Chapter 2159: The issue of principle does not need to be discussed

But while the German media praised it in good intentions or maliciously, disharmonious voices also appeared. Several mainstream German media reported Xia Xiang's position on some events that were related to China's national interests, pointing out that Xia Xiang is a narrow nationalist. If China has more characters like Xia Xiang, China will become the narrowest and most withdrawn country in the world.

Although the above accusations against Xia Xiang were slandered by the German media, Xia Xiang made tough remarks at the dinner on a major event that was related to China's interests.

Xia Xiang didn't want to be the focus of everyone's attention, but things went against their wishes. In addition to friendly people from the German business circles, there were also non-friendly people who were extremely dissatisfied with him.

Ernest is one of them.

Ernest's dissatisfaction with Xia Si was due to the fact that when Dai Fusheng met with Germany's Minister of Economic Affairs in the morning, Dai Fusheng clearly rejected Germany's accusations against China's rare earth policy.

During his meeting with Dai Fusheng, the German Minister of Economic Affairs pointed out that he asked China not to increase the difficulties in obtaining rare earths in the West and hoped that China would relax its controls on rare earths.

Dai Fusheng's reply was that China's rare earth reserves now only account for about one-third of the world, and the supply accounts for more than 90 of the world. China regulates the rare earth development order in accordance with the law, which is the need to protect the ecological environment and available exhausted resources, reduce pollution damage, and also the need to achieve long-term effective use of rare earth resources. China will continue to provide rare earths to the international market under the premise of complying with international rules. It also hopes that enterprises from China and Germany will strengthen technical cooperation, improve the utilization rate of rare earths, jointly develop alternative products, and ensure the stable supply of world rare earth demand.

It should be said that Dai Fusheng's measures are very tactful, but their attitude is firm, which means that China will not change the current policy of controlling rare earth resources under pressure from abroad!

There is oil in the Middle East, and China has rare earths. Rare earths were once the advantageous resources that make Chinese people proud. Rare earth reserves once accounted for more than 90 of the global reserves. That is to say, China is the largest country in rare earth resources...

Unfortunately, it was once!

It's not now!

Since 1960, China has mined rare earth resources. Over the past 50 years, while supplying a large amount of rare earth resources to other countries, its domestic rare earth reserves have dropped sharply.

Especially since the 1990s, China's rare earth resource exports have increased 10 times. China's rare earth resource exports have accounted for more than 90 of the world's total rare earth resource exports. In the past 13 years, China's rare earth resource reserves account for the total world's proven rare earth resource reserves have dropped from 43 to 30. According to the current mining speed, China's rare earth resources can only maintain demand for the next 15 to 20 years!

Behind the selfless dedication of China's selfless contribution to the international community is the disorderly mining of rare earth resources, which is the short-sighted and low-selling behavior of some local governments for their own selfishness. A county in Ganzhou began to crazily exploit precious rare earth resources more than 20 years ago. The whole county has soldiers, with hundreds of illegal mining sites, and smuggling up to 10,000 tons of rare earths a year.

Coupled with the best Chinese people's behavior of killing each other, in order to win foreign customers, the price of rare earths plummeted all the way - and the price of rare earths has been slumped all the way - and many factories in the south compete to cut prices in order to win orders. A shirt that costs more than a hundred dollars from abroad is less than one dollar in China, but in the end, the situation of a large number of factories closures - over the past 20 years, China's rare earth exports have increased by more than 9 times, but the price has dropped by half!

Rare earths are non-renewable resources. At the same time, the mining of rare earths has caused large-scale pollution. The forests are cut down, the soil is exposed, the gullies are everywhere, and soil erosion is lost. A large amount of soil erosion has destroyed the arable land. The emissions from rare earth mines cause serious environmental damage and the ecological environment is completely destroyed. This is equivalent to the Chinese people selling rare earths that are more precious than gold at a bargain price. All they get is a pitiful reward, and it is left to future generations with a riddled rivers and mountains.

How short-sighted!

But leaving a small amount of land for the descendants to farm... The Chinese people who care about their descendants the most are doing things that harm their descendants, which has to be said to be a great irony.

Rare earths are essential raw materials for many high-end industries and key materials for many major weapon systems. Without rare earths, many strategic weapons in the United States would not be able to be produced, but that's the case. As the third largest country in the world with rare earth resources, the United States' own rare earth resources were all sealed as early as 1997, and only imported rare earth resources from China, in order to make a long-term plan.

Just imagine if one day China’s rare earth resources are mined, and once a war breaks out, many high-end weapons will not be produced without rare earths, and they can only watch American missiles fall from the sky.

Then I think back to the rare earths sold at a low price in order to covet a few colorful dollars, and it would be too late to regret it. Even if I hold 100 million US dollars in cash, I can't get a shell that fell on my roof and was unable to fight back!

