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- China Rare Earth Holdings Limited China Rare Earth Holdings Limited (CREQF), an investment holding company founded in 1987 and headquartered in Yixing, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China, engages in the manufacture and sale of rare earth products and refractory products primarily in China, Japan, Europe, and other international markets. The company produces rare earth products including fluorescent materials, polishing agents, and materials for electronic devices, computers, electronic motors, LCDs, DVDs, magnetic materials, magnetic memory chips, fiber optics, superconductors, mobile phone batteries, precision optics, and energy-saving environmental protection applications; refractory products such as high-temperature ceramics for heat-treatment facilities in the petrochemical, steel metallurgy, non-ferrous metallurgy, glass, construction materials, chemical fertilizer, and ceramics industries; and magnesium grains products, while also trading rare earth products. It operates through rare earth and refractory segments, employs approximately 220 people, and maintains production capacity of around 6,500 tons of rare earth oxides and 100,000 tons of refractory materials. In May 2025, the company announced a discloseable transaction to acquire tungsten bars valued at approximately HK$150 million, to be settled via issuance of consideration shares under general mandate, marking entry into high-purity tungsten (not less than 99.995% purity) for semiconductors, aerospace, and quantum technologies amid growing market demand; this supports strategic expansion into Southeast Asia, leveraging vendor networks in Malaysia for rare earth, refractory, and new tungsten business growth. Formerly known as Yixing Xinwei Holdings Limited, it changed its name in May 2000 and lists on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.