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Plan to lift rare earth output
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February 23, 2012, Thursday
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CHINA will develop rare-earth-based new materials during the 2011-2015 period, in an effort to boost manufacturing capacity, according to a five-year plan for the new materials industry released yesterday.
The government will "make full use of its rare earth resources to expand the industrial scale of new materials made with rare earth," said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology plan.
The government will focus on developing rare earth functional materials, increasing efforts to improve performances of new materials made with rare earth, promote its application in high-end manufacturing, and increase product added-value, the plan said.
Rare earth metals are a group of 17 elements that are widely used in high-tech products, including flat-screen televisions, lasers and hybrid cars.
The plan aims to promote the application rate of production technologies for rare earth functional materials to 70 percent in the country's high-tech industries by 2015, it said.
It also set goals to lift the output capacity for rare earth permanent magnet materials by 20,000 tons a year and that of rare earth hydrogen-containing alloy powder by 15,000 tons a year.
Rare earth permanent magnet materials, which have rare earth elements in their composition, are widely used in electrical motors, medical treatment and spaceflight, while hydrogen-containing alloy powder is used in high-performance batteries.
The plan also sets higher output goals for a range of other new materials that contain rare earth metals.
Production bases for rare earth functional materials will be mainly built in Beijing, Baotou in Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Ganzhou in Jiangxi Province, Liangshan and Leshan in Sichuan Province, Longyan in Fujian Province and Ningbo in Zhejiang Province, the plan said.
The government will "make full use of its rare earth resources to expand the industrial scale of new materials made with rare earth," said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology plan.
The government will focus on developing rare earth functional materials, increasing efforts to improve performances of new materials made with rare earth, promote its application in high-end manufacturing, and increase product added-value, the plan said.
Rare earth metals are a group of 17 elements that are widely used in high-tech products, including flat-screen televisions, lasers and hybrid cars.
The plan aims to promote the application rate of production technologies for rare earth functional materials to 70 percent in the country's high-tech industries by 2015, it said.
It also set goals to lift the output capacity for rare earth permanent magnet materials by 20,000 tons a year and that of rare earth hydrogen-containing alloy powder by 15,000 tons a year.
Rare earth permanent magnet materials, which have rare earth elements in their composition, are widely used in electrical motors, medical treatment and spaceflight, while hydrogen-containing alloy powder is used in high-performance batteries.
The plan also sets higher output goals for a range of other new materials that contain rare earth metals.
Production bases for rare earth functional materials will be mainly built in Beijing, Baotou in Inner Mongolia autonomous region, Ganzhou in Jiangxi Province, Liangshan and Leshan in Sichuan Province, Longyan in Fujian Province and Ningbo in Zhejiang Province, the plan said.
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