515 Stumbling on Americans on Rare Earth Exports
Liu Yijiu's words silence everyone.
These things are facts, and they are unwilling to face the truth.
The reason why they are unwilling to face it is because these people donate no less to the country than those of them who claim to be state cadres. The social division of labor is different, and it doesn’t matter whether they contribute big or small. Let them silently contribute their most precious youth to the country in such an environment, and even in their lifetime, not many people can do it.
"Don't think that you are leading cadres and senior leading cadres, you can scold anyone at will, especially high-tech talents who have made outstanding contributions to the country. The aluminum alloy studied by Wang Lijun will more than double the quality performance of our domestic aluminum alloy. The missile shell used in aerospace will be at least one-third lighter than the original mass, effectively increasing the range..." Liu Yijiu did not stop there.
"And he is the person who proposed to add rare earth elements to aluminum alloys and succeeded after experiments! He is our pride!" Under such circumstances, Liu Yijiu had to push all the results of aluminum alloys with rare earth elements on Wang Lijun.
Only with achievements can one be qualified to speak and can better slap these big shots in the face.
"Okay, Comrade Xiao Liu, the difficulties encountered by the Ninth Hospital are only temporary, and will be solved one day..." said a leader from unknown department.
Liu Yijiu did not take advantage of the steps, but asked coldly, "There will be a day to solve it. How long will it take? Wang Lijun's family doesn't even know whether he is alive, because he gave up his vacation and spent all his time on technical research and development. There have always been few family members in the base because when it was established, most of us have marriage problems with the state! There are no vacation time for individuals, even if there are. Few people go back, and they can't say what they have achieved! More importantly, when they go back to a blind date, when they ask their partner, where to work, how to answer, how to answer? Even if the blind date is successful, it is because they don't have time to spend together. Dear leaders, think about these consequences..."
Long Yaohua had a split headache.
Liu Yijiu was like a grudge from the boudoir. He complained when he saw the opportunity, but he could not stop him.
He knew that this kid was talking about things, and he knew that things were not as exaggerated as Liu Yijiu said, but he couldn't refute them.
He also knew that if he couldn't give an explanation, this kid would complain about this matter as soon as he could.
"Comrade Xiao Liu, don't worry. We will come up with a plan as soon as possible to solve the problems you are currently facing. Before coming, the Logistics Headquarters is negotiating and discussing these matters with the General Political Department and the General Staff." Long Yaohua had to tell a kind lie.
Otherwise, I won’t continue today.
There are many things in the Ninth Courtyard Base that cannot be known to outsiders. The longer you stay here, the greater the possibility of leaking the secret. After today, they will leave the mountain. The trip is very tense and cannot let Liu Yijiu continue by his temperament.
"I would like to mention thousands of bachelors at our base, thank you, the leader!" Liu Yijiu dared not to go down when he saw Long Yaohua giving him a step.
It's also impossible to stop.
Last night, Long Yaohua gave him a clear attitude. That was the attitude of the senior military leaders, and he represented the senior military leaders.
He may not care about other systems, but the military leaders cannot do it.
Otherwise, in the end, no one will support them.
"Let's introduce the progress of the Ninth Hospital in basic materials. This is not only crucial for military industry, but also very important for national industrial science and technology." Long Yaohua quickly changed the topic.
Zhao Maoping and others did not expect that Liu Yijiu would not care about offending others like this, and they have not yet reacted.
Especially Jia Yiming, he was a person who came from the turmoil that year and was also a victim, so he didn't dare to say anything more under such circumstances. He was still sighing in his heart that Liu Yijiu was not afraid of tigers. When he heard Long Yaohua's question, he saw Liu Yijiu's sign again and stood up.
"Dear leaders, I am the chief technical engineer of the third zone. Although I am only responsible for the research of high-temperature alloys and aluminum alloys, I am still very familiar with the technology in our third zone. Let me introduce some of our current projects to you..."
