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Surrounded by boundless desert and buffeted by sandstorms, unfrozen at minus 20 degrees Celsius, a massive project quietly came into production in the Qaidam Basin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau on November 30. Designed to effectively utilize the lithium, boron and potassium resources of the Yiliping Salt Lake, the project is now running with an annual production capacity of 300,000 tons of potassium chloride, a chemical with multiple uses in agriculture, medicine and food production. This signifies the first successful major collaboration between the country's leading mining group, China Minmetals Corp. (CMC), and engineering procurement construction giant, the Metallurgical Corp. of China (MCC), since their strategic merger in 2015.