World Natural Graphite

In 2010, the world's natural graphite production was 1.1 million tons. China's graphite output is 800,000 tons (crystalline graphite and cryptocrystalline graphite), accounting for 73% of the world's output. In the past 30 years, China's graphite output has ranked first in the world.

In 1995, China's graphite output reached a record high of 2.215 million tons, of which 549,000 tons of crystalline graphite and 1.656 million tons of cryptocrystalline graphite. In 2008, the output of crystalline graphite in China hit a record high of 650,000 tons.

The output of crystalline graphite fell to 480,000 tons in 2009, and the output of earthy graphite ore was about 1 million tons in the same period. China's crystalline graphite is developed in 16 provinces (autonomous regions) including Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, and Sichuan. The important production areas are Jixi and Luobei in Heilongjiang, Pingdu and Laixi in Shandong, Xinghe in Inner Mongolia, Chicheng in Hebei, etc.

Neixiang in Henan, Yichang in Hubei and Nanjiang in Sichuan. The development of cryptocrystalline graphite in China is mainly in the Chenzhou area of Hunan Province and the Panshi area of Jilin Province. There are many companies in the Chenzhou area of Hunan Province that use ultra-high temperature technology to produce high-purity microcrystalline graphite.