On April 20th, 2021, Feng Wei, General Manager of External Affairs Department of VALE of Brazil, led a team to visit the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy (SKLAM) and exchanged views on technologies related to low carbon metallurgy. Olivera and others from Brazil Technical Marketing Department attended the meeting in the form of online meeting. Professor Liu Qing, Professor Zuo Haibin and Professor Yang Shufeng attended the meeting.

VALE is known as a global mining company, the world's leading iron ore producer, ranked 333 on the 2020 Fortune Global 500 list. VALE is committed to becoming the world's number one natural resources company. USTB has a good cooperative relationship with VALE, and conducted joint research on the efficient utilization of iron ore.

State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy (SKLAM) focuses on the fundamental and technological research on green mining-metallurgy theory, intelligent exploitation and utilization of mineral resources, efficient conversion of energy, special steel metallurgy, intelligent mining-metallurgy equipment and safety. SKLAM aims at leading the efficient exploitation of mineral resources, green-low carbon-quality development and intelligent metallurgy, so as to build a world-class base for scientific research in mining-metallurgy industry, training of high-level talents, and international academic exchanges.

In 2020, at the 75th session of the UN General Assembly, President Xi Jinping proposed that China will "strive to reach the peak of carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060". VALE and USTB, as important players in the global steel industry, share similar visions and missions, and have the responsibility and obligation to contribute to "carbon neutrality and carbon peak".

In this meeting, VALE and USTB further enhanced mutual understanding, in-depth technical discussions, and will be able to form a substantive cooperative relationship in the future.