Guizhou Zhenhua E-Chem Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “ZEC” or “the company”) was established in April 2004. The company relocated from Shenzhen City to Guiyang City of Guizhou Province in 2018. Its main business premises are located in Guiyang High-tech Zone and Yilong Experimental Area of Qianxinan Prefecture. Its controlling shareholder is China Zhenhua Electronics Group Co., Ltd., and the actual controller is China Electronics Corporation. ZEC was officially listed on Shanghai Stock Exchange’s Sci-Tech Innovation Board on September 14, 2021. (stock abbreviation: Guizhou Zhenhua E-chem Inc.; stock code: 688707)
        Since its establishment, ZEC has been focusing on the R&D, production and sales of cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries that are mainly used in new energy vehicles and 3C consumer electronics. Its core competitive products include cathode materials for new energy vehicles such as medium-nickel, medium-high nickel, and high-nickel for large single-crystal nickel-cobalt-manganese ternary material, and cathode materials for consumer electronics, including high-voltage lithium cobalt oxide, composite ternary cathode materials, and large single-crystal cathode ternary material. In addition, as a forward-looking enterprise, ZEC has developed cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries and sold ten tons of the material by the end of 2022.
        Currently, the company has two production bases in Guiyang City and Yilong Experimental Area of Qianxinan Bouyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. By now, it has an annual production capacity of 66,000 tons of cathode materials.
        In 2009, ZEC completed the R&D and production of large single-crystal nickel-cobalt-manganese cathode ternary material, taking an lead in the industry both at home and abroad. After years of R&D and development, the company has successfully developed a series of core technologies with independent intellectual property rights, including the synthesis technology of large single-crystal nickel-cobalt-manganese ternary material, large single-crystal cobalt-free layered nickel-manganese binary material, high-voltage lithium cobalt oxide, poly-crystal nickel-cobalt-manganese ternary material, and spinel structure composite modified material, as well as cathode material doping technology and surface modification technology for cathode materials. The company has become a pacesetter in the industry of large single crystal cathode ternary material.
        Meanwhile, the company has mastered many core technologies, including multi-element collaborative doping, crystal structure regulation, low pH and free sodium control, morphology and size modulation, which constitutes its core competitiveness in cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries.
        ZEC has been granted a number of patents for advanced products and leading technologies and received nine awards at national and provincial levels, including China Patent Excellence Award, Guizhou Patent Gold Award, Guizhou Science and Technology Progress Award, the Second Prize of Guizhou Science and Technology Achievement Transformation, and 2020 Guizhou High-value Patent Award. In December 2018, the company was successfully listed as the third batch of enterprises that satisfies the Lithium-ion Battery Industry Specification Conditions by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.