Research Of The Countermeasures For The Improvement Of China's Discourse Power In International Tin Market

According to the latest statistics released by USGS,the world tin reserves reached 4.8Mt in 2014,while China ranked top 1 by its 1.5Mt of tin reserves,representing 31%of the global total.Calculated by mining of 300kt of tin per year,the world total tin resources could only serve for 16 years.So,the tin resources tightness has become a serious problem that people around the world should face.China produces about 160kt of tin each year,contributing 45%of world's total 360kt output and ranking the largest tin producer.As the biggest tin resources owning and producing country,whether China can exert bigger influence with regard to the discourse power in pricing or not is extremely important in safeguarding the national economic interest,insuring the healthy development of the industry,and improving the international trade.This paper applies methods of documentary research,observation,on-site survey&interview and data analysis to make combing and researching of China's Tin Industry Status and Discourse Power of Pricing and to learn the understanding and point of view of other domestic and overseas researchers&scholars in tin and tin's pricing discourse power.Through observation of the long termed development of China's tin industry,the author found that China's tin industry stayed in a status with comparable rich reserve resources and also there were resources newly added in every year following breakthrough in mine prospecting.However,the output was higher than the newly added reserves so that China's dynamic reserve base was shrinking gradually.Through data analysis,the author found that China's annual tin output grew steadily,with annual tin smelting capacity exceeding 220kt and the annual refined tin output being stably increased to 160kt.Since 2008 the trade structure has been changed-China had become a net importer from a net exporter and the quantity of the net import increased year after year.But tin consumption growth is slow;supply is higher than demand in a long time;tin price has slipped to a low level and stayed at fluctuating.During interviews in conferences and on-site survey,it is found that the domestic tin enterprises suffered serious loss in operation and the industrial development was under threat.In matter of fact China's tin price followed its overseas counterpart for a long time and the discourse power of China's tin industry in pricing was quite weak.In order to solve the problem of China's poor discourse power in tin pricing,it is of necessity to improve China's tin industry's discourse power in pricing.Due to the problem that China's tin industry is in long termed oversupply,China's pricing power is quite weak.To deep understand China's tin industry's current status and to probe the situation of China's discourse power in tin pricing,and to understand current problems with the discourse power in tin pricing and the deep mixed reasons for the weakness of discourse power and to learn the affect and consequence from the weak discourse power taken to China,all the above problems are the main issues in this paper for deep discussion.