Chapter 864 The Dust Has Settled "Urgently Seeking Guaranteed Monthly Tickets"

There have been recent rumors about the international community’s response to China’s rare earth monopoly. Finally it gradually spread.

According to relevant reports in the New York Times, large rare earth mines containing both light rare earths and heavy rare earths have recently been discovered in the United States in the Diamond River area of ​​Idaho and the Lemhay Pass at the junction of Idaho and Montana.

If the assessment of the above-mentioned mineral deposits by the American Rare Earth Mining Company is accurate, these two sites can now meet the domestic demand for rare earths in the United States for a long time, and Iowa is also known as the rare earth state of the United States.

The CEO of the American Rare Earth Mining Company said that it can now be determined that the Diamond River area is the rare earth mine with the largest reserves and the least mining difficulty in North America. Moreover, there are power plants and roads not far from the above-mentioned production area, and it will be put into production soon. However, the cost of mining these mineral deposits is relatively high, and the company may need to invest an investment of US$500 million or even US$1 billion.

The US media also pointed out that rare earth exploration in Idaho was launched five years ago, but was delayed for a long time because the project was not urgent. Recently, China has been increasing rare earth export prices and controlling rare earth export quantities, resulting in The soaring price of rare earths in the international market has revitalized related exploration work. Just as Russia previously classified rare earth reserves and production data as state secrets, the importance of rare earth resources has become increasingly prominent.

However, according to US media, the discovery of rare earths does not mean that it is done. The United States is in different stages of the entire process from re-exploring rare earth states to putting rare earth resources into use. Significant challenges remain. In addition to the high cost of mining, the processing and separation of rare earths is technically difficult and complex. Therefore, most of the rare earths mined by Uncle Sam are likely to end up in China, which has unique rare earth separation equipment.

A problem that cannot be ignored is that the United States still faces the challenge of insufficient reserves of rare earth resources and poor access to them. Data show that China currently has the most abundant rare earth resources in the world, about six times that of the United States. At the same time, the U.S. Congress also agrees that the dominance of global rare earth supply and production belongs to China, which means that the United States does not have the initiative to obtain rare earth resources in its own hands in the future.

The U.S. House of Representatives also recently proposed a bill, recommending that the United States take measures to establish a globally competitive domestic strategic raw materials industry, ensure the self-sufficiency of the U.S. domestic market, and achieve diversification of mining, processing, smelting, and manufacturing. At the same time, the bill also requires the Ministry of Defense to start purchasing rare earth minerals that are critical to national security and include them in the national reserve. In particular, after the law takes effect, the National Defense Reserve Center should directly purchase rare earths from China for use in the next five years. (Just read the novel)

In addition, the bill calls for confirmation of the current global rare earth market conditions, foreign assessments of its strategic value, the vulnerability of the rare earth supply chain of the Pentagon and domestic manufacturing, etc., and requires the U.S. federal government’s Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Energy, Secretary of the Interior and The Secretary of State, respectively, appoints assistant secretaries to form a special interagency working group to assess the rare earth resource supply chain and determine rare earth raw materials critical to national and economic security.

“Some analysts pointed out that the above-mentioned bill does not require federal investment.

Industry also tends to legislate policy rather than seek large-scale financial support. This shows that the proposal of this bill and related actions by the industry is more to emphasize the raising of rare earth resource reserves to a strategic level. The United States has clearly adjusted its own strategic rare earth reserve steps. "Zi Qi on the TV screen was discussing with the guests a series of recent rare earth policies towards China by Europe, the United States and Japan. "In fact, Europe has also made the same choice in a similar situation to the United States. Not long ago, the European Union announced the establishment of Rare earth strategic reserves, the EU will seek to establish better and less vulnerable access to raw materials in the global market, and increase the exploration and mining of raw materials within Europe. At the same time, the EU will also improve the efficiency of raw material utilization and shorten the recycling cycle to reduce EU raw material demand. "

"Rare earths are called industrial vitamins and have extremely important uses in the military field, especially in missile guidance. China controls more than 90% of the world's rare earth resource production. Deng Gong once compared China's rare earths with the oil in the Middle East. In comparison, overseas media say that OPEC can only control about two-thirds of the world's oil reserves, but China can control 93% of rare earths. However, we must also see that China supplies the world cheaply at the price of Chinese cabbage. Rare earths have been around for many years, and now China wants to rearrange this resource and control its exports, and the West is calling on China to tighten its grip on the world. This is unfair," a researcher who was a guest said in response to the opinions of Europe and the United States! objected.

