To thoroughly implement the spirits of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, and fully carry out the arrangements of the National Conference on Promoting New Industrialization, so as to advance the high-quality development of the gold industry, nine departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Emergency Management, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, the General Administration of Customs, the State Administration for Market Regulation, and the National Mine Safety Administration have recently jointly issued the *Implementation Plan for the High-Quality Development of the Gold Industry (2025-2027)* (hereinafter referred to as the *Implementation Plan*). The *Implementation Plan* proposes that by 2027, China's resource guarantee capacity and the innovation level of the industrial chain will be significantly improved: the gold resource reserves will increase by 5%-10%, and the output of gold and silver will rise by more than 5%; the output of mines with a daily gold ore processing capacity of over 500 tons will account for more than 70% of the national total; the comprehensive utilization rate of gold solid waste will be raised to over 35%; a number of key generic technologies and equipment will be broken through, with mining, beneficiation and metallurgy technologies and equipment such as mining in mines with a depth of over 2,000 meters and cyanide-free gold extraction put into application; the supply capacity of high-end gold and silver new materials for fields such as new-generation electronic information, aerospace, high-end medical devices, and new energy will be significantly enhanced; a batch of high-quality enterprises will be cultivated, the standard system will be continuously improved, and the industrial structure will be further optimized. The *Implementation Plan* specifies nine key tasks. First, promote the increase of domestic resource reserves and production. Strengthen geological exploration efforts, enhance resource exploration in key western regions, promote prospecting in deep and peripheral parts of existing large and medium-sized mines, and accelerate the protective development of key mines. Second, strengthen research on key technologies and equipment. Conduct research on key technologies such as deep and ultra-deep well exploration and mining, green and efficient smelting, as well as key equipment such as ultra-deep mining, large-scale rock drilling, and high-precision ground pressure monitoring. Third, improve the supply level of high-end products. Focus on application scenarios such as new-generation electronic information, tackle a number of high-end new material "shelf products", improve the construction of innovation platforms, and carry out application evaluation. Fourth, strengthen the green and efficient utilization of resources. Build a number of green mines and green factories, support technological transformation demonstrations such as the transformation of cyanide gold extraction processes and the harmless backfilling of cyanide residues, support the comprehensive utilization of low-grade, refractory, and associated resources, and promote the recycling of gold and silver from waste electrical and electronic products, retired photovoltaic modules, etc. Fifth, guide enterprises to become stronger, better, and larger. Integrate resources in key mining areas, carry out "decentralized mining and beneficiation, centralized smelting" according to local conditions, encourage new enterprises to expand production scale, cultivate enterprise groups with global competitiveness, foster specialized, sophisticated, distinctive, and novel "little giant" enterprises and single champion enterprises, and promote the integrated development of large, medium, and small enterprises. Sixth, improve work safety levels. Strengthen the source control of safety risks, strictly manage risks in key links, promote enterprises to strictly implement the main responsibility for work safety, strengthen the dynamic elimination of major accident hazards, and improve the intrinsic safety level of enterprises. Seventh, accelerate digital transformation and upgrading. Support enterprises in carrying out collaborative planning and design of geological surveying and mining, promote the autonomous operation of underground mining equipment, production auxiliary systems, and fixed facilities, and implement intelligent transformation and upgrading such as rock mass microseismic monitoring and ground stress monitoring and early warning. Eighth, strengthen the leading role of standards. Focus on developing standards for deep well mining, green and low-carbon, digital empowerment, and new materials, accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into standards, strengthen standard implementation and effect evaluation, promote two-way transformation and mutual recognition of standards, study and formulate guidelines for the responsible development of the gold industry, and promote the construction of a national metrology and testing center in the gold field. Ninth, deepen overseas investment cooperation. Encourage enterprises to continuously and high-quality participate in the joint construction of the "Belt and Road", strengthen