Rare earths are widely used in the new energy, new materials, energy conservation, environmental protection, aerospace, electronic information and other fields is indispensable to modern industry important factor known as "industrial monosodium glutamate", to protect the precious rare earth resources and the ecological environment to prevent the rare earth resources, prevent the rare earth prices slump too cheaply to protect rare earth industry chain all healthy, smooth running national rare earth build-up is particularly important.

White paper shows that after more than half a century of intensive exploitation of China's rare earth resources, reserves and guarantee of main mining area resources declining acceleration attenuation original mostly dried up mine resources, mining, mineral intergrowth, separation of backward production techniques and technology has also caused serious damage to the ecological environment.

The comprehensive research resources, the existing mining right setup and the market demand trends of land and resources recently issued "about issued 2011 tungsten mines and total volume control quotas for rare earth ore mining notice to determine the 2011 national rare earth ore mining (rare earth oxide REO) total amount control index of 93800 tons of light rare earth 80400 tons 13400 tons of heavy rare earths in tungsten concentrate (tungsten trioxide content 65%) exploitation of total amount control index of 87000 tons antimony ore mining (metal) total amount control index of 105000 tons."Notice", June 30, 2012, in principle, continue to suspend to accept the new tungsten, antimony, and rare earth ore exploration and exploitation of application for registration. "Notice" requirements the provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) issued by the competent department of land and resources according to department of tungsten, antimony ore mining and mine total amount control index, the index decomposition, and earnestly, achieve control indicators to the city, to the county, to the mining enterprises, responsible for grading, layers of implementation. The provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the departments of land and resources to take effective measures, in accordance with the relevant requirements signed exploitation of total amount control duty agreement and contract, to carry out the personnel to monitor the implementation of mining enterprises control indicators, and strictly implement the system of land and resources statistics.

According to the condition of clear construction, rebuilding and expansion of rare earth mining, smelting separation and metal smelting must meet above requirements, does not satisfy the conditions for access to the basic requirements of project the project examination and approval departments shall not approve.