Correspondence 0001553350-23-000415 from CHINA NATURAL RESOURCES INC (CHNR) (CIK 0000793628) (CHNR)
CHINA NATURAL RESOURCES INC (CHNR) (CIK 0000793628)
Date: Aug. 31, 2023 · CIK: 0000793628 · Accession: 0001553350-23-000415
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File numbers found in text: 000-26046
Referenced dates: July 21, 2023
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Correspondence
VIA EDGAR
August 31, 2023
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Disclosure Review Program
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549-3628
Attention: Jimmy McNamara and Christopher
Dunham
Re: China
Natural Resources Inc.
Form 20-F for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2022
Filed May 15, 2023
File No. 000-26046
Ladies and Gentlemen,
On behalf of China Natural Resources Inc. (the
“Company”), we are submitting this letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”)
via EDGAR in response to the comment letter from the staff of the SEC (the “Staff”), dated July 21, 2023 (the “Comment
Letter”), pertaining to the Company’s above-referenced annual report on Form 20-F (the “Annual Report”).
In connection with such responses, the Company is concurrently filing Amendment No. 1 to the Form 20-F (the “Amendment”).
For your convenience, the Staff’s comments
are summarized in this letter, and each comment is followed by the applicable responses on behalf of the Company. Unless otherwise indicated,
page references in the responses correspond to the page numbers in the Amendment, and page references otherwise correspond to the page
numbers in the Annual Report. Capitalized terms used in this letter but otherwise not defined herein shall have the meanings set forth
in the Amendment.
Form 20-F for the Fiscal Year Ended December
31, 2022
Item 16I. Disclosure Regarding Foreign
Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections, page 85
3. We
note that your disclosures pursuant to Items 16I(b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(4) and (b)(5). We also
note that your disclosures in Exhibit 8 that indicate that you have subsidiaries in Hong
Kong and outside of China. Please note that Item 16I(b) requires that you provide disclosures
for yourself and all of your consolidated foreign operating entities.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Disclosure Review Program
August 31, 2023
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We respectfully
advise the staff that as of May 15, 2023, the date on which our Annual Report was filed, our counsel and us have reviewed our register
of members, all schedule 13D/Gs and other public filings made by its shareholders, and questionnaires filled out and signed by our directors
and officers to come to the conclusion that as of May 15, 2023, to our knowledge, (i) no governmental entities in the BVI or in the PRC
owned our shares, and (ii) the governmental entities in the PRC did not have a controlling financial interest in us.
2.
In
order to clarify the scope of your review, please supplementally describe the steps you have taken to confirm that none of the members
of your board or the boards of your consolidated foreign operating entities are officials of the Chinese Communist Party. For instance,
please tell us how the board members’ current or prior memberships on, or affiliations with, committees of the Chinese Communist
Party factored into your determination. In addition, please tell us whether you have relied upon third party certifications such
as affidavits as the basis for your disclosure.
We
respectfully advise the staff that as of May 15, 2023, the date on which our Annual Report was filed, our counsel and us have reviewed
our register of members, all schedule 13D/Gs and other public filing at the time, and to come to the conclusion that as of May 15, 2023,
none of the members of our Board of Directors was an official of the Chinese Communist Party.
We follow the standard
practice typical for issuers in similar situations as us to confirm if any member of our board or boards of our consolidated foreign
operating entities are officials of the Chinese Communist Party:
·
Prior
to filing of our annual reports on Form 20-F we circulate detailed questionnaires for our directors and officers to complete and
sign, and to provide any back-up statements or documents for their responses.
·
After
we receive the completed questionnaires from our directors and officers, we check the information and documents provided against
information we have on hand and public available to verify, to the extent possible, the content of the questionnaires.
·
Then
we prepare our annual report on Form 20-F based on such available information.
We
respectfully advise the staff that our disclosure to Item 16I of the Annual Report has been amended with our filing of the Amendment
No. 1 to Form 20-F for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2022 on August 31, 2023.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Disclosure Review Program
August 31, 2023
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· With
respect to (b)(2), please supplementally clarify the jurisdictions in which your consolidated
foreign operating entities are organized or incorporated and provide the percentage of your
shares or the shares of your consolidated operating entities owned by governmental entities
in each foreign jurisdiction in which you have consolidated operating entities.
We
respectfully advise the staff that our disclosure to Item 16I of the Annual Report has been amended with our filing of the Amendment.
· With
respect to (b)(3), (b)(4) and (b)(5), please provide the required information for you and
all of your consolidated foreign operating entities in your supplemental response.
We
respectfully advise the staff that our disclosure to Item 16I of the Annual Report has been amended with our filing of the Amendment.
4. With
respect to your disclosure pursuant to Item 16I(b)(5), we note that you have included language
that such disclosure is “to our knowledge.” Please supplementally confirm without
qualification, if true, that your articles and the articles of your consolidated foreign
operating entities do not contain wording from any charter of the Chinese Communist Party.
We
respectfully advise the staff that our disclosure to Item 16I of the Annual Report has been amended with our filing of the Amendment.
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Please contact
the undersigned at +8610-5680-3969 or via email at rchang@gunder.com if you have any questions with respect to the foregoing.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Richard J. Chang
Richard J. Chang, Esq.
Gunderson
Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP
cc: Youyi ZHU,
Chief Financial Officer, China Natural Resources Inc.