Win-Win Cooperation, Green Intelligence — Overview of the 2026 China Mining Conference and Exhibition

en.Wedoany.com Reported - The Haihe River flows on, and the charm of Tianjin endures. On September 12, the 2026 (28th) China Mining Conference and Exhibition closed in Tianjin. During the three-day conference, representatives from 60 countries and international organizations around the world, along with 31,000 participants, focused on the global mining industry's green transformation and intelligent upgrading, conducting negotiations, exchanges, and cooperation here, achieving fruitful results and injecting strong momentum into promoting high-quality and sustainable development of global mining.

International Cooperation Consensus Continues to Build

Participating parties stated that they will establish sound cooperation and exchange channels, further strengthen communication and contact, consolidate inter-ministerial cooperation mechanisms, better leverage the platform role of the China Mining Conference and Exhibition, and jointly promote the prosperity and development of global mining.

"Recognizing that mineral resources are an important material foundation for economic and social development, that green and low-carbon transformation is an important direction for global mining to move toward high-quality development, that intelligent upgrading is an important engine driving innovation in the mining industry, and that deepening international practical partnership cooperation is the fundamental path for all parties to jointly address common challenges and achieve mutual benefit and shared outcomes..." On September 10, at the Mining International Cooperation Ministerial Forum and the opening ceremony of the 2026 China Mining Conference and Exhibition, the Tianjin Declaration on Green Mining Development was released. The declaration put forward initiatives in 10 areas: green development, resource efficiency, low-carbon transformation, technological innovation, digital-intelligent integration, mutual recognition of standards, trade and investment, people's livelihood and well-being, collaborative innovation, and common development.

This is not only a microcosm of the conference's enhanced international influence, but also a concentrated reflection of building consensus on international cooperation.

During the conference, leaders of the Ministry of Natural Resources held multiple bilateral meetings with mining ministers from various countries, conducting in-depth exchanges of views on practical cooperation in basic geological surveys, geological mapping, geochemistry, and other fields, and reaching multiple consensuses on deepening geological and mineral survey cooperation, strengthening research, development, and application of green and intelligent mining technologies, sharing green mine construction standards and practical experience, conducting in-depth personnel and technical exchanges, supporting enterprises in carrying out practical investment cooperation, and promoting economic development through substantive projects.

At the same time, Chinese and foreign guests deepened communication through various forms such as bilateral talks, roundtable dialogues, and special negotiations, reaching broad consensus in areas such as resource sharing, technological cooperation, production capacity matching, investment implementation, and joint construction of green mining, further unblocking global mining cooperation channels, consolidating the mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation pattern, and promoting the building of a more open, inclusive, and beneficial global mining partnership.

In the 120-square-meter pavilion of the Embassy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in China, clients seeking consultation and exchange came in an endless stream. "As a resource-rich country, we hope to find more partners to achieve technological breakthroughs, so that more mineral products can be processed locally before export." Embassy staff member Hill told reporters that they are full of confidence in future cooperation opportunities.

Chinese and foreign mining enterprises carried out multiple rounds of special matchmaking negotiations relying on the conference platform, achieving fruitful cooperation results. More than 20 key domestic mining enterprises, including China Minmetals, Aluminum Corporation of China, Zijin Mining, China Gold, and Shandong Gold, held talks and matchmaking with delegations from multiple countries, conducting in-depth exchanges on mineral resource exploration and development, industrial chain coordination, green mine construction, project investment and operation, and reached a number of project cooperation intentions.

Full-Chain Discussions Empower Industrial Upgrading

As a traditional segment of the conference, the clearly structured and content-rich forum exchange system allowed the sparks of ideas from government officials, experts and scholars, and corporate executives in the geological and mining fields of various countries to collide strongly here, and their respective scientific concepts, cutting-edge technologies, and practical achievements were also fully displayed.

This year's conference set up a total of 31 forum activities, including 1 ministerial forum, 1 thematic forum, 6 high-level forums, 20 special forums, 2 results release conferences, and 1 project signing activity. The forums brought together 502 speakers, building a multi-level, full-coverage, and professional exchange and discussion platform.

Among them, the thematic forum invited representatives from 12 leading domestic and international mining enterprises and financial institutions, including Sinopec, China National Offshore Oil Corporation, and Zijin Mining, to conduct systematic discussions and exchanges around core topics such as global mining development trends, resource security, industrial chain and supply chain coordination, green low-carbon intelligent transformation, and technological innovation, providing high-level trend analysis and corporate practice references for the global mining community, helping to build industry consensus and deepen practical cooperation.

