China's rare earth mineral protection continues to increase

Rare earths are China's advantageous mineral resources and are also very scarce strategic resources. In recent years, the management of these advantageous minerals has been highly valued by party committees and governments at all levels. The Ministry of Land and Resources has joined hands with related departments such as development, industry and credit, and commerce to strengthen order rectification, strengthen planning and guidance, optimize resource allocation, and implement aggregate control. , promote the development and integration, and achieved remarkable results. Reflected in:

The first is to severely crack down and effectively curb rampant mining behavior. Comprehensively carried out the clean-up of mining rights for rare earth prospecting rights, announced 10 rare earth prospecting rights and 113 rare earth mining rights throughout the country; localities maintained high pressures for indiscriminate mining and excavation; Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province implemented mining order , Deeply promote the special rectification of rare earths, etc.; Lufeng City Commission for Discipline Inspection of Guangdong Province investigated and punished 8 illegal umbrella mining rare earth “protection umbrellas”; Fujian Province organized resource destruction identification 88, criminal detention 50 people, sentenced to 3 cases of illegal exploitation of rare earths, investigate criminal responsibility 31 people.

The second is to strengthen planning and guide rational and orderly development. Twenty-two provinces have completed the preparation of the “Special Plan for Exploration of Mineral Resources at the Provincial Level” and nine provinces (districts) have completed the preparation of 27 “Special Planning for Exploration and Mining of Rare Earths and Other Minerals” in the medium and heavy rare earth resources. The richer province of Ganzhou in Jiangxi Province delineated the first batch of 11 rare earth mineral country planning mines. At present, plans for setting up mining rights are being organized.

The third is to strengthen regulation and control and strict management of total control indicators. Promulgated the "Provisional Measures for the Management of Exploration and Exploitation of Specific Minerals for Protective Mining" and "Interim Measures for the Management of Total Mineral Controlled Mining Exploitation Indicators"; comprehensively realized the online reporting of the implementation of indicators; researched and established the access conditions for mining of rare earth and other minerals, and improved Access thresholds; establishment of quarterly and annual mining total control indicators analysis system.

The fourth is to promote integration and improve the level of development and utilization of intensification. Jiangxi, Sichuan, Inner Mongolia and other provinces (autonomous regions) have optimized the layout of mines through integration and increased the scale of resources and intensive development. The national rare earth mining rights will be reduced from 113 to 67.

Fifth, regional linkages and continuous innovation in management methods. Since the launch of the joint operation of rare earth development and supervision regions in five southern provinces in August 2010, preliminary development has been made for the development of rare earths in nine cities (districts) of nine provinces (regions) with “the overall responsibility of local governments, guidance from land and resources departments, and coordination of regional supervision”. Regulatory linkage mechanism.