The "Thirteenth Chinese Rare Earth Entrepreneurs Association and Expo Rare Earth Entrepreneurs Forum" was sponsored by the National Rare Earth Information Network, the China Rare Earth Society Technology and Economic Committee and the China Rare Earth Society Information Committee. It was grandly held in Shanghai on October 15th, and the meeting lasted for four days. A total of more than 260 people more than 170 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in the country engaged in rare earth production, development and application, and more than 260 people related industries participated in this conference. Publications and websites were invited to participate in this meeting.
The opening ceremony of the conference was held on the morning of October 16, and Song Hongfang, director of the National Rare Earth Information Network Office, presided over the opening ceremony. Zhao Zengqi, Dean of Baotou Rare Earth Research Institute, delivered an opening speech on behalf of the organizer. He said that this year is the last year of the implementation of the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" and the key year of planning the "12th Five-Year Plan". Since the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan", China's rare earth industry has experienced a period of fastest development and strongest vitality. After the integration of resources and industries, China's rare-earth enterprises have moved towards grouping and scale-up, and the industry concentration and market control have been significantly strengthened. Several large-scale enterprise groups such as Baotou Rare Earth, China Minmetals, Jiangxi Copper, Ganzhou Mining and so on In a dominant pattern, industrial clusters have shown good momentum of rapid and harmonious development. Rare earth consumption appears to be stable in the traditional field and surges in the emerging field, stimulating the application of rare earth in the field of new materials. The low-carbon economy dominated by new energy is expected to become an opportunity for the development of the rare earth industry in the future. China's rare earth industry has also withstood a series of tests brought about by the international financial crisis. At present, with the improvement of the world economy, the domestic rare earth market is showing a thriving development situation. When Premier Wen Jiabao attended the 6th China-Europe Business Summit in Brussels on October 6, "China must maintain the sustainable development of rare earths, only to meet the needs of its own country but also to meet the needs of the world, only based on the present, but also on the long-term. Control is necessary, but it will never be blocked. Our goal is for the sustainable development of the world. " The Prime Minister's remarks only refuted the irresponsible remarks of Japan, the United States and other countries, but also strengthened the market's confidence in China's rare earth, and pointed out the direction for the future development of China's rare earth industry.
