Chinese exports of rare earths to meet world demand has long been on the world economic and technological developments make an important contribution, but China has paid a heavy resource and environmental costs.

In order to further implement the national, provincial and municipal remediation work conference on earth to crack down on illegal exploitation behavior, norms of rare earth development order to protect the ecological environment.Recently, Gan County issued "on the county to carry out the order of rare earth mining concentrated inspection work of the emergency notice", "four steps" Yan Li remediation rare earth mining order.

Twenty years the United States, Europe, Japan, Korea abundance of cheap imports from China rare earth as their strategic reserves, these homes not only through the purchase of government funding over the treasury which is stored in its own way but also by investing in Chinese law to circumvent development of rare earth and rare earth resources in China valuable compete to lower prices due to disorderly competition becomes increasingly reduced export production from China to buy rare earth opposite country's own resources are scarce, but not all countries.

China import and export tariff rates for some tariff adjustments which increased export tariffs on rare earth products individually adjust the fertilizer export season seasonal tariff rates applicable period and the off-season export tariffs benchmark price, the Treasury said the move mainly to regulate the export of rare earth and mitigate fertilizer prices rise.