Chapter 129 Rare Earth Prices Increased Tenfold! ? Worth It! (Subscribe and Vote)

Panshan Machinery Factory has invested more than 500 million yuan so far!

In just over a year, Panshan Machinery Factory has invested more than 1 billion yuan, which is the only case in the country!

To date, Panshan Machinery Factory has more than 40,000 employees and more than 200,000 family members!

This is the largest military factory in the entire southwest!

In terms of investment scale, number of employees, floor area, and production scale, Panshan Machinery Factory is undoubtedly the largest military factory in the southwest.

It can even be said to be a super-large military factory!

If Panshan Machinery Factory had not just been promoted to a large military factory, Liu Tao's administrative level might have been raised by two or three levels.

"Leader, how about the rare earth issue?" Liu Tao settled the settlement and asked about what he was concerned about.

Rare earth, this is a good thing, known as the 'vitamin of industry', with irreplaceable excellent magnetic, optical, and electrical properties, which plays a huge role in improving product performance, increasing product variety, and improving production efficiency.

It is no exaggeration to say that rare earths will become an important element to improve product structure, increase scientific and technological content, and promote technological progress in the industry. They will be widely used in metallurgy, military, petrochemical, glass ceramics, agriculture, and new materials.

When developing anti-aircraft guns, self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, and tanks, many materials need to add rare earth elements.

The last time Wang Baoguo brought a group of experts to Panshan Machinery Factory, he formally reported to Wang Baoguo and suggested that rare earths be included in the scope of strategic material control.

"This matter has been decided. Several departments jointly issued a document to include rare earths in the scope of strategic control and set up a company specifically for the mining of rare earths." Wang Baoguo said: "The technology you provided last time attracted attention from all parties, but there is one thing, your purchase quantity cannot be less."

Liu Tao smiled when he heard this.

In the military field, because rare earths have excellent physical properties such as light, electricity, etc., they can be combined with other materials to form new materials with different properties and a wide variety, which can greatly improve the quality and performance of other products, so they are called "industrial gold".

First of all, the addition of rare earths can greatly improve the tactical performance of steel, aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys, and titanium alloys used to manufacture tanks, aircraft, and missiles.

In addition, rare earths can also be used as lubricants for many high-tech industries such as electronics, lasers, nuclear industry, and superconductivity.

Apart from other things, the materials of self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and tanks this time require a lot of rare earths, such as engine materials, armor materials, and smoothbore gun casting materials.

Although rare earth elements account for a small proportion of the materials, they are crucial.

Otherwise, with the current industrial level of China, it is impossible to build a 1,500-horsepower diesel engine, let alone armor and gun barrels with excellent performance.

Not to mention, some special bullets also need to add rare earth elements.

And rare earth elements are also needed to build computers in the future.

There is no doubt that rare earths will be essential materials for the IT industry.

In the last life, Liu Tao was bleeding in his heart when he saw rare earths being sold at a bargain price.

It is said that the Middle East has oil, and China has rare earths.

The Middle East makes a lot of money from oil, and white robes and big beards have become synonymous with local tyrants.

As a result, China sells rare earths at a very low price, which makes people sad and tearful.

In this life, he has the opportunity to change this trend, so he naturally has to seize the opportunity.

As for the current production of rare earths, Liu Tao also deliberately learned about it. From 1956 to 1966, it was in the experimental research stage, and this stage mainly studied the process technology for preparing rare earth metals; from 1966 to 1980, it was the industrialization stage of rare earth pyrometallurgy technology, and this stage mainly used the process technology of experimental research to establish a pilot plant.

Therefore, the annual rare earth production in the country is actually very low, and it is not even enough to meet the manufacturing and use of self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and tanks.

Not to mention computer manufacturing.

"Leader, our Panshan Machinery Factory will take all the rare earth production!" Liu Tao smiled and said, "Five years, our Panshan Machinery Factory will take all the production for five years, and the price is ten times the current price!"

The current price of rare earths is about 10 yuan per kilogram, and only 10,000 yuan per ton.

The estimated rare earth production this year is 20 tons, which is only 200,000 RMB at the current price!

Even if he increases the price tenfold, he only needs to spend 2 million RMB!

The money earned from selling a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun is more than 2 million RMB!

"Even if it is paid in US dollars, there is no problem!" Liu Tao emphasized.

Wang Baoguo was quite surprised, "Why do you value rare earths so much?"

"Yes!" Liu Tao nodded: "No matter how much you value it, it is not too much, leader, even if the price of rare earths increases by a hundred times or a thousand times, it is worth it!"

Wang Baoguo couldn't help but be moved.

To be honest, even before at Panshan Machinery Factory, Liu Tao told him that he hoped to include rare earths in the category of national strategic control materials, he didn't really care.

Rare earths, rare earths, it sounds like soil, soil can be sold for money, how precious can it be.

But now Liu Tao actually said that even if the price of rare earths increases by a thousand times, it is worth it, which shows that rare earths are indeed very valuable in Liu Tao's eyes.

"Comrade Liu Tao, is this rare earth really that valuable?" Wang Baoguo couldn't help but look serious.

Liu Tao nodded: "The value will only be higher, you will know when you become a leader later!"

He will use practical actions to prove the value of rare earth.

Rare earth elements are needed to make materials for self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, tanks, missiles and even aircraft. He doesn't believe that the country will not pay attention to it.

As for whether his pushing up the price of rare earths will lead to overseas countries mining rare earths and developing rare earth industries, Liu Tao is not worried at all, because China is far ahead in the proven reserves of rare earths. Under the same circumstances, China can definitely maximize its benefits.

Moreover, the mining and production process of rare earths is very polluting and costly, and the technical requirements are not low. Not every country can mine and produce rare earths.

"I want to see, this rare earth is just a kind of soil, is soil so valuable?" Wang Baoguo took a sip of water from the enamel teacup. He couldn't understand why soil, which is inexhaustible, is valuable.

Liu Zhenbang also looked at his son strangely, "That's right, soil is available all over the world, how can it be so mysterious that you treat it as a treasure."

Liu Tao was startled, then shook his head with a wry smile.

Thinking about it, he felt relieved. He could only say that the name "rare earth" is too misleading. For those who don't know, the first impression is just soil. No matter how valuable soil is, it is not that high.

It is estimated that the country did not pay much attention to rare earths in the previous life, so that the disorderly mining and vicious competition of rare earths caused the price of rare earths to fall all the way. It is obviously gold but it is sold at a cabbage price. It is very likely that the leaders also think that rare earths are just a kind of soil. It is good enough that someone buys it, but they still want to sell it at a high price! ?

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