Security of China’s Strategic and Critical Minerals under Background of Great Power Competition

Authors

Anjian WANG, Global Mineral Resources Strategy Research Center, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China Institute of Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, ChinaFollow
Xiaojing YUAN, Global Mineral Resources Strategy Research Center, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China Institute of Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China

Keywords

critical mineral; industrial chain; spatial-temporal evolution; potential risks; policy implications

Document Type

China's Strategic and Critical Minerals Strategy

Abstract

Strategic and critical minerals are a type of resource that is essential to the country's economic development, indispensable to strategic emerging industries, and closely related to geopolitics. The types of strategic and critical minerals show some laws of spatial-temporal evolution due to the different stages of national economic development, economic structure and global industrial division of labor. Especially since the new century, with the rapid development of strategic emerging industries such as information technology, artificial intelligence and renewable energy, the connotation of strategic critical minerals has been continuously extended and closely connected with the industrial chain, highlighting its important position and security significance. China, the United States and the European Union have a high degree of overlap in the types of strategic critical minerals, and the United States and other Western countries are trying to build a critical mineral supply chain independent of China. Hence, it requires China to formulate relevant strategies and make scientific and reasonable responses.

First page

1550

Last Page

1559

Language

Chinese

Publisher

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Recommended Citation

WANG, Anjian and YUAN, Xiaojing (2022) "Security of China’s Strategic and Critical Minerals under Background of Great Power Competition," Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version): Vol. 37 : Iss. 11 , Article 9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.16418/j.issn.1000-3045.20220817001
Available at: https://bulletinofcas.researchcommons.org/journal/vol37/iss11/9