Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: strengthen communication with Qinghai, Sichuan and other provinces and cities to speed up the development of domestic lithium resources

On January 12, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology held a press conference on the development of automobile industry and agriculture in 2021. At the press conference, Guo Shougang, deputy director of the equipment Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, mentioned that in the next step, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will give full play to the role of the inter-ministerial joint meeting mechanism on energy conservation and new energy vehicles, formulate policies and measures to support the accelerated development of new energy vehicles, and maintain effective convergence of the policy system. At the same time, we will co-ordinate and enhance the guarantee capacity of key resources, strengthen communication and coordination with provinces and cities such as Qinghai, Sichuan and Jiangxi, and promote the development of domestic lithium resources.

Prior to this, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has repeatedly proposed to strengthen the development of domestic lithium resources. In his previously public reply to proposal No. 0899 (No. 85 of posts and Telecommunications of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese people's political Consultative Conference), it was mentioned that the state attaches great importance to the comprehensive development of salt lake resources. it will speed up the solution of scientific and technological problems in the salt lake industry, further strengthen scientific and technological support work such as efficient development and comprehensive utilization of salt lake resources, and promote the solution of technical problems perplexing the development and utilization of salt lake resources.

President Xi Jinping also stressed the need to speed up the construction of a world-class salt lake industrial base during his inspection tour of Qinghai on June 9, 2021. As one of the local high-quality lithium resource areas, Qinghai salt lake lithium extraction already has the basis for large-scale expansion.

Tibet Mining also mentioned in the previously released record table of investor activities that the government of the Tibet Autonomous region attaches great importance to economic development and actively supports the company's salt lake development, hoping to take the development of Zabuye Salt Lake as a benchmark project. drive the construction of "Li City" in Xigaze.

In view of the increasing shortage of domestic lithium resources, many industry insiders speculate that the 14th five-year Plan put forward by the government of the Tibet Autonomous region a few days ago may benefit the salt lake lithium extraction industry in Tibet.