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Abstract This paper summarizes and evaluates China’s policies toward the rare-earth industry from 1975 to 2018. We define five stages over this period and focus on China’s purpose, the underlying economic background in each stage, and the connections between stages. By reviewing a broad set of original policy documents, we find that the purpose of China’s policies has evolved, affected by the market players, the development of the mineral industry, and the state of the Chinese economy. Initially, the Chinese government encouraged the development of the upstream rare-earth sector. Since the early 1990s, China has focused on the development of downstream activities that use rare earths in the manufacture of intermediate and final products. Since the early 2000s, China has focused additionally on the problems of disorder in the rare-earth industry with particular reference to the environmental degradation caused by rare-earth production, as well as industrial reorganization to discourage unsanctioned production.
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Yuzhou Shen
Ruthann C. Moomy
Roderick G. Eggert
Mineral Economics
Colorado School of Mines
Independent Broadcasting Associates
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www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69dd5e9dfb7610310c10289e — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13563-019-00214-2