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China's annual sales of new energy vehicles grow from 1.367 million units in 2020 to 6.887 million units in 2022, a four-fold increase in two years. A new energy vehicle requires roughly 30 to 60 kilograms of lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide. Lithium, a silvery-white metal in its pure state, is 0.0065% in the earth's crust and used to be "industrial monosodium glutamate", but now it is "white oil". According to China's manufacturing capacity in the field of new energy vehicles, China is bound to consume most of the world's lithium resources in the coming decades.
Although China has 7% of the world's lithium resources, the grade is low and basically located in remote areas like Tibet and Qinghai, with poor infrastructure support facilities, difficult mining and fragile ecology. For example, the largest lithium pyroxene mine in Asia, the methylka lithium mine, located in Sichuan, has not been able to achieve large-scale development due to various reasons.
The growth in demand is bound to bring a surge in the price of upstream resources. In the face of soaring demand, how did the Chinese take control of lithium mining on a global scale, step by step? How many thrills and chills are there in this? And how much remorse? Let's watch today's video.
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