Baotou Boosts Upgrading of Rare Earth Industry

Baotou to promote the upgrading of the rare earth industry. The city is the largest industrial city in Inner Mongolia. It is an important energy, raw material, rare earth and equipment manufacturing base for the country and Inner Mongolia. It is known as "Prairie Steel City" and "Rare Earth Capital". With the development of the economy, as an old industrial tungsten carbide burrs blank city, is also facing the urgent task of technological progress and industrial upgrading.

In 2015, the Beijing Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Department of Science and Technology of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Baotou Iron and Steel Company and the Municipal Government jointly established the Baotou Rare Earth R&D Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to promote the transformation of the rare earth industry’s development mode of "digging and selling soil" and embarking on high-quality development.

Industrialization faces problems such as high cost and scaling issues. This stage of experiment and demonstration needs to be promoted and guided by the government. The Rare Earth Center does research in engineering, and transforms the results into customized tungsten carbide the operation mode of the enterprise. Actively promotes rare earth centers to place scientific research results, R&D centers, to achieve a precise connection between scientific research and industrial demand.

The use of rare earth optical functional materials technology could improve the light environment in agricultural facilities, increase the output and quality of agricultural products (6.710, 0.00, 0.00%), and significantly increase the income of farmers and production users. This technology has formed a light environment dynamic parameter control system suitable for a variety of common greenhouse economic crops presently.

At present, the world's first continuous tunnel kiln production line for rare earth sulfide colorants has been built, rare earth special steel tungsten carbide rods preparation technology and industrialization, nano super smooth cerium-based polishing liquid controllable preparation technology have achieved key breakthroughs. The Rare Earth R&D Center has built 10 technology pilot demonstration lines, incubated 20 high-tech companies, and gradually embarked on a road to transform scientific and technological achievements with regional characteristics.

In addition to the rare earth industry, Baotou is also promoting accelerated industrial upgrading in the traditional equipment manufacturing industry. BEIBEN Trucks Group CO., LTD. is a large-scale heavy-duty vehicle manufacturing enterprise directly under the Ordnance Industry Group. At present, Beiben Heavy Duty Truck is responding to market demand and continuously improving its technical level and product quality. It owns unique product characteristics and technical advantages under various harsh conditions such as high cold, hypoxia, high temperature, and damp heat. Its products are widely used in water conservancy and electric power, petroleum, mining and many other fields. Up to now, the domestic market has exceeded 200,000 vehicles, making important contributions to the development of the national economy and national defense.

Facing the new development pattern of rare earth industry, Baotou has been continuously increasing its efforts to promote scientific and technological research and development, achievement transformation, etc., to give full play to scientific research and technology advantages. The industry should further develop technologies and applications to meet demand from various sectors, especially those related to high-tech and new materials, in order to promote the nation's overall development.