Sun Ruofan is currently the Director of Natural Uranium Department and Deputy General Manager of Natural Uranium Overseas Business Department of China Uranium Co., Ltd. He is one of the most experienced managers in China's natural uranium trade. From 2019 to 2021, China's uranium industry will live up to the expectations and trust of the CNNC Party Group, and achieve the smooth implementation and rapid development of the integration of "production, supply, sales and storage" of natural uranium. The team led by Sun Ruofan has made outstanding contributions to this work. . At the Party Construction Work Conference of the Group Company in 2022, Sun Ruofan, as the representative of the winners of the "Endeavour China Nuclear People", received this heavy honor reflecting the spirit of endeavour.

Remember uranium mines serve the country

Sun Ruofan has been stationed overseas for a long time to engage in international natural uranium trade. With the original intention of "winning glory for the motherland and making profits for the enterprise", he actively builds a trade network, seeks trade opportunities through multiple channels, and enhances my country's influence in an all-round way, winning the international natural uranium uranium Unanimously praised by the market peers. He worked hard together with his Chinese expatriate colleagues, proving that Chinese people can also go deep into overseas first-line markets to carry out natural uranium trade.

"The mission of natural uranium trade is to ensure the safe and economical supply of fuel for nuclear power plants. I should use my professional knowledge and experience to contribute to the guarantee of natural uranium supply in China." This desire became stronger in Sun Ruofan's heart during his overseas work. In order to return to China as soon as possible to join my country's natural uranium supply guarantee business, he gave up offers from a number of Western companies, and resolutely decided to return to the motherland and joined the Chinese uranium industry at the end of 2018. At that time, at the initial stage of the CNNC Party Group's decision to implement the "production, supply, sales, and storage" integration of natural uranium, under the helm of the China Uranium Industry Party Committee, Sun Ruofan led a start-up team of less than five people, rolled up his sleeves and worked hard, opening a new era of forging ahead. journey.

Before the integration, China's uranium industry was the national team and the main force in China's uranium mine exploration and development, and "production" was the bank of China's uranium industry. "The adjustment to be implemented by one unit is an important reform decision made by the CNNC Party Group to straighten out the natural uranium industry chain. Sun Ruofan resolutely implemented the various deployments of the China Uranium Industry Party Committee, always kept in mind the mission of natural uranium supply guarantee, and led the team to carry out a series of work around business and inventory handover, natural uranium procurement, import, transportation, re-inspection, sales, and overseas trade. He is a well-known hard worker in the unit. He often goes to the "Chinese class" to do domestic business during the day and the "Western class" to do overseas trade in the middle of the night. He does not stop during the National Day and Spring Festival holidays. , he often used "diligence to make up for clumsiness" to encourage himself. The long-term high workload caused him to become ill from overwork and was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. He returned to work three days after being admitted to the hospital for general anesthesia surgery to remove the tumor. Sun Ruofan often said to his teammates: "Our career is closely linked to the protection of national security and energy security. It is a very happy thing that one's work can be so closely related to the destiny of the country and the nation. We should not waste a cent. one second". His diligent and self-disciplined work style has injected a good atmosphere of hard work into the reform and development of China's uranium industry, and inspired a large number of young people to start their own businesses.

Under the overall planning of CNNC and the strong support of fraternal units, China's uranium industry has promoted the smooth implementation of integration. The integration has made CNNC's natural uranium industry chain more reasonable, more efficient in operation, significantly improved in influence, and significantly enhanced in its right to speak. China's uranium industry coordinated domestic and foreign markets, successfully acquired the world-renowned Rosing uranium mine from Rio Tinto Group, controlled the production capacity of world-class uranium mines, and achieved stable operation and management improvement under the epidemic; The three-in-one status of traders, the interaction of mining and sales, and the internal and external linkages have established a diversified and stable domestic natural uranium supply guarantee system.

Big hearted man

"China's right to speak in the international natural uranium market is not strong enough, and the pricing power is not in its own hands, which is incompatible with my country's growing natural uranium purchasing power. The mistakes of manipulation”, this is the conclusion Sun Ruofan reached through research and evidence collection and trade practices during his overseas work.

In order to solve this problem, China's uranium industry has put forward two working ideas. One is to expand and strengthen the natural uranium trade of state-owned enterprises in overseas markets, and to enhance the influence on the existing price system. A trading center to create conditions for the release of Chinese natural uranium prices.

Sun Ruofan is good at trading natural uranium in overseas markets. Sun Ruofan and his team established rules and regulations, opened accounts in overseas conversion factories, and used the limited funds and inventory of overseas platform companies to conduct transactions in every possible way. Sun Ruofan and his team made use of overseas industry contacts, accurate judgment on uranium prices, and the connection of the timing of procurement and sales, and all transactions have been profitable in the past three years. With the help of the surge in overseas trade, the total sales volume of natural uranium in China's uranium industry will break 10,000 tons for the first time in 2020, ranking third in the world. When communicating with colleagues, Sun Ruofan said: "Sales are only one aspect of the supply guarantee capability. More importantly, by expanding and strengthening overseas trade, we can increase our awareness and sensitivity to the market, and enhance our understanding of the existing price system. Influence, so as to improve the stability and economy of China's natural uranium purchase and import, this is the mission."

Natural uranium guarantee has a long way to go

Since 2022, the global geopolitical situation has undergone complex changes. Sun Ruofan and his team signed a considerable number of procurement and import contracts before uranium prices rose, further consolidating the domestic natural uranium supply guarantee capability. Sun Ruofan said: "The fluctuation of uranium prices will bring some challenges to my country's control of overseas uranium resources in the short term, but at present, my country has established a relatively mature natural uranium 'four-in-one' supply guarantee system, which is capable of meeting the requirements in extreme external environments. Domestic demand for natural uranium for a long time." He also said: "Don't be fooled into buying high-priced products because of the irrational and short-term rise in spot uranium prices, we must develop based on the fundamentals of global natural uranium supply and demand in the medium and long term. Overseas project mergers and acquisitions and product procurement work.”

Sun Ruofan often proudly mentions his identity as "the third generation of nuclear power". "I have the blood of the nuclear industry in my body, and my genes are engraved with loyalty to the nuclear industry. Now the baton has passed to me, and the nuclear industry has ushered in the best period of development opportunities in history. I will further burn myself and dedicate myself to The cause of natural uranium supply guarantee is worthy of the cultivation of the party and the country," he said firmly.

Don't forget the original intention, Fang De is always. Comrade Sun Ruofan has always kept in mind the lofty mission of strengthening the protection of natural uranium and promoting the integrated cause to become stronger. Chinese spine. Editor/He Yuting