According to a report released by the Australian Mining and Exploration Association, the proportion of countries in different sectors of the global lithium industry value chain in 2017 is as follows:Mining: Australia 51 %, Chile 29 %, Argentina 14 %, China 5 %, United States 1 %Refining processing: 89 % in China and 11 % in ChileElectrochemistry: 75 % in China, 10 % in South Korea, 10 % in Japan, and 5 % in other countriesLithium batteries: 50 % in China, 20 % in South Korea, 20 % in Japan, 8 % in the United States, and 2 % in the restBattery assembly: 53 % in Japan, 20 % in China, 14 % in South Korea, 9 % in the United States, and 4 % in the restThe page contains the contents of the machine translation.