Forecasts for lithium output in Qinghai over the next five years has been lowered by half, state media reported. Liu Shanqing, director of Qinghai’s Land and Resources Department, said that the province will increase its output from current level of 6,000 metric tons to 30,000 metric tons over the next five years, propelled by demand from lithium cells used in electric vehicles. However, this target is significantly lower than original predictions. "The original plan was to have a capacity of 60,000 tones by 2015," Liu said. "But since the extraction technologies are not that mature enough, we scaled it down to 30,000 tons." Qinghai province accounts for almost 90% of all lithium extraction in China.
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