Overview of China's aluminium industry

This paper describes the overview of China's aluminium industry. Since 2000, China's aluminum industry has been expanding rapidly and this trend is still going on in the next three to five years and later will slow down. Building and construction, transportation and durable goods are the main fields of consumption. With the acceleration of China's urbanization and the change of consumption pattern, China's aluminum consumption will remain high growth rate in the next five to ten years, but averagely lower than that in the past decade. Although China has become the biggest country in aluminum output and consumption, it still needs to strengthen the ability in downstream production.