Recently, the 2025MMLC (Third) Lithium Industry Conference, organized by Minmetals Capital Co., Ltd. and hosted by Minmetals Futures Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Steel Union E-commerce Co., Ltd., was held in Xining, Qinghai. More than a hundred experts and representatives gathered together to discuss the current situation, trends, and new paths for high-quality development of the lithium battery industry.

This conference consists of 1 main forum and 3 special sessions. On the afternoon of June 23, the preheating special session 'Release of Minmetals Industrial Service Platform & Practice of Lithium Derivative Products' was精彩开启, and the Minmetals Industrial Service Platform 'Minmetals Inquiry', customized for industrial customers by Minmetals Futures, was officially launched (platform web link: https://isp.wkqh.cn/). The platform is driven by 'AI + industrial big data' and provides diverse services such as AI consultation, market information, hedging and arbitrage, delivery schemes, and option strategies to industrial customers, aiming to help customers maximize their value in the futures market.

(Picture: The release ceremony of Minmetals Industrial Service Platform 'Minmetals Inquiry')

Yang Baoning, Secretary and Chairman of the Party Committee and Chairman of Minmetals Futures, introduced at the press conference that Minmetals Futures is a core physical and futures business platform under Minmetals Group, which has always remembered the mission of 'focusing on risk management and promoting industrial development' for more than 30 years, and has accumulated rich experience in the whole industry chain services by focusing on the real economy and deepening the industry. The 'Minmetals Inquiry' platform released this time is a digital industrial service platform built by the company's professional team after conducting extensive and in-depth research, understanding market demand and customer pain points. The platform aims to empower industrial customers to efficiently manage price risks and optimize physical and futures business decisions through intelligent means, thereby enhancing their competitiveness in the market.

According to information, the Wukang Inquiry Strategy platform relies on the 'AI + industrial big data' foundation to build three major functional modules: AI risk management expert consultation, industrial strategy service, and market trend strategy viewing. It continuously deepens six major areas: risk management, market information, integration of futures and spot trading, trading services, AI tools, and industrial chain ecological circle, covering 12 functions such as intelligent delivery, arbitrage strategy control, AI hedging, option strategy, futures and spot map, and investment research information. It is committed to creating a one-stop, full-scenario derivative product risk management industrial service platform for industrial customers, building a complete chain of solutions from futures knowledge popularization, to market trend analysis, strategy assistance, and finally to option plan output.

With the question of the industry, there is a strategy on the platform! As the core functional module of the Wukang Inquiry Strategy platform, the 'AI Inquiry Strategy' AI large model jointly developed by Wukang Futures and Shanghai Steel Union has attracted much attention. The 'AI Inquiry Strategy' integrates the rich industrial service logic of Wukang Futures and the 20-plus years of professional depth of commodity data services provided by Shanghai Steel Union, covering a variety of functions such as market analysis, risk management, and integration of futures and spot trading. It also introduces a full-process service scenario for hedging, which can quickly analyze and reason based on the customer's input of品种 (species), 数量 (quantity), 方向 (direction), and 时间 (time) dimensions of information, and generate a comprehensive hedging recommendation scheme containing the trend of the spot market, hedging basis, hedging plan, risk analysis, summary, and suggestions to meet the diverse needs of industrial customers with different risk preferences.

With the rapid development of the economy and society and the extensive application of big data and artificial intelligence, there is a higher requirement for financial enterprises on how to use new technologies to improve the quality and effectiveness of serving the real economy. In recent years, Wukang Futures has continuously deepened its financial technology efforts: building advanced IT architecture to create a transaction channel with millisecond response and stable security for customers; deploying dozens of systems such as Yida and Shengli to fully meet customers' diverse trading needs; building an integrated risk management system for industrial customers with mature tools like GTS and HMS; introducing internationally leading systems such as CQG and TT to provide comprehensive technical support; completing the upgrade of the Wukang Futures mobile APP to version 3.0, offering more real-time and intelligent interaction to meet customers' personalized trading needs; and completing the localization deployment of the DeepSeek-R1 series distillation model, continuously optimizing deep integration with business scenarios, and improving the accuracy and efficiency of the company's investment research and industrial service fields through artificial intelligence technology.

The launch of the Wukang Inquiry Strategy service platform, a key milestone in the digital transformation of Wukang Futures, accelerates the company's transformation. In the future, Wukang Futures will rely on platforms like the Wukang Inquiry Strategy to further leverage its professional investment research capabilities, risk management experience, financial technology empowerment, and comprehensive financial services advantages. It will focus on building a three-in-one industrial service system integrating 'industry genes + financial technology + ecological collaboration', continuously enhancing its core functions of integrating into the national industry and the main responsibilities and businesses of the group. It strives to provide more professional, high-quality, and efficient comprehensive industrial risk management services and solutions, continuously improving the effectiveness of financial services to the real economy, creating greater value for customers, and helping the industry to achieve high-quality development.