MIIT: Control the Expansion of Electrolytic Aluminium and Discourage Export

(China Aluminum Network) MIIT printed and distributed the 12th Five-year Development Plan of Non-ferrous Metal Industry and Aluminum Industry in recent days.

According to some principals that the self-sufficiency rate of copper, aluminum and nickel was 23%, 54% and 14% respectively in 2010. At present, electrolytic aluminium market with excess capacity. At the end of 2010, electrolytic aluminium production had reached 23,000 thousand tons while 15,600 thousand tons of actual output, device availability only accounted for 70%.

In order to solve this problem, this Plan was mainly aims to meet domestic demand and control aluminum smelting production. Executing industrial policy and entry criteria strictly to control the blind expansion of electrolytic aluminium production.

This Plan put forwards the development of aluminum industry should obey the principle of volume control, give priority to domestic demand, control electrolytic aluminium production expansion but don’t encourage export.

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