China Builds its Largest Silicon Plant in Sichuan

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China Builds its Largest Silicon Plant in Sichuan

China began Wednesday to build a 1000-ton polysilicon plant in Leshan city in the southwestern province of Sichuan.

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China began Wednesday to build a 1000-ton polysilicon plant in Leshan city in the southwestern province of Sichuan.

The plant, expected to be completed in 2005, will be China's largest polysilicon producing base, costing a total of 1.1 billion Yuan (133 million US dollars), the largest single investment in a high-technology program in the Western Development strategy, according to Sichuan Xinguang Silicon Technology Co. Ltd..

Polysilicon is used in manufacturing 95 percent of the world's semiconductors. Most large polysilicon plants with an annual capacity of 1,000 tons or more have been built in only a few developed countries like the United States, Japan and Germany.

China's production is 0.4 percent of the world's total and 93 percent of its supply has to be imported.

China is aiming to become a world leading information products maker and a major market in five to 10 years, making the plant of strategic significance to China's ambition.

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