On September 10, the 28th China Mining Conference and Exhibition, hosted by the China Mining Association, grandly opened in Tianjin.
As a major international exchange platform in the global mining industry, this year's conference brought together mining forces from home and abroad to explore new trends in industrial development. Entrusted by the conference, Dandong Dongfang Measurement & Control Technology Co., Ltd. (Hereinafter referred as “DFMC”) organized the "AI Transformation of Intelligent Mines" sub-forum, which focused on the defining topic of empowering the high-quality development of mining with artificial intelligence. Pooling industry wisdom, sparking cutting-edge ideas and exchanging achievements in practice, the forum provided theoretical and practical references for accelerating the building of a safe, efficient and green modern mining system.
Cong Gechen, Vice Chairman of the China Mining Association and Deputy General Manager of Huaxia Jianlong; Jiang Shengcai, Vice Chairman of the Metallurgical Mines' Association of China; Zhang Qiang, member of the Party Committee of the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association and Secretary-General of the Digital Transformation Promotion Center for the Nonferrous Metals Industry; and Bao Liangqing, Chairman of Liaoning Dongfang Measurement & Control Group, attended the forum and delivered speeches. Zhao Hongtao, General Manager of DFMC, moderated the forum. Experts from leading mining enterprises including Chinalco, China Gold Group, Zijin Mining, China Railway Resources, Yunnan Copper, Sichuan Resources Group, Shougang Boron Iron and Huaxia Jianlong gathered at the event to jointly envision a new future for high-quality mine development.
Cong Gechen noted that intelligentization is an essential path for mining to achieve safe, efficient and green development, and that authentic, comprehensive and dynamic underlying data is the foundation for the implementation of AI applications. At present, domestic intelligent mining enterprises represented by DFMC have formed a fairly complete technology and industrial system, solving multiple industry pain points and helping China's mine intelligentization achieve leapfrog development. He expressed the hope that this forum would serve as an opportunity to further pool the strengths of industry, academia, research and application, accelerate the transformation of technological achievements, and promote the transformation and upgrading of the intelligent mining industry.
Jiang Shengcai stated that the mining industry urgently needs to drive safety upgrades through digital-intelligent transformation and reshape its development paradigm through green development; AI empowerment is an inevitable trend in mine intelligentization. He called on mining enterprises to consolidate the digital infrastructure of mines and advance intelligent transformation, digital transformation and networked interconnection; accelerate the scenario-based implementation of AI and develop large models dedicated to the mining sector; build platforms for industry-academia-research-application collaboration to achieve breakthroughs in key core technologies such as intelligent sensing; tap the potential of system applications, cultivate digital professionals and improve industry standards; and in this way facilitate the building of a modern mining system and safeguard national resource security.
Zhang Qiang said that the nonferrous metals industry is an important foundational industry with diverse resources, high industrial relevance and prominent strategic value. Digital transformation provides strong support for the high-quality development of the nonferrous metals industry, while artificial intelligence further expands the space for mine intelligentization and upgrading. The industry should remain scenario-oriented and drive AI technologies to genuinely take root at the production frontline; deepen industry-academia-research-application collaboration to create replicable demonstration projects; and coordinate production safety with data security, thereby injecting new momentum into the transformation and upgrading of the nonferrous metals industry.‘’
Bao Liangqing said that intelligent transformation is the core engine for the high-quality development of the mining industry. Drawing on 30 years of accumulated experience in intelligent mine construction, DFMC has summarized a four-fold underlying logic for intelligent mines — top-level integrated planning, whole-domain real-time data sensing, mining-vertical dedicated large models, and value creation — and built a full-chain capability system covering exploration, mining, beneficiation and smelting, which has been validated in numerous benchmark projects. He looked forward to deepening industry-academia-research-application collaboration through this forum to jointly explore new pathways for AI-empowered mining development.
At the forum, Wei Wei, Deputy Secretary-General of the Digital Transformation Promotion Center for the Nonferrous Metals Industry; Dong Wensheng, Information Director of Zijin Mining; Meng Qingyin, General Manager of Yichun Luming Mining under China Railway Resources Group; Lyu Tao, Director of the Intelligent Mine Design and Research Institute of DFMC; Lin Changlin, Assistant General Manager of DFMC; and Zhang Yaodong, Deputy General Manager of Shougang Boron Iron, delivered in-depth sharing on topics including the digital transformation of the nonferrous metals industry, the construction of metal mines in the AI era, AI-driven intrinsic safety of mines, and the R&D of intelligent mining equipment. Interpreting industry intelligentization trends and validating through benchmark projects the practical value of AI and other technologies, their presentations provided important references for mining enterprises to overcome transformation challenges and draw on proven experience, and played an exemplary and leading role in building industry consensus on digital-intelligent transformation.
Grounded in real mine business scenarios and focused on the tangible results of AI applications, the forum further broadened industry construction approaches and pooled industrial synergy. Looking ahead, DFMC will continue to deepen its work in the mine intelligentization field, iteratively optimize its mining AI large models and integrated solutions, and help China's mining industry achieve safe, green and high-quality development with hardcore technologies.
