Crafting craftsmanship to forge core strength, breaking through difficulties to welcome growth — Antaike's nonferrous metals basic information business is experiencing countercyclical growth in 2025.

(Source: Antaike)

AI technology is sweeping through every industry, and in today’s environment where information communication emphasizes “speed” and “volume,” the non-ferrous metals industry research “national team”—Beijing Antaike Information Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “Antaike”)—has been deeply cultivating the sector for nearly 40 years, breaking through development bottlenecks with the spirit of artisans. As an authoritative information consulting institution specializing in the non-ferrous metals field, Antaike clearly understands the core supporting role of basic information in driving industry development. In 2025, against the backdrop of a downturn in basic-information research business across the consulting industry, Antaike achieved countercyclical positive growth in this business, using hands-on effort to write the industry’s turnaround response.

Its core non-ferrous metals industry information platform, China Metal Network, publishes nearly 20,000 exclusive information items throughout the year, enters nearly 30 million data records into the system, and achieves a total of 30 million total page views. These data cover the entire non-ferrous metals value chain. They provide precise support for industry enterprises to avoid market risks and optimize production and layout, and also offer a reliable basis for government departments to formulate industry policies. A series of hard-core data not only bears witness to Antaike’s team’s grit and dedication, but also highlights its national-level authoritative hard-core strength as an information consulting institution that has deeply cultivated the industry—laying a solid foundation for high-quality industry development.

The International Aluminum Institute visits Antaike

Deeply Cultivating Its Main Business, Never Forgetting Its Original Aspiration

Using the artisan spirit to lay the foundation of information

In an era of diversified information, research into industry development has fallen into a growth bottleneck—an challenge commonly faced by the entire consulting research industry. Especially today, with AI technology widely applied, Antaike has always stayed true to its original industry mission, eschewing shortcuts and adhering to the principle of conducting work with first-hand data and original materials. With a rigorous and practical approach, Antaike safeguards the authenticity and authority of information. Antaike’s breakthrough in a downturn is not achieved overnight; it stems from long-term perseverance and deep cultivation, and from the entire team’s painstaking effort in the non-ferrous metals industry and its relentless pursuit of professional value.

As the “national team” for industry research, Antaike has always anchored itself to basic information as the core—treating it as the foundation of research outcomes and the basis on which an industry think tank stands. Even when the industry is in decline, its emphasis on foundational work has never wavered. Under Antaike’s overall leadership, all employees rally their focus and pool their efforts, turning this understanding into concrete action: from collecting information at the front line and conducting rigorous verification, to accurately inputting data into the system and performing professional sorting, then to carefully editing content and efficiently disseminating it. Every link strives for excellence, establishing a full-process, standardized information production and review system. With the most rigorous attitude, Antaike refines every piece of information and every set of data—ensuring that Antaike’s basic information always retains industry-recognized authority and professionalism.

This steadfast dedication to its core business is not only the fundamental basis for its core business to achieve growth, but also ensures the continuity, authenticity, and authority of industry data. The non-ferrous metals end-to-end value chain data system it has built has become a key reference for upstream and downstream enterprises’ production and operations and pricing decisions. It has also been incorporated into important bases for government departments’ industry monitoring and policy formulation—providing key data support and decision-making references for the industry’s steady growth and risk prevention.

Proactively Seek Change to Break Through the Bottlenecks

Put Practical Results to Work and Deliver Better Services

Faced with industry development bottlenecks and changes in market demand, Antaike does not lie flat or wait passively. It always maintains strategic clarity, proactively seeks change and implements measures through clear strategic planning. It not only activates internal drivers, but also better aligns with market needs to optimize services, steadily promoting the transformation from an “information provider” to a “professional solution-oriented industry think tank.” In innovation, it gives the basic information business new vitality.

Antaike and Huaxsi Nonferrous Metals hold a symposium and exchange

Internally, Antaike improves incentive and assessment systems through a series of institutional and mechanism reform initiatives, and builds professional growth channels—so employees can fully sense the industry value and social value of basic information work. This greatly mobilizes the enthusiasm and initiative of everyone to produce information, improve information, and promote information. It creates a work atmosphere of unity and participation from top to bottom, and gathers a strong synergy to do fine and do better the core business. At the same time, Antaike continuously strengthens talent team building, bringing in senior industry experts and young professionals to build a composite team with industry experience, professional competence, and innovative thinking—providing solid talent support for business development.

