关键词: 可持续发展, 矿产资源基础, 开发战略

Abstract: Although China is one of the largest mineral producers and consumers in the world, the country still has a poorer image in mineral resources due to a rapidly growing industrialization and a great number of population. To pursuit the goal of a sustainable development, it is very important for China to pour more capital and technologies into mineral industry for reinforcing its mineral base and to improve regulations and management in mineral production and consumption for protecting its limited mineral resources continually on the one hand, and to open more widely to the world's mineral market in order to increase imports of some key minerals such as oil and gas on the other. In terms of the practices of the world's industrialization and the recent economic development of China itself, the higher speed of economic development and the higher living standard a country has, the more opening mineral supply it depends while the deteriorated environment has a greater pressure on the structural change of energy consumption. China, therefore, has an urgent need for changing its mineral supply policy from a self reliance one to a new one which rests on “ two wheels ” of mineral supply from both domestic and international markets to drive its economy now, and such a policy should become a critical part of the national sustainable development strategy.

Key words: sustainable development, mineral base, strategy of mineral exploitation