Since 1985, the Liaoning Provincial Geological and Mineral Group Nonferrous Exploration Research Institute Company has gone through 35 years of development. Generations of "Liaoning Nonferrous" people, through silent dedication and hard work, have not only made contributions to the old industrial base in Northeast China but have also gradually brought this little-known enterprise from Northeast China to the whole country and even overseas. With nearly ten thousand construction projects and countless scientific research achievements, "Liaoning Nonferrous" people have made outstanding contributions to the continuous development of Northeast China and the technological progress of the national geological exploration industry.
A wealth of talent and impressive achievements, fully implementing the "Big Geology" strategy.
The Liaoning Provincial Geological and Mineral Group Nonferrous Exploration Research Institute Company, formerly known as the Liaoning Nonferrous Exploration Research Institute, was established in 1985. It is a comprehensive state-owned geological exploration team that integrates scientific research and production, incorporates multiple professional technologies, has a complete range of specialties, advanced equipment, and strong technical capabilities.
A wealth of talent: Among the employees, 11% are senior engineers, 42% hold senior professional titles, and 80% have intermediate or higher professional titles. There are 3 recipients of the State Council Special Allowance, 3 provincial and ministerial-level exploration masters, 2 provincial outstanding experts, 1 Liaoning Province outstanding scientific and technological worker, 1 candidate for the Liaoning Province Hundred Thousand Talents Project, and 4 recipients of the Liaoning Province May Day Labor Medal.
Wide working area: Covering all parts of the country and undertaking engineering projects in multiple countries such as Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Guinea, Zambia, and Canada.
Impressive achievements: Unremitting efforts have led to remarkable results, with multiple projects winning awards. Among them, the "National Mine Park Fuxin Haizhou Open-pit Mine Slope (North Side) Exploration, Design, and Comprehensive Treatment Project" won the Silver Award at the 14th National Excellent Engineering Exploration and Design Awards, the "Benxi Cement Plant Technical Reform Project Coal Gangue Foundation Exploration and Treatment" won the National Excellent Exploration Award, the "Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County Xiaogushan Village Mudslide Survey, Design, and Treatment Project" won the First Prize for Excellent Engineering Exploration in the Nonferrous System (Ministry-level), the "Yingkou Hongyun Square Foundation Pit Support Exploration, Design, Construction, and Monitoring Project" won the First Prize for Excellent Engineering Exploration in the Nonferrous System (Ministry-level), the "Fushun Petroleum Plant Yanwu Tank Area Underground Pipeline Exploration and Digital Mapping Project" won the First Prize for Excellent Engineering Exploration at the 7th National Excellent Engineering Exploration Awards, "A Downhole Object Recovery Device" won a national invention patent, "Research on the Application of 3D Scanning Technology in the Protection and Monitoring of Ancient City Walls" won the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in Surveying and Mapping in Liaoning Province, and the "Qianwei Leaning Tower Reinforcement Project in Suizhong County" and "Mudslide Treatment Project in Heping Village, Xinbin County" won the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Achievements from the former Ministry of Land and Resources of Liaoning Province. In total, the company has won 2 national silver awards, over 20 provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological progress and achievement awards, over 30 national patents, and over 150 provincial and ministerial-level excellent engineering awards, and has been honored as one of the top 100 geological teams in the country.
Through years of trials and innovations, the Liaoning Provincial Geological and Mineral Group Nonferrous Exploration Research Institute Company has gradually formed ten traditional industries under the "Big Geology Concept" and has gradually strengthened its advantageous, characteristic, and emerging industries.
Traditional industries include: geotechnical engineering, geological exploration, surveying and geographic information, geophysical exploration, and foundation testing, among others. The company has undertaken the exploration of the second line of the China-Russia crude oil pipeline, hydrological geological exploration for power plants in Inner Mongolia, pile foundation and filling projects for China Grain Reserves, foundation reinforcement projects for Tianshui 523 Wharf in Gansu Province, supervision of exploration for Guinea's 3650 bauxite mine, geological surveys for gold mines in the Kingdom of Cambodia, measurements for the second national land survey project, measurements for the third national land survey project, and digital detection of urban underground pipelines in Guangzhou.
