As one of the minerals with the highest content of fluorine, fluorspar is not only applied to the traditional industries such as metallurgy, cement and glass, but also enjoys more and more extensive applications in the emerging fields such as new energy, national defense, semi-conductor and medicine, with its strategic value becoming increasingly prominent and favored by all countries. Being a kind of important non-renewable non-metal resource, fluorspar has been listed as Strategic Mineral Resource or Critical Minerals successively by China, America, European Union and other countries or regions.

Fluorine chemical industry is the highest consumer of fluorspar, consuming 52% of fluorspar output. The industry basically produces hydrogen fluoride. As per the fields where its end products are applied, the industry can be further classified into inorganic fluorine chemical and organic fluorine chemical. The inorganic fluorine chemical mainly deals with fluorine-contained electronic chemical products, fluorine-contained special gases and other inorganic fluorides, with its products widely applied in semi-conductor manufacturing industry, battery materials, optical materials, insulating gases and other fields; organic fluorine chemical mainly deals with productions of fluorocarbon products, fluorine-contained high molecular polymer and organic fluorine-contained chemicals, with its products applied in refrigerant, foaming agent, fluorocarbon oil, medicine, farm insecticide, LCD, ion exchange membrane, semi-conductor manufacturing and other fields.