There is a question: is it a good thing for a country or region to have abundant resources?

Many people may think that this question is a bit silly to ask, but can it also be called a problem? However, Li Huayong, a patient with mild obsessive-compulsive disorder, believes that sometimes the so-called "abundant resources" is not necessarily a good thing.

Taking oil as an example, when it comes to oil, it is natural to think of those tyrant countries in the Middle East, and those countries have become tyrants because they are rich in resources? Doesn't this prove that more resources are a good thing?

Are you sure?

As long as you think about it one more deeply, you will find that there are many countries in the world rich in oil resources, such as many countries in Greater Africa, the most typical is Venezuela in the Americas, have these countries become local tyrants because of oil? Well, maybe they were pseudo-tyrants for a certain period of time, but they were quickly beaten back to their original shape.

By the way, when it comes to oil resources, there is another country that cannot be left unmentioned, that is, Lao Maozi in the north. If you really want to talk about oil reserves, there is really no country that can compare with Lao Maozi, but in later generations, when Lao Maozi relies on energy exports for 70% of the total foreign trade of the year, it will be a second-rate country, and its annual GDP will not even be as good as a stick.

Even if we look back at the Middle East, there are only a few local tyrants who have really become tyrants because of oil, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and what about the others? Needless to say, Iran and Iraq, where Li Huayong went to Libya in his previous life, the quality of crude oil there is claimed to be the best in the world, and the sulfur content is extremely low, but it is a question whether such a country can become a country later after being a pseudo-tyrant for a few years.

That's why it's not always good for a country or region to be overly resourceful.

After talking about foreign countries, let's talk about China, and don't talk about other places, let's talk about Li Huayong's hometown Nanjiang Province. Nanjiang Province borders six or seven provinces, and compared with these brother provinces, if only the abundance of natural resources is discussed, then few of the surrounding provinces can really compare with Nanjiang, and Nanjiang is either ranked first or second.

But in terms of affluence and GDP, well, Nanjiang is also ranked first or second, but this is already ranked upside down.

The reasons for this phenomenon are complex, but Li Huayong believes that it may be precisely because of the abundance of natural resources in Nam Giang that this is one of the reasons for the sluggish economy in Nam Giang province.

This may seem like a rebuttal, but it is a fact that has always been a common economic phenomenon and is widespread all over the world.

Take the rare earths that Li Huayong and Old Man Yan discussed today, Li Huayong remembered that when he was a child in his previous life, probably when he was still in junior high school, the chemistry teacher told him that rare earths are a good thing, and this kind of thing is very scarce, and his hometown has very rich rare earth resources.

It is completely conceivable how proud Li Huayong, who was still a half-grown child at the time, how proud he was. But when Li Huayong grows up and is sensible, he will no longer have this sense of pride.

In fact, if you think about it, Nanjiang is rich in rare earth resources, but for a long period of time, how much benefit has this kind of thing brought to the local economy and the local people?

Even zooming in on the scope, our country once occupied more than 90% of the global rare earth market, but does this kind of thing bring a lot of practical benefits to our country?

One of the basic facts of this is that although our country has such a high share, it does not even have the most basic pricing power.

Regarding this phenomenon, to be honest, Li Huayong couldn't figure it out at first, thinking that the people engaged in this industry were simply stupid, and the people who did foreign trade were also stupid, how could they tolerate this kind of thing and be bullied like this.

Later, Li Huayong figured out that the reason for this situation is very simple: you can't use it!

Rare earth is indeed a good thing, but the vast majority of people, like Li Huayong, only stop at the category of popular science, know that it is a good thing, and know that it has a wide range of uses.

But how do you use it?

It's not that Li Huayong doesn't know it alone, it's that the whole country hasn't kept up with the research and use of this kind of thing, which causes good things to not bring you benefits.

To put it in a very simple score, people who can use this kind of thing will see this kind of thing as a price comparison of gold, but you won't use it, then this thing is actually a pile of soil, and now someone buys you at the price of cabbage, do you sell it?

People who don't understand it at all will be happy, after all, cabbage is always more expensive than mud, and if you can sell mud for the price of cabbage, of course, it is a good thing in the eyes of these people.

Someone like Li Huayong who knows a little bit will be very entangled, he knows that this kind of thing can actually be sold at the price of gold, but it is a pity that he has not mastered this technology, so this kind of thing is still mud in his hands. Therefore, after thinking about it, especially when this person is very tight and he needs money urgently, then there is no way, he may still sell.

Isn't the rare earth industry in our country like this in the early years?

