CHINA PLENUM LIKELY TO LIBERALISE MINERALS SECTOR – BUT IT COULD TAKE TIME

Policymakers and industrial officials across China’s industrial minerals complex face an uneasy Chinese New Year break, as they assess how best to balance new policy imperatives from Beijing with their own often-competing interests.The historic ‘third plenary’ central committee meeting of China’s top leaders in Beijing last November concluded with a “resolution” pledging to allow the market to play a more “decisive” role in the allocation of resources.The policy statement also committed the government to solving deeply embedded structural ...


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