Capacity changes and supply-front reform in Chinese primary aluminum industry

1 Introduction 3
2 Distribution of primary aluminum capacity in China 3
2.1 The increase of primary aluminum capacity in China from 2010 to 2017 3
2.2 Distribution of primary aluminum capacity in China in 2017 by province 4
3 Regular and irregular capacity in primary aluminum industry under supply-front reform 5
3.1 Brief description on supply-front reform policy in primary aluminum industry in April 2017 5
3.2 Definition of regular capacity 5
3.3 Statistics on irregular capacity in primary aluminum industry in China 5
4 Influences of supply-front reform on newly increased primary aluminum capacity in China in 2017 7
4.1 Newly built primary aluminum capacity and capacity replacement projects in China in 2017 7
4.2 Influences of supply-front reform on newly built capacity 8
5 Analysis on supply-front reform and primary aluminum capacity in Xinjiang 9
5.1 Supply-front reform scheme in Xinjiang 9
5.2 Distribution of primary aluminum capacity in Xinjiang 9
5.3 Influences of supply-front reform on capacity in Xinjiang 10
6 Analysis on execution of supply-front reform 10
6.1 Execution of supply-front reform in Xinjiang 11
6.2 Execution of supply-front reform in other regions of China 11
Appendix: Companies which can meet Aluminum Industry Standard released by MIIT 11

Graph 1 Chinese primary aluminum constructed capacity from 2010 to 2017 3
Graph 2 Primary aluminum capacity in major provinces of China from 2011 to 201 7 4
Graph 3 Proportion of primary aluminum capacity in China by provinces in April 2017 5
Graph 4 Irregular capacity for primary aluminum in China by provinces 6
Graph 5 Built and unoperated & built and operated primary aluminum capacity among irregular capacity in major provinces of China 6
Graph 6 Newly operated irregular capacity for primary aluminum in China in 2017 8
Graph 7 Proportion of irregular capacity among newly built capacities in China in 2017 9

Table 1 Built primary aluminum capacity in April 2017 by provinces 4
Table 2 Newly operated capacity for primary aluminum in China in 2017 7
Table 3 Chinese newly operated irregular capacity in 2017 by company 8
Table 4 Primary aluminum capacity in Xinjiang by company 10
Table 5 Irregular capacity of primary aluminum in Xinjiang by company 10



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