Jinchuan Group, a leading industrial enterprise in Gansu Province, has been closely aligning with the "Trillion Jinchuan" development blueprint in recent years. It focuses on a four-dimensional path of foundation-building, empowerment, cohesion, and optimization, deeply integrating the six core pillars of equipment maintenance, safety production, environmental governance, quality control, talent development, and grassroots management into the entire production and operation process. By securing development bottom lines, enhancing core capabilities, deeply pursuing meticulous management, and implementing standards and norms, the company comprehensively strengthens its development foundation, providing solid support for the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and the cultivation and growth of emerging industries. This writes a new chapter of solidifying fundamentals and revitalizing the enterprise for the old industrial base.

Foundation Building: Equipment Upgrades to Fortify the Production "Hard Bottom"

Industrial development relies on equipment as its foundation. To address issues such as insufficient efficiency and numerous hidden dangers in old equipment, Jinchuan Group is continuously advancing the iterative upgrade of core equipment. By strengthening the hardware foundation, it ensures stable production operations and safeguards industrial operations. At the power supply workshop of Jinchuan Nickel-Cobalt Power Plant, the upgraded intelligent equipment at the No. 31 and No. 32 substations is now fully operational. Technicians at the centralized control center can monitor equipment parameters in real-time and achieve remote intelligent control of switches. The power supply system is the core lifeline of enterprise production, and its safety and stability are crucial for overall capacity release. The digital and intelligent upgrade of equipment has become a key project for the group to strengthen its foundation and improve quality. To efficiently complete the upgrade, the company seized the critical window of the flash furnace's annual maintenance period to formulate a renovation plan, systematically identifying and eliminating equipment safety hazards from the source. This upgrade was not a simple equipment replacement but a comprehensive iteration of technological capabilities. During the renovation, the technical team innovatively adopted a mobile substation load transfer technology, ensuring that production and renovation could proceed simultaneously without interrupting power supply to the plant. Additionally, traditional manual circuit breaker handcarts were all replaced with electric equipment, promoting the transformation of power distribution operations towards intelligence and unmanned operation, significantly improving equipment operation efficiency and stability. Furthermore, in collaboration with the State Grid, the company completed a centralized upgrade of kilowatt-hour meters at the Precision Copper Substation. Through scientific assessment, precise deduction, and standardized construction, it effectively improved the accuracy of power metering and the reliability of the power grid, providing solid support for the stable supply of industrial electricity in the third plant area.

Empowerment: Technological Innovation to Activate New Development Drivers

While building a strong foundation, innovation is key. Jinchuan Group focuses on production bottlenecks and technical challenges, delving deep into technology research and development and the transformation of results. It empowers industrial quality and efficiency improvement through technological innovation, injecting new vitality into traditional industries. At the 50,000 Nm³/h air separation project site of Jinchuan Nickel-Cobalt Power Plant, a customized water-source heat pump system is operating stably. It can recover and utilize the waste heat from the 40°C return water of the air cooling tower to provide heating for over 5,000 square meters of plant buildings, exemplifying the company's energy-saving, consumption-reducing, and innovation-driven efficiency efforts. Based on the plant's production and heating needs, the project team, after repeated testing and optimization, designed a dual-mode operation mechanism for winter and summer. In winter, a high-efficiency heating mode is activated to extract low-grade heat energy from the return water for centralized heating. During the spring and autumn transition seasons, a direct supply mode is used, meeting basic heating needs without equipment energy consumption, thus reducing energy use. The system is equipped with an intelligent control system that can automatically switch operation modes, significantly reducing manual intervention and ensuring efficient and stable operation. The system's benefits are substantial. Each heating season, it can save over 4,000 tons of water, nearly 300 tons of standard coal, and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 750 tons. This achieves multiple benefits of energy conservation, water saving, and carbon reduction, simultaneously lowering the company's production costs and providing a replicable practical model for the resource utilization of industrial waste heat.

Cohesion: Meticulous Management to Build a Centripetal Force for Development

Hardware builds the foundation, but management empowers. Jinchuan Group adheres to the principle of tapping potential and increasing efficiency through meticulous management, continuously improving management systems, optimizing control mechanisms, and strengthening collaboration across the board. It uses management soft power to solidify the foundation for development and consolidate the collective strength for high-quality growth. As the core energy control hub of the group, Jinchuan Nickel-Cobalt Thermal Power Company has a dual role of energy production and consumption. Based on its operational reality, the company has refined its energy management system, detailing annual energy consumption plans and quota indicators. It has established a routine control mechanism of "daily statistics and weekly analysis," achieving precise control over the entire energy consumption process. Frontline staff focus on details and precise control by optimizing coal blending and adjusting unit load rates to continuously improve the economic efficiency of equipment operation. They monitor metering equipment data daily, dynamically inspect gas usage in key areas, and promptly investigate abnormal energy consumption, eliminating energy waste at the source. Concurrently, Jinchuan Group strengthens its management foundation through team building. Various workshops routinely conduct skills training, labor competitions, emergency drills, and case-based safety education. The sewage treatment workshop organizes specialized competitions around challenges like wastewater treatment and metal recovery, linking performance appraisal to stimulate employee motivation. The thermal power company focuses on specialized training in production processes, energy consumption statistics, and data analysis to comprehensively enhance the professional skills of its employees. This routine training and skill-building effectively solidifies the talent guarantee for safe and efficient production.

Optimization: Smoothing Transportation Capacity to Activate the Industrial "Artery"

Logistics transportation is the lifeline of the industrial chain. To address past shortcomings like a single logistics model and weak transportation capacity, Jinchuan Nickel-Cobalt Logistics Company leverages project empowerment to continuously improve the road-rail intermodal network, upgrade transportation equipment, and optimize the transport system. This drives the transformation and upgrading of the company's logistics from traditional short-distance supply to an integrated, full-chain supply chain service. In recent years, the company has accelerated the upgrading of its logistics infrastructure, constructing a 25-kilometer dedicated railway line for the Hexi Fort copper smelting project. This enables direct transportation of raw materials and products, saving 20 million yuan in short-distance transshipment costs annually. The company has simultaneously improved the dedicated railway for nickel salts, restored the sulfuric acid loading line, and opened up container freight channels. Several "road-to-rail" projects have been implemented, releasing over one million tons of annual railway capacity and smoothing the industrial logistics cycle within the park. In terms of equipment support, the company has added and updated 68 sets of various equipment, routinely conducting inspections and upgrades of locomotives, lines, and signaling equipment. Through self-managed maintenance and repair, it has significantly reduced outsourcing costs. Adhering to green and low-carbon development, it is deploying new energy transportation equipment and promoting the domestic substitution of trackless equipment to continuously control transportation energy consumption. The transportation organization model is continuously optimized. Internally, it activates idle road transport capacity and enhances railway heavy-load efficiency to precisely guarantee mining operations and core production. Externally, it expands into new businesses such as port freight forwarding, cross-border raw material transportation, and ore processing logistics for other provinces, continuously increasing transport volume and output value. The completion of the modern logistics system has addressed the shortcomings in the development of multimodal transport, stabilized the operational order of the entire industrial chain for nickel, copper, cobalt, and new energy materials, and solidified the logistics foundation for the company to build an internally and externally connected industrial landscape. It also sets a benchmark for the green, specialized, and intensive development of regional industrial logistics.