On the evening of March 18, 2026, at Chery Automobile Battery Night 2026 in Wuhu, Anhui, Chery unveiled its Rhino all-solid-state battery technology. It had completed the development and pilot production of a 60Ah, 400Wh/kg all-solid-state battery cell and was advancing toward an ultra-high energy density of 600Wh/kg.

This week (March 13, 2026–March 19, 2026), multiple enterprises in the solid-state battery sector were active: Dali Times commenced construction of a 2 GWh specialized semi-solid-state battery base; EVE’s Longquan Phase III/IV all-solid-state batteries rolled off the line in Chengdu; Chery released its 600 Wh/kg Rhino all-solid-state battery technology。

[Masteel's Five Auto Plate Grades Obtained GM's Global Certification]: Recently, Masteel's five auto plate grades, including bake hardenable steel and pickled high-strength steel, have passed GM's global Tier 1 engineering certification. To date, Masteel has obtained a total of 22 GM-certified grades, further deepening its cooperation with joint-venture automakers and laying a solid foundation for expanding the application scenarios of Masteel's auto plates. "In recent years, the automotive industry has been undergoing rapid restructuring. Nevertheless, SAIC-GM still holds a strong market position in the conventional fuel vehicle market and has immense potential for growth in the new energy market. Additionally, the certification body of GM, Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC), is highly authoritative and influential in China, helping to enhance product brand power," said the head of the auto plate team at the marketing center. "The Masteel auto plate team has actively seized opportunities, closely monitored customer needs, and strived to provide SAIC-GM with more cost-effective products. By certifying new grades, we aim to explore new markets and promote mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation between both parties.

