en.Wedoany.com Reported - Approved by the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the Guangxi Key Metals Research Institute Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the "Guangxi Key Metals Research Institute"), with a registered capital of 500 million yuan, has been officially established and completed industrial and commercial registration in the Guangxi University Science Park. Led by the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region government, the institute is jointly established with three universities—Central South University, Guangxi University, and Guilin University of Technology—alongside multiple non-ferrous metal enterprises such as Key Metals Group, Huaxi Nonferrous Metals, Guangxi Aluminum, and Southern Metals, and with the introduction of financial capital like Guangxi Caijin Venture Capital. It aims to focus on the development and utilization of strategic mineral resources such as tin, antimony, and indium.
Guangxi is a key non-ferrous metal production region in China, with reserves of critical metals such as tin, antimony, indium, and gallium ranking among the highest in the country. Specifically, tin ore reserves account for over 10% of the national total, antimony ore approximately 26.4%, and indium ore about 68.91%. However, the region has long faced industrial structural challenges, including a heavy reliance on external procurement for high-end basic materials and a short deep-processing chain. The original intention behind establishing the Guangxi Key Metals Research Institute is to improve this situation of being "large but not strong, and crude but not refined."
In terms of talent recruitment, the institute has implemented a flexible "dual-appointment system," where personnel retain their positions at their original universities while shifting their intellectual services to the industry. As of June 2026, the institute has assembled a total of 118 high-level experts from Central South University, Guangxi University, and Guilin University of Technology, including 10 chief scientists, 30 leading scientific and technological experts, and 78 key research personnel. Additionally, the institute has organized a team of over 100 people to conduct enterprise technology needs surveys on the front lines of industries in areas such as Nandan, Hechi, and Baise, identifying over 100 technical requirements. After evaluation by academicians and experts, these were refined into 40 key common technical challenges for the industry.
In terms of technology deployment, the Guangxi Key Metals Research Institute has targeted five major directions: deep intelligent exploration and mining, green and low-carbon beneficiation and smelting, high-purity material preparation, high-end device development, and resource recycling. Among these, the high-purity material preparation area focuses on breakthroughs in 7N-grade (99.99999% purity) indium, tin, gallium, tellurium, cadmium, antimony, and zinc, as well as 4- to 6-inch indium phosphide single-crystal substrates and other high-purity products. Indium phosphide single-crystal substrates are core substrate materials for artificial intelligence computing networks and high-speed optical modules. The first batch of nearly 12 key scientific research projects has received support from Guangxi's major science and technology special projects, with total approved research and development funding exceeding 80 million yuan.
According to the 2030 target plan disclosed by the Guangxi Key Metals Research Institute, the institute aims to achieve breakthroughs in over 50 key technologies by 2030, promote the transformation or industrialization of at least 15 major achievements locally in Guangxi, attract and cultivate over 100 high-level talents at the autonomous region level or above, foster the growth of more than 10 large-scale technology-based enterprises, and directly support an increase in industrial output value of over 80 billion yuan.
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