Hainan Mining battery-grade lithium hydroxide project started during the year, is expected to be put into production in Q1 2024, what is the significance of the project?

Hainan Mining Co., Ltd. invested in an annual output of 20,000 tons of battery-grade lithium hydroxide project has entered a large-scale foundation construction stage, is expected to be completed in the first half of 2024 trial production. After the commissioning of the project, not only become Hainan Mining layout of the new energy track of the core business, while helping Danzhou new energy industry development.

The significance of this project is that Hainan Mining will be the new energy industry upstream mineral resources extraction and processing business as the next five years of industrial transformation and upgrading of the important direction. The construction of the project can take advantage of the corresponding tax incentives in Hainan Free Trade Port policy. At the same time, Hainan Province is closer to the project raw material lithium feldspar's main source of Australia, compared with the mainland's main lithium hydroxide origin of Jiangxi and Sichuan has obvious advantages of maritime logistics; Dongfang Industrial Park west of the Gulf of Tonkin waters, the northwest side of the Basho port, is one of the largest deep-water ports of Hainan, is a class of the state open port, opened a number of domestic and international shipping routes, transportation is convenient, transportation cost advantage is obvious.