Professor Xu Kaihua, Founder and Chairman of GEM, and His Delegation Visit XTC

Tides surge in Xiamen, and shared aspirations reach far. On November 10, 2026, Professor Xu Kaihua, Founder and Chairman of GEM, and his delegation visited XTC. Zhong Kexiang, Chairman of XTC, accompanied the visit. This is another high-level mutual visit within just over a month, following Chairman Zhong Kexiang's delegation visit to GEM's Jingmen Circular Economy Industrial Park in September this year. The two sides will deepen cooperation in more fields including tungsten, new energy, and electric motors, elevating their relationship to a comprehensive strategic partnership.

▲Chairman Xu Kaihua and his delegation visit XTC's plant

On-Site Visit: Delving into the Innovation Core

Accompanied by Chairman Zhong Kexiang, Chairman Xu Kaihua and his delegation first visited the Haijing Base of XTC New Energy, gaining a detailed understanding of its development history, industrial layout, and technological R&D. They conducted an on-site tour of the lithium-ion battery cathode materials production workshop and held in-depth exchanges on material processes, production workflows, and technological innovation. They then visited Xiamen Honglu Tungsten & Molybdenum to learn in detail about the production of core tungsten and molybdenum products, and toured the world-class intelligent manufacturing workshop for ultrafine photovoltaic tungsten wire, immersing themselves in the meticulous innovation ethos and the management craftsmanship defined by a relentless pursuit of excellence demonstrated by XTC employees.

▲Chairman Xu Kaihua and his delegation visit the Haijing Base of XTC New Energy and Xiamen Honglu

Mutual Commitment: Opening a New Stage of Cooperation

Eleven years of partnership have extended the two sides' cooperation from basic raw materials such as ammonium paratungstate (APT) and cobalt carbonate to core battery materials including cobalt tetroxide and ternary precursors, and further into the designated recycling of tungsten-nickel-cobalt waste, forming full-chain synergy from resource recycling to high-end material manufacturing.

During the visit, Zhong Kexiang extended a warm welcome to Xu Kaihua and his delegation and expressed gratitude to GEM for its long-standing support of XTC. He stated the hope that the two sides will deepen cooperation in more fields including tungsten, new energy, and electric motors, elevating their relationship to a comprehensive strategic partnership.

Chairman Xu Kaihua fully agreed and expressed sincere gratitude to XTC for its long-standing support and trust in GEM. He stated that the comprehensive strategic cooperation between GEM and XTC is a cooperation of complementary advantages, collaborative work, and win-win outcomes on a global scale. The two sides will explore broad cooperation in resources, capital, production capacity, innovation, and management, joining hands as a state-owned enterprise and a private enterprise to build the global competitiveness of Made-in-China on a new journey. He noted that XTC is an industry benchmark and a mentor and helpful friend on GEM's development path. GEM will learn from XTC, fully serve XTC's new-stage development strategy and global layout needs, and push bilateral cooperation to ever greater depth and practical results, jointly achieving mutual benefit and win-win outcomes.

From Jingmen to Xiamen, from "urban mining" to the "tungsten industry highland," the trust built over eleven years of partnership has grown ever more solid through repeated mutual visits. Looking ahead, GEM will join hands with XTC to consolidate the resource foundation through the power of circularity, forge industrial resilience through the wisdom of synergy, and jointly write a new chapter of Made-in-China going global.

▲Chairman Zhong Kexiang and Chairman Xu Kaihua pose for a photo

Wu Gaochao, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of XTC; Yang Jinhong, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of XTC New Energy Materials (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.; and Yang Wei, Vice President of XTC, accompanied the exchange. Wang Min, Joint Ultimate Controller and Director of GEM; Zhou Bo, Director and Executive Deputy General Manager of GEM; Dong Yuebin, Deputy General Manager of GEM and Director of the Marketing Coordination Center; Dr. Feng Hao, Head of Tungsten Recycling Business of GEM; Xie Minhua, Assistant to the General Manager of GEM and Director of the Metal Powder Product Marketing Center; Liu Wenze, Assistant to the General Manager of GEM and Director of the Cobalt Product Manufacturing Center; and Zhou Wen, Assistant to the General Manager of GEM and Director of the Materials Procurement Center, accompanied the visit.

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