On October 31, 2019, the autumn in Jingmencould have been cold, however, the bright blue sky was filled with sunshine, whichmade people feel warm and harmonious. Meanwhile, GEM welcomed theirdistinguished guests. At 12:00, Mr. Kang Deok Lee, Mayor of the Pohang City ofSouth Korea, led a delegation which consist of Jae Won Seo, Council Presidentof Pohang City, Dong Che Lee, President of ECOPRO South Korea, Jae Dong Kim,President of Pohang City Chamber of Commerce, and other delegates from PohangCity visited the GEM (Jingmen) Circular Economy Industrial Park. Li Tao, DeputySecretary of Jingmen Municipal Committee, Wu Yingbiao, Secretary of JingmenHigh-Tech Zone·Duodao District Committee, Yang Xilin, Deputy Secretary-General ofJingmen Municipal Committee, Wang Bingjie, Director of the Foreign AffairsOffice of Jingmen Municipal Government, Zhou Junjie, Mayor of Jingmen High-TechZone·Duodao District, and others officers from Jingmen Municipalaccompanied the investigation. Prof. Xu Kaihua, Chairman of GEM, Chen Xingti,Director of GEM Board, Wang Min, Director of GEM Board, Zhou Bo,Chairman of the Supervisory Committee of GEM, JiangZhenkang, General Manager of GEM and other important management personnel ofGEM warmly welcomed the Mayor Kang Deok Lee, along with his delegation.

When Mayor Kang Deok Lee, along with hisdelegation arrived in GEM, a total of about 100 people from the GEM employees,GEM Korean employees and the GEM&ECOPRO joint venture employees lined thepark to welcome. The friendly and warm atmosphere of the park made thedelegation feel the enthusiasm of GEM.

In order to welcome the delegation from thePohang City South Korea, GEM held a great welcome ceremony for these honourableguests at the Jingmen Park Activity Center. The general manager of the GEMGroup, Jiang Zhenkang, invited the visitors to watch the VCR, "China andSouth Korea Join Hands to Build a Green Dream" together, and reviewedthose exciting moments which captured during friendly and cooperative eventsbetween GEM, the Pohang City Government and ECOPRO in recent years.

On the reception ceremony, Chairman XuKaihua expressed again his sincere welcome to Mayor Kang Deok Lee, and thedelegation. Chairman Xu summarized the reasons for GEM\'s brilliant achievementsin the last four years. Firstly, it was due to excellent investment environmentcreated and great service offered by the Pohang government.Secondly, goodpartners such as ECOPRO promoted the cooperation between the parties. Third,the Jingmen Municipal Government actively supported GEM to develop the greenindustries in participating the "Belt and Road" initiatives, with theconcept of "friendship, openness and green". In the future, GEM willfirmly cooperate with ECOPRO and firmly invest in Pohang to build a green andbeautiful world together!

Mayor Kang Deok Lee expressed gratitude toGEM and Chairman Xu Kaihua for their hospitality and expressed theirwillingness to carry out more and deeper communication and cooperation betweenthe Pohang city , GEM and ECOPRO. He is willing to create favorable conditionsfor the mutual development of both GEM and ECOPRO.

After the ceremony, Chairman Xu Kaihuabrought Mayor Kang Deok Lee to the GEM Urban Mine Museum, the NationalEngineering Research Center of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment（WEEE） Recycling,the Electronic Waste Green Treatment Workshop, the Waste Power Battery ResourceUtilization Engineering Experiment Center, and the Ternary power battery rawmaterial supply system, Environmental information control center, etc.. Fromthe waste end to the manufacturing end of the recycling industry full-processproduction line, and investigated GEM and ECOPRO joint venture plant GEC(Jingmen) New Energy Materials Co., Ltd.

During this visit, mayor Kang Deok Lee praisedthe huge scale of GEM\'s recycling factory, the disposal capacity in the fieldof waste, advanced management and intelligent equipment. And he believes thatin the future, we can promote the green development of new energy industrytogether in the world through the cooperation between GEM，Pohang cityand ECOPRO.

"Wish GEM and ECOPRO hand in hand tothe world", mayor Kang Deok Lee wrote down on the guest book after thevisit. And the chairman of ECOPRO, Dong Che Lee also wrote blessing words,"Hopeto have a unlimited development".

At the moment of parting, mayor Kang DeokLee and his delegation took a group photo with GEM\'s staff.

The deputy general manager of GEM group,Pan Hua, Wan Guobiao and Zhang Kun, the chief engineer of group, Zhang Yunhealso took part in this reception.

Pic.1 GEM staff, GEM Korean staff, and staff of GEM-ECOPRO joint venturefactory line up to welcome the delegation of Pohang City, South Korea

Pic.2 All guests watch the "China and South Korea join hands to build agreen dream" VCR

Pic.3 Chairman Xu Kaihua addresses at the welcome meeting

Pic.4 Mayor Kang Deok Lee addresses at the welcome meeting

Pic.5 The two sides exchange souvenirs

Pic.6 South Korea\'s Pohang City delegation toast for cooperation between GEMand Pohang City

Pic.7 Mayor Kang Deok Lee and his delegation visit the GEM Urban Mine Museum

Pic.8 The Korean delegation visit the National Engineering Research Center ofWaste Electrical and Electronic Equipment（WEEE） Recycling

Pic.9 The Korean delegation visit the green treatment workshop of electronicwaste

Pic.10 The Korean delegation visit the GEM-ECOPRO joint venture factory

Pic.11 Mayor Kang Deok Lee, Speaker Jae Won Seo, President Dong Che Lee andPresident Jae Dong Kim write inscriptions for GEM

Pic12. GEM staff send off Mayor Kang DeokLee and his delegation cordially, and take a group photo