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Gansu Focuses on Cultivating Nonferrous Metallurgy New Material Industry

By adopting 8 fields such as new materials as cultivation focus, regarding 16 enterprises including Gansu Rare Earth New Material Co., Ltd, Lanzhou Jinchuan New Material Technology Co., Ltd as the first batch of backbone enterprises to support, Gansu kicked off overall besiege battle for implementing strategic emerging industries. Provincial officials pointed out that through creating new advantages of traditional industries, it would focus on cultivating new material industry, reverse the big but mediocre situation of metallurgy and nonferrous industry in the whole province.

In 2014, Gansu Province’s metallurgy and nonferrous industry produced 3.6053 million tonnes of ten nonferrous metals (including 900,000 tonnes of copper, 2.25 million tonnes of aluminum, 19,900 tonnes of lead, 273,500 tonnes of zinc, 161,300 tonnes of nickel), up by 7.43%; fulfilled 471.465 billion yuan of operating income, up by 15.48%. However, due to capacity surplus, and sluggish demand, the whole industry suffered loss of up to 820 million yuan. At the province-wide economic work meeting and province-wide industry work video conference, provincial officials repeatedly emphasized that products and industrial structure are irrational, which restrains the competitiveness of “Made in Gansu” in both domestic and overseas markets, this is the main reason why nonferrous and other industries are big but mediocre. For nonferrous industry and other traditional industries, by departing from energy resource features and industrial foundation, focusing on developing circular economy, seeking orientation from market demand, focusing on adjusting product structure, Gansu Province will implement a batch of technology reform projects in improvement of technological equipment, upgrading of dominant products, integrated utilization of resources, raw material deep processing, information technology and manufacture technology integration, in order to strive to urge traditional industries to improve quality, increase efficiency and fulfill upgrading.

Meanwhile, Gansu would put cultivating strategic emerging industry such as nonferrous new materials at a more prominent position, go all out to fight the overall besiege battle for the development of strategic emerging industries, support backbone enterprises of strategic emerging industries to grow and expand, push forward clustered development pilot work of Jinchang Nonferrous Metals New Material Industry Zone, accelerate the construction of innovation start-up demonstration park for nonferrous metals and new materials etc. For enterprises like Gansu Rare Earth New Material Co., Ltd, and Lanzhou Jinchuan New Material Technology Co., Ltd, by way of focusing on policy measures, integrating financial capital, improving marketized operation mechanism, it would adopt reform as approach, creatively make equity investment and introduce social funds, push forward these backbone enterprises of strategic emerging industries to make rapid development, enable them to join the ranks of domestic same-industry advantageous enterprises as soon as possible, and strive for public listing and financing on the securities market, so as to truly play pioneering and exemplary model role, enhance the development standard and level of strategic emerging industries across the province as soon as possible.

It has been learned that Gansu Rare Earth New Material Co., Ltd in recent years selectively developed rare earth functional materials, applied materials with high technological contents and good market prospects, progressively developed six industrial chains including mixed oxides → Mixed rare earth metal → Rare earth hydrogen storage alloy powder → Nickel-hydrogen power battery, electric vehicle battery series, against the downturn background of rare earth market, in 2014 it still recorded satisfactory profit earning of 70 million yuan. Lanzhou Jinchuan New Material Technology Co., Ltd is dedicated to development and production & sales of Cobalt metal, secondary battery and battery material, magnetic material, lithium, and Cobalt resources, it has 5 state-level and provincial-level innovation platforms. The company has developed industrial base with new energy material, electronic information material, functional structure material as main features, in the future it will adopt secondary battery and battery material as directions for strategic development, develop a complete industrial chain from mineral resources to terminal battery.

Unit: metric ton

Name of province or cityLead Capacity in 2013Zinc Capacity in 2013Nickel Capacity in 2013 Tianjin Hebei960006000 Shanxi12000 Inner-Mongolia130000540000 Liaoning80000162000 Jilin7000 Heilongjiang Shanghai70000 Jiangsu32000055000 Zhejiang1500053800200 Anhui861200100000 Fujian40000100000 Jiangxi29930013000031000 Shandong40000 Henan1751000387500 Hubei342000 Hunan1200000998000 Guangdong72000110000 Guangxi23400046800010000 Chongqin300007000 Sichuan313000 Guizhou1000013000 Yunnan6130009345002400 Tibet Shaanxi1350004900005000 Gansu51120327000180000 Qinghai55000105000 Ningxia130000 Xinjiang400002000015000 Total output China66266205312800257600

Unit: metric ton

Name of province or cityCopper Capacity in 2013Alumina Capacity in 2013Aluminum Capacity in 2013 Tianjin26000 Hebei205000102000 Shanxi135000101000001136000 Inner-Mongolia2400002313000 Liaoning210000310000 Jilin900 Heilongjiang3000 Shanghai125000 Jiangsu350000100000 Zhejiang365000150000 Anhui1105000 Fujian223000150000 Jiangxi1271200 Shandong1000000180000006262000 Henan182000140000004205000 Hubei590000340000 Hunan67000351000 Guangdong245000 Guangxi20000078800001020000 Chongqin150001800000302000 Sichuan150001020000 Guizhou40100001262000 Yunnan5800008000001185000 Tibet5000 Shaanxi5000938000 Gansu8000002590000 Qinghai2280000 Ningxia1575000 Xinjiang350004285000 Total output China79981005659000031876000

Unit: metric ton

Name of province or cityFabricated Copper Capacity in 2013Fabricated Aluminum Capacity in 2013 Beijing3084221800 Tianjin264500113600 Hebei9800056700 Shanxi46500356000 Inner-Mongolia3700001036000 Liaoning2735741273500 Jilin190600 Heilongjiang430093800 Shanghai446405454800 Jiangsu21520003131900 Zhejiang28675771941920 Anhui1655200382600 Fujian2350001376630 Jiangxi2376000382000 Shandong5070005554200 Henan8165006778000 Hubei200500915600 Hunan419000859050 Guangdong15622005658000 Guangxi936001294124 Chongqin1560001044000 Sichuan55600611761 Guizhou9240149800 Yunnan256500441500 Shaanxi1625094400 Gansu123700769485 Qinghai113500354000 Ningxia14400249000 Xinjiang8900185500 Total output China1517278836380570

Unit: metric ton(metal content)

Name of province or cityTotal Copper Mine Output 2013Total Lead Mine Output 2013Total Zinc Mine Output 2013 Hebei7133563764242 Shanxi38665 Inner-Mongolia2792637678221322504 Liaoning108873966946308 Jilin121052065824885 Heilongjiang27433640714004 Jiangsu31752237989 Zhejiang72533794251888 Anhui1954741776516933 Fujian34213136437252369 Jiangxi2794913236347279 Shandong5166 Henan158928012427406 Hubei78711632713358 Hunan13341362056578495 Guangdong1412772906149898 Guangxi10938313231552779 Sichuan96156345971449023 Guizhou326720096 Yunnan234831175611609254 Tibet167785551522323 Shaanxi1884793360420676 Gansu13090553081307114 Qinghai5901549359102218 Xinjiang943131580786706 Total output China168125426965385187747