation Demonstration Enterprise, First Prize for National Science and Technology Progress, and Second Prize for National Science and Technology Progress.