Entering the Emergency Command and Production Monitoring Center at the headquarters of Shaanxi Nonferrous Metals Group, one saw data converging like streams on a giant LCD screen: robotic arms in the titanium processing workshop were moving with precision, and the current parameters of the aluminum electrolysis cells were fluctuating in real time... The production and operational status of more than a dozen subsidiaries, spanning hundreds of kilometers, was condensed into a limited space and transformed into vivid strings of numbers. “In the past, dispatching relied on phone calls, inspections relied on walking, and emergency response took at least two hours; now, with a click of the mouse, real-time conditions at the site are instantly displayed. We no longer depend on verbal descriptions from personnel, the scenarios are more realistic, command is more precise, and contingency plans can be activated within minutes.” The words of the person in charge of the Enterprise Management and Operations Information Department of Shaanxi Nonferrous Metals Group conveyed a sense of composure and confidence. That composure stemmed from a profound digital transformation. In 2025, Shaanxi Nonferrous Metals Group fully launched its “Year for Enhancing Digitalized Management and Control,” placing information technology development at the core of efforts to drive high-quality transformation and upgrading. Over the past year, with the overall objective of “vertical integration, horizontal connectivity, real-time online operations, coordinated action across all levels, and precise, effective execution,” Shaanxi Nonferrous Metals Group systematically advanced work across multiple dimensions, including business process reengineering, information system integration, and unified data standards, gradually building a digital system covering all areas of business operation and management, and injecting strong momentum into the enterprise’s modern governance and industrial upgrading. Top-Level Planning Seeing One Blueprint Through to the End In 2025, the information technology work of Shaanxi Nonferrous Metals Group closely focused on the annual goal of “initial visible results” in high-quality transformation and upgrading, serving the development of a modern industrial system and governance system. By building a management and control business system featuring “vertical integration and horizontal connectivity,” it established three major implementation paths: first, comprehensively reviewing and redesigning business processes to achieve standardized management; second, joining forces with leading technology companies in the industry to build a vertically integrated management and control system spanning all levels of the group; and third, unifying the standards and coding for eight categories of master data, including organization, personnel, materials, and accounting subjects, breaking through horizontal business barriers and focusing on in-depth digital development in key business areas such as investment, procurement, safety, finance, human resources, and Party building. To ensure effective implementation, Shaanxi Nonferrous Metals Group innovatively established a promotion mechanism featuring “three meetings, three lists, and three services.” It strengthened overall planning and coordination through the monthly meeting of the information technology leadership group, special project meetings, and work promotion meetings; relied on demand, project, and progress lists to achieve refined and period-based management; and ensured the solid implementation and sustained operation of information technology projects through full-cycle services covering consulting, development, and operations and maintenance. Building on Systems Constructing a Solid “Digital Tower” Shaanxi Nonferrous Metals Group used a major push in digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading to strengthen the foundation of its industrial reform and transformation, focusing on building a “big digital intelligence” empowerment system and using new models, new business forms, and new tools to amplify reform results. Consolidate the digital foundation. Strengthen digital infrastructure development across all industry chain clusters and all affiliated enterprises, accelerate the enhancement of data collection, processing, management, and application capabilities across the entire industry chain of “exploration, research, construction; mining, beneficiation, smelting; materials, equipment, trade,” and build a solid foundation for digital transformation. Focus on building a robust and reliable digital foundation and establish the overall “5 Ones + N” information architecture: “one foundation,” the Shaanxi Nonferrous enterprise cloud platform and a high-speed broadband network covering the Group’s information applications; “one platform,” a digital empowerment platform; “one portal,” the Group’s unified portal (external portal + internal portal); “one safeguard,” an information security and operations and maintenance support system; “one standard,” a standards and specifications system; and “N applications,” N business application systems covering the three levels of strategic decision-making, business management, and production operations. Improve data connectivity. Build a network interconnection environment and data flow mechanism covering all affiliated enterprises, accelerate information interconnection and computing power support, break down “data silos” across different links such as R&D, production, management, and marketing, and improve the level of internal business data integration and collaboration across the entire system. Through five major measures, including strict implementation of the “top leader accountability system,” the use of domestically developed and controllable products for basic software and hardware, PTN dedicated lines plus zero-trust technology to provide data exchange channels, the implementation of classified cybersecurity protection assessments for important information systems, and regular attack-and-defense drills, Shaanxi Nonferrous Metals Group built a multi-dimensional cybersecurity defense line to firmly safeguard the enterprise’s digital assets. At the same time, guided by the core objectives of “unified standards, unified platform, unified interfaces, and unified operations and maintenance,” supported by three major systems—the master data standards system, master data management system, and master data integration system—and carried by one intelligent master data management platform, it established a “1+3+1” data resource management system to achieve the aggregation, governance, and value mining of dispersed data. Strengthen intelligent integration. Focus on all links of “exploration, design, mining, ore dressing, smelting, processing, and trade,” vigorously advance the development of digital and intelligent demonstration scenarios, and build demonstration projects for advanced green digital and intelligent technologies. Centered on the entire value chain, all asset elements, and the full life cycle, make every effort to build an intelligent collaboration platform to support high-end upgrading, underpin green development, ensure production safety, and achieve efficient operations. Breakthroughs on Multiple Fronts Key Projects Demonstrate Digital Results The implementation of a series of key projects has become vivid testimony to the transformation and upgrading of Shaanxi Nonferrous Metals Group. Party-building informatization turned “soft tasks” into “hard indicators.” In response to the characteristics of primary-level Party organizations being “numerous in points, extended in lines, and