"Visionary, yes, you go on." Wei Zhengguo rubbed the teacup with both hands, leaning forward slightly, obviously interested.

"Therefore, combined with the experience of the rapid development of RB and MD industrial economy in the past 20 years, I have noticed that these developed countries have adopted the practice of establishing free trade zones for the export of some special industrial raw materials or industrial products at certain special stages. Hmm, you know what a free trade zone means, right? ”

"Freedom...... Trade Zone? I've never heard of this concept before, so let's talk about it. Wei Zhengguo frowned slightly, and did not pretend to understand, and began to ask Zhong Bai directly.

Of course, according to the proper interpretation, the definition of a free trade zone should be like this......

Free Trade Zone (F

ee T

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ea, commonly known as FTA, refers to the complete elimination of tariffs and quantitative restrictions in commodity trade between member countries that have signed a free trade agreement, so that goods can flow freely between member countries. However, a free trade zone established by a member country may also be free trade for only certain goods, such as limited to industrial goods, such a free trade area is called an "industrial free trade area".

“…… In practice, many countries will set up some special areas, generally ports or foreign areas with economic development, and set them up as trading places in free trade zones, and in my vision, small free trade zones for the export of rare earth concentrates can be set up on Qiongzhou Island. Zhong Bai patiently explained this to Wei Zhengguo, quietly observing the other party's reaction.

"I understand the meaning of your plan, that is, to sign an agreement with the RB people to cancel or reduce the tariff on rare earth concentrates, and limit the RB people to buy rare earth concentrates through the Qiongzhou Island transaction and then ship them back to China, right?" Wei Zhengguo asked.

"Not exactly, this trade agreement is not limited to RB, precisely because we only traded with RB people in the past, so we suffered a lot in terms of pricing, and my personal idea is to add MD and many developed countries in Western Europe." Zhong Bai explained: "Only by competing with multiple parties can we, as exporters of resources, be in a good position and avoid the pricing power falling into the hands of others." ”

"If it can really be implemented, it is indeed very convenient for the country's macroeconomic control. But...... Are RB people willing? They used to import from Jinmen Port, the distance is close, the cost is low, and now they have a big circle and come to Qiongzhou Island, the southernmost point of China, how do they look at it? Also, according to what you just described, the establishment of a free trade zone requires the signing of relevant trade agreements between the countries of the importer and exporter. ”

"It's not up to them to want to." Zhong Bai smiled slightly: "As long as we set up a small free trade zone and open up the transportation links in the middle, they will have to import from Qiongzhou Island - you must know that the agreement must clearly write where to import in order to reduce the relevant taxes, not just a random place." Of course, if they insist on continuing to import from Jinmen Port, I think with the careful character of RB people, they are afraid that they are not willing to pay such high tariffs. ”

"As for the second question you mentioned, that is, the signing of relevant trade agreements with foreign countries, these work will be carried out after determining the location of the small free trade zone, I will give the National Rare Earth Comprehensive Coordination Group feedback, this piece of work is not small, but also need to coordinate the State Planning Commission, the Economic and Trade Commission, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Customs and other ministries and commissions to complete. But it is the work that follows, that is to say, we must first understand whether the local area of Qiongzhou Island has the will to become a small industrial free trade zone. ”

"......Shhh The height of your plan, young man, is a bit high! It's a bit fast! Finally understood Zhong Bai's complete thoughts, and Wei Zhengguo, who had come back to his senses, couldn't help but gasp and exclaimed.

According to experience, at least the veteran experts of the policy research office should have gone through countless discussions and arguments before they could put forward a draft, and then pass it step by step in accordance with the procedure, then go down to investigate and study, and finally decide whether or not to implement the policy or not based on the feedback from the results of the investigation and study, and finally select the location.

And this young little section chief actually skipped the previous steps and came directly to the step of fighting for the place?

"I also know that this process is not logical, but now the time is pressing, if we do not promote the establishment of a small free trade zone as soon as possible, then in the later stage of resource allocation of rare earth concentrate use, it is very likely that there is no effective unified export plan, resulting in the development of domestic related industries!" When Zhong Bai said this, his tone became serious: "Our country also has an industry that uses rare earth concentrates, and this piece is in fierce competition with RB and other countries. This is also one of the few high-tech industrial fields that can compete with these top developed powers in China's industrial environment! ”

Regarding the progress of NdFeB permanent magnets, Zhong Bai did not give Wei Zhengguo a detailed explanation, but he believed that after his own emphasis just now, a retired official like Wei Zhengguo, who had served at the level of "deputy director", should be able to understand the deep meaning.

Sure enough, after these words, Wei Zhengguo bowed his head and was silent, and drank several sips of tea in a row, but his brain kept turning.

The rare earth industry has indeed become a hot spot in the domestic industrial field a few years ago, and even Wei Zhengguo is sensitively aware of this through newspapers, reports and news from all sides.

However, the establishment of a small free trade zone just proposed by Zhong Bai is definitely not a simple matter, and it can even be said that it is not something that the Industrial Bureau of Qiongzhou Administrative Region can decide to do or not!

At the very least, it also needs the joint support of the Qiongzhou Administrative District Committee and the District ZF, and also coordinates multiple departments, such as land, electricity, transportation, taxation and other departments......

This huge amount of work makes people's scalps tingle just thinking about it, and the person who put forward this idea in front of me is just a young section chief!

Even if he has excellent work performance and still has the title of a member of the National Rare Earth Comprehensive Coordination Group, these previous movements have nothing to do with the Qiongzhou Administrative Region!

If you reason with yourself, an industrial person, you will naturally be able to make sense slowly, but if you want to reason with the locality, where do you start?

Although Wei Zhengguo didn't say anything about these difficulties, Zhong Bai seemed to have seen through his heart, and pointed to Yu Dongfeng beside him and said, "Do you think there are many factors to consider if the local government wants to agree to such a big plan?" There is no problem, Yu Dongfeng, the general manager of Baifeng Group, will do his best to coordinate, I just need you to help me pull a line, just make a start, and I will go all out for the rest of the work! ”