Region's red-hot resources

By the end of the 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006-10), Baise, one of the major cities of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, aims to achieve a gross value of 100 billion yuan in the aluminum industry.

The local government is placing more emphasis on the deep processing of aluminum rather than simply its mining.

At the end of last year, the Guangxi Huayin Aluminum Oxide Phase-1 Project was launched, with an investment of 15 billion yuan, the nation's biggest aluminum project.