Tungsten is a valuable scarce resource, which takes about 0.001% in the earth crust. It is referred as “Tooth of Industry” because of its properties of high melting point, density, hardness. Tungsten and its products are widely used in modern industry, which is an important non-renewable mineral resource, its development closely link with national economic lifelines and security. To some extent, the situation of tungsten export over the years reflected the changes of China tungsten industry competitiveness in the international market; in 2015, China canceled the export quota and turned to the export license management system, which means tungsten manufacturers will have to rely on technology in order to survive, companies should focus on the optimization of high, refined, sharp and deep processing.

 

As we all know, the higher technical content tungsten product has, the higher value is will be. The breakthrough of improving competitiveness in Tungsten industry chain should be primarily in four areas of tungsten powder, tungsten carbide powder, tungsten materials and its special-shaped and tungsten carbide deep-processing products.

 

Over the last decade from Chinese tungsten export situation analysis, tungsten product export structure should be further optimized, and developed the high value-added products, the exported proportion of application products increased year by year, the international competitiveness of Chinese tungsten products increased year by year. However, the Chinese tungsten products deep processing technology still has a large gap comparing with the international advanced level. In future, the focus of the tungsten industry should be narrowing the technology gap of tungsten application compared with advanced foreign enterprises for some time. Accelerate the elimination of backward production capacity; accelerate the development of products with independent intellectual property rights of tungsten manufacturing technology for further enhancing the competitiveness of China tungsten industry. Such as the development of carbide cutting tools, mining tools, wear resistance parts and other leading products; developing high-properties of tungsten wire, as well as ultra-thin, ultra-large sheets of tungsten, new tungsten-based material applied in national defense, aerospace, military industry ect..