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Rare Earth Why out of favor in the international marketPublished：2013年02月21日
    Recently, the export volume significantly reduce the public opinion "star" - the rare earth industry once again come under the spotlight. According to data recently released by the China Customs Statistics Information Center, in 2012, China's rare earth ore, metals and rare earth mixture exports totaled 16,265 tons, down 3.5% year-on-year, accounting for only 53% of the annual export quotas.
Known as the rare earth industry "gold," said Why out of favor in the international market? Of whether it should be the elimination of export quotas on this? Chinese rare earth enterprises should be how to deal with? In this regard, the newspaper reporter interviewed relevant experts.
 
The truth of the "fall from grace"
 
It is understood that the current global annual consumption of rare earth resources total about 120,000 to 160,000 tons. China has occupied a market share of more than 90% of the world's rare earth.
 
In 2011, the ratio of export volume and export quotas of rare earth resources in China was 61.6%; 2012, however, the ratio fell by nearly 8 percent. In contrast, in March 2012, the United States, Europe, Japan and a complaint to the WTO, accusing China's rare earth export quota restrictions.
 
Side by accusations of political pressure to restrict exports, on the other side of its imports has worsened. Europe, the United States, Japan and other regions and countries Why "big eyes, small stomach"?
 
In this regard, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yan Chunhua an interview with the newspaper reporters pointed out that the decline in export volume of course related to the current international economic situation in the doldrums, application industry chain atrophy, but with Europe, the United States, Japan and other regions and countries "hidden also "put pressure on the inescapable relationship.
 
Foreign enterprises generally have a certain amount of rare earth reserves, they can use the inventory, and then wait for the price changes, which is a strategy of foreign capital. "China Rare Earth Industry Association Deputy Secretary-General Chen Zhanheng told the newspaper reporters, some countries Trying to temporary inventory strategy to reduce purchases to drive down the price of rare earth in China.
 
"There is little food stocks as long as they are at home, had the courage to tell you 'words against children' the leveraging market price." Yan Chunhua said.
 
Meanwhile, Europe, the United States, Japan and other regions and countries outside of the earth to develop alternative technologies has begun to mining of rare earth resources in the region. South Africa, Vietnam, Turkey and other countries also started to try to work for rare earth separation, processing. These are important factors that affect the amount of China's rare earth export.
 
An industry that, the smuggling also the key factors lead to the reduction of China's rare earth exports. 2012, Customs has seized the rare earth ferrosilicon resources such as mineral export smuggling case value of 2.39 billion yuan. "This shows that the demand of the international market and not really shrinking, demand is still very large."
 
To cancel the quota system would be premature
 
More than a decade, China's rare earth export quota system has been taking. In the 1990s, thanks to the international market to promote the rapid growth of China's rare earth industry, but because of that time, China's rare earth smelting technology without intellectual property protection, resulting in excessive private capital into vicious competition and rampant smuggling, therefore, regulate the export order, the export quota system came into being.
 
From the original intention of the 1999 rare earth export quota system is to limit the uncontrolled outflow of rare earth resources; 2006, the system with the mandatory production plans, from the source to be controlled.
 
About whether to extend the topic of rare earth quota system in 2004, have had to discuss, from the start of 2005, a substantial implementation of the commitment to join the World Trade Organization, the mineral resources of rare earth is not protected column. August 2012, as well as the media, regulators have begun to discuss the abolition of the system of export quotas of rare earth.
 
However, the interview with this reporter, experts believe that the current of to cancel rare earth export quota system was premature.
 
The Chen Zhanheng pointed out that in the case of industry consolidation has not yet in place, smuggling and black chain persists, the abolition of quotas will lead to runaway domestic resource extraction and export again, is not conducive to the health of the domestic rare earth industry, and stable development.
 
"Must not let outsiders 'gold', in the long run, remain in the country there is anything wrong with it?" The Minjiang University Xinhuadu supplier Associate Dean Lin Boqiang In an interview with the newspaper reporter, said, There is no need to care too much about the decrease of rare earth exports.
 
Yan Chunhua that can already be seen from the process of exports to reduce the growth of China's rare earth industry and self-discipline. "Unlike in the past, one does not buy foreign, domestic enterprises brothers shirtless 'flesh' price cuts strife."
 
"Blacksmith will take hard"
 
"In the face of current global rare earth mining and processing the situation, the next two to three years will be a decisive period of the new development of China's rare earth industry, China's rare earth industry should risk awareness, efforts to deal with." Yan Chunhua said. He pointed out that in the past decade, China's rare earth industry has taken a rapid pace, the amount of mineral resources from the past relative to the first production capacity, exports, developing own application amount.
 
However, experts pointed out that the problems due to the lack of support, such as technology accumulation and processing industry, China's high-end rare earth materials with developed countries in terms of performance, industrial preparation technology there are still a certain gap.
 
"Blacksmith needed its own hardware China should as the core enterprise, market-oriented, integrated superior domestic resources to promote the formation of industrial rare earth industry chain, in particular, to promote the development of end products." Chen Zhanheng pointed out.
 
Lin Boqiang, at the government level, we should deal with the relationship of good resources development and environmental protection, improve industrial concentration and the rare earth industry resource utilization, and strictly implement the relevant laws to promote industry standardization.
 
Yan Chunhua is recommended that, in a new round of the decisive battle of the rare earth resources, in addition to "Lianhaoneigong", but also to go out, so that other countries' resources for our own use.
 
Determine the winners and losers "with foreign strength to speak only if this battle is won, our future in the field of rare earth really have the right to speak; otherwise, and then want to tell others it would be very difficult to sit pontificating." He said.
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