China has abundant barium ore resources. It is predicted that the gross reserve is more than 1 billion ton. They are mostly high grade barium ores. At present, barium ore reserves and production are ranked first in the world, which are favorable conditions for developing barium salt products. Our carbonate type barium ore, namely witherite deposit, stretches across Shaanxi Province to a large area of Wanyuan City, Sichuan province and Chengkou County, Chongqing province. With large reserves and high grade, the witherite deposit has extremely important development value in industry. Compared with foreign raw material market, our witherite powder has advantages of low raw material cost and labor cost. So barium chloride production costs much lower and obtains competitive advantage in the international market.

      The production capacity, output and production value of our barium salts occupy an important position in the chemical industry, and we have become the first big producing country in the world. Barium salts are main products in inorganic salt industry. Main products in barium salt industry are barium carbonate, barium sulfate, barium hydroxide, barium chloride, barium nitrate, barium titanate, etc. Barium carbonate is mainly used in electronics industry and act as an important additive in color picture tube and magnetic materials.

   The report on “2014-2017 China barium salt market analysis and investment value research” mentioned: with the rapid development of electronic industry, China's barium carbonate develops toward refinement and functionalization. At present, world annual production capacity of barium carbonate is about 900,000tons and the output is about 700,000 tons, of which China's annual production capacity is about 700,000tons and annual output is about 500,000tons. Our barium carbonate production capacity and output account for over 70% of the world. Our main production technology of barium carbonate is mainly traditional carbonization method. We also made technological progress in microcomputer batching, waste heat utilization and new granulating technology. The products are powder and granular BaCO3 (dry and wet process). Our country exports a large number of barium carbonate for a long time. We have become the world's largest exporter of barium carbonate and play an important role in the international market.