On June 30, it was learned from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that in order to effectively protect rare earth resources and the ecological environment, the relevant business departments of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce have formulated the Rare Earth Industry Standard Conditions (2016 Edition) and the Administrative Measures for the Rare Earth Industry Standard Conditions Announcement, and decided to implement since July 1st, and the Standard Conditions and Management Measures announced on July 26, 2012 will be abolished simultaneously.

It is understood that the new "Specification Conditions" has detailed regulations on the establishment and layout, production scale, resource utilization and other aspects of rare earth projects. Taking the production scale as an example, in the case where most of the provisions have not been changed, the "Specification Conditions" deleted the original entry conditions that stated that "the production scale of rare earth metal smelting enterprises should not be less than 2000 tons / year (physical amount)" Regulations.

在 In terms of resource utilization, the new version of the "Conditions of Conditions" is more stringent. Among them, the recovery rate of general ore beneficiation increased from 72% to 75% (including the same below), and the recovery rate of low-grade, difficult-to-refine rare earth ore beneficiation increased from 60% to 65%. In addition, many The total rare-earth yield standard of a rare-earth ore smelting project has also increased. The industry believes that this is obviously to improve the production efficiency of the rare earth industry.