After receiving Luo Hao's call, Chen Lidong smiled brightly and said that indeed, the suspension of rare earth sales has made some people unable to sit still.

Since it was the commercial department that came forward to lobby, those people must be working together internally and externally.

After the 1998 National Rare Earth Work Conference, various localities indeed strengthened control over rare earth exports.

But as the saying goes, if the road is high and the devil is high, there will always be someone who can find loopholes in the system and free up the rare earths.

So in 1998, the then Ministry of Foreign Trade formulated a rare earth export quota system.

Regarding the implementation of the rare earth quota system, the Ministry of Foreign Trade explained: "There are many national rare earth companies, and exports are also very chaotic, which has caused some problems. For example, domestic companies lower prices for each other, resulting in rare earths being sold at low prices and with varying quality. In order to regulate exports

In accordance with the order, the country will consider imposing restrictions on rare earth exports. It will evaluate the production capacity of enterprises every year and allocate quotas. The annual rare earth export volume of enterprises shall not exceed the number of quotas they have."

Judging from the practice over the past five years since the quota system was implemented, the starting point of the system design was good, but it changed during the implementation process.

There are many signs that the management of rare earth exports is becoming a tool for some people to gain benefits.

In February 1999, the Ministry of Foreign Trade officially issued rare earth export quotas, marking the official implementation of China's rare earth export quota system.

The Ministry of Foreign Trade repeatedly negotiated with various localities and large state-owned enterprises, and more than 20 provinces obtained export quotas. In the end, 80% of these quotas were allocated to foreign trade export enterprises.

As a major rare earth producing province, Mongolia's total export quota in 1999 was only 3,000 tons, with the majority taken by Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Hunan.

The leaders of Mongolia Province went to the Ministry of Foreign Trade to ask for quotas. People said that Jiangxi, Jiangsu and other provinces used to be major exporters of rare earths. If they are not given quotas, will their companies be forced to close down?

Over the past few years, Mongolia Province's quota has not increased. Instead, Ji City and Shanghai Province have received more quotas because Ji City and Shanghai City are port cities.

What is ridiculous is that Donghua Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., as the main producer of rare earths, has an export quota of zero.

Chen Lidong once asked for a 50% export quota at the Rare Earth Conference, but no one remembered it afterwards.

Moreover, even if a quota system is implemented, the purpose of rare earth export control has not been achieved.

What is the purpose of exporting rare earths?

Twenty years ago it was for foreign exchange, and ten years ago it was for technology.

Look now, everything is empty.

At the conference in 1998, Chen Lidong once proposed, "We hope that in the future, what we export will no longer be primary products such as rare earth metals, oxides and rare earth alloys, but processed applied products and consumer goods."

However, in order to obtain benefits, most foreign trade companies obtain rare earth metals and send them directly abroad. What they export abroad is still rare earth metals and rare earth alloys, and export prices are always low.

Two years ago, Zhou Wenliang wrote an internal reference document reflecting the problem of exporting primary rare earth products.

Afterwards, relevant departments took some measures.

The effect of these measures is that a group of foreign capital and joint ventures have entered China, colluded with local forces, acquired or built new production plants, obtained rare earths at low prices, and then exported the finished products abroad.

Back then, Chen Lidong worked hard to obtain the processing rights of the Lugang Tailings Depot. The main purpose was of course to feed the system's furnace, exchange for gold coins, and produce servants.

Among them, there is also a heart to eliminate hidden dangers, utilize waste, protect the environment, and serve the country and enrich the people.

At the National Rare Earth Conference, in front of so many senior officials and experts, Chen Lidong made an impassioned speech and vowed to solve many problems in the rare earth industry.

Unexpectedly, after turning around, most of the rare earth metals he refined were still supplied abroad at cabbage prices, only to benefit certain foreign trade units.

Seeing this situation, can you not be anxious?

It just so happened that the Lucheng State Taxation Bureau was not taking a break during the Chinese New Year and wanted to conduct a tax inspection on Donghua Environmental Protection. Chen Lidong didn't care whether he wanted to beat the autumn wind or dig up this money tree.

Anyway, he used this as an excuse to stop rare earth production.

The purpose of stopping the sale of rare earths is of course to stick in the necks of foreigners.

With such a card, the effect will be achieved.

No, some people in the Ministry of Commerce, which was restructured from the Ministry of Foreign Trade, cannot sit still.

They arranged for a deputy director to interview Luo Hao, general manager of Donghua Group, and actually asked for advice. This included suspending the issuance of complete vehicle export qualifications.

Donghua is based on industry, but the group has massive import and export business. If the Ministry of Commerce is ruthless, it may have even more powerful tricks.

For example, if the joint customs suspends the export of a batch of mechanical and electrical equipment, it will cause Donghua Precision to breach the contract and destroy its business reputation.

For example, Lennar was blacklisted and the import of goods provided by the company was prohibited.

Of course, if you do this, you must have solid evidence to prove that these businesses are illegal, otherwise it will be an administrative violation.

The suspension of Donghua Automobile Co., Ltd.'s complete vehicle export qualification is different. If Donghua investigates the reason, the other party can say that the information provided by Donghua is incomplete, or that the relevant situation of the company needs to be reviewed, or that the company has

There are typographical errors in the form filled in by the person handling the application, etc.

In short, there are more than a dozen reasons to delay.

Then, it depends on Donghua's attitude.

Chen Lidong's attitude was to ignore them.

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During the Spring Festival of 2005, Honia, the capital of Soja, was very lively.

Although Sawyer is not big, he is small as a sparrow and has all the internal organs.

This island country is divided into 9 provinces and one municipality.

Canal Island, the main island of Soya, is a province with an area of ​​more than 5,000 square kilometers and a population of more than 100,000.

