Chapter 396: The Weakness of the Japanese
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With the arrival of the senior management of Fan's Investment Group, Fan Wuxian began to arrange the work in the next stage, mainly to inspect the work performance of the senior management, listen to their work arrangements for the next stage, and put forward some of his own views for guidance.
At this time, it is also the time when the senior management feels the most rewarding, because Fan Wuxian can very accurately point out the direction of work and point out the focus of work for everyone, which can have the effect of Daigo empowerment.
This year's focus is mainly on the developing industry, that is, Wu Zhi Xiaoji is responsible for leading the initial success of the automobile manufacturing industry, on this issue, Wu Zhi Xiaoji put forward the intention of developing hybrid vehicles.
When mentioning this problem, Wu Zhi Xiaoji raised a question by the way, "Recently, we need a large number of rare earth elements in our research and development process, and I hope that Mr. Fan will solve it." ”
"Do you need to use rare earths to build cars?" Fan Wuxian never knew about this, and asked in some surprise.
"Of course, Mr. Fan, don't you know?" Wu Zhi Xiaoji was also a little surprised, but he didn't expect that Mr. Fan would also be confused.
The massive use of rare earth elements in automobiles began in recent years.
The application of rare earth elements in automobiles is mainly to make high-performance rare earth magnets. In automobiles, rare earth magnets are used in the motor of the electronic power steering system, the engine speed sensor, and the wheel speed sensor in the ABS system.
Since the emergence of new energy power vehicles, the use of rare earth magnets has increased exponentially.
For hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles, and fuel cell vehicles, miniaturized and high-power drive motors are a must, and now these motors use a large number of rare earth magnets.
Toyota, for example, is developing a new generation of vehicles. Now on average per unit produced. It takes about 20 catties of rare earth elements. in the coming years. Toyota will sell more than one million units of all hybrid models in the region.
So. How many rare earth metals are needed for a hybrid alone. It can be calculated very simply.
And in the near future. Hybrid vehicles will become the mainstream of the automotive market. It is a well-established fact. Furthermore. It also consumes a lot of rare earth metal ground electric vehicles. At present, there is a gradual upward trend in foreign countries.
Therefore. Rare earth resources are essential for the future development of the automotive industry. Its importance is clear. Not an exaggeration. The role of rare earth elements in the manufacture of new energy vehicles. It is equivalent to the position of oil in the use of fuel vehicles.
After Fan Wuxian heard Wu Xiaoji say this. I regretted it a little bit. This time, he promised to sell a large number of rare earths to the Japanese at a high price. Isn't that a bit sloppy? As a reborn person, I understand the importance of rare earth land. It's not even as good as Wu Zhi Xiaoji, an ordinary Japanese businessman. It can be seen that the country is in terms of resource education. There are a lot of loopholes and gaps.
Although the country has been emphasizing the abundance of land and resources. But in fact, the land is big and the things are thin. The total amount of land is compared with the per capita share of land. It can be said that the country is poor and scarce in resources.
The problem of the Chinese is that they like to pick up good words too much, and are unwilling to blow themselves up, which can be confirmed from folk customs, every year on the twenty-third day of the month when the god Vesta goes to heaven, everyone will buy some sesame candy and something to worship, that is, I hope that he will say good things in heaven and tell the Jade Emperor less about those things that make people unhappy, so as not to condemn the Jade Emperor.
When Fan Wuxian thought of this, he couldn't help but feel a little indignant, thinking to himself, should he formally propose to include these contents in the basic education textbook now? After all, cultivating an additional generation of young people with a full understanding of the national conditions can advance China's awakening by more than ten years, which is immeasurable. Regarding this matter, Fan Wuxian decided to talk to Boss Zhu and the No. 1 chief, and he couldn't ignore it.
"Specifically, what types of rare earth elements do we need?" Fan Wuxian asked Wu Zhi Xiaoji.
There are seventeen rare earth elements in total, and there must be a priority, and it is impossible to grasp the beard and eyebrows.
Wu Zhi Xiaoji had a very careful understanding of the specific situation, and he also had very detailed information on hand, so he opened his laptop and explained the details to Fan Wuxian and others.
According to the simple classification of rare earth elements, they are called light rare earth elements as representatives, and heavy rare earth elements as representatives of dysprosium.
Wu Zhi Xiaoji said to everyone, "Generally speaking, the content of heavy rare earths is relatively small, and the price is relatively expensive. Specifically when it comes to automobiles, among the high-performance Nd-Fe-B magnets used now, Nd is a light rare earth element, and its disadvantage is that the heat resistance is not good, and the magnetic retention will be significantly reduced at high temperatures, so we will add dysprosium to replace a part of Nd, so as to ensure the use in the two-hundred-degree environment, enough to cope with the working environment on the car. ”
According to Wu Zhi Xiaoji, dysprosium is a heavy rare earth element.
