BEIJING: For generations of geologists on the No 6 Geological Team of the Shandong Provincial Bureau of Geol-ogy and Mineral Resources, members of the Communist Party of China have set the standard by vol-unteering for the toughest assignments, pressing ahead where others saw only dead ends and passing on a spirit of dedication that has transformed China’s gold exploration. That spirit has helped the team discover 14 superlarge gold deposits and 128 large, medium and small deposits in nearly seven decades, reshape international gold metallogenic theory and identify more than 2,800 metric tons of gold reserves, which is nearly one-fifth of China’s total discovered gold re-serves.
As the CPC marks its 105th anniversary on Wednesday, 198 Party members, who make up around half of the team’s strength, reaffirmed their commitment to carrying forward the tradition.
“As Party members, we answered the State’s call to find gold without hesitation, and we delivered. And that promise will continue to echo beneath the mountains and the seas,” said Ding Zhengjiang, leader of the team, who started working as a geologist in 1999.
In 2022, the team received a letter of reply from Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Com-mittee, who praised generations of geologists for enduring harsh conditions to yield rich fruits in min-eral resource exploration and encouraged them to strengthen exploration efforts and pursue sci-tech breakthroughs. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
