He Shuiyuan chuckled in his heart, this new governor is really not an ordinary greeting, he called all the team members to accompany the investigation, originally to show that he attaches great importance to this investigation, the leadership of the research does not like to call forward and back, I didn't expect the horse's fart to be slapped on the horse's leg, I just hope that the research behind will not go wrong, so I had to send the team members back, and I took a deputy director in charge to follow Duan Yu into the car.

Duan Yu did not express a different opinion on the research itinerary arranged by He Shuiyuan, after all, he did not go to investigate this time to find problems, but to explore the new economic growth highlights of Liaoyuan Province.

The first enterprise in the research itinerary is Liaoyuan Rare Earth Group, Liaoyuan Rare Earth Group was originally directly under the management of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, and later the reform of central enterprises was assigned to local management, so the foundation is still relatively thick, and it is also one of the few slightly profitable enterprises in Liaoyuan Province mineral resources mining enterprises, and in recent years, the international market of rare earth mines has been bullish in recent years, and the rare earth exports of Liaoyuan Rare Earth Group have created a large amount of foreign exchange for Liaoyuan Province every year, which is the most effective among the mineral resources mining enterprises in Liaoyuan Province, so He Shuiyuan will arrange Liaoyuan Rare Earth Group to the first stop of the research itinerary。

Hua Xinyu, chairman of Liaoyuan Rare Earth Group, has already received a notice to wait at the door of the group's office building with the members of the group's leadership team.

Duan Yu was the first to get out of the car, shaking hands with Hua Xinyu who came up, while observing the surrounding environment, the office building of Liaoyuan Rare Earth Group was beautifully repaired, and it looked like the benefits were not bad.

Before coming, Duan Yu also learned about the common knowledge of rare earth minerals, rare earth element oxides refer to 15 kinds of lanthanide oxides with atomic numbers from 57 to 71 in the periodic table, and 17 element oxides with similar chemical properties to lanthanides (Sc) and yttrium (Y). Rare earths are known as "industrial vitamins". It has been widely used in petroleum, chemical industry, metallurgy, textile, ceramics, glass, permanent magnet materials and other fields, and with the progress of science and technology and the continuous breakthrough of application technology, rare earth has now shown more and more important value in new energy, new materials, electronic information, aerospace and even military and other fields, and has become an extremely important strategic resource.

Because of this, Duan Yu also showed a very strong interest in Liaoyuan Rare Earth Group, and was very enthusiastic when he shook hands with Hua Xinyu, which made Hua Xinyu muttered a little in his heart.

The research is generally to the conference room to listen to the report first, Hua Xinyu reception leaders research is also the reception slipped, naturally fully prepared, Duan Yu and their party invited into the grand conference room of Liaoyuan Rare Earth Group, each leader has sent a beautifully printed color report material, illustrated and textual, it looks very formal.

Then Hua Xinyu began to make a report endlessly, nothing more than to report on the achievements of Liaoyuan Rare Earth Group in recent years, how much foreign exchange has been earned for the province, what honors have been obtained, etc., in short, it is full of flowers, the situation is very good, the problem must not be mentioned, and the leaders probably do not like to listen to these.

But Duan Yu is obviously not an ordinary leader, he frowned when he listened to Hua Xinyu's report, and waved his hand to interrupt Hua Xinyu's report: "Comrade Xinyu, these report materials you said are all there, I'll go back and take a slow look, can you introduce the situation that is not mentioned in the report materials, and the current problems faced by your Liaoyuan Rare Earth Group?... ...

For example, a large number of unlicensed and low-priced rare earth products flooded the market, disrupting the normal trading order of the rare earth market, seriously affecting the survival of formal enterprises, and even threatening the safety of the rare earth industry.

Of course not! This involves the interests of all aspects, at least first of all, he Shuiyuan, the leader in charge, was offended, Hua Xinyu was caught off guard by Duan Yu, and he didn't know how to deal with it for a while, and turned his eyes to He Shuiyuan, who was sitting under Duan Yu, He Shuiyuan was actually a little anxious, how could this new governor always play cards according to common sense, this is too difficult to serve, but in front of Duan Yu, he didn't dare to make small moves, so he had to cough and said:" Mr. He, if you have any questions, Governor Duan is here to help enterprises solve problems this time, and our competent departments will also serve you well, don't have any worries...

This obedient and listening, Hua Xinyu understood what He Xinyuan meant, He Xinyuan meant that if Governor Duan wants you to ask a question, you will give him a difficult problem to solve, but don't involve us in charge, otherwise I will clean you up when I turn back. He hurriedly said: "There is indeed a problem, the biggest problem our group is currently facing is that the export quota allocated to us by the state is still too small, can you ask Governor Duan to help us coordinate and help us fight for a little more export quota, which is actually beneficial to the government, our export quota has increased, and we can also create more foreign exchange for the government..."

It is necessary to make a common sense explanation at this point, which involves a painful historical lesson. Rare earths are important strategic resources, and many of these elements are used in cutting-edge electronic devices. China used to be the country with the most abundant rare earth resources in the world, with reserves accounting for more than 4/5 of the world's reserves, and China's rare earth exports mainly began in the 70s of the 20th century. Before 1990, the entire rare earth international market was monopolized by the United States, Europe and Russia, and in the early 90s, with the opening of China's exports, a large number of enterprises began to engage in rare earth export trade. With the intensification of export competition, one of the consequences is that European and American countries have lost their competitiveness in rare earths, and Huaxia rare earth has begun to become the "boss" of the international rare earth market, with the supply of rare earth exceeding 90% of the world's demand.

This sounds like a thing that makes the Chinese people have a sense of honor, but in fact it is a very short-sighted behavior, disorderly market competition, resulting in Huaxia not grasping the international pricing power of rare earths at all, but by those cunning foreign businessmen to lower the price, so that rare earths, an important non-renewable strategic resource, were bought by them at a very low price, and now the reserves of rare earths in China have fallen to less than 30% of the world's total reserves, and the country has paid a heavy price for this short-sighted behavior.