The distribution of rare earth element resources is very biased towards China, and the distribution of heavy rare earth elements is especially biased towards China. In terms of burial volume, light rare earth resources can still compete with Australia, the United States and other places, but heavy rare earth resources are buried in areas outside China, and the amount of buried resources is negligible.
"This time, the rare earth project ordered by the Japanese side from us, is it also biased towards these elements?" Fan Wuxian asked the representative who was specifically responsible for the rare earth negotiations with the Japanese.
The representative nodded, and he realized if he had set the price too low this time. So he suggested to Fan Wuxi, "If it's not cost-effective, just break the contract, anyway, we didn't receive the money, and they didn't receive the goods." ”
If you break the contract, you have to pay a large amount of compensation, and Fan Wuxian doesn't want this.
But if the Japanese picked up this cheap price for nothing, he was not happy in his heart, so he began to ponder there, how could he make a false shot and let the Japanese break the contract on their own? This difficulty seems to be quite large.
The market share of rare earths produced in China can probably account for more than 90% of the international market, and the only reason why it can occupy such a large market is because it is cheap. Because importing rare earths from China is cheaper than producing them in China, Australia and the United States, two countries with relatively large rare earth deposits, have also closed their rare earth mines in recent years and imported them from China.
If it weren't for Fan Wuxi's sudden killing, monopolizing more than eighty percent of domestic rare earth resources, it is estimated that Western countries would happily continue to import rare earths from China until China's rare earth resources are exhausted.
As for now, the Americans and Australians have been caught off guard, negotiating with China to open up the rare earth market, and on the other hand, they are also opening their own rare earth mines one after another to prevent them from being controlled by others.
For the Japanese, who have a large demand for rare earth resources, China has always advocated Sino-Japanese friendship. However, Japan now relies on imports for all its rare earth resources, and more than ninety percent of them are imported directly from China, and the rest are not directly from China, but the ultimate source is still China.
Therefore, Japan is not at ease with pinning all the sources and channels of such important resources on China, the only country like this, no matter how friendly China and Japan are. But then again, it is precisely because Japan has always had this sense of crisis that it has been able to maintain its advanced technology in the fields of energy and resource conservation.
In fact, China has always been quite generous, and rare earth resources are not only exported in very large quantities, but also at a very cheap price. Therefore, although Japan often complains that the distribution of rare earth resources is too biased towards China, it is not too dissatisfied.
However, after Fan Wuzhi began to monopolize rare earth resources, it will not work. At Fan's suggestion, the Chinese government began to strictly regulate the production and export of rare metals, including rare earth metals, and the Japanese fears finally became a reality.
So they are trying to get the most out of their rare earth resources from the channels that China can now export, such as Shen Peiming's company, which is the only company with the ability to export on a large scale.
Shen Peiming's company is now also tightening exports, in the fact that it monopolizes rare earth export resources, and a small amount of exports can get high returns, Shen Peiming naturally can't buy rare earths as cabbage, and he is also very good at hoarding tricks.
And the most tangled point for the Japanese is that most of Shen Peiming's enterprises export light rare earth elements, and the heavy rare earth mining areas are basically in the hands of Fan Wuxi, which is why they contacted Fan Wuxian through Shen Peiming.
Because they investigated very clearly, Shen Peiming's daughter is Fan Wuxi's fiancée, and this relationship needs to be used well, at least there is someone who can speak. But Shen Peiming is not a person who can be used in vain, in order to spread this sentence, the Japanese have put in a lot of effort, and they have been blackmailed by this old fox Shen to get this opportunity.
After Fan Wuxian figured out these problems, he had an idea, since he had decided to sell some rare earth elements to the Japanese, it would not be easy to change, and now the only remedy is to double the price on the basis of it, so that they can have a good life.
Obviously, there are many benefits to getting the Japanese to accept high-priced rare earths, and one of them is that the cost of their cars will increase a lot, which is also quite good news, especially for Fan's Investment Group, which has already entered the car market.
In the end, Fan Wuxian said to the person in charge of the rare earth project, "Well, that, you said very decisively, give them the money, don't say the reason, and when they are in a hurry, we will restart the contact mechanism." ”
The person in charge nodded and agreed, thinking that Mr. Fan was really resolute and decisive, and he had a countermeasure so soon.
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