Chapter 1228

Ye Tuan spoke: "Zhou kid, half of the total storage mining rights, your appetite is indeed too big. Let's each take a step back and give you one-third of the mining rights."

"Don't say I'm insatiable, and don't say how big my appetite is." Zhou Andong organized his language: "Rare earth is the pearl of industry, listed as a strategic element of this century by the United States, Japan, and other countries, because many high-end technology techniques require rare earth elements.

And rare earth extraction technology is regarded as the highest secret by Western countries and has been blockading our country. However, we are in urgent need of application, and we have to negotiate with foreign enterprises to purchase rare earth separation technology.

I remember it was the 1970s. At that time, France's RhonePoulenc company was a rare earth industry giant. When negotiating with our country several times to transfer separation technology, not only was the price very high, but it also proposed that products must be exclusively distributed by them. This harsh condition was actually to turn our country's rare earth separation industry into their overseas factory.

More than ten years ago, when Professor Xu Guangxian led the rare earth inspection delegation to visit France, they were refused to visit RhonePoulenc company, and the French side also set all extractants and process parameters as top secret. This was an insult to us.

Because there was no hope of purchasing technology, Professor Xu led the team to develop our own rare earth extraction technology. In early 1988, our self-developed cascade extraction technology was practiced in rare earth enterprises across the country.

Rows of unremarkable extraction boxes were connected like an assembly line. You only need to put raw materials in here, and at the other end of the assembly line, various high-purity rare earth elements will be output continuously.

This new type of cascade extraction technology is far ahead of the foreign process that is time-consuming, low-yield, low-separation coefficient, and cannot be produced continuously.

And the success of that rare earth full separation industrial test made our country's mining enterprises from then on, no longer possible to become overseas factories for foreign enterprises.

In that same year, in October 1988, at the first China-Japan Rare Earth Technology Exchange Meeting held in Tokyo, Japan, the Japanese media arrogantly claimed to adhere to three principles.

China provides raw materials, Japan refines, insists on refining at the required location, and cannot provide separation technology to China. Because at that time they didn't know that we had already developed more advanced rare earth extraction technology."

How could these old guys not know these things, but they were still listening quietly.

Zhou Andong walked to the desk, picked up the cigarette on it, lit it, and then continued: "We have more advanced high-precision extraction technology, which can completely carry out anti-monopoly, let our country's rare earth industry stand at the top of the world.

Five years, from the time we developed high-precision extraction technology more advanced than the West, to now, it has been five years. But you look at those rare earth enterprises, including state-owned enterprises, what are they doing?

Is there any one that uses the precision processing extraction technology we developed to build a full rare earth industry chain, carry out anti-monopoly against the West, and push our rare earth industry to the top of the world?

No, not only is there not one, they are also competing and consuming internally, selling rare earth, such an industrial pearl, a raw material needed by cutting-edge technology, at the price of Chinese cabbage.

What makes me even angrier is that selling at the price of Chinese cabbage is fine. In order to compete, they also provided our advanced extraction technology to the West and Japan for free.

Don't they know that rare earth extraction technology is a secret? Don't they know that the West and Japan blockaded us at the beginning?

They know, but in order to sell some rare earth, they still sent the technology out for free. What kind of behavior is this? This is fucking selling the country. If you ask me, they should all be shot."

Zhou Andong's words made the old guys present silent.

Don't they know this kind of situation? Of course they know, but they have no way.

The country is short of money, especially foreign exchange, but the country has no foreign exchange-earning products.

Purchasing some high-end equipment and materials all requires foreign exchange.

Especially when the West did not implement an embargo on China, China wanted to introduce Rafale fighters.

France had already agreed and even let our test pilots conduct test flights. In the end, it was because there was not enough foreign exchange and France refused to lower the price, so they had to give up.

And foreign debt, taking RMB, people don't want it, so what to do?

Can only sell mineral resources, especially rare earth. Even if they know the importance, they can only bite the bullet and sell.

………………………………………………

Zhou Andong looked at them: "It is true that the country is in difficulty and it is understandable to sell mineral resources. Although we are poor, we can only rely on selling mineral resources to exchange for foreign exchange to support the country's development.

But this is absolutely not the reason for those rare earth mining enterprises to consume internally and sell rare earth cheaply. To put it bluntly, these enterprises sell rare earth cheaply for their own selfish interests, not because the country needs foreign exchange."

"Sigh!"

The tall old man sighed: "Since you know all this, why do you still want to enter the rare earth industry?"

"Because if I don't enter, the rare earth industry will continue to be mined in such an orderly manner, and sooner or later, our country will be choked by the West in high-end industries."

Zhou Andong smoked hard: "This is not my alarmist talk. The US and Western countries will absolutely not let us rise peacefully and smoothly.

And rare earth is the biggest bargaining chip in our hands. If we don't lay out early, we will definitely suffer a big loss in the future."

Ye Tuan suddenly said: "Your Yuzhou Technology Research Institute invested heavily in developing lithography machines and chips, is it because of this reason?"

"Yes!" Zhou Andong nodded: "No matter what the future holds, it is never wrong to be prepared. Especially in some high-precision fields, we must never give up research and development.

What kind of bullshit 'making is not as good as buying, buying is not as good as renting', people who can say this are harboring evil intentions. If you believe it, sooner or later you will pay an unbearable price because of this sentence."

The old guys didn't speak again. Now the topic of 'making is not as good as buying, buying is not as good as renting' has occupied the main force.

Many projects were discontinued mainly because the country had no money, but words like 'making is not as good as buying, buying is not as good as renting' also played a very important role.

Zhou Andong continued: "That's why I want half of the rare earth mining rights in Ganzhou, and then invest heavily in research and development technology, focusing on environmental protection, integrating resources, scientific planning, reasonable layout, and deep processing to build a full industry chain.

Let the rare earth industry move towards scale, intensification, and efficiency. Let the rare earth industry become the tower top industry and industrial backbone of the country, and build a fortress for our country's high-precision technology in the future."