international mutually beneficial cooperation, integrate into the global gold industry chain and supply chain, expand the import sources of primary mineral products such as gold ore, guide enterprises to actively fulfill social responsibilities, and promote win-win cooperation. Next, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will work with relevant departments to strengthen overall coordination, enhance collaboration between central and local governments and inter-departmental linkage, increase policy support, solidly promote the implementation of various policies and measures, and accelerate the high-end, intelligent, green, and safe development of the gold industry. Notice on Issuing the *Implementation Plan for the High-Quality Development of the Gold Industry (2025-2027)* Gongxin Bu Lian Yuan 〔2025〕 No. 86 Departments of Industry and Information Technology, Development and Reform, Natural Resources, Commerce, Emergency Management, State-owned Assets, and Market Regulation of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, cities specifically designated in the state plan, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps; Guangdong Sub-Administration of the General Administration of Customs and all direct customs; all provincial bureaus of the National Mine Safety Administration: The *Implementation Plan for the High-Quality Development of the Gold Industry (2025-2027)* is hereby issued to you. Please earnestly implement it in combination with actual conditions. Ministry of Industry and Information Technology National Development and Reform Commission Ministry of Natural Resources Ministry of Commerce Ministry of Emergency Management State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council General Administration of Customs State Administration for Market Regulation National Mine Safety Administration March 26, 2025 Implementation Plan for the High-Quality Development of the Gold Industry (2025-2027) Gold is a strategic mineral resource with both commodity and monetary attributes, and is of great significance for safeguarding national industrial security and financial security. China is the world's largest producer and consumer of gold. In recent years, technologies for deep mining and efficient beneficiation and metallurgy have continuously advanced, the industrial concentration has been effectively improved, and the scale has continued to expand. However, at the same time, problems such as insufficient resource guarantee capacity and the inability of key core technologies and equipment to meet demand have become prominent. To promote the high-quality development of the gold industry, this implementation plan is formulated. This implementation plan focuses on gold and takes silver into account, with an implementation period from 2025 to 2027. I. General Requirements Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirits of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, fully implement the arrangements of the National Conference on Promoting New Industrialization, base on the new development stage, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, coordinate high-quality development and high-level security, adhere to the bottom line of industrial security and financial security, strengthen protective development, high-quality utilization, and standardized management, take resource security guarantee as the foundation, take scientific and technological innovation as the fundamental driving force, take standard improvement as the guide, promote the high-end, intelligent, green, and safe development of the industry, accelerate the formation of new productive forces, and promote the high-quality development of the gold industry. By 2027, the resource guarantee capacity and the innovation level of the industrial chain will be significantly improved. Gold resource reserves will increase by 5%-10%, and the output of gold and silver will increase by more than 5%. The output of mines with a daily gold ore processing capacity of 500 tons or more will account for more than 70% of the national total. The comprehensive utilization rate of gold solid waste will be increased to more than 35%. A number of key generic technologies and equipment will be broken through, with mining, beneficiation and metallurgy technologies and equipment such as mining in mines with a depth of 2,000 meters or more and cyanide-free gold extraction put into application. The supply capacity of high-end gold and silver new materials for new-generation electronic information, aerospace, high-end medical devices, new energy and other fields will be significantly enhanced. A number of high-quality enterprises will be cultivated, the standard system will be continuously improved, and the industrial structure will be further optimized. Looking forward to 2035, a high-quality development pattern will be fully formed. The comprehensive resource guarantee capacity will be significantly enhanced, and a world-leading technological system and industrial system will be built. II. Key Tasks (1) Promote the increase of domestic resource reserves and production. Solidly advance the new round of strategic action for prospecting breakthroughs, increase geological exploration