In the guest house of the Industrial Bureau of Baiyun Obo Mining Area.

Ye Xing, deputy director of the Second Division of the Technology Department of the Ministry of Industry, kept pacing back and forth in the room, his hands still rubbing each other, obviously a little nervous.

"Knock knock!"

"Coming?"

There was a knock on the door, and Ye Xing immediately rushed over to open the door, but when he saw Zhong Bai's familiar face outside the door, a trace of disappointment passed over his face slightly.

"I thought the test results from the capital were sent over, but I didn't expect you to come over, come in." Ye Xing opened the door and welcomed Zhong Bai in.

"My Director Ye can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Look at your current state, it is completely different from the way I saw you sitting in the office in the Ministry of Industry in the capital. Zhong Bai's mood was not as nervous as Ye Xing, and he teased after entering the door.

"I'm different from you, this visit was originally carried out after you were ready, not to mention that you had been in the mining area for almost a month before, and you were very familiar with all kinds of local conditions." As soon as Ye Xing opened his mouth, he showed the essence of his thinking as a science student, and said logically rigorously and hierarchically: "This time, the investigation reports of our two groups have been sent back to the capital, and they have also been recognized by the leaders of the National Rare Earth Comprehensive Coordination Group. ”

As he spoke, Ye Xing's emotions slowly became excited, and Zhong Bai even secretly glanced at the kung fu and found that the other party's fists no longer knew when they began to clench slightly.

This detail made Zhong Bai perceive the changes in Ye Xing's body.

Since the two met, no matter when and where they met, Ye Xing gave Zhong Bai the feeling that he was an excellent young cadre who was wise, outgoing, and alert, but did not lose his work experience in ministries and commissions.

The other party's attitude towards work can be described as serious and responsible.

I don't dare to say how high this evaluation is, but in Zhong Bai's eyes, it must not be low.

Because the people in the system, no matter what era they are, are mediocre and the majority.

They are said to be mediocre, not because of their ability, but because of their attitude towards their work.

In China in the 80s, commuting on time and completing the work assigned by the leader and the division of units on time were the attitudes of more than 90% of the personnel in the system.

And in the remaining 10%, except for some people who are muddled all day long, there are only those comrades who have devoted themselves to their current work.

Zhong Bai asked himself to belong to the last category, but his previous evaluation of Ye Xing was only serious and responsible, and he worked a little harder, and he was far from reaching his point.

Originally, Ye Xing was a member of the National Rare Earth Comprehensive Coordination Group to participate in this investigation, but it was actually purely accidental.

But today is different, Zhong Bai can feel from the other party's tone and demeanor that this young Director Ye has shown extreme dedication for the first time, and his concern about whether the results of this investigation report is released has far exceeded his own job responsibilities.

Suddenly, a question appeared in Zhong Bai's mind.

If it was a comrade or leader who was much older than him, Zhong Bai would naturally not be able to ask this question.

But in the face of Ye Xing, maybe it was the experience of the two of them having dinner in the capital before that shortened the distance between them, so Zhong Bai thought about it and asked directly and calmly.

"Ye Xing, do you really understand the importance of this operation?"

This kind of question, asked from the mouth of a section chief, the target is still a counterpart deputy director, in the eyes of traditional Chinese people, there is already a bit of disrespect.

But Zhong Bai's tone was so calm, without the slightest expression of personal emotions, but showed an extremely calm feeling, which made Ye Xing, who was still a little impatient just now, couldn't help but pause, and then looked at Zhong Bai's eyes, and didn't answer for half a minute.

Half a minute later, Ye Xingcai said after thinking about it: "I understand. The fact that the National Rare Earth Comprehensive Coordination Group, a temporary body, was able to coordinate the establishment of a joint work in less than a week and directly work with personnel from various ministries and commissions is enough to show that everything that happened in the Baiyun Obo mining area in the month before the Spring Festival is very important and urgent. ”

This answer made Zhong Bai's eyes show a hint of relief, and he nodded and said, "Not bad." But this operation is really just the beginning. And its success is related to the development of our rare earth industry in the next 30 years. Ye Xing, you may have seen some information in the document established by the coordination group, but in terms of the depth and breadth of understanding of this issue, I think it is still necessary to talk to you about it, otherwise, you will not know how much pressure we will face in the near future! ”

This is not that Zhong Bai is intimidating the other party, but that he has a rod and scale in his heart!

This kind of tone, if other section chiefs said this to Ye Xing, he would have been unhappy for a long time!

However, only Zhong Bai spoke that Ye Xing was not only able to listen calmly, but also did not have the slightest displeasure.

"Several RB offices in the Baiyun Obo mining area have already reacted." Zhong Bai continued: "They began to put pressure on the mining area ZF, trying to influence the mining area with the dual pressure of foreign affairs and foreign exchange earnings, so that those concentrate plants could re-increase their production and complete their acquisition task of the previous year. ”

"Our current investigative measures have shut down most of the concentrate plants, but the pressure remains! Without a decent, high-level conclusion, the Coordination Group would not be able to make a long-term, institutional decision to restrict their imports. Zhong Bai's tone suddenly became urgent: "The leaders above may know that there are certain hidden dangers in the export of rare earth concentrates, but how deep this hidden danger is and how big the losses it has brought to the country, I dare to assert here that the leaders are not clear." This requires us to collect the RB's response and adjust our approach in a timely manner to further tighten the restrictions according to their response, but with sufficient reasons and evidence to back it up. ”

"And these things, to put it mildly, are enough to affect the relationship between China and R, even from the standpoint of the rare earth industry, it is enough to make the rare earth industry structure of China and R fundamentally change in the future!" Zhong Bai raised his head, stared at Ye Xing's eyes tightly, and suddenly changed his words: "To deal with these situations, I am fully mentally prepared!" But I don't know if Ye Xing has it or not! If you think that this is an ordinary joint work of ministries and commissions, an ordinary secondment, and you can achieve certain results in it so that your future career will be smooth sailing, then you are very wrong! ”

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The height of these words reminded Ye Xing of the state of the Minister of Industry and several vice ministers when they spoke at the annual work conference!