The high-level forum invited government officials, representatives of international mining organizations, and senior mining enterprise executives to conduct high-end dialogues, focusing on strategic, innovative, and trend-setting major issues in global mining development, unblocking communication channels among government, enterprises, and various institutions, and promoting multi-party coordination and linkage. Among them, the China Mining Association, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, and the China Society of Geology and Mineral Economics jointly released the Initiative on Financial Support for a New Round of Breakthrough Actions in Mineral Exploration on September 11, advocating that the entire industry work together to promote the deep embedding of financial resources into all links of mineral exploration breakthroughs, help the new round of breakthrough strategic actions in mineral exploration achieve practical results, and contribute to the realization of high-quality mining development.

The special forums connected the entire mining industry chain, closely focusing on industry pain points, technical difficulties, and industrial hotspots, organizing precise and practical technical discussions and industrial matchmaking to empower and enhance industry innovation and upgrading and project implementation. At the forums, the China Chamber of Commerce of Metals, Minerals & Chemicals Importers & Exporters, the China Mining Association, and the China Iron and Steel Association, among others, jointly released the Self-Discipline Initiative on Sustainable Development of Foreign Cooperation in Mineral Resources, and Bank of China released the Action Plan to Support Mining Enterprises Going Global. These initiatives and action plans provide full-chain financial service support for domestic mining enterprises to carry out cross-border cooperation and promote the implementation and effectiveness of practical cooperation in the global mining field.

New Standards and New Paradigms Boost Industrial Development

On the morning of September 11, Meeting Room N210 of the Tianjin Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center was packed with people, as Chinese and foreign participants were all looking forward to a major release event — the Green Development Results Release and Display.

At the event, the Ministry of Natural Resources shared China's green mining practices and explorations with various countries and released a batch of national and international standards and specifications in the geological and mining field. Among them, the national standard Specification for Green Exploration of Solid Mineral Resources and the series of national standards Specification for Green Mine Construction are based on the actual development of China's mining industry, constituting the core institutional and technical support for promoting the green transformation of mining, and providing unified specifications for the entire chain of green mineral resource development; the English version of the Technical Regulations for Core Digitization and the international standard ISO 8616 Specification for Monitoring Technology of Karst Critical Zones are open and shared globally, continuously sharing China's geological technical experience and governance solutions, and providing diversified guarantees for the high-quality development of geology and mining at home and abroad.

At the same time, China officially released the "Intelligent Mapping" system and the "Intelligent Prospecting" system to the world for the first time. The "Intelligent Mapping" system comprehensively reshapes the geological survey workflow with artificial intelligence technology, providing intelligent solutions for the global geological survey field and driving profound changes in the paradigm of geological survey work. The "Intelligent Prospecting" system provides a one-stop intelligent solution for mineral resource prediction and evaluation, marking that geological prospecting work has officially entered a new stage from "experience-driven" to "intelligence-driven," bringing a new technical paradigm to the global mineral exploration field.

In addition to standards and specifications and intelligent systems, multiple heavyweight reports were released externally, including the China Mineral Resources Report 2026, Global Mining Development Report 2026, 2026 Research Report on China's Listed Mining Enterprises, 2026 China Mining, and Guidelines for China's Mining Rights Transfer Transactions, providing solid data support and decision-making references for industry development.

Also on September 11, at the special forum on mine ecological restoration, the Ministry of Natural Resources released the third batch of typical cases of mine ecological restoration. The typical cases cover different mineral types and different regions such as the ecologically fragile areas of Northwest China, the Yellow River Basin, and the Yangtze River Basin, including three types: abandoned mining areas, producing mines, and mining heritage sites, vividly demonstrating the fresh practices of all parties in accelerating restoration and governance, fulfilling statutory restoration responsibilities, and promoting the transformation of ecological value.

These concentrated releases of a series of high-quality research reports, typical cases, and industry standards provide strong support for industrial analysis and scientific practice, and also convey a message to the world — green is the most distinctive underlying color of China's high-quality mining development.

Building a Platform to Serve the Circulation of All Mining Factors

Thirteen major targeted matchmaking projects conducted negotiations and consultations, and 11 projects reached preliminary cooperation intentions; 28 projects were signed on site, 3 cooperation memoranda, and 1 cooperation agreement, with a signing amount of 300 million yuan... This set of impressive data demonstrates the fruitful results of the conference's transaction segment. As a segment established for the first time at the conference, it delivered a satisfactory answer sheet as soon as it appeared.

From the entrance all the way to the elevator on the inner side, the Mining Rights Transfer Market located in the first-floor hall of the Tianjin Meijiang Convention and Exhibition Center was crowded with people. "What mineral is your project?" "To what extent has the preliminary exploration progressed?" "How are you considering the cooperation method?" Such conversations came from mining rights holders displaying projects on site and investors looking for projects. Some stood in front of project display boards checking mineral types, locations, and resource conditions item by item, some held project materials and compared them back and forth, and some, after locking onto targets, pulled out chairs and sat down, directly entering negotiations.

