On February 28, 2026, the "Thousand Sails Competition for Far East New Journey - Zhongwei Group 2025 Summary and Commendation, and 2026 Mobilization Conference" was held in Changsha. More than 400 people attended the conference, including Zhongwei Group Chairman Deng Weiming, Zhongwei New Materials, New Silver, New Platinum, and New Hydrogen executive teams, annual priority individuals and department representatives, management cadres and core employees of various business units of the group, and outstanding figures from Asia, Africa, South America, and various regions and bases around the world watched the online live broadcast, jointly reviewing Zhongwei Group's vigorous development in the past year and looking forward to the company's future vision blueprint.

The conference first played the "Zhongwei Group 2025 Annual Summary Video". Subsequently, Zhu Zongyuan, Vice President and CFO of Zhongwei New Materials, and the heads of Zhongwei New Silver and Zhongwei New Platinum respectively delivered special reports on "2025 Work Summary and 2026 Work Plan" on behalf of their respective business units. The three major work reports of

comprehensively reviewed the achievements of various business sectors of Zhongwei Group in the past year. The new energy materials sector is steadily advancing, while the advanced functional materials sector is accelerating its momentum - Zhongwei New Materials focuses on the new energy materials industry, with a diversified product matrix composed of nickel, cobalt, phosphorus, sodium materials, and energy metals continuing to lead the industry; The development momentum of the advanced functional materials sector is strong, creating the second growth curve of the group - Zhongwei New Bank has accumulated strength and achieved leapfrog growth in business scale by 2025, further consolidating the foundation of the industrial ecology; Zhongwei New Platinum accelerates its journey, with five intelligent manufacturing production lines for catalysts delivered and put into operation, achieving a good start of "production and profitability in the same year". Anchoring the main channel of new materials, Zhongwei Group is sailing steadily and steadily with the momentum of "thousand sails competing for development". By 2025, all sectors and departments of Zhongwei Group will maintain a high level of strategic execution, achieving a dual leap in organizational and talent levels. Numerous benchmark models will emerge in areas such as technological innovation, business services, and efficiency breakthroughs, injecting strong momentum into the high-quality development of the enterprise. In the awarding segment of the conference, exemplary individual and groups such as the annual "strivers", "outstanding young eagles", "stars of multicultural integration", and "EHS Pilots" were collectively commended. With outstanding performance and special contributions, several core managers have won important honors: Fu Peiwen, Vice President of Zhongwei New Materials Indonesia Region, and Pan Zaifu, General Manager of Zhongwei New Platinum, led the team to overcome the group's tough challenges, break through the situation, and achieve numerous results, winning the "Outstanding Contribution Award" of the group; Li Cheng, Vice President of Zhongwei New Materials, led the management team to root in the front line of the business, achieved a counter trend increase in sales, and made great contributions to the company's revenue and profit growth. He was awarded the "Chairman's Special Award" specially designed by the group.

Subsequently, the conference played the "Special Film on Long term Service Employees" and held a long-term service commemorative ceremony and awarded exclusive commemorative medals for the "great figures" who have worked in the group for more than 10 years. This is also a special honor section added in this commendation. Deng Weiming, Chairman of Zhongwei Group, and Wu Xiaoge, Vice Chairman, personally presented the awards to the winners. The specially designed six fan-shaped medals correspond to the 5-30 year career ladder, witnessing the sincere dedication of Zhongwei veterans from their initial entry into the workplace to their responsibility and dedication to their positions. They also engraved their entrepreneurial journey with the group through thick and thin - they are the most valuable assets on Zhongwei's development path.

Plan a new journey and travel together to the mountains and seas. At the end of the conference, Deng Weiming, Chairman of Zhongwei Group, delivered his annual keynote speech on "Creating a New Era: Seeking the General Trend in the Changing Situation and Opening up a New Era in the Reconstruction". He deeply analyzed the logic, risk reconstruction, and value reassessment brought about by the world order changes in the unprecedented great changes. He focused on the four dimensions of "focusing on the material track, locking in key resources, mastering core technologies, and activating key elements", reviewed the past, based on the present, and looked forward to the future, comprehensively summarized the development achievements of the group, and planned the future development direction of Zhongwei. Deng Weiming pointed out that Zhongwei Group is fortunate to be in a great era. After decades of development, it has achieved an asset scale of over 100 billion yuan and gathered more than 20000 Zhongwei colleagues from around the world. It has won wide recognition from the industry and global customers in emerging fields such as new energy materials, photovoltaic materials, and catalyst materials. This is the result of Zhongwei's continuous entrepreneurship and transformation, as well as a development model of global unity and win-win cooperation. It has given Zhongwei the confidence and confidence to overcome cycles and achieve high-quality and sustainable development. Deng Weiming emphasized that the new materials industry is a super track of "import substitution, domestic production going global, and future industries" overlapping, with a long slope and thick snow. Using materials to achieve great things and standing at the forefront of technology is the unchanged foundation for the future development of Zhongwei Group. All Zhongwei people must adhere to the mission of "material excellence and technology to achieve greatness"; Adhering to the vision of becoming a leading global new materials science company, we are determined to deeply cultivate the materials industry and contribute inexhaustible power to the development of emerging industries and the creation of a new era in human society.

gather together to empower and embark on a new chapter. The conference banquet kicked off with a wonderful program carefully rehearsed by Zhongwei employees, which combines visual perception and emotional connotation. The welfare lottery segment is extremely popular, offering local or technologically advanced gifts from around the world to outstanding figures both on-site and online. At the end of the dinner, Chairman Deng Weiming took the stage to deliver a toast, his sincere words consolidating the power of unity and progress, and also playing a high spirited prelude for the new year's shoulder to shoulder progress.

Thousand sails competing, embarking on a new journey of success. Strive for great things in times of change and achieve great achievements with materials; Embark on a new chapter in refactoring and stand at the forefront of technology. In the face of unprecedented opportunities and challenges on a new journey, Zhongwei Group's new materials fleet is ready and ready to take off. The world's leading figures will step up and walk side by side, seize the momentum and seek new opportunities, promote the comprehensive implementation of Zhongwei's "Four Modernizations" strategy, and achieve a new level of business for the group, moving towards the vision of "becoming a globally leading new materials science company" with determination!