Experts recommend that rare earth industry should not engage in monopoly operations.

In the "China Rare Earth Market Investment and Development Forum," it was learned that in order to integrate Jiangxi's rare earth resources, Jiangxi Province and Ganzhou City have begun to plan the integration of rare earth resources in Jiangxi Province, but there has been no set of specific implementation programs.

Rare earth has not only been a topic of concern in our industry, but it has now become a topic of popular discussion. From its integration, restructuring, rising prices, and so on, the rare earth industry has become the focus of attention in the past two years.

According to Cangzhou Rare Earth Minerals Co., Ltd. and Lao Zhaotian of the Luzhou Rare Earths Industry Association, Jiangxi intends to use Yanzhou Mining Co. as the integration entity to integrate the middle and lower reaches of Zhangzhou and deep processing enterprises. This will mean that the game between central SOEs and local governments will become more intense.

As early as in 2008, the northern rare earth industry had set off a wave of consolidation. Baotou Rare Earth and Inner Mongolia Gaoxin Holdings Co., Ltd. took the lead and integrated several private enterprises including Baotou Huamei Rare Earths High-tech Co., Ltd., which is the beginning of the transformation of the northern rare earth industry.

In 2010, the competent authority of China's rare earths changed from a rare earth at the National Development and Reform Commission to a division under the Department of Raw Materials of the Ministry of Industry. The integration of rare earths has completely changed. If the integration of rare earths in the north is the self-conscious behavior of local governments, this time in the south is a top-down policy.

In the Southern Market, several major companies including Minmetals, Baotou Steel, Chinalco, China Nonferrous Metals, Guangsheng, Havana and Tungsten are actively engaged in acquisition and restructuring activities. The mining warrants that have been distributed in the hands of local companies in the five provinces of Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi have been incorporated into their own subsidiaries through acquisition and reorganization.

In this regard, some experts believe that the rare earth mining right can be protected by the central government, of course, can protect rare earth resources, but the implementation of the policy is too hard and hard, does not combine the actual needs of the market, and local governments are not willing to decentralize the heart.

"The state allows central enterprises to integrate Jiangxi's rare earth resources. The money they earn is directly handed over to the central government. Without our interests, we may do everything we can to stop them. They have policies and we have countermeasures." The chairman of the board told the reporter.

Wu Qiong, National Development and Reform Commission's International Cooperation Center, stated that since the fundamental purpose of the country's policy formulation is to protect national interests, if any national interests are not protected during the development of any industry, the state must intervene. However, the state's intervention mainly refers to the formulation of some laws and regulations, rather than the state designating some central enterprises to go to the local areas to engage in monopolistic operations. He hopes that rare earth enterprises will take the initiative to issue their own voices and do not wait for the government to come forward to solve all problems.

Meng Qingjiang, deputy secretary-general of the Jiangxi Provincial Rare Earths Society, told reporters that the integration and intensive development of the rare earth industry should be the inevitable law of the industry itself. It should not be monopolized by the government-led large-scale state-owned enterprise groups because it is neither In line with the current laws of China's socialist market economy, it does not meet the characteristics of the operation of the rare earth industry. In fact, the planned economic model led by the national plan for the rare earth industry has been implemented for many years. The practice has proved to be ineffective because the mandatory plan is seriously out of line with the market, and the release of indicators is seriously out of line with actual production, thus making unplanned mining and production a kind of inevitable.

Meng Qingjiang believes that the integration of the rare earth industry should be based on the advantages of the established industrial enterprises, and promote the sustainable development of the local economy and enhance the quality of development as the premise, to promote the rapid development of rare earth applications as the goal, it is the rare earth industry development and integration The right choice.