As one of the five major theoretical and practical issues raised by the Central Economic Work Conference, "to correctly understand and grasp the supply security of primary products" is an important path to ensure the realization of national food security strategy and energy security strategy. Starting from the major strategic needs of the country, management practice and scientific cognition, we systematically sort out the understanding of primary mineral products at home and abroad, form the definition and scope of primary mineral products based on the major strategic cognition, and put forward the concept of primary mineral products. We classify primary mineral products by production and consumption links, and take iron ore, iron concentrate and crude oil as examples to identify the differences and key nodes of primary mineral products, midstream mineral products and downstream mineral products in the industrial chain and supply chain. We summarize and present several economic relations of primary mineral products under the requirements of the new era, so as to provide theoretical support for implementing the national energy security strategy, the supply and guarantee services of primary mineral products, and the research work of primary mineral products.

primary mineral products  /  strategic cognition  /  derived mineral products