China Phosphorite Industry Production & Marketing Demand and Investment Forecast Report, 2013-2017

Globally, phosphorite resources mainly distribute in Africa, South America, Asia, and the Middle East, among which 80% of phosphorite resources densely distribute in Morocco, Western Sahara, South Africa, USA, China, Jordan, and Russia. At present, China's annual output of phosphorite resources is above 60 million tons, far higher than that of in USA, Morocco, Western Sahara and so on. Although China has abundant of phosphorite resources, it has few high-quality phosphorite resources. China's phosphorite reserves ranks the second in the world, just following Morocco and Western Sahara. As of 2007, it's found that China has 17.6 billion tons of ore reserves. Converted into standard ore, it becomes 10.5 billion tons; the reserves of rich phosphorite resources with P2O5 content equal to or over 30% reaches 1.66 billion tons (approximately 1.76 tons of standard ore). If we still exploit and develop phosphorite resources following the mode of "exploit the rich, and abandoning the poor", there will be no any phosphorite resources in China 20 years later.

China's Yunan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Hubei provinces have the most abundant phosphorite resources, among which the output in heibei province breaks through 20 million tons annually, ranking the top among these four provinces. However, the output of a single factory in Hubei province has only 214,000 tons, which is not only lower than the output of 636,700 tons in Yunnan and the output of 544,300 in Guizhou. Thus, it's an inevitable trend to integrate Hubei and national phosphorite resources.

Due to the rareness characteristic of phosphorite resources and the disordered exploitation and development phenomenon, the utilization rate of small-scale phosphorite resources is just 15% to 30%; while the utilization rate of large-scale phosphorite resources can reach around 60% to 80%. Therefore, China's phosphorite resources affluent provinces have taken measures to control the small-scale exploitation of phosphorite resources, and they have made some progress on it. For instance, the number of phosphorite resources decreased from 284 enterprises to 145. At present, "Twelfth Five-year" Plan of Chemical Mining Industry will rise the phosphorite resources status to a precedented high level. It requires to establish phosphorite resources reserves system in the next 5 years and to improve the admittance of exploitation. Meanwhile, each phosphorite resources affluent province positively begins to introduce integration policies, and the price of phosphorite resources keeps going up.

With Forward’s long-term tracking and collecting market data of phosphorite industry, we roundly and accurately analyze the industry structure system for you from the view of mastering the whole industry. The report mainly focuses on analyzing the up and down industrial chain markets of phosphorite industry; the market of phosphorite industry; the key regions of phosphorite industry; the leading corporations' operational condition in phosphorite industry; as well as the investment situation of phosphorite industry. Meanwhile, with comprehensive and specific first-hand market data over the past 5 years, Forward helps you to grasp the market and development trends of phosphorite industry, so as to win advantages from competition!

The most distinctive characteristics of this report is forward-looking and timeliness. Through analyzing forward-looking characteristic of abundant first-hand market data, we deeply and objectively dissect China phosphorite industry’s overall market capacity, market size, competitive landscape and characteristics of market demand. Furthermore, based on future development tracks and years' practice experience of phosphorite industry, we conduct prudent analysis and forecast for phosphorite industry's future development trend. This report helps phosphorite manufacturing enterprises, R&D institutions, marketing enterprises and investment enterprises to precisely grasp current latest developments of the industry. Afterwards, they can make wise operating decisions and define enterprises' development directions.

Here, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to State Information Center, Bureau of Statistics of China, International Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, Tsinghua University Library, Development Research Center of the State Council and Beijing Essence Forward Research Center, for their great support when we conduct this report!

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Qianzhan Business Information Co., Ltd. Industry Research Center
Research Team of Phosphorite Industry