taken from LYC thread Post #: 16819687 ; originally posted by...

taken from LYC thread Post #: 16819687 ; originally posted by goofy:-

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2016 China Rare Earth Industry Prospects
Source: CDC Study: Wu Haiming; Wu Chen-hui Date: January 11, 2016

Years in the market downturn always more constant length, about to finish 2015 in the last month of time to review and outlook next year, the rare earth industry, although not appear magnificent event, but the rare earth products traded in our Southern cross Several trends center sponsored the "2015 RE · Prospects will be" basically been released on the market verified. In the background of the global industry gradually entered under 4.0, China also began manufacturing in 2025, "Thirteen Five" into the policy golden period. China's economic reform and transition in the new normal, the need to develop a wide range of applications of rare earth new energy, new materials, aerospace, electronic information, biotechnology, environmental protection and other high-tech products, which is the direction of development of strategic new industries.

2015, China's economy in order to drive innovation to achieve industrial transformation and upgrading of China's rare earth industry has experienced export policy adjustment, six rare earth group integration, market prices bottomed, hitting rectify the situation change, etc., and upgrades; along with the policy, economic and market changes in the environment, in 2016 China's rare earth industry will usher in more opportunities and challenges in reform and innovation.

2015 Review of the rare earth industry event -

1. Important policies and regulations

(1) Rare Earth Industry

Export policy: the approval of the State Council, the Ministry of Commerce decided to start from January 1 to cancel export quotas; January 1, the implementation of "2015 classification of goods export license management certification directory" RE license issued by the Special Commissioner's Office, rare earth The customs port is limited to the Tianjin Customs, Shanghai Customs, Qingdao Customs, Huangpu Customs, Customs Hohhot, Nanchang Customs, Ningbo Customs, Xiamen, Nanjing Customs and customs; April 29 General Administration of Customs, from May 1 to cancel the export of rare earth tariff.

Tax reform: April 28, the State Council executive meeting decided that from May 1, the rare earths, tungsten, molybdenum resource tax amount levied by the change from ad valorem, and not to increase the corporate tax burden in accordance with the principle of reasonable determination tax rate. Meanwhile, to further clean up and standardize the charges, rare earth, tungsten, molybdenum mineral resources compensation rates to zero and stop collection-related price adjustment fund, ban related charges fund local governments below the provincial level and to study the establishment of irregularities established mineral resources royalties system.

Capital subsidy: State Ministry and the Ministry of Finance continues to perform in May 2014 "issued by the National Development and rare earth industry Things subsidy fund management approach"; Ganzhou, Baotou two governments to implement policies NdFeB business subsidies.

Instruction Program: Office of the State Ministry of rare earths continue to implement the 2012 "Interim Measures RE mandatory production plan."

Resource control: November 20, China Land and Resources News reported, the Ministry issued "on regulating the rare earth mine tungsten ore prospecting and mining rights management approval notice", to make a series of new regulations. First, continue to suspend accepting new rare earth mineral exploration, mining rare earth and tungsten mining applications for registration, allow three types of circumstances exception; Second, strict management of rare earth ore prospecting and mining right; Third, strict rare earth mine tungsten ore mining rights Continuity Management ; four were associated involving the exploitation of resources, should be rare earth ore, tungsten ore mining total control indicators included in the management, super-exploitation should be reserve indicator, may not be sold.Inadequate conditions reserves do not have the capacity or reserve, can not expand the mining area, the expansion of production capacity; five are of the ionic type rare earth deposits, according to the relevant provisions of the low risk category mineral management; six is to improve the rare earth mine tungsten ore prospecting retention policies.

Hitting rectify: Land and Resources, the Ministry of Public Security, the Department of Homeland eight ministries jointly issued a document, decided since October 2014 to March 2015 31日illegal conduct to combat illegal rare earth mining, production, distribution, export and other four aspects Special Action violations. According to the implementation of the program, special operations will be divided into self-examination period (2014年October 10 to November 25), the rectification period (Nov. 26 to Jan. 31, 2015), the acceptance period (2015 February 1 to March 31) in three stages; October 29, 2015, the Ministry of Industry issued a "notice processing of rare earth minerals in the name of illegal activities" on the "consolidation of" comprehensive utilization of resources, the relevant departments on Nov. 1 May to November 20 on-site inspections of all enterprises nationwide; November 21 to December 20 to conduct a comprehensive rectification investigation. 5 of personnel broken down into smaller groups, where three groups of Jiangxi, Guangdong and Hunan, each group, each group of Jiangsu and Anhui, jointly rare crackdown action.

Industry Standards: May 8, the State Council on the issuance of "Made in China 2025," the notice, accelerate civilian explosives, dangerous chemicals, food, printing and dyeing, rare earth, pesticides and other key industries Intelligent Detection regulatory system, improve the intelligence level; 7 month, the Ministry approved 543 industry standards, including two involving rare earths, since January 1, 2016 start implementation; July 31 the National Standardization Management Commission issued the "2015 second batch of national standards and revision plan," which involved in the rare earth industry has three; October 29, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the 902 industry standards, including five rare earth industry standards, involve waste recycling rare earths, from March 1, 2016 came into effect.