The day after Lu Jing returned to the capital, the officialdom of Hangcheng began a series of fine-tuning. Among the cadres who have been reassigned to several positions is Xu Zhengfeng's name: Xu Zhengfeng, deputy director of the Municipal Government Office, was transferred to the CPPCC Research Office as a researcher.

Immediately afterward, there were also changes in personnel in Hengxi County. Huang Liangjun, director of the county cultural bureau, went through the retirement procedures due to illness.

On Tuesday afternoon, Lu Jing accompanied his father who woke up from a nap to play a game of Go and was trained with a smile, and went to visit Professor Zhao Xiaofeng at the National University of China. Chatted until five o'clock in the afternoon, and by the way, he came to Minmin University to study for graduate school after graduation, and then took the blue Bentley driven by Zhao Zi to Huihai Hotel to have dinner with his eldest brother.

In the private room of the small restaurant on the top floor of Huihai Hotel, from the floor-to-ceiling glass curtain, you can see the scenery of the sunset in the distance, and the sky and the earth are golden and spectacular.

"The material you've given me is all real?" Sitting on the rest sofa in front of the blue floor-to-ceiling window, Lu Jiang threw a cigarette to Lu Jing and asked softly.

Lu lit his cigarette and said with a smile: "Brother, I can lie to you." I commissioned Zheng Xinming to collect the materials. Eastern Anhui Province is a large province of rare earth mines in China, and the reliability of this material is very high. The day before yesterday, he submitted to his eldest brother an analysis report on the current situation of the rare earth industry in the Republic. Today, the eldest brother called and asked him to come to Huihai Hotel for dinner.

Lu Jiang sighed with emotion and said slowly: "It's shocking and deceitful. ”

Lu Jing pursed his lips. Every time he sees the state of the rare earth industry in the Republic, he also has a sense of anger in his chest.

Domestic rare earth resources account for 70% of the world's rare earth resource reserves, but a large number of rare earth resources are being acquired by foreign traders at unbelievably low prices. When the price of rare earth rises, the purchase will be stopped, the inventory will be used, and the purchase will be made when the price is reduced again. Forcing domestic companies to compete to sell at lower prices.

Since foreign traders are buying and selling large orders. Even a country designates an international trader to buy it uniformly. However, there are more than 100 domestic enterprises that sell to foreign countries. The consequences of this unequal strength can be imagined.

The vicious competition between export enterprises has led to the export of valuable rare earth short-term products such as neodymium, terbium, dysprosium, and europium at low prices. There is a large backlog of cerium, lanthanum, yttrium, etc., and enterprises are struggling with low profits. The situation is dire.

Moreover. The international community has also demanded that the Republic be a global supplier of rare earths, even at the expense of exerting pressure in other areas. Among them, the most excessive is Japan. International traders who handle rare earth prices include Mitsui Special Metals Mining Co., Ltd., a member of Japan's Mitsui Foundation.

Japan has purchased and hoarded rare earths from the Republic of China enough for its domestic use for 100-300 years, thus grasping the international pricing power of rare earths and countering the domestic rare earth industry chain.

The rapid loss of rare earths cannot be simply attributed to the backwardness of metallurgical technology and illegal mining, and the fundamental reason is driven by profits. Only when there are interests will there be people who will steal and use simple techniques to refine rare earths.

The vicious price competition of domestic rare earth enterprises is induced by the operating prices of powerful international traders. It is not the inferior nature of the Chinese people as propagated by the foreign media - they like infighting. In fact. Price competition is nothing but a market behavior that all enterprises have.

Could it be that domestic rare earth companies are stupid, and they don't know how to sell rare earth ores at a high price? The fundamental reason is also that pricing power is manipulated by foreign traders. When they want to raise the price, they stop the acquisition, force you to lower the price, and after the price is reduced, they buy a large number of them and hoard them as bargaining chips for pricing power. When the Republic wanted to reduce its export quota for rare earths, they were clamoring and pressuring the international community.

It is not an exaggeration to use the sentence "deceive people too much" to evaluate Hao.

However, the shocking status quo that began in '96. There was every chance of redress in '01. Why is Japan and South Korea the world's largest consumers of rare earths? This is due to the huge role of rare earths in the electronics industry. In particular, Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States are developing the TFT LCD display industry at a rapid pace.

Lu Jing took a puff of his cigarette and suggested, "Brother, the price of indium ingots as an associated ore of zinc, tin, and copper ore is not high now. The TFT LCD display industry in Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States is developing rapidly. As long as the state can take advantage of the low price to hoard a large amount of indium ingot resources, control the domestic indium ingot export channels. In particular, the export channel to Japan and South Korea and other countries can be used as one of the important means to obtain thin film liquid crystal technology from Japanese and Korean enterprises in the future, as well as one of the bargaining chips on some occasions. ”

Lu Jiang nodded solemnly. Suddenly, he glanced at his younger brother meaningfully, smiled and asked, "You don't want me to go to the Ministry of Agriculture so much?" ”

Lu Jing was slightly stunned. Laughing and scratching his head. He hopes that the eldest brother will come forward to promote all parties to end the current chaos in the rare earth industry, and the essential reason is that he does not want the eldest brother to take the position of vice minister of the Ministry of Agriculture. He worries that his eldest brother will continue to implement the rural social security system. So much so that "falling on his heels".

It is indeed very difficult for him to hide this little bit of caution from his eldest brother.