Advantageous industries include: geological disaster and ecological environment, cultural relic protection, tailings pond and mine safety engineering. The company has established an online monitoring center management platform for tailings ponds in Liaoning Province. The company has undertaken disaster assessment for the Benxi Thermal Power Plant of China Power Investment Corporation, geological disaster exploration and mineral coverage assessment for the third thermal power plant in Dalian Development Zone, design for the first, second, and third phases of geological environment governance for Fuxin Haizhou Mine, comprehensive geological environment governance for Fushun West Open-pit Mine, supervision of the first batch of 71 geological disaster governance projects in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, reinforcement and correction project for the leaning tower in Qianwei, Suizhong, and investigation and stability evaluation of the tailings dam for the first phase of Xinhua Molybdenum Mine, among others. Especially in the field of cultural relic protection, the company has actively and steadily promoted the development of the out-of-province market by integrating existing market resources from outside the province, focusing on developing cultural relic protection market business in regions such as Chongqing, Gansu, Guangdong, Henan, Yunnan, and Shaanxi, while consolidating existing markets in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Shanxi, and Shandong. The investigation and design of the dangerous rock reinforcement project at the site of the former Yan'an Anti-Japanese Military Families' Children’s Primary School and the investigation and design of the dangerous rock reinforcement project at the site of the former Korean Revolutionary Military and Political School have laid a solid foundation for the company's entry into the cultural heritage market in Shaanxi.
Characteristic industries include: port and channel industry, land remediation, and high-standard farmland construction industry. The company has undertaken underwater blasting projects for phases one, two, three, four, and five of the Qingdao Qianwan Port, grouting reinforcement projects for the Shanhaiguan Shipyard Wharf, water stop projects for the Longyan Port Dock of the Xixiaokou Group in Shandong, and land consolidation projects in Fuxin, Lingyuan, Chaoyang, and Beipiao.
Environmental protection engineering industry is a new emerging industry developed by the company in recent years. The company has the qualification for professional contracting of environmental protection projects (Level 2) and the qualification certification for groundwater, soil, and solid waste testing and inspection institutions, undertaking solid waste filling experimental projects for the titanium industry in Tanghezi Industrial Zone, environmental testing projects for tailings ponds, spoil grounds, and mining soil substrates, and remediation projects for Panasonic battery and Michelin tire sites.
Broaden ideas, open cooperation, and cultivate a mechanism for technological innovation.
The Liaoning Provincial Geological and Mineral Group Nonferrous Exploration Institute Company is a high-tech enterprise in Liaoning Province. To enhance the company's core competitiveness, the company has successively collaborated with several universities and research institutions, including Fudan University, Tongji University, Jilin University, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Northeastern University, Liaoning University, Liaoning University of Technology, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang University of Architecture, Yungang Grottoes Research Institute, Longmen Grottoes Research Institute, and Dazu Rock Carvings Research Institute, to carry out joint scientific research efforts, gradually exploring a path of integrated production, learning, and research suitable for the company's development. Currently, the company has one engineering technology innovation center of the Ministry of Natural Resources, one national key laboratory Northeast Center, one provincial key laboratory, two provincial engineering technology centers, and one provincial model innovation studio. At the same time, as an initiating unit, the company has jointly established organizations such as the Grotto Protection Technology Innovation Alliance, the China Mining Science Collaborative Innovation Alliance, and the China Mining Intellectual Property Alliance with the aforementioned research institutions, providing a good platform for the company's innovative development.
In 2018, under the kind care of Academician He Manchao from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Liaoning Provincial Geological and Mineral Group, the Liaoning Nonferrous Exploration Research Institute built the Liaoning Nonferrous Experimental Center with the innovative spirit of "not forgetting the mission, leading development." The center covers an area of 4,200 square meters and has various specialized laboratories, including a geotechnical laboratory, rock mechanics laboratory, rock mineral analysis room, mining equipment testing laboratory, cultural relic protection laboratory, environmental testing laboratory, a static tensile testing laboratory for large deformation anchor cables with negative Poisson's ratio, an indoor physical simulation laboratory for open-pit mining dump sites (debris flow), a tailings pond, and a remote monitoring and information release center for geological disasters.
The Liaoning Nonferrous Experimental Center aims for technological innovation and focuses on building a multidisciplinary integration platform of "Big Geology +". The center has independently designed large-scale coarse particle soil compression and shear testing equipment, with a maximum particle size of 100 mm, solving the problem of determining mechanical parameters for the stability analysis of large dump slopes, filling a gap in this field domestically. The newly introduced large DNYS-100 rock triaxial testing machine, large rock direct shear testing machine, and rock permeability testing machine are advanced among similar products in the country, consolidating the center's research foundation in the geotechnical field. The "Northeast Center" established by the experimental center aims to conduct indoor tests and field application research on the static characteristics of NPR constant resistance large deformation anchor cables based on disaster topics such as landslides and debris flows, achieving integrated control goals for regional geological disaster prevention, reinforcement, monitoring, and early warning.
Unite and strengthen the enterprise with talent, stimulate the development momentum of the enterprise.
After years of accumulation and precipitation, the company has formed a unique team culture. Colorful cultural and sports activities such as youth forums, employee skill competitions, fun sports meetings, and welcome parties have become the company's brand and cultivated a group of innovative, technology management, and harmonious open talents; it has successively won honors such as the Advanced Unit for Employee Professional Ethics Construction in Liaoning Province, National Model Employee Home, National Ankang Cup Competition Excellence Unit, and National May Day Labor Award.
