宁夏有色金属冶炼厂，１９９９年在自治区政府和有关部门的大力支持下，将加快发展以钽粉、钽丝为主导产品的高新技术产业。自治区将以该厂为核心兴办新材料高新技术园区，大力开发钽、铌、铍及碳化硅功能陶瓷，结构陶瓷等高科技含量、高附加值系列产品，形成在国内外能左右市 Ningxia Nonferrous Metals Smelter, in 1999 with the vigorous support of the regional government and relevant departments, will speed up the development of high-tech industries with tantalum powder and tantalum wire as the leading products. The autonomous region will set up a new material high-tech park with the core of the plant and vigorously develop series of high-tech and high value-added products such as tantalum, niobium, beryllium and silicon carbide functional ceramics and structural ceramics,