Great Power Technology

Chapter 68 The Night Marching Plan
"March in the dark? What is it?"

"Come with me."

As soon as he spoke, Chen Hao led Ye Zhou into his office, pulled out a file from the computer and opened it in front of him.

"These are all declassified materials, but they haven't been publicized on a large scale. Take a look for yourself. After reading it, you'll know."

Ye Zhou sat down in front of the computer and began to read the above materials carefully, while Chen Hao explained to him the key points.

"In 1982, Li Gen, the Ugly country at the time, officially formulated a bill called the "National Mineral Resources and Minerals Program", which stipulated that the material and mineral policy plan must be implemented to ensure that Ugly country has the ability to send troops in the event of war. , will not be affected by the lack of key raw materials.”

"Before that, Ugly Country was the largest exporter of rare earths in the world at that time, and its domestic Mountain Pass rare earth reserves ranked first in the world. No. [-] in the world.”

"The export volume of its rare earth and rare earth products even accounted for more than 90% of the world's consumption at one time. Whether it is permanent magnets, lasers, glass ceramics, electric light sources, or even the agricultural catalytic industry, as long as it is related to rare earths, it is their world. .”

"The operating company of the Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine is a company called Morley Mining. This company has been enjoying dividends from the Mountain Pass Mine for 30 years, earning a lot of money, and their cash reserves are abundant. You can go 20 years without working and still pay all the staff with ease."

"After the release of the National Minerals Program, Molly Mining submitted a report to the government. The content of the entire report is actually only one sentence."

"They suggested that they should stop mining their own rare earth mines immediately and buy them from Huaxia. After Huaxia's rare earth resources are exhausted, they can sell them back at a high price."

"That's exactly what they did. After rounds of cannibalistic bidding, domestic rare earths eventually became Chinese cabbage in the international market. Coupled with the leak of the cascade extraction technology developed by Xu Guangxian, Huaxia The rare earth industry has been almost devastated."

"However, in this feast of wolves stealing domestic rare earth resources, domestic companies are just the ones who eat the soup, and the international capital giants are the ones who really eat the flesh and blood of China."

"This situation lasted until 2005. At this stage, the export volume of China's rare earths increased by more than ten times, but even after adjusting for inflation, the average export price can only reach 10% of what it was 60 years ago."

"In 05, Xu Guangxian, who led the domestic rare earth industry to the world, formally wrote a letter requesting to stop the export of rare earths."

"However, by this time, it was too late."

"That was the darkest time for China's rare earth industry."

"However, history has never been single-dimensional. When the rare earth industry is losing ground on the frontal battlefield, a group of people are quietly opening up another battlefield."

"Because rare earths contain the same small amount of ingredients as nuclear fuel, the mining of rare earth resources is strictly restricted in ugly countries, and all rare earth producers face high taxes and strict scrutiny. These companies have closed down one after another, and only Molly Mining relies on Live nourished by the Mountain Pass mines."

"But soon, Molly Mining reaped the bitter fruit it had sown."

"In 2002, under the impact of China's low-priced rare earths, Moli Mining finally felt the crisis for the first time. They moved all their production lines to China, hoping to make a comeback in China with their own technology."

"It's not just them, every company in the rare earth industry you can imagine is doing the same thing."

"Mag Kunci, MG, Epson, TDK, FKD and other rare earth companies, their industries range from LED luminescent powder to military missile guidance devices, all of which are attracted by China's cheap resources and manpower Next, move to Huaxia as a whole."

"A few years after that, a well-known island incident occurred."

"In that month, Huaxia announced the reduction of rare earth export quotas."

"The price of rare earths has risen 170 times, and the stocks of related industries in an island country without any rare earth resources have collectively fallen by the limit for two weeks."

"50 jobs in Europe are shaken, and industrial output falls by 4% in response."

"At this time, those Western businessmen realized that everything before was a game within a game."

"At this time, they realized that those rare earth industries that moved to China no longer belong to them."

"The chaos of Huaxia Rare Earth is a painful past, but at the same time, a group of people took advantage of the pain on the surface and marched resolutely in the dark."

"They have fully grasped that those short-sighted businessmen ignore the bloody degree of the domestic price war, and at the same time the price war started, they have already quietly started the layout."

"Do you still remember that company called Magkunci? This company specializes in producing military guided missile magnets for Ugly countries. They moved the rare earth industry to China in 2002."

"But in fact, in 1995, a small company called NEO already controlled 10% of the shares of MegaQueen."

"These stakes are small and unremarkable."

"However, after 2005, the number of shares soared to 90% within one year."

"NEO's acquisition is just a microcosm of many mergers and acquisitions. In addition, there are Junan Group, Heyi Mining, and Huanshuo New Materials. They hide in the dark, silently and resolutely devouring the flesh and blood of those international giants. "

"All these companies -- they're all just shadows, shadows of the same monolith."

"This behemoth is called Shenghe Resources."

"The 100% equity controller of Shenghe Resources has a name you are absolutely familiar with."

"Huaxia Academy of Geological Sciences."

"This is the March of the Night."

Chen Hao threw away the cigarette butt in his hand and looked at Ye Zhou who was still sitting in front of the computer.

The latter's face was expressionless, not because his emotions did not fluctuate, but because he was too shocked and forgot what kind of expression he should return.

After sighing, Chen Hao continued to speak:
"So, your worries are actually unnecessary."

"Indeed, we can't manufacture the high-precision lenses you require, which is considered an extremely marginal industry in the rare earth industry."

"However, we are 100% sure that they will not be able to make it."

"They don't have a choice - no one wants to go through another 170x pump."

"We did not solve the lens problem in advance. It is true that we overestimated the capabilities of domestic companies. But so what? We must always give them a chance."

"It doesn't matter if I didn't seize this opportunity, just keep working hard next time."

"Because, as long as it is related to rare earths, someone will always pay for us."

"We'll make an offer they can't refuse."

"Or rather, it's not a condition."

"It's a threat."

(End of this chapter)