Development History


2000

GDRE Rare Earth Company Officially Established and Listed

2000

2001

Xi Jinping, then Governor of Fujian Province, conducted a research visit to the rare-earth separation plant of the former Changting Golden Dragon Company

2001

2006

Acquire the former Golden Dragon Rare Earth and complete its relocation to a new site;
Annual production of 5,000 tons of fully separated 15 rare earth elements;
Production line put into operation

2006

2010

Annual production capacity of 2,000 tons of high-purity rare earth oxides comes on stream;
A production line for 1,000 tons of tri-color fluorescent powder per year has been put into operation;
Establishment of the Institute of Magnetic Materials

2010

2011

Wholly acquire Mitsubishi Chemical Guangzhou Zhujiang Optoelectronics in Japan;
Annual production capacity of 1,000 tons of rare earth metals comes online

2011

2012

Annual production capacity of 3,000 tons of neodymium-iron-boron magnetic materials comes online

2012

2015

The 2,500-ton-per-year surface treatment project has gone into operation;
The 3,000-ton-per-year rare-earth special alloy project has begun operations

2015

2016

Divisional Structure Reform

2016

2017

The phosphor production line has been transferred to Zhujiang Optoelectronics

2017

2018

The magnetic materials division has expanded its production capacity to 6,000 tons per year

2018

2020

Fully promote IAM and IPD

2020

2021

The company’s Party General Branch has been upgraded to a Party Committee

2021

2022

The expansion project for magnetic materials, with a capacity of 4,000 tons (Phase III), has been completed and put into operation, bringing the total magnetic material production capacity to 12,000 tons per year;
Founded Yuantong New Materials Co., Ltd. (Construction of the 20,000-ton rare-earth secondary resource recycling project has begun)

2022

2023

Complete the mixed-ownership reform and shareholding system restructuring

2023

2024

Golden Dragon Rare Earth New Materials (Baotou) Co., Ltd. has been established and construction has begun;
Golden Dragon Rare Earth Science and Technology (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. Established

2024