China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association Duan Shaofu: Research will include large trading volume and easily marketable copper concentrates in the reserve scope.

At the news briefing on the economic operation of the non-ferrous metal industry in 2025 held by the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association today, Duan Shaofu, Deputy Secretary General of the association, stated that they will improve the construction of copper resource reserves system. On one hand, they will expand the scale of national copper strategic reserves, on the other hand, they will explore the commercial reserve mechanism. By choosing state-owned backbone enterprises to pilot commercial reserves through methods such as financial subsidies. In addition, in addition to reserving refined copper, it is also possible to consider including copper concentrates with large trading volumes and easy liquidity in the reserve scope."