Hebei Messi Biology Co., Ltd. stated that my country has large reserves and large output of magnesium carbonate, but most of the magnesium carbonate products are primary products, and my country is also the country with the largest export volume of primary magnesium carbonate products. These primary magnesium carbonate products have overcapacity and disorderly competition, which in turn suppresses prices and makes them cheap. In stark contrast, the price of imported high value-added magnesium carbonate products is as high as tens of thousands of yuan per ton, which is dozens of times different.
The main export countries of magnesium carbonate in my country are the United States, Japan, South Korea, Germany, etc., and the annual export volume accounts for more than 50% of the total export volume of countries in the world. The export countries of primary magnesium carbonate products in my country are precisely the import countries of high value-added magnesium carbonate products in my country. While my country exports a large number of primary magnesium carbonate products, developed countries such as the United States, Japan, and South Korea have long listed magnesium carbonate as a strategic resource, strictly controlling mining and replacing purchase with mining.
my country’s primary magnesium carbonate products are exported at low prices, and high-end products are imported at high prices. The disparity in import and export prices means that my country’s magnesium carbonate resources are lost at low prices, and the magnesium carbonate industry has suffered huge losses, which has also made the magnesium carbonate industry criticized. The problems of magnesium carbonate industry in my country are prominent, which are manifested as: insufficient attention to resources; excessive exploitation of magnesium carbonate; serious waste of resources, low-priced inflow overseas; dependence on imports for high-end products; relatively scattered mining rights, great integration pressure; backward mining and selection technology, serious environmental pollution; shortage of high-end technology, lack of talent, and overcapacity of low-end production capacity.
Hebei Messi Biology Co., Ltd. recommends: regulating magnesium carbonate production capacity nationwide, using market means to allocate resources; optimizing industrial structure, eliminating backward production capacity, and increasing product added value; setting a reasonable mining scale; increasing support for magnesium carbonate development technology funds; adjusting foreign trade structure; investing in the exploitation of foreign resources; establishing a magnesium carbonate industry management system; and encouraging independent innovation and product research and development. At the same time, the magnesium carbonate industry should reduce the proportion of low-value-added products, focus on the technical development and research of high-value-added deep-processed magnesium carbonate products, and deep-processed magnesium carbonate products have a very broad market space.