Only under what circumstances can we not sell cabbage at a price? Only like in later generations, our country will use it itself, and more than 50% of the world's rare earths every year are used and developed by China itself. Then at this time, you don't have to worry, do you like to buy it or not, if you don't buy it, I will use it myself, and you don't still think about the price of cabbage, honestly pay the gold price for me to buy it.

Today, the old man Yan found Li Huayong, and when the old man asked Li Huayong to give him a reason, Li Huayong moved this reason out, so it was natural that the old man was persuaded by him in this way.

There is nothing to say about the details, Li Huayong knows the old man Yan, with his understanding of this old man, he knows that his truth is just the right medicine, whether he can convince others is not necessarily, but just to persuade the old man in front of him, it is still quite certain.

Things did not surprise Li Huayong, and after the two chatted for more than half an hour, the smile on the old man's face became stronger and stronger, and he became more and more "kind" to Li Huayong.

"Dajun, Xiao Zhang, you two come in. The old man suddenly shouted outside.

"Xiao Zhang" is Zhang Chi, deputy director of the Nanjiang Provincial Economic and Trade Commission, and was called the "big army" by the old man, and when he came in, Li Huayong knew that this was the main master, this person's name was Jiang Dajun, and he was the director of the Nanjiang Provincial Rare Earth Research Institute.

"Hello Director Jiang, I'm Xiao Li., I hope to cooperate well in the future......"

Li Huayong was very enthusiastic about Comrade Jiang Dajun, and as soon as Zhang Chi finished introducing him, he held the other party's hand tightly.

Li Huayong's enthusiasm is sincere, and in addition to the fact that he is sincerely optimistic about such cooperation, you must know that most of the research institutes like this are military units in these years. In other words, if you are involved with such a unit, it can be regarded as a military background.

And in doing business in these years, if you can take a little military background, there is nothing to say, and the benefits are simply not too much.

Li Huayong was secretly excited there, and Comrade Jiang Dajun was of course equally happy. You must know that it is very difficult in the institute now, and all kinds of funds have been cut repeatedly, not to mention conducting normal research now, even if it is difficult to maintain the food, drink and Lazar of the entire hundreds of people.

Lao Jiang even heard rumors some time ago, saying that his name of this institute may be revoked, either directly cut, or merged with other institutes, if it were not for the support of an old head like Old Man Yan, it might be like many other research institutes in Nanjiang and even across the country.

Just a few days ago, a few people from Xiangjiang suddenly found the institute, they said that they were going to invest in a ceramic factory in Shimen County, and said that they hoped to cooperate with the institute, and they would fund the construction of a laboratory in Shimen County, which was specially used to develop high-grade ceramic tiles.

Lao Jiang inquired at that time, and he knew that this project was real, because of the news of the first provincial key development zone in Nanjiang Province, of course he had heard about it in Nanjiang.

In the face of such an opportunity, it is impossible to say that Lao Jiang is not moved, but because of the identity of the other party Xiangjiang and the nature of his own research institute, this makes Lao Jiang worried.

Now it's okay, I don't know who told Yan Lao this information, and Yan Lao was still very concerned, he actually ran back to his hometown from the capital to finish the matter.

Comrade Jiang Dajun is quite familiar with Old Man Yan, as long as he looks at the old man's current expression and looks at his demeanor and movements, he knows that he has approved this matter, and as long as this kind of thing is endorsed by an old man like him, then his research institute will definitely be preserved, and anyone who wants to move must weigh it.

Li Huayong was secretly excited, Lao Jiang was happy there, and the other person in the room, Director Zhang Chi and Zhang was naturally satisfied, of course he knew that once such cooperation was promoted, not to mention the rest, at least it would be beneficial to the future Shimen Industrial Park.

This kind of cooperation can be regarded as in-depth cooperation, and the existence of such cooperation shows that the Lin Group in Xiangjiang is really sincere, they really want to invest in Nanjiang, and they can see the sincerity of foreign investment, and Zhang Chi, as the deputy director of the Provincial Economic and Trade Commission, is of course satisfied.

After Lao Jiang and Zhang Chi came in, when the four of them continued to chat in the room, the atmosphere was not ordinarily harmonious.

A few people chatted for a while, and when it was about 12 o'clock at noon, a few more people walked into the house, but this time it was Lin Yingbiao, Lao Lu, and Ouyang Dashi, a senior official in Shimen Industrial Park.

"I have prepared thin wine here, please be sure to appreciate Yan Lao's face. ”

Lin Yingbiao said to Old Man Yan like this.