Our graphite resources or into the next RE: 20 years to deplete

Enter the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics as the theme of graphene (a carbon atom by a new material consisting of a single layer sheet structure of graphite can be obtained) applications are ready. Many scientists believe that the product is a revolutionary new material that will promote the electronics industry has entered a new stage of development, leveraging at least one hundred billion chain.

Currently the world's proven reserves of about 71 million tons of natural graphite, which China reserves of about 55 million tons, accounting for 77% of global reserves, ranking first in the world. However, the same account for more than 70 percent of global reserves, is also the national strategic reserve of resources, but not as rare as graphite attention. Our graphite industry is not ideal, long-term raw material in the production chain of suppliers.

"Chinese graphite sector if longer follow the low road, afraid even to do bitter labor qualifications are gone! "Chinese graphite industry association retire president, Zhang Bin, chairman of Inner Mongolia Nisshin Group of the status of Chinese graphite industry is very worried. In his view, the importance of graphite for industrial development, worse than the rare earths. National level should pay more attention to the transformation and upgrading of the industry.

As early as five years ago, in the energy industry for many years Zhang Bin transfer campaign to Juzitouxiang 5.1 billion yuan in the deep processing of graphite, the current size of Nissin Group has grown into China graphite industry first, second worldwide.

Graphite due to its special structure, with many features high temperature resistance, thermal shock resistance, electrical conductivity, lubricity, chemical stability and plasticity, has been the military with modern industrial and high and new, sharp indispensable technological development important strategic resource, is widely graphite range of applications. Experts had predicted: the 20th century was the century of silicon, the 21st century will be the century of graphite.

Graphite embarrassment: cheap exports of raw materials, high-priced imported products

Our long-term export prices of graphite between 3000 to 4000 yuan per ton, but then purified processed by foreign imports to China, the price has become the 100,000 to 200,000 yuan per ton.

According to data released by Chinese customs, in 2010, China's exports about 585,500 tons of graphite, the import volume of 7.6 million tons. Import and export of such pattern has been going on for nearly 30 years.

"Without a strong domestic downstream producers, the export of raw materials will be no pricing power, there is no product on the market independent of hard work, we will sell imported products equally high price. "Zhang Bin," If you do not change the pattern of the graphite industry in 20 years, China will have no graphite can be taken! "

Zhang Bin, then is not an alarmist, Heilongjiang Province, an analytical report: China is currently about nearly a thousand companies graphite, graphite resources chaos indiscriminate digging, mining abandoning the poor rich, extensive management, low management level of the phenomenon is relatively common, mining and processing showing disordered state. If the current mining methods and speed of up to 20 years, the country has proven graphite resources will be exhausted, when China imported from abroad expensive graphite, graphite graphite great country into poor countries.

Graphite Group Co., Ltd. in Heilongjiang Aoyu party secretary Liu Jinzhu had said in an interview: Graphite primary products to about 3,000 yuan to 4,000 yuan per ton price of exports, but is processed into an artificial heart valve, the price of up to 12 million.

Chinese Academy of Engineering Zhou said: Because China does not grasp the deep processing of graphite core technology and advanced processing technology graphite monopoly of a few countries are the United States and Japan, the EU, resulting in China's graphite resources "low high into the" foreign "to purchase on behalf of the mining, "the state a long time.

At the same time, more chaos also occurs in the area of ​​sales, due mostly to sales of raw materials, market disorder mutual bid to become the norm, resulting in the loss of resources, low-cost overseas.

The whole industry chain model initial victory

Turning graphite industry, Zhang Bin do not think lack of funds, not lack of markets, mainly the lack of talent.

In 2011, Sheng Rui Zhang Bin's new energy cooperation with Tsinghua University, opened the road to the world's research microcrystalline graphite deep processing, and then study the nature and application of microcrystalline graphite isostatic graphite in lithium-ion cathode materials, to fill the domestic blank. In the same year the high thermal conductivity of graphite material cooperation with the CAS Institute of Coal Chemistry undertaken to become a world leader. By the end of 2013, SHL new energy cooperation with Tsinghua University again on graphene-based conductive agent projects.

In addition, Zhang Bin was also heavily in the country at ten million yuan to buy the patent and formed a research team of 100 people and their own laboratories. Currently, Rui Sheng New Energy already has more than 10 patents and 12 domestic flagship product, although the gap between inputs and outputs is still great, but let Zhang Bin was pleased: in 2013, six new energy Firth Big market, Chinese graphite import prices decreased, while once the product has been monopolized by a conductive agent, a Swiss company, in the Firth launched a comprehensive new energy similar products, the company has announced the discontinuation January 2014 in China.

Despite initial success, but Zhang Bin did not relax, he believes that the whole industry chain model just opened a bureau.

In 2010, Zhang Bin began to integrate graphite and mineral resources in Inner Mongolia, China scored the only large-scale mining is not large flake natural graphite mine - Inner Mongolia Hing and graphite mine, integrated Bayannao'er Wulatezhongqi graphite mine . Thus, in one fell swoop Zhang Bin occupied the fifth Chinese graphite resources.

Subsequently, Zhang Bin invest 3.3 billion yuan to build a Chinese graphite Valley high-tech industry. Zhang Bin's vision is to build China's only a graphite whole industry chain of production and R & D base.

Graphite should learn RE control mode

At present, China's graphite industry, the kinds of phenomena is obvious. For example, said Zhang Bin, China's nuclear power plants use "isotropic graphite" almost entirely from the Japanese Toyo carbon per ton price of about 450,000 yuan, but the cost of 50,000 yuan, the domestic long-term technological backwardness, price initiative has been in the hands of the U.S. and Japan.

Zhang Bin believes that enterprise technology to enhance the security level of the industry to operate under regulated environment, this area also depends on the state and local consolidation and strict access to the enterprise of the industry.

Since 60% of the country's reserves, attention Heilongjiang Province has a higher graphite. In 2011, the Science and Technology Department of Heilongjiang Province, China Academy of Engineering academician nine areas and 27 Chinese graphite industry expert planning methods and measures graphite industry bigger and stronger. Inner Mongolia is based on mining resources integrated model pioneered clean up low-level exploitation of small businesses, the introduction of leading enterprises to increase investment, create a new set of patterns.

The industry believes that, to ensure the healthy and sustainable development of the graphite industry, also need to learn from the country's rare earth resources management and control model, the regulation of graphite production capacity from across the country to encourage scientific and technological research and development, overall planning and graphite industry. Relevant departments should increase support for the graphite industry, overall planning graphite industry, the development of protective graphite resources is a priority.


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