On January 18th, the Huayou Cobalt 2024 Working Conference convened at the Tongxiang Headquarters. Chen Hongliang, the Group President, delivered a report titled Steady Progress, Seeking Victory - Firmly Confident in Promoting High-Quality Development of the Company. Group Chairman Chen Xuehua and other senior vice-presidents and higher-level leaders attended the meeting, taking their seats on the main stage.

The meeting thoroughly summarized the work of 2023, analyzed the situation faced by the company in its pursuit of high-quality development, and the patterns that need to be steadfastly grasped. It also laid out key tasks for 2024. President Chen highlighted that 2023 was a pivotal midpoint in the Ten-year Mission Completed in Five. Likening it to being midstream in a river or halfway up a mountain, he emphasized the necessity of progress; otherwise, there is regression. In 2023, under Chairman Chen Xuehua's leadership, the group seized developmental opportunities, adhering to a business approach of comprehensive coordination, enhanced safeguards, optimized structures, and controlled risks. This strategy propelled the group from China's top 500 private enterprises to the top 500 enterprises overall, marking a historic leap and harvesting significant outcomes in striving for excellence and improving quality. These achievements were reflected in five areas:

Strengthening safety production to solidify safe development foundations;

Enhancing overall coordination for stable, orderly operations;

Deepening the industrial layout, maintaining a good development momentum;

Boosting innovation capabilities, leading industrial transformation and development;

Upholding a people-oriented approach, fostering mutual growth of employees and the enterprise.

Acknowledging 2023 as a crucial year for the company, President Chen extended heartfelt gratitude and high respect to Huayou employees worldwide. The entire Huayou team, embodying the enterprise spirit of relentless self-improvement and pursuit of excellence, vigorously strove for top-notch achievements, accelerating quality improvement. The industrial structure, product mix, and spatial configuration were optimized, and control over the industrial chain was further strengthened, laying a solid foundation for the company's high-quality development and advancing the ambitious goal of accomplishing a decade's tasks in five years.

After reviewing the challenges faced in 2023 and assessing the situation, the guiding principles for 2024's work were established. These include sticking to transformational development, maintaining a firm strategic focus, adhering to the business essence of "customer-centric, value creation for customers", enhancing the three key elements of "quality, cost, and efficiency", and reinforcing a management philosophy of comprehensive coordination, structure optimization, technological support, and cost reduction for efficiency. The company is fully committed to expanding the market, increasing orders, and enhancing productivity, aiming for steady progress and victory, and firmly driving the company towards high-quality development.

2024 is a pivotal year for the "trinity" transformational development, a deepening year for the "two new areas, three trends" strategic orientation, and a year of advancing the goal of Ten-year Mission Completed in Five. In the new year, the group is determined to execute the general requirements of steady progress and seeking victory, focusing intently on the following five key tasks:

Ensuring high-level safety, guaranteeing high-quality development of the company

Amidst the backdrop of continuously expanding business scope, industrial space, and increasing internationalization, safety production, compliance management, and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) construction become crucial safeguards for the company's safe development.

Advancing high-level operations, driving high-quality development of the company

Strengthening comprehensive coordination, budget control, plan implementation, and industrial collaboration, expanding markets, increasing orders, and enhancing load, to ensure stable production, orderly operations, and performance growth for the company.

Supporting high-quality development with advanced technology

Increasing financial investment, enhancing organizational construction, and accelerating technological advancement, vigorously implementing a technology innovation strategy of "supporting the industry, leading the future," providing technological support for the company's high-quality development.

Promoting high-quality development through high-level openness

Improving industrial planning, adjusting project construction, optimizing spatial layout, creating an open Huayou that faces the world.

Facilitating high-quality development with high-level management

Focusing on value creation in management, continuously improving capabilities in strategic planning, operational planning, safety and environmental protection, lean manufacturing, product quality, target costing, equipment maintenance, technological research and development, project construction, financial and tax management, asset and capital management, human resources, international capacity cooperation, and internationalized operations.

"The work in 2024 is abundant, the tasks are heavy, and the pressure is great, but we have no choice but to start now, tightly focusing on our daily work, expanding the market, increasing orders, and enhancing load, to achieve steady performance growth, maintain a good development momentum, and strive to complete the annual goals and tasks!" The meeting called on all Huayou members, under the leadership of Chairman Chen Xuehua, to promote the spirit of “Constantly Strive to Become Stronger and Pursue Excellence, implement the requirements of steady progress and seeking victory, remain confident and enterprising, and vigorously propel the company's high-quality development in the journey of completing a decade's goals in five years.

Group Study of the 2024 Working Report

At the meeting, Zhou Qifa, the leader in charge of human resources of the group, read the Decision on Organizational Adjustment and Related Personnel Appointments and Removals on behalf of the company. After the meeting, leaders of the industry groups and headquarters functional units organized group discussions. They studied the spirit of the 2024 working report earnestly, clarified their working direction, strengthened their resolve, and translated these into corresponding discussion results, also making study speeches at the meeting.

Additionally, branch venues were established in Quzhou, Yulin, Tianjin, Beijing, Chengdu, Nanjing, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe, South Korea, Indonesia, Hungary, etc., where participants attended via live video streaming.