LONDON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - China is reaping the rewards of its massive mining investment in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the form of surging imports of physical copper. Shipments of refined ...

China has tightened requirements for building new copper smelters, in its latest attempt to curb relentless capacity expansion in the world’s top producer of the refined metal. Companies ...

A worker drives a forklift to transfer cathode copper at a Hunan branch of China Minmetals in Changning City, central China's Hunan Province, Jan. 2, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] China aims to enhance the ...

BEIJING -- China aims to enhance the resilience and security of its copper industrial and supply chains over the next few years, according to an implementation plan published on Tuesday.

Eleven ministries signed an order last week to limit capacity in the world’s biggest copper industry, by tying expansions to whether companies also control enough ore supply to feed their smelters. As ...

Specifically, China has been the world's largest consumer of copper due to its leading development in renewable energy and EVs, making its demand trends the focal point of global markets.

Copper sits at 10-week highs as the U.S. dollar weakened overnight on Trump's friendlier tone towards tariffs on China, having previously threatened them by February 1, SP Angel analysts say.

Spanish police on Friday said they had broken up an international Chinese trafficking ring that smuggled women ... mostly from China, to smuggle them to Europe through the Balkans with a view ...