broad in coverage,” the “Nonferrous Pioneer” Party-building informatization platform launched in 2025 integrated big data and artificial intelligence technologies to build a management matrix covering 6 major modules, 35 core businesses, and 80 detailed items, moving Party-building work from “paper” to “online.”Since the platform began operation, the efficiency of Party affairs processing has increased by 80, the incidence of overdue tasks has fallen by more than 50, the error rate in manual reporting has decreased by 80, and work traceability has achieved 100 digital coverage. By transforming Party-building assessment indicators into value-output dimensions such as strategic enforcement and risk prevention and control capability, a closed-loop mechanism of “push-execute-supervise-feedback” has been established, enabling deep integration between Party-building work and production and operations, with visible data and tangible results. Human Resources Informatization, Unlocking the Potential of the “Primary Resource.” Human resources informatization has entered a new stage of process-based and collaborative management, realizing full-process online and standardized management across organization management, personnel management, compensation and benefits, and performance management. It has not only addressed the problems of low efficiency and long processing times for procedures such as onboarding, confirmation of employment, job transfer, and resignation, but also resolved pain points such as non-standard approvals, inconsistent policy enforcement, and error-prone data verification. The effectiveness of operations management, compliance management, and data management has been improved in parallel, making human resources a true core driver of enterprise development. Financial Informatization, Building a Strong “Embankment” for Risk Prevention and Control. By implementing a decentralized, penetrative, group-wide financial control model, Shaanxi Nonferrous Metals Group established a three-in-one risk prevention system covering “operational risk-business risk-financial risk,” achieving end-to-end penetrative management “from business to statements, and from statements to funds,” and providing intelligent decision-making support throughout the full cycle of “post-event review-in-process optimization-pre-event predictive simulation.” The finance-supply chain integration project launched in January 2026 will further connect key links such as procurement, accounting, and capital, providing real-time and accurate data support for decision-making. Safety and Environmental Protection Informatization, Building a “Dual Line of Defense” Through Whole-Chain Intelligent Control. Taking the development of safety and environmental protection informatization as a starting point, Shaanxi Nonferrous Metals Group continuously deepened its intelligent monitoring and early warning capabilities and accelerated the construction of a whole-chain, visualized intelligent safety and environmental protection control system, thereby reinforcing the safety foundation for high-quality transformation and upgrading. Deepening intelligent monitoring to improve the precision of early warning. After the Group’s dual-prevention informatization platform went online, it established three-dimensional data coordinate models for major hazard sources such as mines, tailings ponds, and hazardous chemicals, accurately mapped key risk monitoring points onto the models, and visually presented hidden disaster-causing factors, thereby enabling intelligent risk analysis, assessment, and early warning. At the same time, it comprehensively promoted an informatized management platform for hazard identification and rectification, achieving full-process closed-loop management of issues and hazards from discovery and rectification to closure through real-time entry, dynamic updating, and whole-process tracking, and strictly preventing “omitted hazards and delayed rectification.” Strengthening process control to reinforce the on-site safety line of defense. Tianhong Ruike, through linkage with the digital dual-prevention system, achieved precise positioning of workers, real-time risk monitoring, and intelligent early warning, building a visualized safety assurance system deeply integrating “human-based prevention + technology-based prevention,” and driving on-site safety management from “passive response” to “proactive prevention.”Empowering outsourced operations oversight to achieve penetrative management. Relying on its safety and environmental protection information management and control platform and the Safety Assistant app, the Smelting Branch of Jinduicheng Molybdenum Group has established a model of “full-process online supervision + dynamic data empowerment” for contractors, enabling real-time tracking and closed-loop management across multiple links, and advancing outsourced operations oversight from “blurred control” to “precise penetration,” with both the penetrative strength and timeliness of supervision improved in tandem. In addition, a number of key projects, including the private cloud platform, the group-wide backbone network, and the electronic tendering and procurement platform, were completed and put into operation one after another, playing an important role in improving resource utilization rates, ensuring safety and compliance, and strengthening risk prevention and control. The outline of “Digital Nonferrous” is becoming increasingly clear. Intelligence Ushers In the Future Embarking on a New Journey Toward “AI+” Looking ahead to the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Shaanxi Nonferrous Metals Group’s information technology development will deepen the transformation toward “penetrative” management, use the “AI+” initiative as a key driver, and promote the intelligent upgrading of the traditional “mining, beneficiation, smelting, and processing” industries. Adhering to the approach of “building benchmarks, focusing on exemplars, and leading through demonstration,” the group will advance, in a coordinated and step-by-step manner, the full-chain work of “construction, trial operation, and acceptance” for more than 20 information technology projects currently under implementation. It will create typical application scenarios in fields such as mine exploration, mining and beneficiation, metal smelting, processing and manufacturing, and design and construction, so as to drive quality improvement and efficiency gains across the entire industrial chain from key points to the broader whole, and inject new vitality into traditional industries. Starting from applications in production scenarios, it will also build foundational computing power platforms in parallel, and gradually establish a working path for the fine-tuning and deployment of industry-specific large models. Ultimately, it will realize a shift from “experience-driven” to “data- and AI-driven,” move from single-point breakthroughs to system-wide empowerment, advance the intelligent upgrading of industry, and comprehensively enhance enterprises’ core competitiveness in such areas as resource security, production efficiency, cost control, green development, and decision-making capability. The surging tide spurs us forward, and the wind is just right for setting sail. Shaanxi Nonferrous Metals Group will take information technology and intelligent technology as its oars, lead with innovation, strive for excellence through solid work, ride the waves on the voyage toward high-quality transformation and upgrading and tangible improvement in quality and performance, and press ahead at full speed toward the goal of building a world-class enterprise.

