The catalogue of encouraged Industries in the Western region involves titanium and titanium industries in many provinces and cities.

On January 26, the National Development and Reform Commission revised and issued the catalogue of encouraged Industries in the Western region (2020), which will come into effect on March 1, 2021. The catalogue defines the scope of industries encouraged by 12 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in western China. Encouraged enterprises located in 12 western provinces, autonomous regions, and cities, including Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan, can enjoy the preferential policy of levying enterprise income tax at a reduced tax rate of 15%. The scope of application of encouraged industrial policies in the western region includes Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang (including bingtuan), Inner Mongolia, Guangxi and other 12 western provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities). The area accounts for more than 70% of the country's land area. At the same time, Yanbian in Jilin, Enshi in Hubei, Xiangxi in Hunan and Ganzhou in Jiangxi are implemented according to the western region. The catalogue maintains the original structural framework and the main contents are basically stable. The first part continues to quote the encouraged industries and the catalogue of industries encouraging foreign investment in the guidance Catalog of Industrial structure Adjustment, and makes it clear that if the above catalogue is revised, it will be implemented in accordance with the new revised version. The second part continues to classify the 12 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in the western region, adding, subtracting and revising the relevant contents appropriately on the basis of the existing entries of each province (autonomous region and municipality), which not only reflects the orientation of industrial development in the country and the western region, but also takes into account the differences between different regions in the western region. The reporter made a summary of the content related to titanium in this policy. Among the new types of encouraged industries in the western region, high-end manufacturing and other fields are involved in the use of titanium for "biomedical materials such as low modulus titanium alloys and memory alloys". In the catalogue of industries that encourage foreign investment, titanium-related projects include memory alloy materials (titanium-nickel, copper-based and iron-based memory alloy materials), titanium alloy smelting and processing, atomic energy level sponge zirconium deep processing products. Titanium products mold design, manufacturing. In the catalogue of newly added encouraged industries in the western region, the contents of the design titanium industry are as follows. Chongqing: metal materials for automotive, electronic information, equipment, rail transit, aerospace and other industries, cast and forged light alloy materials. Sichuan Province: advanced manufacturing technology and application of high quality titanium raw materials (CaO+MgO ≤ 1.5%); production technology of titanium slag of more than 60,000 tons per year (electric furnace capacity ≥ 25000kVA); development and application of high efficiency clean separation and extraction technology of vanadium titanium magnetite (mining recovery rate, mineral processing recovery rate and comprehensive utilization rate of vanadium titanium magnetite should meet relevant national standards); titanium deep processing and product application; Vanadium-titanium magnetite blast furnace-converter smelting process (vanadium-titanium magnetite ratio ≥ 60%) (except for the restricted category and phase-out projects in the guidance Catalog of Industrial structure Adjustment). Guizhou Province: development of new titanium smelting technology (direct production of titanium by electrolysis of high titanium slag and rutile), deep processing of titanium and development and production of new products containing titanium fine chemicals; fine processing and comprehensive development and utilization of dolomite. Yunnan Province: development and intensive processing of non-ferrous metal products (except for projects restricted and eliminated in the guidance Catalog of Industrial structure Adjustment). Shaanxi Province: development and production of high performance magnesium alloy, deep processing of titanium; commercial aerospace and related supporting facilities; development of new generation space launch vehicle engine, construction of measurement, operation and control system, space vehicle payload and electronic system and equipment; development and production of composite materials and laser protective materials; Development and production of semiconductors, integrated circuits, connectors, sensors, artificial intelligence processors, new electronic components, high-end chips; new energy materials, titanium / zirconium / nickel / magnesium / lithium and other special alloy materials, special non-metallic materials, special rubber materials, high silica glass fibers, superalloys, 3D printing materials, superconducting materials, special ceramics, graphene, wave absorbing materials, energetic materials and other new materials. Gansu Province: development and production of high performance magnesium and titanium alloys. Ningxia Hui Autonomous region: development and production of new products, new processes and technologies of rare metal materials such as tantalum, niobium, beryllium and titanium. Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region (including Xinjiang production and Construction Corps): metal cutting and welding equipment manufacturing; foundry, forging, heat treatment, surface treatment and other basic process professional services (except for the restricted and eliminated projects in the guidance Catalog of Industrial structure Adjustment). This revision focuses on four directions: first, to further support the self-reliance and self-improvement of science and technology; second, to further promote the orderly transfer of industry to the west; third, to further encourage the western region to give better play to its unique advantages; and fourth, to further support the western region to make up for its weaknesses and weaknesses.