锑是一种重要的战略金属，也是一种储量有限的稀有小金属。目前，全球锑生产主要集中在中国、玻利维亚、南非等国家和地区，其中2008-2009年，中国锑产量占全球比重一直在90%以上。在这种供给结构下，中国锑产业政策变化对全球锑市具有较大影响。

　　2010年3月15日，国土资源部下发通知，决定继续对锑矿实行开采总量控制管理。同时，通知表示2011年6月30日前原则上暂停受理新锑矿的勘察、开采。2010年3月份，国内最大的锑生产基地——冷水江市加大了锑冶炼行业的整顿力度：一方面将锑冶炼企业的生产规模门槛提高到了5000万吨/年；另一方面关停了近百家非法锑冶炼企业。这种政策上调整抑制了国内锑产量的增长，进一步加剧了自2009年以来全球锑供应紧张的局面，锑价的快速增长使得全球锑市进入高锑价时代。2010年12月底，全球锑价已经上涨至81000元/吨，是2009年初锑价的2.8倍。

　　2011年，走出金融危机阴影的中国锑行业将面临更大的发展机遇：一方面，锑价的持续高位提升了锑产品生产企业的效益水平；另一方面，国家对在规模、环保等方面对不达标锑生产企业的关停整顿，也有利于将有限的锑矿资源向行业内优势企业集中。
　
　　氧化锑是中国锑行业的主要产品，这主要是由于下游阻燃剂产品对氧化锑的消费需求规模较大。2009年阻燃剂产品对氧化锑的消费需求占到锑消费需求的50%。而目前中国锑行业重点企业也主要集中在这一领域，包括闪星锑业、辰州矿业、木利锑业、日星金属化工等企业，其中，闪星锑业、辰州矿业分别是全球第一、第二大氧化锑生产企业。其他产品领域中，广西锑行业龙头企业——华锡集团目前在锑合金等锑深加工领域占据明显的市场优势，2010年，该公司获得的金属锑及锑制品出口配额占到全国当年出口配额49%。

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Antimony is not only a kind of important strategic metal but also a sort of rare metal with limited reserves. Presently, the antimony production in the world converges in the countries and regions such as China, Bolivia, South Africa, etc. What’s remarkable is that, during 2008-2009, China’s output of antimony accounted for above 90% of global total. In this sense, the changes in Chinese policies for antimony industry exert great impact on global antimony market.

According to the notice unveiled by Ministry of Land and Resources of the People’s Republic of China on March 15, 2010, the State decided to further carry the management and control on total exploitation of antimony ores, and at the same time to in principle suspend the approvals for the prospecting and exploitation of new antimony mines before June 30, 2011. In March, 2010, Leng Shui Jiang city, the largest antimony production base in China, enhanced the reshuffle of antimony smelting industry, raising the threshold for the production scale of antimony smelting enterprise to 50 million tons/year on the one hand and having closed nearly a hundred illegal antimony smelting enterprises on the other hand. Such policy adjustments have hindered the growth of domestic output of antimony and further intensified the tight supply of antimony worldwide since 2009. The price of antimony rose to RMB81,000/ton at the end of 2010, 2.8-fold that at the beginning of 2009.

Chinese antimony industry that has been out of the impact from financial crisis will embrace greater development opportunities in 2011. First, the ever rising price of antimony promotes the profitability of antimony product manufacturing enterprises; then, the State has closed down the antimony manufacturers that failed to meet the standards in scale and environmental production, which favors the convergence of limited antimony ore resources towards superior enterprises.

Antimony oxide is the primary product of Chinese antimony industry now that the downstream flame retardants are massively needy of antimony oxide. In 2009, the consumption demand of flame retardants for antimony oxide takes 50% of total consumption demand of antimony. Currently, the key enterprises in China antimony industry are mostly involved in this field, including Shanxing Antimony, Chenzhou Mining Group, Yunnan Muli Antimong Industry and GuangXi YoungSun Chemicals, etc., of which Shanxing Antimony and Chenzhou Mining Group are the largest and second biggest manufacturing enterprises of antimony oxide all over the world respectively. In the field of other antimony-base products, the leading antimony enterprise in Guangxi –China Tin Group enjoys conspicuous market superiority in antimony deep-processing sectors like antimony alloys, and in 2010 the export quotas of metal antimony and antimony products obtained by the company occupied 49% of national export quotas in the same year.