Company: CHNR
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001079973-25-000827
Chunk: 66

Company: CHINA NATURAL RESOURCES INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 66
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ITEM 4.   INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY
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A.   History and Development of the Company
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 China Natural Resources, Inc. was incorporated in the BVI on December 14, 1993, and is a company limited by shares incorporated under the BVI Business Companies Act. We are not a Chinese operating company but a BVI holding company with operations conducted by our subsidiaries established in the PRC. See, “Risk factors — Risks Relating Our Operations and the Doing Business in the PRC — The PRC government may intervene or influence our operations at any time, or may exert more control over the China operations of an offshore holding company and offerings conducted overseas and foreign investment in China-based issuers, such as our PRC subsidiaries. Such control or influence may significantly limit our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors and cause the value of such securities to significantly decline or be worthless.”
 Prior to the sale of PST Technology in July 2023, the Company operated in two reportable operating segments: wastewater treatment and exploration and mining. During 2021, the Company entered the rural wastewater treatment industry in the PRC by acquiring a 51% equity interest in its operating subsidiary Shanghai Onway. Additionally, the Company is engaged in metal exploration and mining activities in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the PRC, including exploring for lead, silver and other nonferrous metal. After the sale of Precise Space-Time Technology Limited and the disposal of the wastewater treatment segment in July 2023, the Company is solely engaged in metal exploration and mining activities in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the PRC, including exploring for lead, silver and other nonferrous metal.
 In February 2023, the Company entered into a material definitive agreement with Feishang Group, the Company’s controlling shareholder, and Top Pacific, a non-affiliate, and Mr. Li Feilie and Mr. Yao Yuguang, to acquire Williams Minerals, which owns the mining permit for a Zimbabwean lithium mine. In December 2023, the Company entered into an amendment agreement to the sale and purchase agreement dated as of February 27, 2023 by and among the Company, Feishang Group, the Company’s controlling shareholder, and Top Pacific, a non-affiliate, and Mr. Li Feilie and Mr. Yao Yuguang for the extension of the long stop date for closing the Acquisition from December 31, 2023 to December 31, 2024. On December