CMI scientists at Colorado School of Mines conducted this research.
Key Priorities
- 1975-1990: Upstream production for export
- 1991-1998: Initial restrictions on production and foreign investment
- 1999-2009: Export quotas & taxes, promotion of downstream activities, initial efforts to control industry disorder
- 2010-2015: Further and broader restrictions on exports, response to WTO dispute
- 2016-2018: Industry consolidation, continuing efforts to control industry dis-order, Chinese foreign investment upstream
Achievement
Review of original Chinese documents, along with contemporaneous assessments of global rare earth markets and overall Chinese industrial policies
