[Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: Will revise regulations on copper, aluminum and other industries to resolutely curb low-level duplication of construction] On October 20, the State Council Information Office held a press conference to introduce the development of industry and information technology in the first three quarters of 2026. Tao Qing, spokesperson of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and director of the Operation Monitoring and Coordination Bureau, said that the revenue and profits of the nonferrous metal industry maintained rapid growth from January to August, and the industry's innovation capabilities continued to increase. In the next step, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will continue to work hard to stabilize growth and promote transformation, promote high-quality development of the nonferrous metals industry, and focus on three aspects of work. The first is to strengthen policy guidance, implement the "15th Five-Year Plan" in the field of raw materials, strengthen departmental policy coordination, and promote the expansion and application of high-quality products in new energy, high-end equipment, low-altitude economy and other fields; the second is to accelerate industrial upgrading, in-depth implementation of major new materials projects, speed up the research on key core technologies of high-end materials, give full play to the role of a green and low-carbon public service platform for the non-ferrous metal industry, and formulate the "Artificial Intelligence + Non-ferrous Metals" Industry Implementation Guidelines" and non-ferrous metals industry standard system construction guidelines, leading the industry to develop "toward newness, greenness and intelligence"; third, deepen production capacity management, implement production capacity risk monitoring and early warning of key products, strictly implement the electrolytic aluminum production capacity replacement policy, strictly control new production capacity in alumina, copper and other smelting, revise copper, aluminum and other industry regulations, resolutely curb low-level duplication of construction, and create a fair, healthy and orderly market environment.