efforts, strengthen gold resource exploration in key western regions, increase resource reserves, promote prospecting in deep and peripheral parts of existing large and medium-sized mines, and reasonably extend the service life of mines. Accelerate the protective development of key gold and silver mines. On the premise of doing a good job in ecological environment protection and ensuring work safety, strengthen the guarantee of production factors such as land for gold and silver mine development and tailings ponds, and promote the expansion of production capacity of existing mines, the commissioning of under-construction mines, and the construction of new mines. (The Ministry of Natural Resources, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and the National Mine Safety Administration shall be responsible in accordance with their respective duties) Column 1 Key Directions for Domestic Gold Resource Development Key resource exploration areas: East Kunlun in Qinghai, Gannan in Gansu, southern section of Ailao Mountain in Yunnan, West Tianshan in Xinjiang, Xuefeng Mountain gold resource area in Hunan, Qulong-Jiama polymetallic resource area in Tibet, multi-metal resource area in northeastern Anhui, copper-gold polymetallic resource area in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, etc. Key resource development areas: Laizhou-Zhaoyuan in Shandong, Zhenfeng-Puan in Guizhou, Pingjiang-Liling in Hunan, northern Hebei-western Liaoning, southern Jilin-eastern Liaoning and other gold resource areas; Xiaoqinling-Xiong'er Mountain gold-silver polymetallic resource area in Henan and Shaanxi; Zijinshan gold-copper polymetallic resource area in Longyan, Fujian, etc. Key development mines: Xincheng, Sanshandao, Jiaojia, Linglong, Haiyu, Penglai, Shaling, Xiling, Xiadian, Dayingezhuang, Lingnan-Fushan in Shandong; Laowan in Henan; Zaozigou, Daqiao, Liba-Jinshan, Yidinan in Gansu; Woxi, Wangu in Hunan; Jinshan in Jiangxi; Wulashan-Hademen, Jinchanggouliang, Bilige, Haoyaoerhudong in Inner Mongolia; Jinshan, Saiwayaerdun in Xinjiang; Jiama, Duolong, Bangpu, Xiong Village in Tibet; Dachaidan in Qinghai; Beiya in Yunnan; Yixingzhai in Shanxi; Shuiyindong, Nibao in Guizhou; Dadonggou in Liaoning, etc. (2) Strengthen research on key technologies and equipment. Based on the resource endowment characteristics of low-grade and refractory gold in China, focus on shaft construction, hoisting, water hazards, rock bursts, etc. in the process of deep mine development, strengthen industry-university-research-application collaboration, and carry out research on key generic technologies such as deep and ultra-deep well exploration and mining, and green and efficient smelting. Encourage gold enterprises and equipment manufacturing enterprises to form innovation consortia to jointly tackle key equipment such as ultra-deep mining, large-scale rock drilling, and high-precision ground pressure monitoring. Promote the customized development of equipment for small and medium-sized enterprises, and guide enterprises to carry out equipment renewal and technological transformation. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Natural Resources, and the National Mine Safety Administration shall be responsible in accordance with their respective duties) Column 2 Key Directions for Key Technology and Equipment Research Key technologies: Exploration technologies such as deep three-dimensional induced polarization detection, deep high-precision magnetic measurement, ultra-deep drilling, offshore exploration, deep-penetration geochemical measurement, and artificial intelligence prediction for geological prospecting; mining technologies such as deep ground pressure monitoring and control, deep well refrigeration and cooling and heat hazard control, deep well filling, intelligent unmanned mining, and waste-free and tailings-free mining; beneficiation and metallurgy technologies such as pre-enrichment of low-grade gold ores, cyanide-free gold extraction, efficient recovery of low-grade associated gold, resource utilization of high-silicon tailings, and environmental risk control in the process of cyanide residue backfilling. Key equipment: Exploration equipment such as airborne gravity gradiometers, high-performance mining seismic prospecting instruments, ultra-deep well exploration rigs, and modular rigs; mining equipment such as ground pressure monitoring, underground mining drones, low-cost cooling for deep wells, intelligent ventilation, ultra-deep well hoisting, and large-scale rock drilling rigs; beneficiation and metallurgy equipment such as large-scale crushing and grinding, pressure oxidation, short-wave infrared mineral analyzers, and high-precision sensors; equipment for green and efficient separation, refining and purification of secondary resources. (3) Improve the supply level of high-end products. Focusing on the application needs of specific scenarios in new-generation electronic information, aerospace, high-end medical devices, new energy and other fields, strengthen upstream and downstream collaborative innovation, accelerate research breakthroughs in technologies such as ultra-high-purity low-carbon raw material preparation, high-precision processing and forming, and high-purity micro-nano