(TibetanReview.net, Sep29’25) – China said Sep 28 that it had commenced producing lithium from two major salt lake mines in Tibet as questions about the genuineness of its claimed commitment to environmental protection came into sharp focus when the Chinese-owned Canadian outdoor brand Arc’teryx and the famed visual artist Cai Guoqiang carried out a 3,000-metre-long ‘rising dragon’ series of fireworks over the Himalayan mountains in Gyantse County of Shigatse City, Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), on Sep 19.
On the morning of Sep 28, the integrated project with an annual capacity of 40,000 tonnes of primary lithium salts and the separate project with an annual output of 20,000 tonnes of lithium...





