发展循环经济是加强生态文明建设的基本路径，是推动经济高质量发展的必然选择。近年来，作为河南省循环经济发展的排头兵，济源始终践行新发展理念，深耕循环经济产业，以有色金属及深加工为主业，不断延伸产业链条，以“产业协同、耦合发展、低碳循环”为路径，构建起“矿石—工业废渣—绿色冶炼—铅锌铜电解—精深加工—城市矿产—再生有色金属”的循环经济发展模式，推动产业集群耦合共生，力争打造全国乃至全球重要的有色金属循环经济产业基地。
Developing a circular economy is the basic way to strengthen the construction of ecological civilization，and it is an inevitable choice to promote high-quality economic development. In recent years，as the vanguard of circular economy development in Henan Province，Jiyuan has always practiced the new development concept，deeply cultivated the circular economy industry，took non-ferrous metals and deep processing as the main business，continuously extended the industrial chain，and took “industrial coordination，coupling development，low-carbon cycle” as the path. Build a circular economy development model of “ore-industrial waste slag-green smelting-lead，zinc and copper electrolysis-intensive processing-urban minerals-recycled non-ferrous metals”，promote the coupling and symbiosis of industrial clusters，and strive to build an important non-ferrous metal circular economy industrial base in the country and even the world.
