人类对金属总是有着天然的喜好。
黄金，符号Au，黎明女神欧若拉的名字，世界货币，国际公认的“硬通货”。
铂，符号Pt，银白色的光泽金属，被人类锻造成各式各样的轻奢饰品。
镍?
镍是什么，你可能很少听说过，但假如世界没有镍，我们连一把不生锈的刀叉都没有。
神奇的资源
镍，化学符号Ni，一种坚硬但有延展性、铁磁性的银白色金属。
Nickel is a chemical element with the symbol Ni. It is a hard and silver-white nonferrous metal with good ductility and ferromagnetism properties.
金川生产的电解镍块
镍的特性，让它与铁矿石、铬混合在一起时，能产生奇妙的化学反应，让人类获得新的物质——不锈钢和各类合金钢。
镍不仅被用在飞机、导弹、宇宙飞船等重工领域，还被用于涂层、机器制造等生活领域。
Nickel is not only used in heavy industries such as aircraft, missiles and spaceships, but also used in coatings, machine manufacturing and other areas of life.
镍，可谓当之无愧的基础金属资源。
Nickel is an essential metal resource.
但如此重要的资源，在上世纪50年代的中国却一片空白。
However, in the 1950s, China was confronted with a lack of this vital metal.
建国初期，百废待兴，为了发展重工业和国防工业，没有镍就只能进口。那时仅仅一吨镍，我们就要拿出整整15吨的上好对虾或73吨的优质小麦才能换进国门。
In the early days of the People’s Republic of China, socioeconomic recovery was a pressing task. In order to develop its heavy industry and national defense industry, China could only import nickel. At that time, the country had to trade 15 metric tons of first-class prawns or 73 tons of qualified wheat for only 1 ton of nickel.
为了解决国内的镍资源困境，我国加紧了地质勘测。
To help solve the shortage of nickel resources, the country had accelerated its pace in geological surveys.
1958年，金川镍矿在甘肃金昌被发现，中国的镍资源开发终于拉开帷幕。1959年，冶金部成立永昌镍矿来负责开采。
In 1958, a nickel mine, later named Jinchuan Nickel Mine, was found in Jinchang, Gansu province, which kicked off the resource's development in China. In 1959, Northwest China Metallurgical Construction Company was founded, and Yongchang Nickel Mine was established for mining.
五年后，永昌镍矿生产出2041吨高冰镍、22.43吨电解镍，一解我国用镍的燃眉之急。
Five years later, Yongchang Nickel Mine produced 2,041 tons of high-grade nickel matte and 22.43 tons of electrolytic nickel, helping satisfy the urgent needs in the country.
如今，经过六十年的发展和建设，永昌镍矿已经成长为特大型采、选、冶、化、深加工联合企业——金川集团。
After more than 60 years of development and construction, Yongchang Nickel Mine has become Jinchuan Group, a conglomerate engaged in mining, mineral processing, smelting, chemical engineering and intensive processing.
金川集团不仅生产镍，还生产铜、钴、铂族贵金属及有色金属压延加工产品、化工产品、有色金属化学品、有色金属新材料等。
Jinchuan Group not only produces nickel, but other products including copper, cobalt, platinum group metals and nonferrous metal products from the calendaring process, chemicals, nonferrous metal chemicals, and new nonferrous metal materials.
新时代的挑战
我们的企业在变强，但镍及其他金属也随着时代的发展有了更多的用武之地，这让我国对于金属资源的需求只增不减，供需仍是巨大挑战。
比如当下流行的新能源汽车。
新能源汽车性能中很重要的一个环节是电池，而这种电池正极的前端材料叫三元前驱体（ternary precursor），硫酸镍就是制备三元前驱体的主要原料之一。
比如航空喷气发动机。
如果说发动机是一架飞机的“心脏”，那么发动机内最热端的部件就是发动机的“心脏”。耐高温、抗氧、稳定的镍合金，正是制作这些高热部件的不二之选。
如今，金川集团每年可以生产出镍20万吨、铜100万吨、钴1.5万吨、铂族金属10吨。
At present, Jinchuan Group has an annual production capacity of 200,000 tons of nickel, 1 million tons of copper, 15,000 tons of cobalt and 10 tons of PGM.
能达到这么高的产能，可以说是“举全球之力”。
从21世纪开始，金川集团通过股权投资的方式，在境外陆续花出156.19亿元，将中国的有色金属版图扩充到国外。目前，金川在南非、刚果（金）、赞比亚、墨西哥、印尼已拥有10座有色金属矿山。
Since 2000, Jinchuan Group has spent 15.62 billion yuan in equity investment to expand its business in overseas markets. Currently, Jinchuan owns 10 overseas nonferrous metal mines in South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Mexico and Indonesia.
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此外，金川集团还与澳大利亚、芬兰、瑞典等镍、铜、钴原料产地国家的企业建立了长期合作关系，在全球30多个国家和地区布局业务，开展合作。
Jinchuan has established long-term cooperation with businesses from countries and regions including Australia, Finland and Sweden, which are rich in raw metal materials such as nickel, copper and cobalt.
The group has expanded its businesses and cooperation to more than 30 countries and regions.
10月17日，中国日报特别推出金川集团八联版，带你走进金川，阅览中国有色金属产业的壮丽一角。
荣耀金川
兴国利民的同时，金川集团也迎来了自身实力的显著增长。
2021年，金川集团的营业收入总额为2622亿元。
In 2021, Jinchuan's operating revenue reached 262.2 billion yuan.
金川集团已经连续四年上榜《财富》世界500强，在今年8月份发布的最新榜单中，金川集团全球排名第339位。
Jinchuan has ranked among the Fortune Global 500 for four consecutive years. It ranked 339th in the latest list released in August.
“我们将坚定不移地走高质量发展之路，再造一个‘新金川’，” 金川集团党委书记、董事长王永前说，“未来10年，金川集团将致力发展成为世界一流企业，聚力打造在国际资源配置中占主导地位、引领全球行业技术、在产业发展中具有话语权和影响力。”
"We will continue on the road of high-quality development to create a 'new Jinchuan'," said Wang Yongqian, Party secretary and chairman of Jinchuan Group. "In the next 10 years, Jinchuan will strive to become a world-class business, taking a major place in international resource mobilization, and take the lead and occupy discourse on industrial technology and development."
金川集团发展史，就是一部中国镍钴工业科技进步史。
作为领头西北乃至全国的金属资源供能企业，金川集团不仅要做中国高端制造业的“压舱石”，还要做保障国计民生的“稳定器”，开拓创新、勇毅前行，继续书写金川的辉煌未来。
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