SD-Gold takes scientific and technological innovation as an important part of the company’s core competitiveness, and continuously enhances its independent innovation capability and scientific research and development capabilities. SD-Gold strengthens the research on key technologies and obtains the blow-out breakthrough in core and key technologies in aspects of exploration, mining, dressing and refining, etc., carries out the in-depth propelling in aspects of “deep exploration”, “deep well construction”, “deep mining”, etc., and obtains the great progress in “cyanide harmless treatment technology research”. Its established deep well mining laboratories, filling engineering laboratories and dressing and refining laboratories are famous in the industry; its laboratories are established in the front line, pay more attention to the forward-looking technology research, and strive to overcome the technical difficulties in mine construction, production and mining, and become the high-quality platform for research and development of cutting-edge technology.
On the basis of major progress in the construction of the “Innovation Studio” in 2016, in 2017, SD-Gold promoted the in-depth activity implementation of the innovation studio, established innovative models, expanded the innovation effect, encouraged innovation by all employees, and encouraged companies to carry out innovative work in an all-round way, inspired employees’ innovation potential by evaluating and selecting the excellent innovation studios and excellent individuals of the innovation studios to create high-level innovation platforms, and build innovative companies. The Company also organized and launched the “post innovation practice” activity, strengthened post-staff skills and technical training, carried out the five-one activities, i.e. proposing one rational suggestion, promoting one new technology, innovating one new result, reforming one new process, refreshing one new record, and other activities such as “finding short boards and breaking bottlenecks”, etc. to continuously create a good environment for scientific and technological innovation.
SD-Gold has the state-level enterprise technology center, academician workstation, postdoctoral workstation, and the first think tank in the Chinese gold industry. The first deep drilling of Chinese rock gold, which has been finished, has become a landmark achievement in China’s mining industry. The scientific research projects led by SD-Gold such as seabed mining, etc. won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the special prize for China Gold Science and Technology Award, and the first prize of Shandong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award. In 2017, SD-Gold was selected as one of the top 100 innovation companies in Shandong Province. The postdoctoral workstation stood out from the 2079 postdoctoral workstations nationwide. It has won all national and provincial awards relating to excellent postdoctoral workstations, excellent postdoctoral collaborators, excellent postdoctoral managers, and outstanding postdoctors, etc.