When will Chinese people look longer and no longer short-sighted? Not only the United States purchases a large number of rare earth resources from China that are cheap enough to give away for free - it is enough to bribe a few traitors - even Japan, which does not have an inch of rare earth resources in China, has taken advantage of the situation and purchased countless rare earth resources from China over the past few decades. Today, Japan is the country with the most rare earth resources in the world.

Compared with Japan's shrewdness, from the Chinese people to the Chinese national leaders, they are far behind. For Japan, which has never given up its aggression against China, China is too easily confused. It only recognizes the Japanese yen, only sees immediate interests, and lacks strategic vision and mind.

What is the use of Japan to store rare earth resources that can be used to make high-end weapons? Could it be that Japan uses rare earths imported from China to create high-end weapons for suicide? Don’t forget that the declaration of the immortal Japanese empire in the minds of Japanese ambitious people is that if you want to conquer the world, you must first conquer Asia. If you want to conquer Asia, you must first conquer China.

Unfortunately, the Chinese people who hold the Japanese yen in their hands feel that they have taken advantage of it do not know that one day the Japanese yen in their hands will become a ghost currency.

When China's rare earth resources dropped from 90 to less than 40, the relevant national departments woke up as if they were dreaming and began to formulate a series of measures to restrict the export of rare earths. I don't know if the relevant departments have been sleeping over the years or there are some unspeakable reasons behind it. Finally, before the rare earths were sold out as cabbage, they controlled the disorderly loss of rare earths that were related to China's lifeline.

But at this time, the United States and Japan have surpassed China to become the world's largest rare earth resource country!

China, which has been keen on studying military strategy for thousands of years, lost to the United States, which has only been more than 200 years old, and to Japan, which is only one-30th of its own land area.

Moreover, the United States and Japan are the two countries that the world is most hostile to China.

After China's policy of restricting rare earth exports was introduced, the United States and Japan successively accused China of controlling the rare earth market at the World Trade Conference and demanded that China open up the rare earth market.

He said it highly, but in fact he wanted to buy the cheapest rare earths from China at the lowest price, with a shameless face at a glance.

Of course, China firmly rejected the unreasonable demands of the United States and Japan. If it still doesn't refuse and compromise now, it will be a poor student who has never learned the idiom of making up for the loss since childhood.

Xia Xiang didn't know Ernest, but Ernest is an importer of rare earths, and there is another point that Western Province also produces rare earths.

China's rare earth resources are mainly distributed in Lingnan, Jiangxi Province and Inner Mongolia. A new rare earth mine was discovered at the junction of Inner Mongolia and Western Province, with rich reserves and high-quality mines. Fortunately, Xia Xiang was the governor of Western Province. As soon as he took office, Xia Xiang strictly formulated the principles for rare earth mining, and repeatedly emphasized that the issue of principle cannot be shaken, and whoever mines illegally will deal with it.

As a result, some people really want money but don’t have to go to illegal mining. In fact, it cannot be said that it is illegal mining. It is a mining that is deceived and concealed under the protection of local protective umbrellas. As a result, Xia Xiang found out. In anger, Xia Xiang removed all the local county party secretary and county magistrate and replaced all the public security systems.

It is also another important reason why Xia Xiang launched a large-scale heavy attack in the Western Province. If he does not break the official ties, rare earth resources will eventually be swallowed up by the selfishness of some people and sold to hostile forces abroad at a low price. In fact, the reason why Di Guogong was taken away by the State Security Department was that he betrayed the coal geological resources of the Western Province was only one aspect, and on the other hand, Di Guogong betrayed the secrets of the rare earth mines found in the Western Province.

I believe that without Di Guogong's betrayal, Ernest would not have known the reserves of rare earth minerals in the Western Province.

"Governor Xia, I don't understand why Western Province does not allow foreign capital to exploit rare earth resources?" Ernest came to Xia Xiang, and his first sentence was an extremely dissatisfied tone. "The purpose of free trade is to let the market economy determine everything. Western Province's practices violate China's commitment to join the WTO."

It is so reasonable to plunder other countries' resources, and only arrogant Europeans and Americans can do it. At least when the Japanese make requests, they can still pretend to be polite.

"Free trade?" Xia Xiang sneered, "Mr. Ernest, Germany Volkswagen and China Volkswagen have worked together for 30 years. Have you ever transferred core technologies to China Volkswagen? If the country is compared to one person, everyone has a selfish side. Before you blame others, it is best to be glorious."

Ernest was also used to the soft tone of Chinese officials. He didn't want Xia Xiang's tone to be tough but also aggressive. He couldn't help but retort: ​​"Mr. Xia, I'm discussing issues with you calmly, not a quarrel."

"The issue of principle is not necessary to discuss!" Xia Xiang knew very well how greedy Europe and the United States were when they were planning to target China, under the cover of the so-called gentlemanly demeanor. "When Germany agrees to transfer the core technology of engines and precision molds, it is qualified to make a request to open the rare earth market to China!"
Chapter completed!