Shandong Province holds a special meeting on the high-quality development of the gold industry.

On October 9, a special meeting on the high-quality development of the gold industry was held in Yantai. Lin Wu, Secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech. He emphasized the need to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party and the important speech delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping during his inspection of Shandong, accurately grasp the development situation of the gold industry, tap deeper into production capacity potential, promote industrial upgrading, focus on expanding increments, curbing decreases, and responding to variables, and promote the stable and healthy development of the province's gold industry. Lin Wu emphasized that requirements such as compliant mining and green environmental protection must be strictly implemented, solid progress must be made in expanding and increasing production of mined gold, growth space for smelted gold must be actively expanded, the scale of rolled and processed gold must continue to be enlarged, and every effort must be made to stabilize the basic foundation of the gold industry's operations. It is necessary to actively promote the stable continuation of compliant mineral sources, vigorously advance the extension of the industrial chain and efficiency improvement, drive the industry toward all-dimensional upgrading in deep processing, brand operation, digital trade, and integration with culture and tourism, solidly carry out mineral exploration and reserve increases, and promote the high-quality development of the gold industry. It is necessary to give full play to the supporting role of backbone enterprises, expand effective investment, strengthen internal management, and continue to strengthen the main business. It is necessary to deeply carry out the three-year action for tackling the root causes of work safety, improve the level of intrinsic safety, strictly carry out major risk control, and resolutely hold the bottom line of work safety. It is necessary to consolidate work responsibilities, improve promotion mechanisms, take the initiative in communication and coordination, strengthen scheduling and supervision, promptly resolve bottleneck and blockage problems, and ensure that all task arrangements are implemented.