In the forenoon, May 30, Zambia time, NFC Africa Mining PLC?(hereinafter referred to as NFC Africa Mining), subsidiary?of the Company in Zambia, held the meeting of the Chinese employees at the station. At the meeting, the social security and epidemic prevention?and control situation in Zambia were notified, the latest work instructions of Wang Tongzhou, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company, and President of Holding Group, about “l(fā)arge closure, small isolation, same rule, same prevention?and control, classified implementation, and attention to details”?in the overseas epidemic prevention and control were conveyed and studied, all employees carried out?the collective study of implementation?program for epidemic prevention and control of NFC Africa Mining in the “new normal”, and the units and all employees were required?to carry out “strict, meticulous, pragmatic and diligent”?requirements in the epidemic prevention?and control and production guarantee?and stabilization, and make great efforts to achieve the win-win goal.?
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The Company held the mobilization?meeting on epidemic prevention?and control and production guarantee and benefit increase of Chinese employees
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On May 22, Lungu, President of Zambia, announced letting go the social control measures for epidemic prevention control and resuming the work, production and study comprehensively, and the social epidemic prevention and control in Zambia entered the “new normal”. Huge changes took place in the external environment of the Company, and the difficulty and complexity?in the epidemic prevention and control further intensified. NFC Africa Mining?earnestly studied and implemented the requirements in the latest instructions of Chairman Wang Tongzhou for the epidemic prevention and control. On the basis of summarizing the epidemic prevention and control practices in the earlier stage, the Company formulated the implementation program for epidemic prevention and control in the?“new normal”. Firstly, strictly set the keynote. Resolutely guard “no infection of Chinese personnel and no cluster epidemic”?red line; keep a foothold in the production guarantee and stabilization in the “new normal”, detail the responsibility, optimize the measures, enhance the assessment, solidify the guarantee and improve the implementation program for epidemic prevention?and control of the?Company; carry out the high-density and high-frequency and all-around supervision and inspection. Secondly, meticulously create the standard. Firmly fulfill the “l(fā)arge closure, small isolation, same rule, same prevention and control, classified implementation and attention?to details”?requirements, and fulfill the management of “three points one line”?(namely, workplace, residence and canteen) of Chinese employees; stick to “l(fā)egal and compliant”, carry out the full communication with the government department, labor union and employee, implement the closed management and commuting management respectively for foreign employees based on their free will, and classify and formulate?the corresponding?management measures; specify the “general management measures for epidemic prevention and control of employees of the Company”, “management measures for Chinese employees”?and “management measures for foreign employees”, and re-detail the commuting management, “ark community”?management, sterilization and disinfection management of key public areas, and management of driver and purchaser and other foreign-related key position personnel. Thirdly, pragmatically do the work. Carry out two times of disinfection for all commuting vehicles before they depart and after the passengers get off; publicize the epidemic prevention?and control policies in each shift before the scheduling?of Chinese and foreign employees and eradicate?“l(fā)eave the post and go to the post of others”. Fourthly, diligently form the resultant force. Center around the production guarantee and benefit increase goal, enhance the production capacity reaching and standard meeting of Southeast Ore Body and production guarantee and stabilization of Main and West Ore Bodies, carry out the employees’?reasonable suggestion activity, carry out the labor contest, get rid of the epidemic effects, and exert great efforts to fulfill the production and operation tasks of the year.

At present, the employee team of NFC Africa Mining?is stable, the production of Main and West Ore Bodies?is stable and the production?of Southeast Ore Body rises steadily.

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The Authors: Lu Jun, Pi Pengxiang