Chapter 11 The Pros and Cons of Rare Earths

Zhang Ruixi was hesitating here, and heard someone shouting there, "If you have the will, don't run away!"

A group of people rushed over and wanted to arrest Fan Wubing, and several policemen were blocked from behind.

When Zhang Ruixi saw this formation, he was also shocked. He didn't know what Fan Wubing did to make such anger and resentful thing, but he actually caused so many people to come and chase him, so he followed Fan Wubing and ran out.

The two of them left the building, got into the car, and drove out far away, Zhang Ruixi took a breath, "Mr. Fan, what did you do? Even the police are coming to chase you?"

"I just met two Japanese people, but they couldn't stand their faces, which made their noses bloom." Fan Wubing replied.

"Two Japanese people? The noses are blooming?" Zhang Ruixi laughed after hearing this, "Those two people seem to be employees of Panasonic. I have seen them. Why did you beat them? But those two people are so annoying."

"Has Miss Zhang been harassed by them?" Fan Wubing asked casually.

Zhang Ruixi nodded and replied, "Perhaps everyone in the venue has been harassed by them."

In fact, Koreans are more dismissive of the Japanese, especially the Korean Peninsula was once colonized by the Japanese for half a century, where the policy of cultural extinction was implemented. Koreans' hatred of the Japanese was far above the Chinese.

When Koreans see Japanese being beaten, they will naturally not feel bored.

In this regard, it is probably related to the different education models in the two countries.

The education received by Koreans is basically influenced by Americans, so they hold a little revenge, which is what the so-called Bible says, "Too for tooth and blood for blood." They always remember the crimes committed by the Japanese on the Korean Peninsula. In addition to Confucius as a Korean, textbooks also deeply describe the crimes committed by the Japanese on the Korean Peninsula. Therefore, the Koreans have a deep hatred for Japan.

China is different. People who are deeply influenced by Confucianism at their core are disdainful to worry about the past. Anyway, those who die are dead are dead, and those who are alive are important. Therefore, history can be forgotten, and blood is indifferent after all, and everyone should unite and look at money. So as the richest Japanese in the world, they are naturally good friends of the Chinese people. China-Japan friendship should continue to be maintained and should last forever. The common prosperity of Greater East Asia can also be expected.

Therefore, whether it is the people or the official, everyone has seen the money of the Japanese. How to win over the Japanese in mainland China, how to win over the Japanese, put their investment under their own rule, and improve the GDP of their own region is the top priority. As for the eight-year War of Resistance, 30 million people died, and the one who died was not my family, so I will be the one who died?

Therefore, Zhang Ruixi was happy when he heard Fan Wubing say that he beat the Japanese, and the security guards and policemen at the scene first thought of how could anyone beat AIA people? If this news spread, it would affect Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations. AIA would be inexplicably surprised. What is so amazing? The murderer must be caught and punished severely.

When Fan Wubing thought of this, he couldn't help but shake his head.

The middle-aged man had also found the details of the tall Chinese. It turned out that he was a staff member who did chores for the Korean consulate. According to the information, he should have collected some information for the Koreans, or he was considering becoming a Korean citizen, so he was particularly attentive to what the embassy explained.

"I really don't want this matter to be related to the consulate." The middle-aged man scratched his head, feeling a little troublesome.

"The possibility of the consulate being directly involved in such commercial espionage cases is not very high. We should continue to track the tall man and see who he will hand over the information to, and then consider it." A subordinate suggested.

"What you said makes sense." The middle-aged man agreed with his subordinates' suggestions.

However, afterwards, it was verified that the subordinate's words were indeed reasonable. The tall man did not bring the information back to the embassy, ​​but handed the information to a Korean in a cafe several streets away. Later, it was confirmed that the Korean was an employee of Samsung.

"Now I finally figured out their origins, and they were indeed commercial spies." After receiving the news, the middle-aged man finally breathed a sigh of relief. After all, if he had to involve the consulate, he would not be able to make the decision.

This time he was just helping Fan Wubing. Although the department also told him to help Fan Wubing as much as possible, if international disputes were involved, no one would come out to plead for him. Fortunately, this was just a commercial espionage case. After finding out here, he could explain to Fan Wubing.

Fan Wubing drove Zhang Ruixi to the company's residence and then took her into the room.

