en.Wedoany.com Reported - On June 2, two group standards for digital talent and team leader capacity building, guided by the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (CNIA) and led by the Nonferrous Metals Industry Talent Center (NMITC), passed the project review in Beijing. The review panel, composed of 12 experts from industry regulatory bodies, enterprises, and research institutes, unanimously approved the project. This marks the entry of the nonferrous metals industry's talent evaluation system into a standardized and normalized implementation phase.
The Nonferrous Metals Industry Talent Center is a public institution approved by the Central Organization Establishment Commission. Its predecessor was the Talent Research and Development Exchange Center of the former China National Nonferrous Metals Industry Corporation. Now under the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC), it is managed on behalf by the CNIA. The center operates jointly with the Nonferrous Metals Industry Vocational Skill Appraisal Guidance Center and also serves as the secretariat of the National Nonferrous Metals Vocational Education Teaching Steering Committee. It is primarily responsible for organizing the compilation of industry talent development reports, developing vocational skill standards, conducting professional title evaluations, certifying skill levels, and providing employee training. To date, it has trained over 1 million technical, skilled, and management personnel.
Currently, the nonferrous metals industry is at a critical juncture of accelerated intelligent transformation. According to data from the CNIA, the revenue of member enterprises in the mining and processing sector in 2025 is approximately 1.2 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.2%. The "Digital Transformation Work Plan for the Raw Materials Industry (2024–2026)," jointly issued by nine departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), explicitly requires that by 2026, the numerical control rate of key processes in the nonferrous metals industry must reach over 70%. Chen Xuesen, Vice President of the CNIA, pointed out at a recent special training session that while the industry continues to advance in smart mining and smart smelting, there are still prominent issues such as insufficient understanding of digital-intelligent transformation, shallow technology integration, limited application scenarios, and a severe shortage of composite professional talent. Wu Qiang, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, previously noted that the average age of frontline workers in the mining industry is generally high, young people's willingness to work in the mining sector continues to decline, and the talent gap is severe.
The two group standards approved in this review respectively clarify the digital talent capability framework and the job training specifications for team leaders. The digital talent standard focuses on aligning general digital technology training with industry talent needs, establishing a scientific and standardized digital talent evaluation mechanism. The team leader standard provides systematic job training guidance for on-site management capabilities in production units such as mines and smelters. Together, these two standards will fill the gap in the standardization of talent echelon construction in the nonferrous metals industry.
Going forward, the drafting units will accelerate the formulation and implementation of standard provisions based on expert revision suggestions. Relying on these standards, they will improve the full-process management of talent screening, cultivation, and assessment, to match professional talent with the intelligent transformation of the nonferrous metals industry and solidify the talent foundation for high-quality industry development.
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