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China to boost domestic supply of critical minerals

China is planning to ramp up domestic sources of supply for critical minerals in a move aimed at cutting its reliance on imports from other countries.

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The comments follow moves by a number of western countries to shore up their own supply sources of critical minerals.

"International geopolitics has become an important factor affecting China's resource supply," the country's minister of natural resources, Wang Guanghua said, according to an interview with state-run