Jia Yiming said as he led everyone to some areas next to him.
The technical laboratories are divided into small areas from the workshop, used for physical and chemical analysis and related detection of material properties. Various smelting furnaces and chemical potions are all in another section of the workshop.
"High-temperature alloys are not very useful in the civil market except for gas turbines, so we will not introduce this aspect; we will mainly introduce the improvement of the performance of rare earth elements on metal materials. This is data obtained through long-term effective experiments. At the same time, it is also used in some of our advanced weapons and equipment. For example, the new gun steel with a grade of 25cr3 3ninb has very high toughness, high temperature strength and hardness, which can effectively increase the service life of the gun barrel, and increase the life of our current various tank guns from 300 to 500 to 600 to 860. Because this material contains a large amount of carbides, the total amount of carbides brings high hardness and reduces the toughness of the material. In response to this situation, at the suggestion of Comrade Liu Yijiu, we use some rare earth elements to refine the grain structure of the material..." Jia Yiming is obviously not good at introducing.
During the introduction, regardless of whether these big guys could understand it, a string of professional terms spit out from his mouth.
Finally, he was interrupted by Liu Yijiu.
"Mr. Jia, let's talk about the results directly." If the introduction is detailed, what can I do?
"Okay!" Jia Yiming was speaking with great enthusiasm. This was their most significant achievement. He used materials without rare earth elements to exchange a lot of good things with Americans. At least he should show off in front of these arrogant bosses.
"The new gun steel with rare earth elements can increase the service life of our tank guns to more than one thousand rounds!" He immediately spit out a data that shocked everyone.
Long Yaohua knew the lifespan of the gun barrel used by the Longwei tank, but he didn't know what material it was, but he just knew it was a new type of gun steel.
"And our aluminum alloys will also have higher performance after adding rare earth elements. The Z-7 aircraft was successfully researched and finally dismounted. That's because to ensure safety and structural strength, it uses too thick shells, and at the same time, the structural strength is not too high. The new aluminum alloy can completely allow our Z-7 to solve these problems." Jia Yiming said smugly.
Unfortunately, there is no straight-7 in the base.
"Mr. Jia, these are all military materials! What we need are high-end materials in the civilian field!" An old leader with black-framed glasses and silver-white hair said with laughter and cry.
"Military materials and civilian materials are similar. For example, our new gun steel has good strength, high hardness and good toughness. It can be used in a series of fields such as rolling rolls, heavy drive shafts, molds, etc.; while aluminum alloys have more use, and leaders are aware of these materials..." Jia Yiming flattered the leaders.
They asked them to recover a little bit of face that was almost trampled by Liu Yijiu.
"Rare earth elements really have such a powerful effect?" A young leader in his forties who had not spoken and kept listening patiently frowned, "As far as I know, we have not studied much in this area in China. At present, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Mining are conducting export negotiations with the United States, Japan and other countries..."
"Haha, the role of rare earth elements. We only discovered a small part because we do not have enough manpower and the research equipment is not enough, and the research funding is even less. Director Liu's plan to establish a rare earth element research center cannot be dug up before our manpower problem is solved. Even if there are only sporadic research, I can guarantee that the role of this material is the second most widely used among the known materials in the world. Whether it is the military industry, the communication field, electronic circuits, microelectronics, chips, computers, etc.." Jia Yiming did not expect that the country was preparing to export such important strategic materials.
If he knew that these strategic materials would be sold at the price of cabbage, he would not know what kind of mood would be.
Liu Yijiu's face looked very bad, but there was no reason. He didn't expect that the United States and Japan would start so quickly.
Rare earth exports were the most disadvantaged exports in the early days of reform and opening up of the Republic.
There were not many rare earth resources in the whole world. Finally, after more private entry into the 1990s, the country's strategic resources were lost faster.
