A. students are being funded by state firms like China Non-Ferrous Metal Industry and China Eastern Airlines.

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Non-ferrous metal companies also declined in China on concerns of slowing demand.

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Information provided by Metal Pages, a news site that focuses on non-ferrous metals, ferro alloys and rare earths, indicated that rare earth elements exports have dropped 65% in 2011 and that China has only exported 11, 000 metric tons of rare earths through the first three quarters of the year.

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