An in-depth television feature — "The Road to Treasure" — tracing Rayhope's journey from a veteran geologist's lifelong search for minerals to the development of a major graphite resource and a full graphite-and-graphene industrial chain.
The film opens in the Qinling mountains, a major mining region for non-ferrous and precious metals, and follows a geologist — known by the nickname "Treasure Hunter" — who spent more than fifty years walking the road to the mines. A nationally esteemed expert, awarded the State Council Special Government Allowance in 1993 and later rehired as Chief Geological Expert of the Henan Bureau of Geological Exploration for Non-ferrous Metals, his passion for exploration inspired the next generation to follow.
In 2007, Rayhope Mining was established and granted exploration rights for the Dalugou area in Xixia County, Nanyang. After a decade of setbacks, Phase 1 reserves proved large enough to sustain production of 1,000 tonnes a day for roughly a hundred years — placing Rayhope among the small fraction of projects to win exploration approval and report large-scale reserves. Graphite, a key national strategic resource widely known as "black gold," underpins applications from pencils and cutting tools to aerospace, electronics and defence.
Guided by experts such as Tsinghua University graphite specialist Professor Shen Wanci, Rayhope chose to protect its resource and extend the industrial chain rather than simply sell raw ore. In 2017 it launched its industrial-chain development initiative with hundreds of partners, building an open, integrated chain spanning R&D, production, commercialisation and collaboration. The feature also notes that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Secretary of the CPC Henan Provincial Committee visited Rayhope and encouraged the company to strengthen innovation and accelerate development.
Running time: 7 minutes 36 seconds.