On the service side, Antaike abandons the traditional mindset of “focusing on production while neglecting demand.” It forms professional research and survey teams that go deep into every link of the value chain, and conducts in-depth communication with multiple stakeholders—including upstream and downstream enterprises, government regulatory departments, and industry associations—to accurately grasp enterprises’ core needs for basic information and the pain points and difficulties in industry development. Based on the research findings, Antaike specifically optimizes the structure of information products: it integrates breaking news, data, analysis, and reports to launch customized information products tailored to the needs of different customer groups. Meanwhile, it continues to enhance the content and user experience across multiple platforms such as websites, apps, and publications—achieving multi-channel, high-efficiency information reach—so that professional information is easier to obtain and easier to apply.

At the same time, Antaike closely follows the trend of industry digital transformation. Chairman Sun Qian has stated clearly that it is necessary to actively embrace AI technology, making AI an important tool for enhancing research capability and industry service levels, rather than a shortcut to replace professional research. The authority and accuracy of information and data are the underlying logic of AI analysis. In the future, with this as the premise, Antaike will increase investment in technological R&D and application, leverage big data analysis and intelligent technology to deepen data value extraction, and upgrade information services toward greater precision and intelligence—so that authoritative data and professional research can release even greater value under AI enablement. From timely and efficient industry breaking news, to detailed and comprehensive data analysis, to in-depth professional trend judgments—Antaike’s basic information services always align with the rhythm of industry development. It truly becomes an important reference for enterprises’ production and operation and decision-making, and also makes “China Metal Network” the most trustworthy information platform in the industry. It firmly supports the market foundation for business growth.

Taking on the Mission and Opening a New Journey

Using Perseverance to Empower the Industry

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Only when the industry is in decline do you see one’s true grit; only with countercyclical growth do you see results born from day-to-day hard work. Antaike’s impressive 2025 performance is a reflection of its long-term strategy and strategic staying power, as well as the inevitable result of the continuous accumulation of core competitiveness. It is also a vivid practice of the artisan spirit and a pragmatic work style in the development of the industry. This countercyclical growth achieved through the industry’s winter not only helps Antaike stand firm at the front in fierce industry competition, but also allows the entire consulting industry to see the core value and long-term potential of basic information business—providing practical experience that can be referenced for breaking through development bottlenecks.

Starting from the new 2026 beginning, Antaike will adhere to the development philosophy of “using the artisan spirit to build hard-core strength, and using practical efforts to break through bottlenecks.” It will focus on the direction of high-quality development in the non-ferrous metals industry, closely follow national strategic deployments, and connect authority through authoritative information while supporting with professional services. It will continue to deepen its cultivation of the front line of the industry and carry out its mission and responsibility—further shining the golden nameplate of the non-ferrous metals industry’s national-level authoritative think tank. With a focus on effectiveness and precise, targeted efforts, it will promote quality improvement and upgrades of the business through pragmatic measures, empowering high-quality development of the industry.

Around the core advantages of its basic information business, Sun Qian said that Antaike will solidly advance four key tasks, promoting business upgrading and empowering industry development through down-to-earth actions. First, it will continuously consolidate the data foundation across the entire value chain—optimizing the nationwide information collection network and adding monitoring points for key enterprises—strictly implementing full-process standardized management of data “collection, verification, storage, and use.” It will improve data systems covering every link, including mining, smelting, processing, consumption, and import and export, to ensure that data are real, continuous, and efficiently usable. Second, it will accelerate the deep integration of AI technology with professional research—establishing dedicated R&D teams, increasing investment in intelligent analysis systems, and building lightweight, practical intelligent service products—so as to promote AI technology’s landing applications in areas such as information screening, data mining, and trend forecasting, thereby improving research efficiency and service precision. Third, it will focus on upgrading the product system according to market demand—accurately segmenting different customer groups such as government departments, production enterprises, and traders—launching information product bundles with strong targeting, strengthening online-offline linkage and matchmaking, and improving service experience and customer satisfaction. Fourth, it will strengthen talent team building and industry collaboration—continuously improving talent training and incentive mechanisms—aiming to build a professional and well-structured composite team. At the same time, it will deepen cooperation with stakeholders related to the value chain, and work together to gather the strength for industry development.

In the future, Antaike will empower the resilience improvement of the industry supply chain with a more solid work style and better-quality services, help with the industry’s green transformation and resource security, and continue to deliver authoritative, professional, and efficient information services and research results. It will uphold the responsibility and commitment of the “national team” and contribute lasting momentum to promoting the high-quality development of China’s non-ferrous metals industry and building a new pattern for industry development. With the artisan spirit to stay true to the original aspiration, and with practical efforts to create the future, it will steadily move forward along the path of serving national strategies and empowering industry development, and write new chapters.

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