The company formerly known Shuikoushan Mining Bureau, was founded in 1896, now has 110 years of history. The late nineteenth century, " Reformation Movement, industry trend to save the country” thinking, gave birth to Shuikoushan Lead & Zinc Mining Agency, the first to open the National Western methods of mining, ore dressing and smelting of its kind, won the honor of the lead metropolis and "the cradle of China's lead & zinc industry “.

SHUIKOUSHAN has staff of 10,210. The SKS operates three mines (copper, lead, zinc)，the copper, the lead, the zinc, the zinc oxide, the rare metals and mercury-free zinc smelter each one. Among, its Kangjiawan mine is the largest lead, zinc and gold mine in Hunan Province. Its Baifang Copper mine is the only copper enterprise with mining, dressing and smelting process integrity in Hunan province. The SKS has such the production capacity of major products: mining and dressing capacity at 600,000 tons per year, smelting capacity at 200,000 tons per year, gold capacity at 1,000 kilograms per year, and silver capacity at 240 tons per year. Company’s indicators of production scale and sales income are the forefront among the Hunan province non-ferrous industry.