The industry has also stepped up efforts ensuring safe mining in recent years, Sun said.

The trip by rail and sea was about 20 days shorter than if the goods had been sent by sea.

As the world's largest stainless steel producer and consumer, China saw its output rise 1.64 percent year-on-year to over 30.6 million tons in 2021.

Most of the capital goods monitored by the Chinese government posted higher prices in early August compared with late July this year.

China's booming environmental protection industry is playing an increasingly important role in boosting economic growth.

China's northernmost province of Heilongjiang saw its foreign trade in goods grow 31.9 percent year-on-year to 145.06 billion yuan ($21.52 billion) in the first seven months of 2022, according to local customs.

The China Rare Earth Society 2022 Academic Annual Conference was held simultaneously.

For this year, mining exports could hit US$3.8bn, up 20% on 2021, Franco Mignacco, president of the Argentine chamber of mining entrepreneurs (CAEM), told state news agency Télam.