z

My dependence on rare earth resources is unimaginable to the Chinese.

When the Chinese government was preparing to restrict the export of certain categories of rare earth resources, Japanese media called it resource weaponization, comparing China to Russia.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has adopted shock therapy and entered capitalism. Its national strength has declined significantly. Now it no longer uses nuclear weapons and has started playing with valves of natural gas pipelines, opening and closing from time to time putting pressure on neighboring countries.

China's plan to restrict the export of rare earth resources is mostly economical, because it is true that rare earth resources were sold too cheaply before, and over the long term, it has caused resource loss. Moreover, China's own rare earth use is also growing rapidly. As a scarce resource owned by its own country, of course, it should first meet its own use needs. This is natural.

However, from Japan's perspective, it doesn't matter these reasons. If China's resource weaponization behavior succeeds and Japan has no way to do it at all, Japan's high-tech industry and automobile industry will not need to develop in the future. In the automobile industry, the most anxious thing is Toyota, because at this stage, the most rare earths are used and the largest manufacturing volume is the hybrid vehicles that Toyota is promoting.

As for military-industrial enterprises, there are too many affected companies. Japan once claimed that without Japan's Seiko technology, the accurate strike range of American long-range missiles could only reach within fifty meters, but now it can reach within ten meters. Although there are manufacturing technology that the Japanese are proud of, it is also inseparable from the widespread application of rare earth elements.

Shigeru Murata represents not only the Japanese military-industrial enterprise group, but also Toyota, which is extremely eager for rare earth resources. In order to promote this land purchase contract, Toyota specially allocated 100 million US dollars of activity funds to allow him to handle the matters in all aspects, putting certain pressure on Fan Wubing and forcing him to execute the original contract.

Even the Japanese side has taken into account that Fan Wubing is young and often has the habit of being with beautiful women, and plans to invite several popular actresses from Japan to China to have in-depth exchanges with Fan Wubing to achieve the purpose of invisible diplomacy.

However, after carefully understanding Fan Wubing's background, Murata Shigeru dissuaded the Japanese chaebols from acting rashly, because as the young master of the Central Committee, he is a wealthy man with great influence. Fan Wubing's domestic power is unimaginable to the Japanese. Ordinary pressure will only make him angry and will not have a positive effect at all. However, this beautiful woman's diplomacy seems to have some effect.

But the most important problem now is that everyone has no time to engage in beautiful women diplomacy. Seeing that the Chinese government may make a decision to restrict the export of rare earth resources at any time, once this decision is made, things cannot be reversed.

For the sake of the present, we must directly negotiate the conditions with Fan Wubing. I just don’t know where Fan Wubing’s bottom line is? But Murata Shigeru was determined to achieve his goal. As long as Fan Wubing puts forward the conditions, he must meet his request and take this big order.

When Murata Shigeru saw Fan Wubing, he was leaning on the recliner. A beautiful female secretary pinched her shoulders.

Fan Wubing closed his eyes and looked very comfortable, as if he was asleep.

Shigeru Murata was anxious, but he didn't dare to disturb Fan Wubing. He had to stand there at a loss.

Five minutes later, Fan Wubing opened his eyes and looked at Shigeru Murata carefully before asking, "Are you Mr. Murata?"

Shigeru Murata immediately walked up, bowed deeply, and replied respectfully. "I am Shigeru Murata. Please take care of Mr. Fan."

Fan Wubing waved his hand and said, "I can't talk about care. I'm really sorry for this incident. Since our company was established, there has not been any breach of contract. Fortunately, the issue of breach of contract was negotiated in advance, so the 100 million US dollars was considered apologies."

After hearing Fan Wubing's words, Murata Shigeru immediately said anxiously, "Mr. Fan, Youdao asked for a price everywhere and paid back the money by land. Although there are rumors that rare earth exports are prohibited, you really don't need to worry about this before the official channels are officially announced. Why do you refuse to sell the things to us? The price is easy to negotiate. As long as you are willing to bid, we will have the basis to negotiate this business."

Fan Wubing looked at Murata Shigeru and shook his head and said, "You don't understand some things. My father has been promoted to a member of the Central Committee. His current career prospects are good and he is likely to be a regular member. Therefore, I must pay attention to the political influence in the mainland. This time, I can only blame you for your bad luck. Why did you talk to me about this big business when the news of the government restricted exports? If I agree to your request, it seems that I can't get along with the government. This is a very dangerous signal, which is very serious for my father's career.

