Resumen de China maintains strict environmental stance on heavy industry pollution
Davide Ghilotti, William Clarke, Carrie Shi
Regional governments in each province of China have also made more effort to control pollution, and to accelerate industrial restructuring and upgrading, in order to reduce the pressure on the country’s ecology. Since April, Liaoning province has restricted magnesite mining pending environmental inspections, Hebei province has brought in stricter regulation for local companies, Shanxi province has started a new round of environment inspections in Lvliang and Jinzhong, and Sichuan province has started inspections regarding health and safety in sectors including steel, coal and electrolytic aluminium. [...]the wide-reaching government action related to the implementation and tightening of the environmental policy has had serious consequences for a number of mineral supply chains in the country, including bauxite and alumina, graphite and magnesia, and titanium dioxide (TiO2). Graphite In line with the restrictions imposed on other mineral supply chains, graphite was also widely affected by the environmental policy-related series of inspections and closures last year, especially in Shandong, the main producing province for the mineral.
