The 2025 Asia Vision Forum, initiated by Caixin Global with strategic support from the Singaporean government, recently concluded in Singapore. Under the theme "Asian Opportunities in a Time of Change," the forum addressed three critical variables shaping business decisions: geopolitical landscape, technological evolution, and green transformation. Huayou Cobalt's Vice President, Sun Lihui, represented the company at the roundtable "Reshaping Mobility: Electric Vehicles and Battery Innovation" and granted an exclusive interview to Caixin Global.

Corporate leaders discussed topics including new energy production capacity, market environments, and technological routes. Sun Lihui shared insights on challenges in power battery raw material supply, international trade environment changes, and ESG strategies. He emphasized that amidst challenges like uneven resource distribution, price volatility, and shifting trade policies, Huayou Cobalt has built a comprehensive new energy lithium battery material supply chain—spanning nickel-cobalt-lithium resource development, green non-ferrous metal refining, lithium battery material R&D/manufacturing, and resource recycling. Through global resource deployment, industrial chain collaboration, and ESG implementation, the company enhances risk resistance and supply chain resilience.

ESG at Huayou Cobalt has transitioned from a compliance requirement to a core element of its "15th Five-Year Plan" strategy. The company integrates environmental, social, and governance factors into all business processes to build differentiated sustainable competitiveness.

Huayou strengthens its resource foundation by securing cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo, lithium in Zimbabwe, and advancing nickel projects in Indonesia. Simultaneously, it expands its recycling business, creating an "urban mining" system that converts market volatility into internal synergistic advantages.

     Through long-term agreements, joint R&D, and shared production capacities, Huayou deepens strategic cooperation with upstream/downstream partners, achieving "bidirectional locking" and strengthening chain cluster competitiveness. Integrated industrial parks in resource countries like Indonesia enable efficient coordination in mining, beneficiation, smelting, and material production, reducing costs, environmental footprints, and carbon emissions. The Huayue project in Indonesia exemplifies this with third-generation high-pressure acid leaching technology—unit product carbon emissions are 1/8 of traditional processes, waste heat generates 2/3 of plant electricity, and steam utilization reaches 75%.

     Huayou adheres to three principles overseas: industrial localization, talent localization, and community win-win development. By establishing local production bases, promoting primary product conversion, and extending industrial chains, the company enhances local added value. Initiatives like the China-Indonesia Sustainable Development Action Network, women's empowerment programs, and child care projects build long-term trust and cooperative relationships. Through value co-creation, talent co-cultivation, and social win-win, Huayou achieves shared growth with host countries.

       Facing intensifying new energy industry competition and supply chain restructuring challenges, Huayou demonstrates profound strategic thinking on industrial chain stability and sustainability through global resource integration, green technological innovation, and responsible localized operations—showcasing the strategic vision of a new energy sector leader.