China government to shut down illegal aluminum smelting plant, but bauxite imports soaring

It is reported that China's bauxite imports surged this year, with the imports rising nearly 50% in Sep-tember, although China's primary aluminum production fell for the third consecutive month, but the b-auxite imports in September was imported 6.5 million tons. In January-September, China's bauxite im-ports were 51.3 million tons, an annual increase by 36.1%.

China government was dedicated to shut down illegal aluminum smelting plant, the output of primary aluminum fell by 5.2%. In June 2017, the output of primary aluminum reached 2.93 million tons , Acc-ording to CRU statistic showed that the annual capacity of China aluminum smelting was about 45 mi-llion tons.

China government would cut down the capacity of primary aluminum and would plan to shut down 3-4 million tons permanently this year and plan to take more measures to carry it out in the next few m-onths.