National strategy should not only have institutional arrangements, in the material level should also be considered as a whole. In front of the world increasingly complex technology of the game, with the strategic value of the metal is a bargaining chip, to see these chips not only have the economic value, as well as the political, diplomatic and military value, in accordance with the national strategy to co-ordinate arrangements for these strategic metal, so in international exchanges will be able to grasp initiative and enable us to use of resources strategy occupies advantageous position. - Cardiff
Strategic metals in relation to the sustainable development and economic security of a country and the world in the future. Since 2008, the international financial crisis, with the rapid rise of the strategic emerging industries, new energy, new materials, new generation of information technology, and global economic / industrial pattern of a new round of reconstruction, as a strategic emerging industry support of rare strategic metals become frontiers of current world each country resource competition.
For the long-term development of the national economic security an important consideration, security and application of strategic metals imminent, we must to protect strategic metal safety into under the framework of China's overall national security early in advance, the overall plan. It is an important and urgent strategic task for China to speed up the formation of the national strategy and globalization strategy of China's strategic metals.
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The current strategic metals competition and competition are joining the great power game
Rare metal is also regarded as a strategic metal, is an important guarantee for safeguarding the fundamental interests of the country, the national economic security, the process of industrialization and international competitiveness and so on has a very important strategic significance. As the world has important strategic value of rare metal mineral distribution is extremely uneven, easy to develop and use of the advantages of resources concentrated in a small number of countries and regions. The disequilibrium of resource distribution, the tungsten, tantalum, beryllium, indium and other rare metals, as well as the strategic position of rare earth metals, platinum is more prominent, and has become an important field of international competition for resources.
The 1 strategic metals rose to national strategy urgency
Strategic rare metals have obvious scarcity, not alternative, is an important functional material for supporting the development of strategic emerging industries, with the innovation of modern science and technology, market demand for the various functions of metallic materials was rising trend. Especially in the process of technological innovation, some of which were considered very limited use of metal, because a major technological breakthrough, which has the extremely important strategic value.
On the one hand, high-end manufacturing and emerging industries, especially frontier science and technology industry development, atomic energy, aerospace, semiconductor, special steel, heat-resistant alloy and sophisticated weapons such as many related to people's livelihood and national security required raw materials. With the advent of the industrial 4 times, core components, intelligent robot industry will accelerate the development of high-end chips etc.. The development of these industries cannot do without rare metals, such as gallium arsenide, indium phosphide is an important raw material for the production of high-end chip. High-end manufacturing in large metal material 3D printing, either metal device itself or printed by 3D printer, all cannot do without the rare metal tungsten, titanium, vanadium and some excellent mechanical properties of materials.
On the other hand, in recent years the strategic metal demand is also growing rapidly, as the key elements in the high-tech industry, at present many strategic metal resources are difficult to replace. The global demand for metal mineral resources especially the United States, Japan and European Union economy relatively developed technology presents rigid characteristics. Related research shows that the demand for gallium and indium and other emerging mineral emerging field in 2030 than in 2006 rose 2-20 times. The future global demand for strategic metals will continue to rise.
The strategic layout of the 2 World countries to step up strategic mineral metal
For a long time, in the United States, Japan, Canada, as a representative of the western developed countries, has been the implementation of the global resource strategy as an important part of the overall national strategy, and the country's political, economic, diplomatic, military, and financial policy combination, and with the change of the shape of the potential timely adjustment to ensure national economic security.
The United States as the world's first formal establishment of national strategic resource reserves. In 1939 the United States began to focus on implementation of the mineral reserves, making "strategic materials Reserve Law" of the country's oil, coal, rare earth not only into mining reserves, long-term purchase price from abroad. The strategic resources reserves reached 63 in 1985 93, including oil, uranium, aluminum, antimony, chromium, gold (1246, -8.30, -0.66%) and other important mineral resources. The United States by virtue of its powerful military and economic strength, has established a global multi-level and multi-channel allocation of security system of strategic resources and a huge global strategic resource reserve system. With the change of the supply and demand situation of domestic and foreign resources, increasing resource reserves varieties, and every purchase of a large number of global strategic resources cheap machine. Japan as a mineral resource is very barren island, by actively pursuing overseas mineral exploration subsidy program, encourage overseas mining, access to the global strategy of mineral resources.
Since entering the new century, the pattern of the world happened great changes. Under the trend of globalization, resource competition is becoming increasingly fierce, the development of uncertainty and resource products of Pan gold melting trend has become increasingly evident, resource nationalism prevails, the developed countries began to reaffirm the necessity of strategic reserve. In recent years, more major countries in the world will protect the development and utilization of strategic metals to extremely important strategic height, the United States and the European Union