Shen Ying was sitting on the sofa and drinking porridge. When she saw Fan Wubing watching the "Daily Financial Interview" program hosted by Zi Qi, she said with a smile. "How should you feel when you watch a TV show hosted by your lover in front of your wife?"

Fan Wubing had already adapted to Shen Ying's strange problems. He scratched his head and said, "My mood is quite complicated."

Just when Shen Ying was about to continue asking him about the complicated method, Fan Wubing's phone rang again.

Fan Wubing picked up the call and listened for a while, but he had always had a good relationship with him. Sheng Wei, a beautiful reporter from "Oriental News Interview", called and wanted to interview Fan Wubing about the rare earth situation that has become a hot topic recently. Just read the novel~

"Well -" Fan Wubing thought about it for a moment, looked at Shen Ying, and then replied, "Okay."

The next day, Fan Wubing saw that Shen Ying was in a better condition, so he did not let her go for infusion. For ordinary people, if they don't have any experience of infusion, or the problem can be solved once, of course, this also depends on the situation. If the inflammation is more serious, then you have to follow the doctor's advice to infuse enough times.

In the meantime, the company in Lingxi Province called and said that the case of Pang Mingyu finally had a preliminary conclusion, and he was going to be sentenced to eleven years for corruption, bribery and dereliction of duty. On the contrary, the sentence for Yang Lili's husband Ji Yongqing and others was still very high. Although the death penalty determined in the first and second trials was abandoned, he was still sentenced to fifteen years in prison.

"The sheltering mentality in Lingxi Province is still quite serious." Fan Wubing was very dissatisfied with this. If we look at the crime committed by Pang Mingyu and its harmfulness, it is more appropriate to sentence him to death, and the deterrent effect on criminals will be better. Now this painless solution is just scratching the itch.

The so-called eleven-year fixed-term imprisonment, when it comes to the vice-ministerial level, it is estimated that you can be released in less than two years. Fan Wubing does not want to see Pang Mingyu swaggering on the streets and squandering the money he embezzled in two years, so he feels that he should do something.

Of course, this idea cannot be said directly by his mouth. In that case, even if it is a businessman interfering in politics, the impact is not good. He also needs to be cautious about his identity and cannot cross the line, otherwise it is easy to arouse suspicion, so this matter still requires Lingxi Province to make great efforts.

So Fan Wubing revealed a little bit of his mouth to the branch company of Lingxi Province, meaning that he felt that the conditions of Lingxi Province were still a little worse than those of brother provinces, and the possibility of being the main aviation manufacturing base was relatively small, or this aviation manufacturing base might be selected in the eastern provinces.

This intention soon reached the ears of Guan Luping, the governor of Lingxi Province, and he immediately felt that the news came a little strange.

As the governor of Lingxi Province, Guan Luping has regular contact with the Lingxi branch of Fan Investment Group, especially after the father and son of the Fan family recently conducted an investigation of the entire Lingxi Province, the provincial government's attention to the Lingxi branch of Fan Investment Group has increased by more than one level.

This time, the intention to deal with the case of Pang Mingyu was able to reach Fan Wubing's ears so quickly. In fact, it was also facilitated by the information exchange between them and the Lingxi branch of Fan Investment Group. At this time, Fan Wubing's feedback was obviously somewhat different from the previous considerations.

Then the only possibility is that Fan Wubing is very dissatisfied with the handling of Pang Mingyu, so he proposed the location of the aviation manufacturing base.

