Many parties are hotly discussing the high-quality development of the rare earth industry

Many parties are hotly discussing the high-quality development of the rare earth industry: strengthening scientific and technological innovation and promoting industrial transformation and upgrading

November 06, 2023 20:15 | Source: People's Daily Online

People's Daily Online, Beijing, November 6 (Reporter Du Yanfei) Rare earth is a strategic mineral resource. A few days ago, at the 2023 (6th) China Rare Earth Forum hosted by the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, the guests at the meeting said that at present, China's rare earth industry has a continuous increase in market share, scientific and technological achievements continue to emerge, the development of the industry is more intensive, the operation is more standardized, and the pace of high-quality transformation from "big to strong" has been taken. In the next step, we should focus on promoting the high-value utilization of resources, expanding downstream applications, improving scientific and technological innovation capabilities, promoting industrial transformation and upgrading, ensuring the safety and controllability of China's rare earth industry chain, and promoting the high-quality development of the rare earth industry.

In order to promote the high-quality development of the rare earth industry, Lu Jianxian, director of the Industry Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, suggested that it is necessary to consolidate the advantages of industrial development, to be stronger, better and bigger rare earth backbone enterprises, and to better play a demonstration role in leading the development of the industry. The needs of the development of emerging industries, focusing on the common problems of industrial development, focusing on technical research, continue to promote industrial transformation and upgrading, continue to increase investment in environmental protection and technological transformation, and further improve the level of modernization and development of rare earth industry.

"China's rare earth industry should take the initiative to adapt to and lead a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, highlight the key points, grasp the key, take industrial transformation and upgrading as the direction, take innovation and development as the driving force, and strengthen the management of the whole industry chain as the starting point to promote the high-quality development of the rare earth industry and provide strong support for accelerating the promotion of new industrialization. Zhang Haideng, deputy director of the Department of Raw Materials of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said.

Wang Shitang, director of the Department of Mining Rights Management of the Ministry of Natural Resources, said that he will increase the supervision of rare earth resource mining, ensure the safety of strategic resources, based on China's rare earth resource endowment, accelerate the green transformation, implement a comprehensive conservation strategy, and strengthen domestic exploration and development in conjunction with relevant departments, actively use foreign resources and markets, boost the integration and reorganization of rare earth enterprise groups, and ensure the safety of China's rare earth resource industry chain and supply chain.

The forum issued the "Consensus on Promoting the High-quality Development of the Rare Earth Industry", which requires strengthening resource security, building a solid foundation for industrial development, adhering to the drive of scientific and technological innovation, creating a new engine for high-quality development, accelerating industrial transformation and upgrading, improving the level of modern development, strengthening industry self-discipline, and striving to build an industrial community with a shared future.

Among them, in terms of scientific and technological innovation, it is necessary to focus on key common technologies, original technologies and leading technologies to carry out joint research, and cultivate and expand the high-end applications of rare earths in new energy, new energy vehicles, industrial motors and other fields. In terms of accelerating industrial transformation and upgrading, we will intensify the treatment of high-salt wastewater and the disposal of radioactive waste residue in smelting, improve the level of green development of the industry, promote large-scale metallurgy and intelligent transformation of high-end new material production lines, and improve the digitization rate of production equipment, the numerical control rate of key processes and the level of digital management.