At the end of 2025, MIIT together with seven other ministries issued the Non-Ferrous Metal Industry Stable Growth Plan (2025–2026), focusing on promoting the high-quality development of scrap copper, scrap aluminum and other renewable non-ferrous metals.

The plan targets an annual growth of 5% in industrial output value, and the annual output of renewable non-ferrous metals will exceed 20 million tons. The state supports the construction of standardized recycling bases for waste metal resources.

Large metal recycling bases are equipped with heavy-duty hydraulic compression equipment and dual system baler to compress metal scraps into standard bales for easy smelting and reuse.