Barrick's staff browsed the cultural brochure of Shandong Gold Group
Barrick's staff took photos with the cultural brochure of Shandong Gold Group in hands based on their agreement
who have never met before have also been attracted spiritually to each other for a long time.
I brought the group’s brochures, several pieces of Newspaper of Shandong Gold, work logs containing contents like team image and fash disks bearing advertising video and song of the group this time. Barrick employees read them with great interests though they couldn’t understand the characters. When they realized that I intended to take photos, without any interpreter, some of them seriously sat up quickly, some went on reading, and some stood in a line in front of their group logo to cooperate with me actively. Executive Vice President and Chief Sustainability Offcer (CSO) Peter Sinclair asked me to show the picture of group image in the log with both hands to take photos for me. Chief of Staff Kathy Sipos took photos with us from multiple angles with mobile phone, and said that she wanted send them to Mr. Thornton to timely update him on our activities. Tyler Godoff, who had worked in China for three years, was funny and active, and he asked me to sing the song of Shandong Gold Group for him face to face because he was unable to listen to the song on the spot.
Language is pale sometimes, not to mention that we speak different languages. After getting along for a period of time, it seemed that we could communicate with each other by one look or expression instead of taking language as a medium. On the underground site, we could understand each other roughly by a few gestures. When I paid more attention to a plate carved with contents of corporate culture in Chief of Staff Kathy Sipos’s offce after seeing it, she immediately brought one to me as a gift. Some of such scenes were recorded by photos, and some are kept in mind, which were warm and bright and made us unforgettable.
We spent a short time in Barrick Gold Corporation, but our memories are profound and lasting. Barrick is not only the largest gold company in the world but a respectable enterprise. She innovates by focusing on best miners, partners and platforms, which are concerned and cared about by the public. She respects and is even “infatuated” with talents, and grows up together with employees; she respects partners, adheres to “transparence and winning together”, and shares with partners; she treasures platforms, devotes itself to “absolute system integration”, and pursues the best. There was a catchword said that how far a person can go depends on his companion. It’s doubtlessly a correct choice for Shandong Gold to conduct strategic cooperation with Barrick during its journey of “striving to be a world-class mining enterprise and bravely fghting for the world's top ten mining enterprises”.
Though sharing not too fuent verbal communication, the two parties understood each other with knowing body language at the mine site underground
