The company is the second-largest producer of gold in China by output and its publicly listed subsidiary ranked #1,898 in the Forbes Global 2000.

The gold production from its 12 domestic mines in Shandong, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, and Fujian account for 6.6% of national output.

[6] A gigantic discovery was announced in September 2018 when the company found a site with at least 382 tonnes of gold worth an estimated $22 billion in the Laizhou-Zhaoyuan area of the Shandong Peninsula.

[7][8][9] In October 2020, the Canadian government commenced a national security review of Shandong Gold's proposed purchase agreement in Nunavut.

[13] In 2024, Shandong Gold officially established a representative office in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, with a strategic partner SINOLO LLC.