After attending this meeting, Chen Lidong learned that Huaxia had established a rare earth leadership group 10 years ago. The office was located in the Planning Committee, with a deputy director serving as the office director.

I met several acquaintances at the meeting, such as Lu Donglin, Huo Pengqi, and Liu Pinchang.

Dean Huo turned out to be the deputy leader of the expert group of the Rare Earth Office, and Liu Pinchang was also a member of the expert group.

This meeting was scheduled for three days and contained a lot of content.

On the first day, leaders of ministries and commissions were asked to arrange special funds to support the technological transformation of rare earth ammonium bicarbonate compound fertilizers. The meeting was attended by heads of finance, economic and trade offices, and rare earth offices of various provinces and cities, as well as some key fertilizer companies.

Chen Lidong walked in and listened. The general idea was that the Ministry of Finance was going to spend 20 million yuan, and the Economic Commission would spend another 6 million yuan to support 26 small fertilizer plants in technological transformation.

The family only provided support funds of 1 million yuan, which is really stingy and a bad review.

In the afternoon, there was an expert group meeting, where the progress of scientific research projects in the field of rare earths was reported.

Among them is the nickel-metal hydride automotive power battery successfully tested by Yanjing Nonferrous Metals Research Institute. It has been tested on electric vehicles and has a range of 120 kilometers on a single charge and a top speed of 112 kilometers per hour.

The in-situ leaching process of ion ore developed by Central South University of Technology and Gannan Nonferrous Metals Research Institute won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award.

Huo Pengqi despises this technology. According to the old man, dig a big hole at the foot of a mountain containing rare earths, fill it with water, pour in a few tons of ammonium bicarbonate, and you can get rare earth carbonate crystals in a few days.

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Chen Lidong asked: "Where does the water drain to water the crops?"

The old man glanced at him: "Didn't you find someone to take a photo? It's all green."

Chen Lidong screamed, "That's it."

The next day, a meeting of directors of the rare earth offices of various provinces and cities was held.

Pei Song, director of the China Rare Earth Office, arranged the work for the next period of time. At the meeting, it was proposed that rare earth enterprises across the country should further establish the concept of market economy, vigorously expand the domestic market, and further control the practice of paving the way, launching projects, and comparing speed to improve the quality of rare earths.

The industrial level of the enterprise.

It can be heard that the country is very dissatisfied with the rapid development and barbaric growth of the rare earth industry in various places.

This director's meeting will be a drizzle first, and there will be big moves later.

On the third day, a meeting of the Rare Earth Leading Group was formally held, with 12 participating departments including the Planning Commission, Metallurgy, Finance, Economic Commission, Environmental Protection, Public Security, Industry and Commerce, Taxation, and Customs.

There was also a chief present at the meeting. This leader is now a member of the Council of Elders. Chen Lidong is very familiar with him and will take over as the general manager of Huaxia in a few years.

The theme of the meeting was to discuss "Several Opinions on Promoting the Sustained and Healthy Development of the Rare Earth Industry".

The document pointed out that in recent years, driven by profit, "black rare earth" problems such as illegal mining and unplanned production have occurred from time to time, seriously interfering with market order and the normal production and operation activities of legitimate enterprises.

The document requires that we intensify the dynamic supervision of key resource areas and mines, resolutely ban and close mining sites for exploration, unlicensed mining, cross-border mining, illegal outsourcing and other illegal and illegal rare earth mining sites in accordance with the law, confiscate illegal gains, and thoroughly clean up the ground.

facility.

The document also proposed that the local rare earth offices shall be responsible for urging the rare earth enterprise groups within the jurisdiction to report on time the list of rare earth mines under their jurisdiction and the list of all smelting and separation enterprises every year, and to truthfully fill in the raw material procurement, actual output, and sales in the rare earth product traceability system.

Quantity, inventory and other information.

Enterprises that engage in illegal activities such as purchasing, processing and reselling illegal rare earth mineral products, exceeding planned production, using one certificate for import procedures, etc. will be severely dealt with in accordance with laws and regulations.

At this meeting, Chen Lidong was still an attendee, but was arranged to sit in the inner circle where he could speak.

Looking at the document in my hand, some of the contents are clearly suggestions made by Zhou Wenliang after his interview with the South. It seems that the country still attaches great importance to that article.

The opinions of various departments and participating leaders were solicited before the document meeting, so there was no in-depth discussion at the meeting.

Next, four units were arranged to make statements, namely: Longxi Mining, Southwest Mining, Southern Rare Earth and Lugang Rare Earth.

