supervising law enforcement, and protecting resource environment. 

This paper clarifies the concept and nature of mining rights, analyzes its legal essence, discusses its issues and presents suggestions on revising mining rights in Mineral Resources Law. Mining rights system is an “administrative license plus contract” under the governmental supervision, but deficiencies emerge as reform goes forward and economy develops, with many contents lagging behind marketing reform, leading to insufficient market competition, hardly guaranteed legal rights, confused contracts, and unreachable contract effectiveness. This paper presents proposals on differentiating state ownership and managing rights of mineral resources, separating rights registry and license approval, cancelling mining rights transfer approval and making a competitive bidding of mining rights. 

China's molybdenum reserve and production ranks top in the world, but not strong in this industry. This paper, based on China's molybdenum deposits types and distribution, details the development and use situation and analyzes its market demand and supply. Issues are existing in China's molybdenum industry, including limited resource guarantee years, poor processing technology, irrational industrial structure, environmental pollution, etc. In order to promote the sustainable development of China molybdenum resource, this paper presents suggestions in implementing rational mining strategy, intensifying the recycling molybdenum, focusing on talents training and education, improving processing technology, optimizing industrial structure and boosting environmental protection.

This paper,based on adistribution of China’s cobalt resources,studies the supply-demand situation of cobalt market,and presents issues in China’s cobalt industry,such as short of cobalt resource,largely dependence on exporting,and high production cost,irrational coal industrial structure,and alow recycling rate,which are,if well resolved,key to keep a sustainable development.This paper proposes to fulfill the world cobalt and oceanic cobalt resources,to research effective metallurgy,to promote industrial reform,and to fully recycle cobalt resources,aiming at providing references to the sustainable development of China’s cobalt industry.