Recently, some foreign media reported that China's production of rare earth neodymium magnets in the second half of 2018 should not exceed 45,000 tons, the lowest output in five years. In response, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that the content of the report did not match the facts.
For a long time, rare earth neodymium magnet products produced in China have made important contributions to the global supply of raw materials. In order to further meet market demand, China will increase its rare earth neodymium magnet mining plan from 105,000 tons to 120,000 tons in 2018, and the smelting separation plan will increase from 100,000 tons to 115,000 tons, both of which increased by 15,000 tons compared with previous years. The planned amount is about 15%, and there is no plan to reduce the amount of rare earth neodymium magnets, but to increase the plan.
At the same time, since this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Natural Resources jointly issued a plan for the control of total rare earth mining and smelting separation, and the plan for the first half of the year was released later. In order to facilitate the annual production of rare earth enterprises, the first half of the year plans to follow the plan for the whole year. 60% is issued, that is, 70,000 tons are issued, and the remaining 45,000 tons are issued in the second half. In the second half of last year, the planned amount is usually 50% of the annual plan. Therefore, the overseas media will feel that the rare earth production plan will decrease in the second half of this year.
In fact, China has been striving to build a fair and reasonable order for the rare earth market and safeguard the rights and interests of legitimate enterprises. Since the issuance of the “Several Opinions of the State Council on Promoting the Sustainable and Healthy Development of the Rare Earth Industry” in 2011, the members of the Rare Metals Inter-Ministerial Coordination Mechanism have jointly launched several rounds of special actions against rare earth violations, and investigated and handled a number of typical cases, industry order. Something is getting better. However, black rare earth problems such as private exploitation and unplanned production still occur from the interests, which seriously interfere with the market order and the normal production and operation activities of legitimate enterprises. The illegal production and management of rare earths has become a major challenge for the development of the industry.
In order to promote the rectification of the rare earth industry in the key rare earth producing areas, and further regulate the order of the rare earth market, in accordance with the approval of the approval of the State Council for the rectification of the order of the rare earth industry, in October this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other eight departments jointly issued a document to Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Eight provinces (autonomous regions) including Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Sichuan carried out special inspections on the rectification of the rare earth industry. The enterprises that have outstanding problems such as unplanned super-planning production, unlicensed exploration and exploitation, trading of illegal rare earth products, polluting the environment, tax evasion and tax evasion, as well as places where work is not implemented, supervision is not in place, and investigations are not timely, will be notified to the whole country, and Investigate the relevant personnel responsibility according to law.
The relevant person in charge of the Raw Materials Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that the ultimate goal of the supervision is to promote the implementation of policies, maintain a high-pressure situation for rare-country illegal enterprises, strengthen the awareness of local governments and key enterprises, and actively rectify the order. The various requirements are effective. By exposing and reporting illegal and illegal enterprises, warning enterprises in the industry not to touch the red line of illegal and illegal activities, create a standardized and orderly market order and a good business environment for legitimate enterprises, improve the development quality of the rare earth industry, and promote the synergy between upstream and downstream industries. development of.