In order to cultivate a high-quality talent team, the company implements a talent-strengthening strategy to effectively improve its overall strength. First, based on the needs of the enterprise, a talent introduction plan is formulated to gradually introduce urgently needed master's degree graduates and high-level talents above the associate senior level; second, emphasis is placed on talent training, encouraging employees to pursue master's and doctoral degrees while working, and providing tuition subsidies; third, employees are encouraged to obtain various registered professional qualifications, with rewards for those who pass and registration subsidies included in their monthly salaries; fourth, training is strengthened through job training and winter intensive training to effectively improve the quality of management and professional technical personnel, while implementing a certification system for management personnel in key and special positions, providing necessary job knowledge and skills training before they start work.
At the same time, the company actively promotes three institutional innovations to stimulate the internal motivation of the enterprise. Reforming the personnel system allows management personnel to move up and down. Strictly controlling the selection and employment of personnel, vigorously rectifying prominent issues in the selection and employment process, resolutely correcting the atmosphere of selection and employment, and establishing a clear orientation for selection and employment. A compensation method suitable for the enterprise has been introduced, and the integration of production and operation is gradually promoted to maximize the initiative of employees, allowing those who can and want to work to benefit. Meanwhile, the Nonferrous Exploration Institute strengthens external communication and cooperation, establishing partnerships with multiple universities and research institutes, and has successively been approved as a "Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base in Liaoning Province" and a "Demonstration Enterprise for Industry-Academia-Research Cooperation Innovation in China."
Keep pace with the times, strive to be a pioneer, and comprehensively optimize the industrial structure.
With the vigorous promotion of ecological civilization construction, the concept that green water and lush mountains are invaluable assets has taken root in people's hearts. The company strengthens the big geology concept, deeply participates in ecological civilization construction, accelerates the enhancement of the specialized talent team in geological environment, and seizes business opportunities and expands the market while serving the government and society. It has successively completed geological environment and surrounding environment surveys in regions such as Fuxin, Chaoyang, Fushun, Tieling, Anshan, Shenyang, Dalian, Yingkou, Dandong, and Benxi, laying a solid foundation for deepening the ecological civilization field; the newly undertaken projects for sampling and testing of soil and water pollution in Liaoning Province's mines, as well as ecological restoration projects for marine coastlines and ecological restoration projects for mountains, water, forests, fields, lakes, and grass, have cultivated talents and accumulated experience for the company's sustainable development.
The company is guided by technological leadership, seizing the opportunity of supply-side structural reform to find new entry points in cultural relic protection. Relying on the "China Grottoes Protection Technology Innovation Alliance," it solidifies cultural relic protection projects in regions such as Chongqing's Dazu Rock Carvings, Shanxi's Yungang Grottoes, and Longmen Grottoes, transforming the cultural relic protection industry into the company's advantageous industry. By relying on the National Key Laboratory of Deep Geotechnical Mechanics and Underground Engineering Northeast Center, provincial key laboratories, enterprise engineering technology research centers, and the Ministry of Natural Resources Engineering Technology Innovation Center, it achieves comprehensive operation of "production, learning, and research" integration. By joining the China Land Space Resource Protection and Utilization Innovation Alliance and the Mining Ecological Industry Working Committee of the China Mining Association, it strives to achieve integration of production, learning, and research in land space resource protection and utilization, green mining, and ecological industrial development.
According to the research and development direction of the "Ministry of Natural Resources Old Mine Geological Disaster Prevention and Ecological Restoration Engineering Technology Innovation Center," combined with the guidance plan project for "Comprehensive Treatment Research on Ecological Restoration of Abandoned Iron Tailings Ponds," the company increases research and investment in the field of mine environmental restoration, striving for new breakthroughs in ecological restoration; regarding the online monitoring platform for tailings ponds in Liaoning Province, combined with the approved provincial science and technology department's guidance plan project "Optimization of the Online Monitoring Center Platform for Tailings Ponds in Liaoning Province and Research on Early Warning Standards," it strives to provide services for more mining enterprises' tailings pond monitoring and early warning. Based on the online monitoring platform for tailings ponds, the company actively develops a monitoring and early warning system platform that can integrate multiple data scenarios of Liaoning's geological environment and geological disasters, thus establishing a comprehensive remote monitoring and early warning big data platform for geological disasters such as tailings dam failures, slope landslides, and debris flows.
With the tide rising and the wind blowing, it is the right time to set sail. The company will promote comprehensive development from a higher position, broader vision, and deeper level, striving to create greater value for economic construction.
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