With cheap rare earth supply from China, the US government directly sealed off their rare earth mines in the Great Lakes region! All of them imported rare earth resources from China, and the excess was reserved.
"Xiao Liu, is this rare earth element really that outrageous?" Long Yaohua asked Liu Yijiu in a low voice when he saw Liu Yijiu's face flashing.
Liu Yijiu looked at Long Yaohua in surprise, "Chief, do you think we handed over those technical papers randomly? In addition to what Lao Jia said, we can't say more important areas, that is, missile precision guidance, and its role in satellites should be stronger..."
Liu Yijiu's low-key answer made Long Yaohua no longer calm down and listen to Jia Yiming's introduction.
Jia Yiming and everyone introduced various crafts and craft equipment in the production test workshop, many of which were made by themselves.
Until lunch, Long Yaohua had no appetite at all when the food in the cafeteria was eaten.
"I won't be with them in the afternoon. Please find someone to introduce me in detail about the use of rare earth elements..." Long Yaohua finally found Liu Yijiu and said to him very seriously.
"Because Americans and Japanese urgently need us to provide rare earth mines for foreign exchange? These two dog-dance national calculations are good. We do not have research on this aspect in our country. They think we are fools and tell us these things is useless..." Liu Yijiu understood what was going on, but he made a cynical expression on his face.
Let Boss Long know, and then the entire military executives will know.
In that case, it is related to the national defense strategy, and the United States and Japan will not be able to obtain large-scale supply of rare earth mines from China at a cheap price.
As long as there is a high income, the country will naturally set up a special rare earth research team to further expand the research on rare earth elements. The more research results are produced, the higher the price of rare earth elements will be in the international market.
Because China is the world's largest supplier of rare earths, and some rare earth elements are even unique to the entire world.
Liu Yijiu did not feel much sensational, and took Long Yaohua to find an opportunity to leave the team, and then looked at the hidden gate that entered the mountain in the third area.
"Originally, our missile guidance technology was very poor. They forced me to think of a solution. I just came out of school, and I could think of what could I do. When I thought about the characteristics of some rare earth elements I learned when I was in school, I said randomly, and then the old guys really started to experiment. Unexpectedly, it was successful in a short while..." Liu Yijiu did this at the beginning.
But it wasn't that he couldn't say anything randomly, but he deliberately guided him.
"This is very good for precise guidance?" Long Yaohua's face became even more serious.
"It's not just precise guidance, to be precise, satellite guidance should be better, this is mainly to improve communication quality... At the same time, in some top materials, the material performance will be more outstanding. The cannon steel technology we sell to Americans does not contain rare earths. They have been studying rare earths for decades and probably understand this, so after obtaining our technology, they started negotiations..." Liu Yijiu did not forget to give Americans eye drops at all.
"So, Americans' artillery skills are even worse than those of us?" Long Yaohua was surprised. However, his surprised expression was not too obvious.
Liu Yijiu shook his head, "The Americans' use of ordinary gun steel is much higher than that of the Soviet gun barrels, and it is estimated that rare earth elements are added. Our overall technology cannot be compared with the United States. If they directly use our gun steel technology without adding rare earth elements, then their cost will be higher than that of us. In terms of service life..."
Seeing the expression on Long Yaohua's face, Liu Yijiu knew that it was probably a bit unlucky if Americans and Japan wanted to obtain more rare earth mine supplies from China.
He even wondered in his heart, if the Americans knew that this was what he did, would they send their killers to sneak into China and kill themselves!
"This use in the field of microelectronics is actually similar to guidance. Guidance is also the use of microelectronics. Every achievement in our base basically has the use of this element. The new radar that has not been successful in the base is probably completed by the United States. The old men do not have technology, called active phased array radar, which requires the use of more than five rare earth elements. Although each one is not used too much, it is indispensable!" In order to create greater difficulties for the Americans and the Japanese, Liu Yijiu couldn't help but tell some projects that have not been reported to the country! (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!