Due to slower-than-expected transitions to electric vehicles in the United States and Europe, Albemarle, the world's largest lithium producer, has lowered its demand forecast for lithium, a key battery material, in 2030. According to reports, Albemarle predicted last Friday that the global demand for lithium carbonate equivalent would be 3.3 million tons by 2030, a 10% reduction from the previous estimate of 3.7 million tons. This information was cited from an interview with Eric Norris, the President of Albemarle's lithium business.

The center will feature over 50 cutting-edge technology laboratories and 11 major research institutes, focusing on automotive engineering, product planning, and new technology research.

On March 13, 2024, Enerji SA, Turkey's leading energy company, in collaboration with Zebra and Huawei Digital Power Technologies, officially launched Turkey's first liquid-cooled supercharging station...

On April 8, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of Wuzhong City, Ningxia, issued a public notice on the cancellation of new energy projects that do not meet construction conditions in Wuzhong City. The reasons for the cancellation include the abandonment of construction by the investment entity and the expiration of the filing documents. According to the document, a total of four projects were canceled, with a cumulative scale of 117.3 MW, including two wind power projects and two PV projects. The canceled scale of PV projects reached 100 MW. Among them, the wind power projects were both under China Datang Corporation, and the PV projects were under Ningxia Master Industrial Group Co., Ltd. Details are as follows: Original text is as follows: Public Notice of the Development and Reform Commission of Wuzhong City on the Cancellation of New Energy Projects That Do Not Meet Construction Conditions in Wuzhong City In accordance with the requirements of the Notice on the Cancellation of New Energy Projects That Do Not Meet Construction Conditions (Ning Development and Reform Energy [2025] No. 173) issued by the Development and Reform Commission of the Autonomous Region, our commission organized the development and reform bureaus of various counties (cities, districts) and parks to carry out related work. After sorting and reporting by various regions, a total of four new energy projects that do not meet construction conditions were canceled in Wuzhong City. They are the 10.3 MW distributed wind power project of Datang Ningxia Hongsibu in Hongsibu District, the 7 MW distributed wind power project of Datang Ningxia Qingtongxia in Qingtongxia City, the Yancheng (Gaoshawo) Hanas PV Power Station project in Yancheng County, and the Yancheng (Gaoshawo) Master PV Power Station project. The cancellation of new energy projects that do not meet construction conditions in Wuzhong City is now publicly announced. The public notice period is 5 working days, from April 8, 2025, to 18:00 on April 14. If there are any objections, please submit written comments to the Energy Section of our commission. Contact information: 0953-2039808. Attachment: List of New Energy Projects That Do Not Meet Construction Conditions Cancelled in Wuzhong City Development and Reform Commission of Wuzhong City April 8, 2025

Overseas lithium hydroxide prices are relatively firm and more than 50,000 yuan/mt higher than prices in China, providing room for arbitrage.

Recently, Jiangsu Kangtai Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Kangtai Technology") has achieved a technological breakthrough in the field of non-ferrous metal materials. Relying on the company's advanced high-speed continuous rolling production line, it has successfully rolled out a 15mm magnesium alloy round product. Through precise temperature field control and dynamic pass pressure adjustment, the product achieves efficient and high-precision forming with an out-of-roundness of ≤0.3mm. After 18 consecutive passes of hot rolling deformation, the magnesium alloy round product produced by Kangtai Technology features uniform and fine microstructure and high comprehensive performance. As an innovative achievement in lightweight solutions, the magnesium alloy round produced by Kangtai Technology can be widely used in 3C product structural components, NEV battery trays, and aerospace cabin interior decoration components. Currently, Kangtai Technology has mastered the core process of hot continuous rolling for three non-ferrous metal materials: titanium, magnesium, and aluminum. Kangtai Technology will continue to uphold the philosophy of "innovation-driven, quality-oriented," optimize process parameters, upgrade equipment, continuously reduce production costs, and simultaneously develop new-generation lightweight materials such as magnesium-lithium alloys, aiming to become a globally leading supplier of lightweight solutions for non-ferrous metals. Magnesium Industry Company Business Contact The 2025 Magnesium Industry Chain and Magnesium Market Forum is now open for registration Please contact: 13162929454 (Jiaxin Lu)