I am saying your logic is flaw, you said China wanted to preserve resource because they are non-renewable. And focus on Manufacture Goods.
My point is, if "resource" is non-renewable, so did products, because you need resource to make product, which mean either you stopped mining it altogether and start buying from overseas like the US, UK and the west did and hold on to your supply, you are using it themselves still dwindling the supply, you know that right? Again, so what will China use to make batteries when you run out of Antimony in China? Because as you said, resource are non-renewable.