Chinese Rare Earth Industry Association was established in Beijing. Su Bo, vice minister of the Ministry of Industry, said at the inaugural meeting of this year will focus on combating the illegal exploitation, production, black market, export smuggling and other illegal activities. Of rare earth resources to implement more stringent protective mining policy, stop accepting new exploration and mining of application for registration, stop approval of new smelting separation project, prohibit separation of existing mines and smelting enterprises to expand production scale.