The world's largest reserves of 14 mineral resources - China's production reached about $4.77 trillion in 2025
China holds the world's largest reserves of 14 mineral resources, including rare earth metals, tungsten, tin, molybdenum, antimony, gallium, germanium, indium, fluorite and graphite, its latest mineral resources data showed.
Since launching a new round of strategic actions for breakthroughs in mineral exploration in 2021, China has seen a significant increase in its mineral resource reserves, officials said.
A total of 398 new large and medium-sized strategic mineral deposits have been discovered -- including oil and gas fields. Historic progress has been made in the exploration of major minerals such as copper, gold and potash, while great progress has been made in the exploration of emerging strategic minerals including lithium, helium and high-purity quartz. These achievements have significantly strengthened China's capacity for independent resource security.
"The significant increase in resource reserves stems directly from systematic exploration and reserve enhancement efforts targeting critically scarce minerals and strategically advantageous minerals within the framework of the strategic action for breakthroughs in mineral exploration, laying a solid foundation for achieving independent and controllable resource security," the officials said.
China's mining industry output reached about $4.77 trillion in 2025, accounting for more than 23 percent of the country's GDP, underscoring its position as the world's largest in mineral production, smelting and processing.
In 2025, the country also ranked first globally in the production of 17 mineral resources, including coal, vanadium, titanium, zinc, rare earth metals, tungsten, tin, molybdenum, antimony, gallium, indium, gold, and tellurium.
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