Abstract:
It is the key stage of for China as a large mineral resources’ country to become a mineral resources power in the next ten years base on the fact of “large but not strong” of Chinese mineral resources situation.This paper systematically establishes the three-dimensional evaluation index system of mineral resources power.Using the above evaluation system, this paper evaluates 10 global mineral resources countries including the United States and China.The results show that the 10 mineral resources countries participating in the evaluation, including the United States, Japan, Australia and Canada, can be called a mineral power, China, South Africa, Russia, three countries are large mineral resources power, Brazil and India are weak mineral resources power.Britain is a decaying power of mineral resources.Based on the experience of four countries, seven characteristics of mineral resources power are put forward, as well as the suggestions of Chinese mineral strategy.