powder preparation, and form a number of high-end new material "shelf products". Improve the construction of innovation platforms and enhance the high-quality utilization level of gold and silver. Encourage gold and silver new material enterprises to join hands with downstream users to improve the quality stability and consistency of high-end new material products, carry out application evaluation, and improve the effective supply capacity. (The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission shall be responsible in accordance with their respective duties) Column 3 Key Directions for High-end New Material Research and Application High-end new material research: High-precision gold and gold alloy solders, low-temperature pressure-free silver (gold) nano-solder pastes, gold (silver) bonding wires with high service reliability, low (no) cyanide gold plating solutions, gold (silver) nano-powders and other materials. High-end new material applications: Quality improvement and promotion of high-purity low-carbon gold (silver) targets and evaporation materials for semiconductors, solar photovoltaic silver pastes, gold pastes for core components such as low-temperature co-fired ceramics and chip multi-layer ceramic capacitors, biomedical gold (silver) materials, electrical contact gold (silver) and alloy materials, environmentally friendly gold-based catalysts and other materials. (4) Strengthen the green and efficient utilization of resources. In accordance with the principles of "source reduction, process control, end-of-pipe treatment, and resource utilization", promote green exploration, mining and production, promote clean energy substitution, and build a number of green mines and green factories. Promote the collaborative disposal and full-component utilization of cyanide residues, and support enterprises to accelerate technological transformation demonstrations such as the transformation of cyanide gold extraction processes, the harmless backfilling of cyanide residues, and the recycling of cyanide-containing wastewater. Support the comprehensive utilization of low-grade, refractory, and associated resources, and improve the recovery rate of gold, silver resources, and associated valuable elements such as copper, lead, and zinc. Encourage the development of secondary resources in gold tailings ponds, such as the recovery of valuable metals from tailings and the preparation of building materials. Promote the recycling of gold and silver from waste electrical and electronic products, retired photovoltaic modules, gold and silver-containing waste catalysts, waste gold and silver products, etc. Establish and improve gold recycling ledgers and transaction reporting systems, encourage gold refining enterprises to carry out entrusted recycling business with recycling enterprises, and improve the gold recycling market system. Support industry organizations to study and formulate implementation standards and code guidelines for the recycling of gold and other precious metals, and standardize the recycling behavior of individuals and enterprises. (The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Commerce, and the State Administration for Market Regulation shall be responsible in accordance with their respective duties) (5) Guide enterprises to become stronger, better, and larger. Support the integration of resources in key gold mining areas in Shandong, Gansu, Henan, Liaoning, Jilin, Guizhou and other provinces, guide the construction of "regional mines" for "numerous, small, and scattered" ore bodies, carry out "decentralized mining and beneficiation, centralized smelting" according to local conditions, eliminate backward and inefficient production capacity and processes in accordance with the law, and improve the level of intensive development. Encourage new gold independent mineral processing plants, heap leaching sites, and gold concentrate smelters to have a daily processing capacity of not less than 500 tons, 2,000 tons, and 200 tons respectively, and increase the production scale of enterprises. Encourage gold enterprises to carry out integration through capital ties, strengthen policy guidance on environmental protection and safety, promote the concentration of resources to advantageous enterprises, and cultivate enterprise groups with global competitiveness. Encourage gold and silver new material enterprises to focus on niche markets and deepen their professional expertise, foster specialized, sophisticated, distinctive, and novel "little giant" enterprises and single champion enterprises, and promote the integrated development of large, medium, and small enterprises. (The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council shall be responsible in accordance with their respective duties) (6) Improve work safety levels. Deepen the three-year action to address the root causes of work safety, strengthen the source control of safety risks, strictly manage risks in key links such as deep and ultra-deep well mining, tailings ponds, goafs, and smelting. Promote enterprises to strictly implement the main responsibility for work safety, improve the quality of risk and hidden danger investigation and rectification, and establish and improve the enterprise