Lu Jiang patted Lu Jing's wrist and smiled with emotion, "You, am I such a person who doesn't know how to be flexible?" The rare earth situation you mentioned is indeed worth paying attention to. "My younger brother is now grown up, and I persuade him to know how to take big things to persuade him. If something really needs to be done and pushed, he won't be afraid. If the country lives and dies for profit, will it not be avoided because of good and evil?

Lu Jing smiled. In the face of Shi Zicheng's crazy "counterattack" at this moment, it is not impossible for the eldest brother to go to the Ministry of Agriculture, the problem is that it is not necessary.

The current situation of the rare earth industry chain seems to be very complicated, but in the final analysis, it is one word, money! As long as the state invests in the unified acquisition and reserve of rare earth ores, it is not impossible to solve the dead knot of rare earths. In the final analysis, rare earth mines are still on the land of the republic. This is where the confidence to solve this problem lies.

Seeing his younger brother's "successful plan", Lu Jiang shook his head with a smile and asked, "I heard that Zheng Xinming is pursuing Yu Xiaolan?" ”

He is now running around with Yu Xiaolan. Chased from the capital to Jiaozhou, and from Jiaozhou to Jiangzhou. is attentive, the problem is that Yu Xiaolan doesn't buy his account. It seems that Yu Xiaolan has a lover in college. Lu Jing told him about his knowledge.

Lu Jiang smiled, didn't speak, looked at the beautiful sunset scenery outside the window, and smoked softly.

Lu Jing has some understanding of the eldest brother's temperament, and knows that he does not agree with the combination of Zheng Xinming and Yu Xiaolan. Lu Jing immediately grasped some of the joint points, and understood a little in his heart, "Brother, I asked someone to serve the food." ”

"Okay." Lu Jiang extinguished the smoke and said softly: "You haven't rested at home these past few nights, where have you been?" I don't even know that you have an extra place to live in the capital. Those who are still getting married in a few months should pay attention to what they should pay attention to. ”

Lu Jing was slightly stunned, a little dumbfounded. He didn't expect his eldest brother to suddenly ask him about it. He has been resting at Zhang Li, the hometown of Yanhu, for the past few days. Naturally, this is not good to say to the eldest brother. If he wants to lie to the eldest brother, he is not willing.

"We have to announce our address as soon as possible. Just announce the announcement of Jiada Garden near the National University of China. Lu Jing thought to himself, rang the bell, and asked the waiter to serve the food.

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Yellow Sea.

The rows of high-rise buildings are resplendent and graceful under the night light, and the traffic on the road is endless. In the luxuriously decorated room of the Yellow Sea Peninsula Hotel, a short and fat man holding a white porcelain wine glass smiled playfully: "Matsusaka-kun, it seems that our partner has encountered new trouble." ”

"Yamaguchi-kun, trouble also represents opportunity, doesn't it?" Dressed in a kimono, Shifu Matsusaka picked up a delicate and elegant sake bottle and poured sake into the glass and said leisurely.

The stocky Koji Yamaguchi squinted at the big eyes of the mung bean and smiled, "Sony's old guys are not easy to deal with. ”

Matsusaka Shifu smiled faintly, "The penetration of culture is far more efficient than the penetration of economy. Just like the 'American culture' exported by Hollywood, this will have a profound impact on the young people in the land where you and I live. I'll convince Sony. ”

Colum Graduation Film Group is a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Starlight Media has been hit hard in Hangzhou, and its artists have been poached by a large number of opponents. This is a good time for Colum Graduation Film Group to infiltrate Starlight Media.

"Yo Xi, Matsusaka-kun always has a dazzling opinion." Koji Yamaguchi praised. As for how many sycophants there are, only he knows the truth.

Matsusaka Shifu smiled slightly, "In business, the enemy of an enemy is a friend, this is a universal law. Yamaguchi-kun, how did you do this year? ”

Koji Yamaguchi is a senior staff member of the China office of Mitsui Special Metals Mining Co., Ltd., Japan's largest rare earth industry company, and the head of Mitsui Special Metals dispatched from Japan to China.

"No pressure." Koji Yamaguchi smiled smugly, "I heard that Nippon Steel's investment in Yunbei Iron and Steel failed, and that old guy Watanabe will definitely be under domestic pressure." Oh, Matsusaka-kun, Mitsui's mobile phone business in Shina still doesn't seem to be improving, and I'm afraid it will affect your performance. ”

"What do you think?" Matsusaka smiled incomprehensibly, "The situation will change after July." ”

Because there are no mobile phone manufacturers in Japan, but adopt a customized sales model from operators, this has caused Japanese manufacturers such as Sanyo, Toshiba, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, and NEC to suffer from the embarrassing situation of adapting to the Chinese market.

Sony is now in talks with Ericsson to form a joint venture to intervene in the mobile phone market. His idea is that NEC will continue to increase its support for United Technology companies, avoid the market end, and obtain sufficient profits directly from the upstream links of the industrial chain.

In July this year, Huaxia Mobile will operate the GPRS network, and Lianke, which is supported by NEC's technology, will definitely be able to grab more market share. Strong technology requires a strong carrier network to support it. He is very confident in the skills of Mitsui's electronics company.

In the near future, Lianke will definitely be able to replace the current overlord of the Chinese market - Jinghua mobile phone and become the new leader. (To be continued......)