On September 22, Zhou Xing, press spokesman and vice-minister of the Ministry of Natural Resources, said at the press conference of the State Information Office that China is a major manufacturing country. During the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, China's demand for important mineral resources will continue to grow rigidly. To this end, the Ministry of Natural Resources will continue to implement a new round of prospecting breakthrough strategic actions to firmly stabilize the energy industry and provide a strong guarantee for China's development of advanced manufacturing. These include implementing a national geological mapping plan to increase the coverage rate of the 1:50000 regional geological survey to 51%, and increase the geological survey coverage of minerals in important mining areas to 66%; increasing exploration and mining efforts, organizing and carrying out prospecting campaigns, focusing on scarce minerals such as petroleum, iron, copper, aluminum, etc., taking into account advantageous minerals such as rare earths, and deploying a number of key exploration and mining projects to steadily advance the construction of about 300 energy resource bases to strengthen the momentum to guarantee energy resource safety; strengthen scientific and technological innovation to achieve incremental breakthroughs and inventory activities Promote mining enterprises to raise the “three rate” level etc.

On September 22, Zhou Xing, press spokesman and vice-minister of the Ministry of Natural Resources, said at the press conference of the State Information Office that China is a major manufacturing country. During the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, China's demand for important mineral resources will continue to grow rigidly. To this end, the Ministry of Natural Resources will continue to implement a new round of prospecting breakthrough strategic actions to firmly stabilize the energy industry and provide a strong guarantee for China's development of advanced manufacturing. These include implementing a national geological mapping plan to increase the coverage rate of the 1:50000 regional geological survey to 51%, and increase the geological survey coverage of minerals in important mining areas to 66%; increasing exploration and mining efforts, organizing and carrying out prospecting campaigns, focusing on scarce minerals such as petroleum, iron, copper, aluminum, etc., taking into account advantageous minerals such as rare earths, and deploying a number of key exploration and mining projects to steadily advance the construction of about 300 energy resource bases to strengthen the momentum to guarantee energy resource safety; strengthen scientific and technological innovation to achieve incremental breakthroughs and inventory activities Promote mining enterprises to raise the “three rate” level etc.