China Rare Earth pain is just a narrow nationalist myth

U.S., EU and Japan to prosecute Chinese restrictions on rare earths , tungsten, molybdenum exports, China has put forward " protecting the environment " is a very Western way of saying to refute , and WTO ( World Trade Organization ) eventually stand on the side of the United States , ruled against China , requiring China to eliminate export restrictions on rare earth. Our topic for today talking about here . In this regard, the British " Financial Times" said, " This is a major victory in the United States , European Union and Japan made ​​", while Japanese media is unashamedly commented , "China 's strategy failed completely ."

As we all know , a long time, there is the rare earth industry , " gold" , is widely used in cutting-edge technology and defense fields. If the 20th century was the century of oil , then the 21st century is the century of rare earths . However, due to the relevant technical and other reasons, but in the rare earth mining process on the environment caused great damage to our country but also because a large number of long-term supply of rare earths to the global market , has paid a heavy environmental price .

Rising prices of rare earth , rare earth goodbye to the West " cabbage price " era , they shouted unfair . The long-term in China accounted for only 36 percent of the world's total reserves , but supplies the world market for more than 90 % of the rare earths , is this fair? In this regard , some analysts have responded by saying that we are outside the bargaining , they can promote the " China to only 23 percent of rare earth reserves , long-term supply more than 90 percent of the global market demand, China 's contribution is enormous ."

Wang Tao of the article says, but should be realistic and admit that China is about 100 million 2 million tons of rare earth reserves , the world's total annual supply of 120,000 tons of market demand just enough to supply around 1000 . Today, many people still remain in China's rare earth reserves account for 90 percent of the world's era of old data , the data itself is not wrong . 30 years ago, China Baotou Bayan Obo found in thousands of tons of rare earth minerals, then in addition to China , other foreign reserves have been found in very small , so China 's rare earth reserves account for 90 % of the then world's proven reserves.

But , after all, 30 years ago laohuangli , but also to be noted that the light rare earth reserves are talking about here are light rare earths , as time goes by , the world discovered thirty years ago, not long from to 20 million tons , soared to more than 600 million tons now . Despite China's own reserves have increased several times, but new discoveries outside of China 's rare earth reserves , but for almost a hundredfold increase over the dilution of our accounting . The results will produce a lot of spreading false argument.

What is " China 's rare earth reserves less and less ", " two-thirds of China's rare earth resources have been dug , sold abroad to a " sort of . In fact, this is totally misunderstood . So what China's own reserves increased by how much? Data show that China 's reserves of light rare earth , to the maximum exploitation of domestic mining enterprises the ability to calculate , even at full capacity in two to three hundred years also dug endless . Thus , rare earth obviously belongs only to general resources , not scarce resources. Hard to say which is a scarce resource, what needs to be diminishing quotas to enhance the protection , then losing in the WTO , and not surprisingly it.

User Qingqing reprint this article said, the participating countries under the WTO framework is general products do not restrict exports , implementing protection policies only for scarce resources . Otherwise certainly be lost , and in the appeals process is not much room for maneuver. In addition, civil been widely rumored , " resource-poor Japan has been China 's big purchase certain resources , and buried in the sea to save up to prepare for the coming decades purposes ." In this classic segment yard, so-called " China 's XX Resources" are all sorts of different minerals plus noun, from "Coal " to " rare " and so forth.

But if asked specific burial place , operating time, the number of burial , the other side of prevarication . To know that we have today is not the lack of information era , multi asked if we will be able to find a few flaws . China " Rare pain" myth , in fact, some experts and scholars , the use of readers ( including most government officials ) lack of professional weakness , and preached up . Let's dissect what "rare earth pain" comes from. First, once accounted for 90 percent of the changes in the world until now only 23% of the proportion , but made ​​no mention of specific reserves by changing the data from the China Rare Earth .

Mistaken about China's rare earth dug over, but not foreign , but kept the dig , so the ratio of Chinese stocks declined. Next, is preaching what with the rapid economic development in China , the few remaining existing reserves of rare earth , it will be difficult to meet the needs of China 's own development. Coming soon become a net importer , we will not only spend a few times , hundreds of times the money is more likely to be clamped in the strategic western countries . Ultimately, it is natural to conclude that such a treasured resource , and now they are a lot of cheap exports , depleted, so the threat to the future development of China itself , of course, to launch a "rare earth Battle " was.

As we all know , the annual consumption / ratio of proven reserves of more than 100 years , generally fall out of the scope of scarce resources , more than 500 years , can be seen as basically almost infinite number of excess resources . Rare , especially light rare earths , the world discovered a few decades ago is not more than the amount of the era , was then regarded as a strategic resource , this is normal. Exploration results available to more and more today , light rare earth reserves outside of China are enough to supply the world in 5000 , with China , can supply 6000 years.

Wang Tao 's article concluded by stressing that , from the facts, just a light rare earth resources in general , rather than scarce resources. Neither the value of specialized security , and no strategic significance of bargaining , but giving others a handle . Is this not scarce in the world can say abundant, while consumption is still meager light rare earth , do not have protection, meaning there is no protection . China initiated this so-called "rare earth Battle " Unfortunately, the start was wrong, all wrong on the way , the result is of course ridiculously wrong .


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