Low-carbon Perspective Mineral Trade Policy Analysis

From the perspective of low carbon, this paper aims to changing the past China's trade development mode of not "quality" but "quantity", optimizing the structure of mineral, ascending the trade quality and realizing the mineral balanced development between the "quality" and "quantity". The paper intends to not only promoting mineral trade development, but also protecting the natural ecological environment.For this reason, the paper analysed the status of China's mineral trade, measured the net import loaded energy and net import loaded carbon. On the above results, low carbonizing strategy and energy saving tactics were put forward.The status of China's mineral trade could be described like:the non-metallic mineral almost composed as the net export, but the metallic mineral almost composed as the net import. Cement was the representative non-metallic mineral, and Iron ores was the representative metallic mineral.Based on the above analysis, the paper constructed a theoretical measurement model of mineral net import loaded energy by referring the "Life Cycle Assessment", and concluded that the structure of China's net import loaded energy was two-way structure, including the negative loaded energy of metallic mineral and the positive loaded energy of non-metallic mineral.By combining the above theoretical measurement model and the "Carbon Emission Coefficient of Coal", the paper constructed another theoretical measurement model in order to measuring the net import loaded carbon of mineral, and concluded that the structure of China's net import loaded carbon was dual structure, including the low carbon metallic mineral and high carbon non-metallic mineral. The representative low carbon metallic mineral was Iron ores, and the representative high carbon non-metallic mineral was cement. The reason could be summarised as that the metallic mineral had import advantage and the non-metallic mineral had export advantage.Thereby, low carbonization of China's mineral trade needs to keep the principle of ascending imported quality and optimizing export structure, formulate different low carbonization structure adjustment strategies and energy saving tacitcs according to the metallic mineral and the non-metallic mineral, make the change from the growth of "quantity" to the ascension of "quality", and explore the low carbonizing development mode of China's mineral trade.