Management of state-planned mines necessary

One ton of rare earth ore in the 1980s could be exchanged for two Japanese Crown minivans. However, in the 1980s and 1990s, Ganzhou rare earths into indiscriminate mining and digging disorderly competition in a chaotic situation, the end of the 1990s, Ganzhou City, most of the mines due to market weakness shut down or closed down, rare earths industry-wide indebtedness of more than 300 million yuan. "The end of the golden rice bowl to eat", nearly 10 years, Ganzhou City resolved to start from the control of mining, embarked on the integration of resources, industrial development of the rise of the road to become China's integration of rare earth resources more standardized area.

Ganzhou in rare earth mining in the annual directive plan, take the issuance of production plan quota card, compression of production sites and other measures to control the scale of production, and crack down on the phenomenon of unlicensed mining, indiscriminate mining, etc. Since 2003 to outlaw, close the rare earth illegal mining more than 3,000, smashed more than 2,600 leaching pools, and investigated and dealt with illegal transportation and marketing of more than 90 cases.

Including export quota restrictions, China in recent years on the protection of rare earths and rectification of repeated "moves". Jiangxi Provincial Industry and Information Technology Commission, director of the non-ferrous Li Shanle that the national rare earth planning area set up for China's rare earth resource protection, rational development of industry, a new initiative, the planning area is set up, the country will be from a variety of perspectives on rare earths in the long-term management.