In 2025, the global rare earth market is experiencing intense clashes between supply and demand under multiple pressures. At this critical juncture of unprecedented global changes, the strategic value of key minerals has become increasingly prominent. As the core of the global rare earth industry chain, China is actively safeguarding national security and industrial interests through relevant regulatory policies. On the international front, leading enterprises are investing heavily in heavy rare earth production facilities, while the US and Australia have signed a key minerals agreement worth USD 8.5 billion to accelerate global resource deployment. The downstream application market is showing a pattern of “old and new resonance”: traditional sectors such as catalysts, polishing, phosphors, and glass-ceramics are operating steadily; new energy vehicles remain the main driver of demand; the wind power sector continues to grow as the penetration of direct-drive motors increases; and humanoid robots are emerging as a new highlight.

Looking ahead to 2026, the interplay of policy regulation and market competition will shape the landscape: How will China’s rare earth product prices evolve? What lies ahead for the NdFeB magnet market? Can overseas rare earth projects overcome capacity bottlenecks? Will the international new energy vehicle industry sustain its rapid growth? Can emerging applications like humanoid robots become new demand engines? These questions will be at the forefront of industry attention.

With the first summit hosted by Asian Metal in 2011, the annual Rare Earth Summit has been witnessing strong support and active participation of around over 200 companies around the world. The Rare Earth Summit has been successfully held in Hangzhou, Ningbo, Chengdu, Nanning, Chongqing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Sanya, Qingdao of China and Pittsburgh as well as San Francisco of United States, ect. Cooperating through thick and thin for 16 years, we witnessed every up and down and changes in the rare earth industry! Let us reunite in the 17th Rare Earth Summit to be held on 14-15 May 2025 in Xiamen, Fujian, where owns the reputation of “Sea Garden” and “The Gate of the South Sea”. This grand event will bring together global business elites to decode the underlying logic of policy regulation, analyze the breakthrough paths of technological innovation, and predict the core variables of market fluctuations. At that time, experts from the rare earth industry from all over the world will gather again to understand the strategic gains and losses of industrial layouts in China and abroad, explore solutions to the imbalance of supply and demand, seize development opportunities in the changing situation, and form consensus through cooperation in the competition!

Highlights:

[Advantageous Brand] Regular gatherings of global friends by Asian Metal for 17 consecutive years

[Authoritative Forum] The most authoritative rare earth forum acknowledged globally

[Cutting-edge topics] Theme discussion on new ideas to lead industry development

[Top-level participants] Insight and experience from industry key opinion leaders

[In-depth exchanges] Opportunities to provide in-depth two-way communication