Chinese rare earth industry due to the prolonged absence of effective monitoring and management, blind exploitation, the exploitation of undocumented popular not only caused serious damage to the local environment is also a serious impact on local agriculture and the export price of Chinese rare earths is not optimistic.In the Chinese government because of strong domestic rare earth industry consolidation measures to limit exports, including the U.S. and Japan are also stricken censure, including major consumer of rare earths. However, once the rare earth export large American foreseen before closing the country's rare earth mining.

Australia's Lynas Malaysian company is building the world's largest rare earth refinery, the rare earth refinery is located 25 km from the gabion densely populated fishing village and tourist resort in Kuantan, Pahang,rare earth refining process requires large amounts of water and chemicals, leaving a lot of solid, gaseous and liquid wastes after refining. In this regard, the Malaysian domestic outbreak of people march in the rally lasted for two hours in a peaceful manner to the rare earth plant say "no", the Malaysian opposition leader, non-governmental organizations and environmental groups have also expressed their solidarity. AFP said the protesters, many of whom were wearing green clothes, holding a "Stop pollution, stop corruption, stop the Lynas" banner.

Rare is the nature of non-renewable resources, China for the protection of the environment and limit the export of rare earth resources is in line with WTO rules was not a deliberate distortion of rules to protect domestic industries.China currently supplies more than 90 percent of the world's rare earth consumption, but also end up paying a huge environmental cost, and the United States as early as 1997 closed the country's largest rare earth mine Mountain Pass. Rare as non-renewable resources, unlimited use of eventually not a permanent solution, is to develop alternative sources of rare earth now imperative.

Rare known as "industrial vitamins," said another of its scarce reserves are called "industrial gold", China's rare earth reserves account for 23% of the world but bears more than 90% of the global market supply due to over-exploitation and paid a heavy environmental price for the appropriate adjustments to our government to protect the environment of rare earth export policy but it incurred the United States, Japan and the EU meddling in countries such as described above rare earth falsely accuse and shrouded in international transactions has been hidden smoke.

In Beijing on March 14, 2012 , U.S. President Barack Obama issued a statement , the EU and Japan to jointly propose to the WTO trade action against China rare earth export restrictions . Rare on the war , a number of countries around the world have been several games , and the main purpose is to be able to release the export volume of China's rare earth , rare earth and lower export prices . This is rare, many viewers may not know much about what is rare , just like its name suggests, is a rare and precious rare earth metal elements , it is called the 21st Century " strategy in the world element " , we can imagine the importance of rare earth. Moreover, China's rare earth reserves is currently first in the world , like all countries in the Middle East because oil was the world's attention , like a lot of China's rare earth reserves but also to other countries are eyeing, but compared to the current foreign aggression , internal problems of China's rare earth industry more noteworthy , disorderly exploitation, chaotic management and various rare earth miner 's vicious , so rare like gold into a toilet , itself priceless , he was the external environment get dirty .
 
For a long time , the rare earth this " industrial gold" has been offering. " China Rare Earth once ' cabbage price ' for sale, rare earth prices entirely rational return , in line with the global trend of market prices of raw materials , the Chinese government has never intervened in the market price of rare earth , never take advantage of rising prices to gain market economic or political interests , against his country would politicize rare . " yesterday " China's rare earth conditions and policies , " the white paper conference, deputy Minister of Industry and information Technology Ministry Su Bo made ​​a comeback to the outside world .