Honia on the island is a capital territory directly under the jurisdiction of the capital, covering an area of ​​about 20 square kilometers, which is equivalent to the size of a street in a small county in China. It can be regarded as the wealthy area of ​​​​the entire Honia.

The indigenous population of the Capital Territory is close to 60,000, and there is a Chinatown in the most prosperous part of the district.

This street is adjacent to a bay and is only two kilometers long. There are mostly two-story brick-concrete shops along the street.

There are probably dozens of merchants from Wuyi City and Liuqiu area in southern Guangdong Province of China who have opened shops here, selling various commodities from China.

There are currently about 3,000 permanent Chinese residents in Chinatown.

Today, this street is exceptionally clean. The shops on both sides are hung with red lanterns, and the coconut trees beside the asphalt road are also wrapped with colorful lanterns. At night, they will flash and twinkle, making the night scene even more dazzling.

Usually at the end of the year, many overseas Chinese go back to their hometown in China to celebrate the New Year.

Mr. Chen Bingqin is 72 years old. It has been more than 20 years since he immigrated to Soya with his family. He has no relatives in his hometown. This year he and his family chose to spend the Spring Festival here.

On New Year's Eve, a table was set up in the main hall of Chen Bingqin's house. On the table were placed "rice for the New Year", year-round vegetables, steamed cakes, and "spring branches" tied with red and yellow paper, which meant that the food would be abundant all year round.

Good luck and wealth.

Before 6 o'clock in the evening, the family gathered together for a reunion dinner. According to custom, they should also light a charcoal stove and "watch the New Year around the stove."

But this year’s New Year’s Eve is different from previous years.

Over there in the new city, a party will be held.

To the outside world, it is said to be a New Year group party of the Umbrella Group Company, but the Chinese people call it Sawyer’s Spring Festival Gala.

The performance of the group reunion was held at the Sailing Stadium in Forest City.

Viewed from a high altitude, the sailing stadium is shaped like an inverted dhow hull, which probably means that Soya is a country that lives by the sea.

The building scale of the sailing stadium is quite large. It adopts a steel structure skeleton, a cable net roof, and a membrane structure exterior wall design. The entire venue can accommodate 40,000 people.

The center of the stadium roof is retractable and made of PTFE membrane and cables, allowing the stadium to be used all-weather while ensuring ventilation and breathability.

The use of passive design, computer modeling and wind tunnel testing maximizes the performance of the membrane structure shell and ensures the comfort of athletes and spectators.

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Its exterior wall also uses pleated PTFE membrane cladding and cable fixation, which provides shade for the stadium and enhances the texture of the building shell.

Six intertwined bow-shaped structures cover the court like a gathering of sailboats, and are reminiscent of white shells, perfectly demonstrating the high plasticity of the membrane structure.

The light reflectivity of PTFE membrane material is as high as about 75%, which reduces heat absorption and avoids excessive temperature in the venue. The semi-transparent membrane material allows a certain amount of natural light to pass through, reducing lighting and ensuring green energy saving.

The golf training ground in Binhai County Wetland Park and the conference center gymnasium opposite the golf course all adopt this design.

In the gymnasium, the air-conditioning system is carefully designed to maintain a constant temperature of 18 degrees and a comfortable breeze.

Building such a large gymnasium in Soya is definitely a waste, but under the leadership of Chen Lidong, one was built and used as a training ground.

Chen Bingqin received the invitation and took a light rail tram to the stadium with his family of more than 20 people.

He has been here several times. The first few times he watched from a distance, but today he was finally able to enter.

There is a large parking lot in front of the stadium, and the seats for Chen Bingqin and his family are in the 12th row of the "Hall" area.

You must first follow the instructions on the electronic display to find the entrance.

Chen Bingqin has been passed down to only two generations, but when it comes to the grandchildren, it begins to spread out. His great-grandson and great-granddaughter have exceeded double digits, and the older one is in elementary school.

In the past, children had to go to missionary schools, but last year they went to the newly built Hope Primary School, where teachers from China taught Chinese textbooks.

Now, the children are running around happily with their seat cards in their hands, and the oldest one is shouting: "Come here, the camp is here."

Chen Bingqin walked towards the entrance of Kan District with square steps, feeling filled with emotion in his heart.

In the past ten years, people like them have been leading the development of Soya, but not much has changed.

The situation changed after the turmoil in 2000. Northerners from the mainland began to infiltrate into Soya. In the next year, they took control of Soya's top management. They then established the National Defense Force, developed a new city, and started construction of various facilities, including the old street.

The edge has also undergone a brand new change.

Several old roads in Honia have been paved with asphalt, street lights have been installed, and a group of Soya people have been hired by the umbrella company to participate in municipal management.

Those disobedient natives soon disappeared, and the city's appearance was turned upside down.

The biggest change occurred in the southeast of the capital. The once swampland turned into a new city in an instant, and the indigenous people worshiped it as a divine power.

While Chen Bingqin was lamenting the power of the motherland, he was also deeply impressed by the strength of the umbrella company.

The newly built city was called Forest City, but people found it awkward to pronounce it, so they just called it New City.

There are several newly built residential areas here, each with an area of ​​one million square meters, and can accommodate tens of thousands of people.

However, the completed No. 1 community has been sold out, and it is said that all of them have been given to employees of the umbrella company.

Community No. 2 is said to be studying the distribution plan, but has not posted any sales advertisements so far, and it probably has nothing to do with the locals.

Chen Bingqin hesitantly walked into the gymnasium and sat down in his seat.

His seat was relatively far back. Looking from left to right, he saw that several areas in the stadium facing the stage were already full of people. There were probably tens of thousands of people in the audience.
Chapter completed!