Zijin Mining, for instance, has built green mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo drawing on China's ecological civilization practices, while its green mine in Serbia has helped improve environmental governance in the mining area.

　　"I appreciate the efforts China has made in green development and environmental restoration," said Patricia, a Zimbabwean geospatial analyst. "I have followed some of the environmental restoration projects that have been carried out in China and I think they have been done quite well."

　　Dmitry Tetenkin, deputy minister of natural resources and environment of the Russian Federation, said green and intelligent industrial development is an urgent guideline for the mining industry.

　　"Digital technologies, innovations, rational use of resources and reduction of environmental burden are no longer issues of the distant future, but necessary conditions for the modern mining industry," he added. "Technological progress must work simultaneously for production efficiency and responsible attitude to the environment."

　　China's green development philosophy in mining is reaching further. Under the International Big Scientific Plan on Resources and Environmental Effects of Global Karst Dynamic Systems, China has carried out resource and environmental surveys, carbon cycle research and ecological protection studies in karst areas with multiple countries, gradually building a global karst monitoring network and exploring ways to balance resource development with ecological protection.

　　At the Ngorongoro Lengai geopark in Tanzania, a Chinese technical assistance project has helped upgrade the geopark's infrastructure and boosted the integrated development of geological research and tourism.