However, Guan Luping also felt a little embarrassed. In the case of Pang Mingyu, Lingxi Province can certainly exert influence, but it will not be very large. The most important thing is to look at the opinions above. Although the top level means to handle it realistically, there have been people in the middle link. As a result, this case gradually turned to weakening Pang Mingyu's crime, and Lingxi Province has no influence on it.

Besides, as provincial-level cadres, even Guan Luping and others were unwilling to add insult to injury at this time. Otherwise, it would cause a backlash and would have a negative impact on their influence in the future.

Therefore, Guan Luping and others discussed and added more information about Pang Mingyu's crimes, enough to make him bear the main responsibility in this case, thinking that this time Pang Mingyu could be sent to heaven, right?

Just after they passed the new handling plan to Fan Wubing, the judge in charge of the case said that the maximum was 20 years, and no more would be considered, and that Lingxi Province did not need to provide new evidence.

When this news reached Fan Wubing's ears, Fan Wubing immediately got angry. If he originally hoped to be satisfied with a life sentence for Pang Mingyu, then his mind now was to sentence Pang Mingyu to death.

The opinions of several members of the Politburo Standing Committee were not respected, and the people in the middle were too bold!

Therefore, Fan Wubing made it clear that if Pang Mingyu did not die, the environment in Lingxi Province would not be stable. Not only would the aviation manufacturing base not be in Lingxi Province, but Fan's Investment Group would not consider Lingxi Province for other investments.

In this way, officials in Lingxi Province felt tremendous pressure and could also feel the anger from Fan Wubing. Although they could not be sure whether this was also the intention of Fan Heng and other senior officials, at least the situation in front of them was that once Fan's Investment Group no longer considered investing in Lingxi Province, and the new aviation manufacturing base did not consider Lingxi Province, it would directly cause Lingxi Province to be unable to enjoy a piece of the rich cake that originally belonged to it in the next few years.

What do officials rely on to get promoted? Isn't it political achievements? Now, if you want to achieve political achievements, you just have to make the GDP figures bigger. If the aviation manufacturing base led by Fan Wubing is really settled in Lingxi Province, then the huge investment will make the economy of the entire Lingxi Province soar, not to mention how much the entire plan will promote Lingxi Province in the long run.

If I offend Fan Wubing or even Fan Heng behind him because of Pang Mingyu's matter, not only will I not get the chance to make achievements in the economy, but I will also not be able to get the vote of approval from Fan Heng as a member of the Standing Committee for promotion! Agreeing or not agreeing is just a matter of thought in the eyes of those members of the Standing Committee. But for those provincial officials who want to get promoted, it is equivalent to a verdict of life and death!

It has always been the first priority for officials to figure out the intentions of the leaders. At this time, such an obvious intention of the leaders is in front of me. How to choose is clear at a glance. At this time, although it is suspected of adding insult to injury to attack Pang Mingyu, it is the best time for me to serve Fan Heng and Fan Wubing.

Once I get the dual care of them in the political and business circles, I will be able to rise to prominence in the near future.

After understanding this situation, I will no longer hesitate about how to choose.

Therefore, Guan Luping arranged it, and immediately more bad deeds of Pang Mingyu were released, and several murder cases were also exposed, all of which were linked to Pang Mingyu. This combination of crimes was enough to make Pang Mingyu go to heaven.

In fact, once the grassroots are torn off their skin and must punish someone to death, they can explode with enough power. Just like now, if they bite Pang Mingyu, even the higher courts can do nothing. Partiality can only be done within a certain degree. Once a certain bottom line is crossed, they can't bear the pressure.

The biggest obstacle to this matter is that the grassroots and the upper level have the same attitude towards Pang Mingyu, so it is too difficult to operate.

Therefore, two days later, the verdict on Pang Mingyu came down, the death penalty.

But in order to vent their dissatisfaction, Ji Yongqing and others involved in the case were also sentenced to death, which was regarded as accompanying Pang Mingyu to be buried together.

Fan Wubing had no objection to this. A man who could send his own wife away for his leader to play with could not be a good person. Going to the execution ground with his leader would be a worthy death. After all, everyone had to bear the burden.