摘要
China has become the largest nonferrous metalsconsumer country in the world. Along with thehigh-speed development of industrialization,China’s demand for nonferrous metals is grow-ing with more dependence on the internationalmarket supply and more shortages are expectedfor the years to come.Statistics show that with constant and high-speed economic development,China’s refinedmetals consumption grew from 4.5 million tonsin 1995 to 12 million tons in 2003,increasingby almost 2.7 times over a period of nine years.And with direct import of fabricated
