China's rare earth industry icebreaking imminent environmental governance

All along, China's rare earth industry, small scattered , fragmented nature of the industry through the formation of a low concentration of the situation has not been fundamentally changed , and the rare earth resources development and utilization process resulting in serious damage to the ecological environment, but also triggered a widespread fears and doubts circles , rare earth environmental issues became restrict the healthy development of the industry bottleneck . However, the reporter in early January to get a good news in an interview : a representative sense the two largest domestic rare earth group system - Baotou Steel Rare Earth Group and Ganzhou Rare Earth Industry consolidation has made significant breakthroughs , marking China's rare earth industry, environmental governance "ice-breaking " soon.

Integration of resources to make real progress

" December 31, 2013 , the controlling shareholder of Baotou Steel Rare Earth Group and Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare nine private companies signed the " integration and restructuring agreements . " Currently these nine companies and environmental standards for financial management and other aspects of guidance and norms. Let it meet the standards listed subsidiary , will serve as an absolute subsidiary of Baotou Rare Earth , the future of qualified companies will join the Baotou Rare Earth shares. " Rare-Earth Day Board Secretary Zhang Hui said in an interview with reporters .

Date Hui Zhang told reporters that the signing of the agreement to protect the environment , conserve resources , and the country's autonomous regions to promote the healthy and orderly development of rare earth industry has an important significance. Baotou Steel Rare Earth will be entered into a consolidation and restructuring agreement as an opportunity to promote the rare earth industry in Inner Mongolia to large-scale , centralized base , modern direction, promoting the rare earth industry , " three wastes" centralized management and ecological construction, leading enterprises play the leading role in promoting China's rare earth industry environmental standards to a new level .

It is understood that in recent years , in order to strengthen environmental protection , intensive use of rare earth resources as the goal, Baotou Steel Rare Earth Group is committed to the formation of rare earth in northern China , the program has obtained Ministry approval. December 2012 , Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare Earth 12 enterprises of the integration and restructuring , coupled with the integration of nine companies , Inner Mongolia, only three currently do not have our standard listed companies not included in the consolidation, display Baotou Steel Rare Earth Inner Mongolia rare upstream integration and restructuring completed. Meanwhile , Baotou Steel Rare Earth also increased environmental investment, plans a total investment 2.2 billion yuan in rare earth concentrate roasting, smelting separation concentrated , centralized wastewater treatment "three focus " projects are being implemented . The project is by far the largest environmental Baotou Steel Rare Earth Project , will present some rare earth enterprises are concentrated in one area , by adjusting the process and new production lines , while using the latest smelting separation technology , while simultaneously supporting advanced production lines of environmental protection facilities construction period ensure that the " three wastes " discharge .

Ganzhou Rare Earth Group is the representative of South China 's rare earth resources development system leading enterprises , their local rare earth mine , " downsizing " Integration also made substantial breakthroughs. Recently, the Ministry of Environmental Protection website disclosure , rare earth mines in Ganzhou Rare Earth Group to integrate a project EIA report was approved by the Ministry of Environmental Protection . An integrated project will be integrated into the mine 48 15 , Long South 16 integrated into four , will be integrated into the South 32 11 . Two integration will include full south, Anyuan , Xinfeng , xunwu , and Gan Ning County are rare mineral rights integration. The EIA report showed that the integration of Ganzhou Rare Earth project with a total investment 1.36 billion yuan , environmental protection investment is estimated at 5.1 billion yuan, accounting for 37.8% , mainly used in the mining wasteland left by history and ecological restoration and Gob stope tail water collection governance .

Large group of environmentally-friendly mode of governance

As one involved in the "rare earth industrial pollutant emission standards " established by senior experts of rare earth , China Nonferrous Engineering and Research Institute , former vice president Wang Guozhen revealed that China's rare earth industry in the rapid development of rare earth mining, smelting separation production "three wastes" and radioactive substances generated during the ecological environment caused different degrees of pollution , the state has paid a price. Since 2011 , the country to promote the healthy development of rare earth industry , have issued a series of related environmental policies and environmental standards in order to strengthen the regulatory process in rare earth production on the environment , resources , although made ​​a lot of achievements, but have not yet reached the desired effect . At present, the separation of rare earth smelting enterprises ninety eight home , but only to get more than 30 rare access conditions , is one of the main environmental standards .

Wang Guozhen pointed out that the integration of the two largest rare earth breakthrough , industry-wide environmental management is expected to make "ice-breaking " front line . Large-scale production of advanced enterprise integration behind a small rare earth companies , this integration of cleaner production of rare earth industry is very favorable . Because the integration and restructuring of the industry , you can reduce the number of mining body , to some extent, to prevent illegal poaching , over-exploitation , indiscriminate digging damage to the environment , while reducing the number of smelting separation plants , rare earth industry access policy, environmental standards, it is easy to implement ; production can be effectively controlled , and it helps the rare earth and ecological environment protection ; big companies have the strength to improve resource recovery and the level of technology , environmental technology for the overall upgrade rare significance . After the integration of large enterprise groups such as Baogang Group , Ganzhou Rare Earth Group, and demonstration projects can take the lead in implementing environmental transformation, promote industrial restructuring and upgrading of rare earth , in order to eliminate the expense of the environment industry disorderly competition in the chaos , the rare-earth applications to wider higher technology areas , truly full of rare earth resources into economic advantages , promote the industry sustainable, healthy and orderly development of science .

The combination of restructuring and environmental remediation

Rare Dean of Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology Professor Zhang Yin analysis of rare earth industry consolidation will help enterprises to achieve environmentally clean production . Although China is the largest producer of rare earth , rare earth production but not the power. On the one hand , the majority of small and medium technology and equipment behind , serious damage to the ecological environment has not fundamentally eliminate the chaos , environmental debts is amazing ; hand low industrial concentration, leading to excessive consumption of rare earth resources , use of low rate of serious waste , environmental costs of rare earth products have not been reflected. After the small businesses out of the market competition , large companies are more likely strict enforcement of environmental standards and Mineral Resources , the real total control of resource exploitation and solving environmental problems and achieve cleaner production.

To this end, Zhang Yin and Wang Guozhen and other experts suggest that national authorities should put environmental remediation and industry consolidation and restructuring work together, to continue to carry out the rare corporate environmental rectification ; promote cleaner production, continue to carry the fight against illegal mining, illegal production , ecological damage and environmental pollution behavior ; played leading enterprises transform and upgrade traditional rare earth industry support and leading role of the new integrated enterprise supervise implementation of environmental reform as soon as possible ; continue to strengthen ecological protection of rare earth production , accelerate the transformation of development mode , building a modern rare earth industry systems .


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