[CATL plans to build a new 40,000 tons annual lithium carbonate production capacity in Ya'an at a cost of 1.4 billion yuan. Lithium prices have corrected by more than 20% in September.] On September 17, the Ya'an Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee recently released the first public announcement of the environmental impact assessment information of the Ya'an lithium salt production base project of CATL. The total investment of the project is 1.4 billion yuan, and it is planned to build an annual production capacity of approximately 40,000 tons of lithium carbonate, 30,000 tons of lithium dihydrogen phosphate and 130,000 tons of lithium dihydrogen phosphate. What is currently released is only the first public disclosure of ecological environmental impact assessment information, which means that the project is still in the early stage of environmental impact assessment information disclosure. The announcement did not disclose the construction period, funding sources, raw material supply plan and expected production time, nor does it mean that the project has obtained environmental impact assessment approval or officially started construction. (Mijing.com)