Daye Nonferrous Metals Group Holdings Co., Ltd. is a member enterprise of China Nonferrous Metals Group. The company is located in Huangshi, Hubei, where bronze culture has been passed down for more than 3,000 years. It was founded in 1953 and is one of the earliest copper industrial bases built in New China. After more than 60 years of construction and development, the company has built a complete industrial system integrating mining, beneficiation, smelting, chemicals, processing, scientific research, environmental protection, construction, manufacturing, logistics, and trade, and has completed the “five major leaps” of large-scale operations, diversification of property rights, asset securitization, industrial greening, and brand internationalization. The main business segment, the copper sector, now has an annual production capacity of 5 million tons of mining, 5 million tons of mineral processing, 0.7 million tons of cathode copper, and 0.3 million tons of copper processing. Products in the precious metals sector cover gold, silver, selenium, tellurium, platinum, palladium, rhenium, nickel, etc., and have developed an annual production capacity of more than 20 tons of gold and 1,000 tons of silver. Actively develop the scrap metal and renewable resource utilization industry, focus on building a national “urban mining” demonstration base and biotechnology wastewater treatment industry, and continuously promote green development. The company's technical equipment level is leading in China. It has successively completed the entire process transformation of mining and smelting systems, greatly improving the level of greening, intelligence, mechanization, automation and informatization. It has built the world's largest Ausmet furnace, the world's most advanced copper electrolysis project, and the leading 0.3 million ton copper rod processing project in China. Using Ausmet's oxygen-rich top-blow melting process, permanent stainless steel cathode electrolysis process, continuous casting and rolling copper rod production process, major process technical indicators such as smelting recovery rate, comprehensive energy consumption, and sulfur dioxide emissions have reached the advanced level in China. The company is an innovative enterprise in Hubei Province. It has a series of science and technology innovation platforms such as national enterprise technology centers, postdoctoral research workstations, national engineering practice education centers, nationally accredited laboratories, and metallurgical industry grade A research institutes. The company has obtained 140 nationally authorized patents, 135 scientific awards of various types, and presided over or participated in the drafting and revision of 89 national and industry standards. The company vigorously promoted 5S lean management, continued to promote “three-way construction” (people need standardization, procedures, and organization of goods), established a “six standard integrated” management system and internal control system for quality, environment, occupational health and safety, measurement, energy, and party building, and gradually formed a lean management model for Daye Nonferrous Metals characterized by marketization, full staffing, and lean manufacturing. The company has passed the ISO-9000 quality system certification. The company's “Dajiang” brand registered trademark is a well-known trademark in China and a famous trademark in Hubei Province; the four brands of Dajiang brand cathode copper (DJ-A, DJ-B), gold, and silver have been registered in international markets such as the London Metal Exchange and the London Precious Metals Exchange, and are in a leading position in the industry. The company has successively won honorary titles such as “National Civilized Unit”, “National Advanced Unit for Legal Publicity and Education”, “National Advanced Contract-abiding Enterprise”, “National Advanced Enterprise for Re-employment”, “National May 1st Labor Award”, “National Model Enterprise with Harmonious Labor Relations”, “National Excellent Enterprise for Employee Ideological and Political Work”, and “National Outstanding Enterprise for Corporate Culture Construction”. In 2017, the company achieved sales revenue of 62.45 billion yuan, ranking 264 in the list of the top 500 Chinese enterprises.