On March 19, 2020, Mr. Ma Qiulin, the vice governor of Jiangsu Province, accompanied by Zhang Lefu, deputy secretary general of the provincial government, deputy director of the Provincial Industry and Information Technology Department, Yu Jinhong, director of the second secretary office of the provincial government, Zhu Lifan, deputy secretary of the Taizhou Municipal Committee and mayor of Taizhou. deputy mayor Zhang Yulin of Taizhou, visited GEM (Jiangsu) Cobalt Co., Ltd. They visited the World’s first Coboalt industrial museum, which is built by GEM, and the construction of GEM’s “6S” factory. Professor Xu Kaihua, chairman of GEM, and Zhang aiqing, vice general manager of GEM, warmly welcomed the vice-governor Ma Qiulin and his delegation.

In the Cobalt Museum, chairman Xu Kaihua introduced how GEM used the industry extension of Cobalt products to extend the application of Cobalt from basic material to strategic metal and special alloy, to “the blood of new energy industry”, and now to the tune of “5G era” and “new energy vehicle era” with a bright future. High-tech products such as digital power cathode materials and new energy automobile cathode precursor materials produced by GEM have entered the supply chain of mainstream companies in the world. Afterwards, chairman Xu Kaihua accompanied vice governor Ma Qiulin visited the safety, environment and production control center of GEM Taixing industrial park. The center centrally controls the company\'s waste management, the whole process of which is subject to social supervision as the monitoring screen is updated and open to the public in real-time feed. Visual safety management and digital safety monitoring allows comprehensive management of production information. The vice-governor Ma Qiulin and his delegation expressed their high affirmation and sincere appreciation for GEM\'s safety and environmental protection work and the intelligent construction of the park.

During the visit, chairman Xu Kaihua comprehensively introduced to vice-governor Ma Qiulin that GEM thoroughly implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping\'s important instructions and the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, and paid close attention to the prevention and control of epidemics and the resumption of production. GEM Taixing Park actively carries out green transformation, implements "6S" factory construction, comprehensively implements the transformation and upgrade from traditional smelting to new energy materials green industry, builds a national cobalt product research and development center, archieve innovation and upgrade, and allows industrial civilization to enter the industrial park practices the upgrading of industrial culture.

Vice Governor Ma Qiulin listened carefully and praised that as a leading company in the circular economy and new energy battery materials industry, GEM took the lead in integrating resources to contribute to the prevention and control of the epidemic, which was quite a social responsibility performance. At the same time, he highly appreciated the strategic concept of GEM\'s "6S" factory. It is even more rare and applaudable that GEM has implemented the "6S" transformation without using new land, which has increased the output value. GEM is carrying out disruptive innovation around the real economy, creating a high-tech green industry through global integration, and building a global supply chain of cobalt resources, which is fully in line with the spirit of the Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and Jiangsu Province\'s strategy of “integrating two and one high” by focusing on innovation, enriching the people, and building a well-off society at a high level.

Pic 1 vice governor Ma Qiulin and his delegation visit the Cobalt Museum of GEM

Pic 2 vice governor Ma Qiulin and his delegation visit the safety, environment and production control center of GEM Taixing Industrial Park