A help in need is a salvation indeed. A simple greeting can soothe an injured soul and timely aid can free a family from great difficulties.
Ren Xirang, employed by the Concentrating Mill of CNMC Luanshya Copper Mines Plc (CNMC Luanshya) in October 2009, had served as its senior meter engineer and deputy manager. In March 2013, as a Chinese employee of an overseas enterprise of CNMC, Ren Xirang, through application, became a member of the employee medical assistance fund of CNMC (China Nonferrous Metal Mining (Group) Co., Ltd.) enterprises in Beijing. His labor contract with CNMC Luanshya should have expired by October 2013 if things had been normal. However, in July 2013, four months after his admission to the medical assistance fund, he was found with a cancerous left kidney during a regular physical examination. Further diagnosis confirmed that he suffered from left kidney cancer, together with metastasis to pleura and liver. On July 11, 2013, he received the left kidney removal surgery. From the surgery to December 2013, his treatment had entailed a large sum of expenses, including over 220,000 RMB from himself. Facing him were also endless fees for follow-up treatment. Ren Xirang has a son in college and his wife receives a retirement pension of only 600 RMB per month. The family, which is by no means rich, is suddenly under a huge economic pressure.
Hearing the news, the labor union of CNMC took active actions to offer help. Based on the report by CNMC Luanshya and the actual conditions of Mr. Ren Xirang, CNMC finally granted 160,000 RMB of medical assistance subsidy to Mr. Ren Xirang. The money had been appropriated to his personal account by the Spring Festival. Mr. Ren and his family truly feel the warmth from the enterprise.
In fact, employees of the overseas enterprises of CNMC have always been receiving the care and solicitude from the holding group. In early 2013, the labor union of CNMC convened a meeting of chiefs of CNMC overseas enterprises for discussing the way of including overseas enterprises of CNMC in the assistance fund of the enterprises of CNMC in Beijing and making the fund cover all Chinese employees working overseas. Registered in host countries, the overseas enterprises are subject to the laws of these countries and their Chinese employees are under certain restriction in joining medical assistance fund.Thanks to the joint efforts by the labor union and overseas enterprises of CNMC, conditions have been finally created to enable the Chinese employees of CNMC overseas enterprises to join the fund on a voluntary basis, which greatly relieved them of the fear of major diseases. By paying a little sum of premium to the medical assistance fund, the employees are entitled to great help from CNMC when they need the help the most. Mr.Ren Xirang had the first-hand experience of the benefit from the fund. He said: “The assistance fund conveys the love of CNMC to me. It rekindles my hope for life. I will do my best to make the treatment effective and try to win the war on the disease and return to my post as soon as possible. I really want to do my part for achieving our company’s leap-forward development.”
