United States and Europe tripartite recourse to the WTO dispute settlement body, said China for rare earths, tungsten, molybdenum export restrictions violate WTO rules and China's WTO accession protocol, specifically including export quotas, export licenses and export price measures proposed to China request for consultations.

Chinese rare earth mining pay shocking, preliminary estimates because only one place Ganzhou rare earth mining caused environmental pollution, environmental restoration governance costs as high as 38 billion yuan.

Next few years, China's domestic consumption of rare earth material to a level of at least 10% annual growth and with the government to limit production, the future may need to reduce the export or increasing the level of imports to meet this growth.

China rare earth industry is mainly aimed at rectifying confusion refractory rare earth mining areas, according to the Mainland "Economic Information Daily" reported that the rare earth mining rights multisectoral working out a new access conditions will be finalized by the current discussion paper has been performed recently issued.Reported that in addition to strict rules and scale mining resources, discussion paper also apply for mining rights of the production enterprises to set up the main business income must be more than 1 billion yuan threshold. This means that in addition to the production and processing, the mining sectors will gradually tilted towards large enterprises, a number of non-compliant small mines and mining and processing enterprises will be eliminated.