Not far away, a presentation of mining rights transfer projects was being held. On the large screen, projects unfolded one after another. "At present, Xinjiang has become a hot land for mining enterprise investment. We will focus on promoting 146 proposed mining rights transfer projects involving oil, natural gas, coal, gold, copper, iron, and others. These projects have all been demonstrated and screened and have certain resource development potential." On September 10, Li Haiguang, Deputy Director of the Department of Natural Resources of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, introduced Xinjiang's mining policies and mining rights situation at the promotion meeting. The reporter learned that Xinjiang's fiscal investment in mineral exploration increased from 150 million yuan in 2023 to 1.542 billion yuan in 2026, driving nearly 20 billion yuan in social capital investment annually on average, and resource potential is being released at an accelerating pace.

This year's conference focused on building a unified national market for the transaction of all mining factors, establishing a transaction service platform integrating independent consultation, entrusted competition, targeted matchmaking, and exclusive negotiation, and comprehensively upgrading the transaction service system. The conference displayed 204 projects in total, including 180 mining rights projects and 24 mining technical service and equipment projects; the mining rights projects covered 18 domestic provinces (regions) and 28 overseas countries, involving more than 30 mineral types.

In addition, the conference organized 9 country (region) special promotion activities, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mongolia, Ghana, Brazil, Kazakhstan, and Botswana, promoting 43 projects. In these special promotion activities, various countries (regions) focused on promoting their local key mining enterprises to promote precise matchmaking and deepen cooperation. For example, the National Geological Survey of Kazakhstan signed a cooperation agreement with the Xi'an Geological Survey Center of the China Geological Survey of the Ministry of Natural Resources, and Kazakhstan's AMG Aurora Mining Group signed a memorandum of understanding with the Northwest Geological Exploration Co., Ltd. of Zijin Mining Group. The conference also held 29 open promotion activities in parallel.

From professional and comprehensive special promotions to the dazzling Mining Rights Transfer Market, one can see that a market covering the circulation of all mining factors is being activated.

Exhibition Scale Hits a Record High

As an important part of the conference, the Mining Machinery Expo has become an important window and bridge for international mining cooperation.

"We are close partners with China, so we need close cooperation, and that is also why we came here." At the Kazakhstan mining pavilion in Exhibition Area N5, Lausanne, manager of Kazakhstan Central Asia Mining Company, said.

The exhibition area, with a total area of 65,000 square meters, increased by more than 10,000 square meters year-on-year, setting a record high in exhibition scale, with professional standards and internationalization level rising simultaneously. It attracted 658 enterprises from 25 countries and regions, including Australia, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Canada, Côte d'Ivoire, the United States, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, Singapore, Indonesia, and the United Kingdom. Among them, there were 597 domestic exhibitors and 61 overseas exhibitors, and 720 booths fully covered the entire mining industry chain, including mineral exploration, mining and beneficiation and smelting, deep processing, circular utilization, equipment manufacturing, machinery and instruments, technical services, financial intermediaries, and mining rights transactions.

Inside and outside the exhibition halls, participating enterprises launched new equipment, innovative processes, and iterative products, and a batch of high-tech achievements representing the industry's top level, such as green mining, intelligent ore dressing, and new energy supporting facilities, were unveiled in a concentrated manner. China Geological Equipment Group Co., Ltd. brought two core new products to the conference: the ZDX-1500L fully hydraulic core drilling rig and the integrated drilling detection solution, and the RC-300L reverse circulation air drilling rig, effectively solving complex formation exploration problems such as deep-hole drilling and arid water shortage. Hebei Yongming Geological Engineering Machinery Co., Ltd. exhibited three pieces of domestic first-of-their-kind equipment: a 150-ton electric vehicle-mounted drilling rig, a 1,500-meter core top-drive drilling rig, and an 800-horsepower large-flow five-cylinder mud pump, relying on localized technological innovation to support deep resource exploration. The coupled magnetic field modular high-intensity magnetic separator produced by Shenyang Longji Electromagnetic Technology Co., Ltd. had its global premiere during the conference, with processing capacity increased by 20%–30% compared with traditional equipment and a smaller footprint. The company's newly developed intelligent ore dressing and photoelectric ore dressing equipment were also exhibited at the conference. "We have participated in nearly 20 consecutive mining conferences and witnessed the expansion of the exhibition scale and the increase in overseas customers. We have grown together with the China Mining Conference and Exhibition." said Zuo Xin, the company's brand manager.

In September in Tianjin, the sea breeze blows gently; at the convention and exhibition center, crowds surge. Here, ideas collide and spark wisdom; here, cooperation breeds win-win fruits. Building a dialogue platform and building consensus on development, this conference has injected precious certainty into the global mining industry, which is in a period of deep adjustment. With cooperation gathering strength, green protecting the future, and intelligence driving development, the global mining community is building consensus and taking coordinated action to embrace a better future.