Sound. Therefore, I cannot agree to your request."

After hearing Fan Wubing's words, Murata felt that something was reasonable. After all, everyone's pursuit was different. If Fan Wubing pursued pure money, he could use a high-priced acquisition to induce him to change his mind. But now what Fan Wubing wants is to maintain the positive image of his father Fan Heng, which is not something that can be done with money, and this matter is difficult to solve.

In fact, Japan is also very clear about the current rare earth resource crisis, and they also have some solutions.

The acquisition of rare earth resources is Japan's national strategic decision, in order to develop new access methods and break China's monopoly. Japan's geological survey team cooperates with some countries with the potential to bury rare earths to conduct geological exploration locally, especially Vietnam.

Recently, Japan has discovered in Vietnam that areas with the same geological and climatic conditions as China's heavy rare earth mining areas are believed to be likely to contain heavy rare earth mines. In addition to cooperating with Vietnamese prefecture to conduct geological surveys, it also uses government development assistance provided by Japan to carry out roads and bridges around the mining area to indirectly support resource development.

Toyota Group also intends to jointly establish a mining company with Vietnamese Mansion to carry out related development matters.

Especially for some important projects, you don’t need rare earths, and you don’t need heavy rare earths if you can use light rare earths. Reducing the use of rare earth elements, especially the use of heavy rare earth elements, is an important scientific and technological topic in Japan.

Now some researchers can use other elements instead of dy while ensuring performance. However, the production process is very complex and the cost is very high. Large-scale industrial applications cannot be achieved at this stage. However, it is hopeful for the Japanese to develop technology that does not use heavy rare earths.

In order to effectively utilize rare earth resources, the Japanese also attach great importance to the development of recycling and utilization technology, and recycle rare earth elements from discarded computer hard drives, optical drives, motors, and cars. However, the recycling technology here is very critical. Taking computer hard drives as an example, magnets account for two to three percentage points in weight, and if the technology is backward, it will be difficult to recycle and utilize.

The Japanese once purchased a large number of abandoned US fighter jets in the Middle East. The purpose was to obtain the rare earth elements used in it. The recycling cost was very low, but the return was very high and quite cost-effective.

Americans are used to being too big, and it is difficult to understand what the Japanese are doing to collect junk diligently? But Fan Wubing is very clear that it is not easy for Japan to reach today as a country with scarce resources. Although their aggressiveness is disgusting, their own efforts are worthy of admiration.

Not only military-industrial enterprises, civilian industries, or high-tech processing industries, they are remarkable, and even their AV industry is unique in the world!

After pondering for a while, Shigeru Murata immediately thought of a good solution, so he said to Fan Wubing, "If Mr. Fan hopes to be helpful to Lingzun's career, we can add some additional conditions to the original price, which will be of great benefit to Lingzun's career. He will never affect his reputation because of this matter. What do you think?"

Fan Wubing raised his head when he heard this, looked at Murata Shigeru very seriously, and then asked with interest, "Oh? Then you might as well tell me."

Fan Wubing also wanted to hear what suggestions Murata Shigeru would have. Anyway, he is just trying to quarrel here. He can squeeze out more benefits, so why not do it?

Murata Shigeru said to Fan Wubing, "Lingzun's foundation in Jiangnan Province is not stable, and the current lack of funds is quite large. If we are willing to provide part of the free aid and provide some interest-free loans, will it have a good impact on his work? As long as the work in Jiangnan Province is done well and the economy is developing, according to your current standards for selecting cadres in China, we can work to a higher position, right?"

Fan Wubing looked at Murata Shigeru and thought to himself that this guy is very smart enough. He knew that to solve the problem, he had to act from the root and used his father's situation to set up obstacles. He took action from helping his father solve the problem, which was the key point.

So Fan Wubing thought about it and said, "Tell me the specific situation."

Murata Shigeru was overjoyed when he heard this, and thought that Fan Wubing's tone had finally relaxed. This was a good phenomenon! He was confident that as long as Fan Wubing showed signs of letting go, he would have a way to convince him. After all, the price he could pay this time was also extremely huge in the eyes of the Japanese.
Chapter completed!