Company: CHNR
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: NT 20-F
Source: 0001079973-25-000702
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Company: CHINA NATURAL RESOURCES INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: NT 20-F
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(b), the following should be completed. (Check box if appropriate)

|   | -a | The reason described in reasonable detail in Part III of this form could not be eliminated without unreasonable effort or expense                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| x | -b | The subject annual report, semi-annual report, transition report on Form 10-K, Form 20-F, Form 11-K, Form N-SAR or Form N-CSR, or portion thereof, will be filed on or before the fifteenth calendar day following the prescribed due date; or the subject quarterly report or transition report on Form 10-Q or subject distribution report on Form 10-D, or portion thereof, will be filed on or before the fifth calendar day following the prescribed due date; and |
|   | -c | The accountant’s statement or other exhibit required by Rule 12b-25(c) has been attached if applicable.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |

PART III — NARRATIVE

State below in reasonable detail why Forms 10-K, 20-F, 11-K, 10-Q,
10-D, N-CEN, N-CSR, or the transition report or portion thereof, could not be filed within the prescribed time period.

China Natural Resources, Inc. (the “Company”) has determined
that it is unable to file, without unreasonable effort or expense, its Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31,
2024 (the “Form 20-F”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on or prior to the prescribed due
date.

As disclosed on the Company’s Current Report on Form 6-K filed with
the SEC on April 8, 2025, the Company appointed ARK Pro CPA & Co (“ARK”) as its independent registered public accounting
firm for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, effective April 8, 2025. As a result, ARK would require sufficient time to audit the
Company’s consolidated financial statement for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.

The Company is currently in the process of reviewing and compiling certain
financial and other information necessary to finalize the Form 20-F and the consolidated financial statements included therein. The Company
intends to file its Form 20-F with the SEC as promptly as practicable and is presently unaware of any circumstances that would prevent
it from filing its Form 20-F on or prior to the fifteenth calendar day following the prescribed due date in compliance