The next few days of classroom theoretical training seemed to be uneventful, although Academician Xu Guangxian's grouping at the beginning surprised everyone, but in class, this grouping is actually not important.

Because everyone listened carefully and answered some questions from time to time, anyway, they were mainly based on theoretical learning, and the imaginary group comparison did not appear, so for the first grouping, including the things selected by the team leader, no one took the initiative to mention it later.

"Since the beginning of the six-day course, we have completely gone through the main principles, evolution and direction of the 'cascade extraction method' and the direction that still exists for improvement." Xu Guangxian closed the textbook and said, "Starting tomorrow, this training course will enter the second half. We will go to the Ningyuan Rare Earth Metallurgical Plant in Baotou Obo Mining Area to carry out the next stage of training and enter the field of rare earth metallurgy. Everyone is ready, tomorrow at nine o'clock in the morning, there will be a chartered bus at the gate of Beijing University to go directly, don't be late. ”

"Alright, that's all for today's class, end of class!"

Xu Guang first packed up his textbooks, and after leaving the classroom, he immediately went to his office.

Picking up the phone, he hesitated a little before dialing, but quickly pressed the phone number again.

As the phone was connected, Xu Guangxian immediately said, "Is it evergreen?" We'll leave tomorrow morning at nine o'clock and expect to arrive at two o'clock in the afternoon. ”

"Lao Xu, I've really worked hard for you this time." Zhou Changqing on the other end of the phone hurriedly replied, "What else do I need to prepare here?" ”

"No, I don't. There are a few outstanding students in this batch of 20 students, hopefully...... I hope I can solve your problem, even if it can't be solved immediately, as long as there is hope, I will definitely find a way to keep people to continue to work with you! Xu Guang gritted his teeth and hung up the phone.

Zhou Changqing, who answered the phone, was the director of Ningyuan Rare Earth Metallurgical Plant and Xu Guangxian's fellow villager.

He is slightly younger than Xu Guangxian, but he also studied abroad at MD when he was young, and the two actually met at that time.

Unlike Xu Guangxian, after returning to China, Zhou Changqing chose to set up a factory, and the investment in this Ningyuan rare earth metallurgical plant basically hollowed out Zhou Changqing's entire net worth.

At Xu Guangxian's suggestion, Zhou Changqing did not take the low-end route at the beginning, but directly aimed at the most promising third-generation rare earth element, neodymium, and the products it may produce in the future.

In 1982, this thing was still in the theoretical research stage, and everything was difficult at the beginning, even if Zhou Changqing had great trust in Xu Guangxian's ability, but after burning 3 million investments, he had not yet obtained a stable neodymium production method.

Xu Guangxian didn't want to give up, he felt that he was on the verge of breaking through, but he also knew that Zhou Changqing was under a lot of pressure, so as a last resort, Xu Guangxian got this rare earth senior talent training class!

Running training courses is famous, and finding someone to solve the production method of neodymium is the truth!

And this process is not simple, Xu Guangxian also sold his old face, found a leader of GWY, and forced through the relationship to let the Ministry of Industry issue this training course plan.

And among these 20 people, a few suitable talents can be selected to participate in the follow-up work, and frankly speaking, Xu Guangxian has no spectrum in his heart now.

However, once enough outstanding talents are found in the internship process, Xu Guangxian will definitely not miss it, and will definitely go to the leader as his academician again, and ask for an administrative order to implement the secondment to help Ningyuan Rare Earth Metallurgical Plant break through the bottleneck and save the enterprise!

Using such a great force to save a private company is also Xu Guangxian's last resort.

He has been calling for the end of Huaguo's "resource for technology" stage in the rare earth industry as soon as possible, because we are too much to lose!

Even if we exchange those foreign currencies and are resold by foreigners, not to mention the technology they sell to us, it is still several generations behind.

If you want to truly revitalize the rare earth industry in China, the only feasible way is to break through the most cutting-edge technology in a rare earth field, create the most cutting-edge products, tear a hole, and make it a bright spot to attract high-level attention, so as to change the course of the development of the rare earth industry.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Xu Guang set his sights on neodymium elements, because he vaguely felt that this benchmark element in the third-generation rare earth elements must have a great future!

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The Baiyun Obo mining area is very rich in mineral resources and is the largest iron-fluorine-rare earth comprehensive deposit in China, rich in iron, fluorite and rare earths.

It has about 83% of China's rare earth reserves, and is the most developed place in the country's rare earth mining industry.

In addition, quartz, phosphate ore, copper ore, gold ore, potassium-rich slate and limestone ore have industrial mining value.

Although there are only two sub-district offices at the administrative level, in terms of overall development scale, it is almost equivalent to a medium-sized prefecture-level city in Tianhe Province, or at least it seems to be better developed than Heyuan City.

In the 80s, the road conditions from the capital to the Baiyun Obo mining area were not bad, although there was no high-speed road all the way, but at least in the case of the northern plains, the driving was much better than that of Tianhe Province.

This time the vehicle was a Hino bus, which was considered a very luxurious configuration in 82, and you would not feel motion sickness if you sat on it and drove more than 7 hours across provinces.

Along Provincial Highway 104 all the way through the city, and beyond you can see a continuous stream of mines and large and small enterprises, which are located in the entire mining area like stars.

The vehicle arrived at the Baiyun Obo mining area at about three o'clock in the afternoon, a little later than the expected arrival time, and after getting off the bus, most of the comrades were still looking at everything around excitedly.

Zhong Bai is also one of them, and he certainly knows what the Baiyun Obo mine means to the entire rare earth industry in China.

Covering an area of about 200 acres, the left side of the spacious gate is a bronzing brand that does not match the breath of the North China Plain - "Baiyun Ningyuan Rare Earth Metallurgical Plant".

Zhou Changqing, the director of the factory, stood at the door in a thick coat to greet everyone in the training class, and his rough face caused by the strong wind was very distinctive, but when he opened his mouth, he still had a Mandarin accent similar to that of Academician Xu Guangxian.

"Guangxian, and comrades, you have worked hard all the way!"

Xu Guang hurried over to shake hands with him, and after a brief introduction, he took everyone with him to settle down in the guest house under the leadership of the director of the office of the factory.

Zhong Bai looked at the row of orderly spaced workshops as he walked, and that familiar feeling returned.

It's been a long time since I've seen a serious metallurgical workshop!