"Have the mentors been back?" Zhang Ruixi asked.

"I should be back, I'll go and see." After Fan Wubing finished speaking, he ran to the old man's room and looked at it. There was no one, and Fan Kang and Xiao Qiang didn't come back. It seemed that they had gone directly to book a plane ticket.

Fan Wubing returned to his room, then opened the folder he had replaced from the tall man, looked it up and found that it was filled with large documents composed of professional terms, and he felt a little dizzy after reading it.

However, among the information attached later, it is about the source of some strategic resources in China, including the flow of metal non-metal resources that are very important in military and civil use, and there is also a document about the distribution of rare earth elements.

After Fan Wubing looked through it, he found that there was a single document about the mineral distribution chart of the indium element, and mentioned that this element will be the most critical factor in the next few decades. The article mentioned that the importance of indium element is irreplaceable for both computer technology and LCD screen technology.

There is a passage about the analysis material written by Zhang Ruixi himself that China's rare earth minerals account for more than half of the world's reserves, and rare earth elements play a very important role in military and civilian production. However, South Korea itself does not have any rare earth resources, so it is recommended that the company reserve China's rare earth resources to meet the needs of applications in the next few years to ensure it.

When Fan Wubing saw this, he immediately remembered something about rare earth resources.

Why can the Patriot missiles shoot down Scud more easily? Why, although the direct shooting distance of the US-made M1 and Soviet-made T-72 tanks is not large, the former can always fire earlier and shoot more accurately? Why can the F-22 fighter jets supersonic cruise?

For each reason, from the perspective of materials science, rare earths can solve all the above problems at once. Patriot missiles can easily destroy Scud missiles because of the use of about four kilograms of samarium-cobalt magnets and neodymium-ferric boron magnets in its guidance system for electron beam focusing. Samarium and neodymium are rare earth elements.

As for the function of the f-22 supersonic cruise, thanks to its powerful engine and light and solid fuselage, they all use a large number of special materials created by rare earth technology. For example, the f119 engine blades and combustion chambers use flame retardant titanium alloys. The manufacturing of this titanium alloy is said to be rhenium, and the fuselage of the f-22 is even more armed with rare earth-enhanced magnesium-titanium alloys. Otherwise, in supersonic cruise, the powerful power of the f119 is enough to destroy itself.

The development and application of rare earths has provided a strong engine for military technology in recent decades. In a sense, it is rare earths that have accomplished all of this incredible military miracles in the Gulf War and the asymmetric control ability of the US military to show in local wars after the Cold War.

Because of this, the development and utilization of rare earths have also fostered huge dangers. On the one hand, more and more countries have participated in the competition and research and development of rare earths in order to gain asymmetric control capabilities over their opponents.

As the world's largest rare earth reserves, China should strictly restrict rare earth mining and immediately ban the export of rare earths.

In fact, the Chinese government attaches great importance to the development of rare earths. In 1991, rare earths were included in the national protected mineral species. From the perspective of rare earth protection policies, specialized institutions, stable industry policies, and the country's consistent overall control. Even China Petroleum does not have such treatment. However, the achievements of the development of the rare earth industry over the past few years are basically at the level of low-priced resources.

Fan Wubing still remembers that Mr. Deng said during his southern tour last year that there is oil in the Middle East and rare earths in China.

However, when developed countries have successively regarded rare earths as strategic resources and taken actions, rare earths are often regarded as ordinary commodities in exchange for foreign exchange in China.

China is the only country in the world that can supply rare earth products of different grades and varieties in large quantities. It can be said that China is opening its doors to supply the world at any cost.

"I reminded me today." Fan Wubing pondered for a moment, feeling that this was a turning point.

Nowadays, rare earth mining is basically carried out by state-owned enterprises, because the scale of private enterprises is not enough to achieve the level of private mining and refining rare earth minerals, and the country's control of rare earth minerals is relatively strict. Although some places have been secretly engaged in private mining, they cannot be put forward openly. If you want to control it, it is more appropriate now.

Once the rare earth mining and exports are released, it will be really out of control.

When Fan Wubing thought of the various strategic resources he had hoarded in foreign warehouses after being sold at a low price, he felt a little uneasy. Instead of selling cheap foreigners, it would be better to hoard them yourself. Even if you don’t need them, you can’t let others live a better life!
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