The government of Southwest China’s Yunnan province has rolled out plans to promote major companies’ commercial stockpiling of key non-ferrous metals, including copper, aluminium, lead, zinc, tin, germanium and indium, as part of the effort to support the metals market impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and to boost the development of the real economy. 

Primary nickel production is estimated to increase 5% to 2.58 million mt in Ni content next year

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Profits in China’s lead and zinc industries are likely to diverge further as processing fees decline and costs of ore materials rise

The operating rates across China's zinc oxide plants are likely to dip in May, an SMM survey showed.  

Operating rates across China's zinc galvanising plants in April gained 19.29 percentage points on the month and stood at 86.1%

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Operating rates across China's silicon plants in April fell 6.6 percentage points from March and stood at 34.8%, an SMM survey showed.