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• The Company thoroughly implements General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important directives on rural revitalization and fully leverages the role of trade union organizations to continuously strengthen consumption-based support initiatives and to promote industrial revitalization and increase income levels in supported counties and districts. In recent years, CITIC Metal has actively connected with commodity resources from counties and districts designated for targeted assistance by the Working Committee of the Central and State Organs, as well as several nationally supported counties, helping drive the development of local specialty industries.


• CITIC Metal has maintained close cooperation with the University of Science and Technology Beijing, Northeastern University, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, and the Central Iron & Steel Research Institute for many years. The Company established the “Niobium Steel Graduate Scholarship” to enhance the breadth and depth of industry–academia–research collaboration and explore new models for talent development. As of 2025, CITIC Metal has invested RMB 4.23 million in scholarships, encouraging more than 962 outstanding doctoral and master’s students in niobium-related scientific research and cultivating a pipeline of future talent in niobium science and technology.