The first three people all expressed their opinions, but Lu Donglin, the fourth person who spoke, took a shot.

Lu Donglin expressed his position at the conference that he was prepared to block the supply from the source. Rare earth mines only supply 20 key companies, and more than 30 other companies will convert their own production.

We are preparing to establish a rare earth trading platform. All rare earth product transactions must be registered on the platform, and product registration and traceability must be carried out.

Great efforts will also be made in environmental protection. Lugang will supervise all rare earth companies to install environmental protection facilities and monitor the operation of equipment to ensure that emissions meet standards. Those that do not meet standards will no longer supply rare earth mines.

This speech shocked the whole audience. The other three companies were cursing in their hearts. What should we do if Lu Donglin did this? Fortunately, Lu Donglin was the last one to speak. If he had been the first one, the manuscript in his hand would have been

There's nothing left to think about.

After Lu Donglin finished speaking, the chief turned on the microphone and said:

"Lu Steel's speech was communicated to me before the meeting. Just now Donglin made it more specific. Each goal is supported by corresponding measures.

I hope the other three companies and the provinces and municipalities will refer to Lugang’s approach and study how to do their own work.

Next, to discuss the management of the Lugang tailings pond, we should ask Comrade Donglin to report their plans."

So, Lu Donglin continued to make the report.

First, he reported on the scale of the tailings pond and the risks and hazards that existed. The two-minute brief introduction also made everyone tremble with fear.

Then there is the next step. The plan reported by Lu Donglin is basically the content discussed with Chen Lidong.

Just listen to Lu Donglin say:

“We plan to take six measures to thoroughly control the tailings pond and remove the mountain that is weighing on Lugang’s head.

First, use technical means to completely eat up the tailings. Lugang Rare Earth Research Institute has developed a "cascade closed-circuit process" that can effectively separate iron, rare earths, fluorite and niobium in the tailings, ensuring a resource utilization rate of 60%

Above. The refined rare earth concentrates are supplied according to market demand, with a small increase every year, and most of them are stored in reserves to store rare earth minerals as national strategic resources.

Second, introduce private capital to accelerate investment and construction. We plan to introduce Zhao Donghua Group and Dongzhu Jiajia Co., Ltd. as the implementation entities of tailings treatment, and strive for an interest-free loan of 1 billion yuan from the China Development Bank to support the two companies in building factories.

Purchase equipment.

Third, implement echelon treatment and completely remove the mountain. Starting from next year, the mining volume of Baiyun Mine will be reduced year by year, and a quarter of the iron needed by Lugang in five years will be recovered from the tailings. Tailings emissions from the ore dressing plant

It can also be reduced by one-third

, no more than 4 million tons per year. The annual processing capacity of tailings slag and mud reaches 10 million tons. The tailings inventory has a net reduction of 6 million tons every year. We strive to digest all the tailings in 20 years and completely remove this burden in Lucheng.

Big mountains.

Fourth, build an anti-seepage project to effectively protect the Yellow River. Establish a sewage treatment plant to collect and treat industrial wastewater from Lugang-related enterprises, and strive to achieve discharge standards within three years. Starting next year, an anti-seepage ditch will be excavated at the southern end of the tailings pond and a seepage ditch will be built.

The leakage pumping station transports the leaked water to the sewage treatment plant for treatment, effectively controlling the tendency of tailings lake water to leak and spread to the Yellow River.

Fifth, promote village relocation and safeguard people's health. More than 3,000 households of villagers and herdsmen in the four affected villages around the Dalahai and tailings ponds will be compensated 20,000 to 30,000 yuan per household and relocated to Lucheng.

In other counties, the vacated land is used to build tailings treatment plants, sewage treatment plants and implement greening projects.

Sixth, restore soil vegetation and create clear water and blue sky. Carry out deep soil management at the bottom of the cleared tailings reservoir, plant suitable vegetation such as Elaeagnus angustifolia, Tamarix japonica, wolfberry, apocynum and alfalfa to gradually improve the soil and improve the ecological environment.

Lu Donglin gave a eloquent report for 10 minutes, and everyone who listened was stunned.

The people attending today's meeting, in addition to senior officials from ministries and commissions, are also experts in the rare earth industry. They have heard about the Lugang tailings pond, and some have even participated in the field investigation and treatment technology research of the tailings pond.

Before this, no one could come up with a feasible solution.

But today, this century's problem was solved by Lu Donglin.

The two issues that people are most concerned about are: has the technology matured? Can funds be guaranteed?

I saw that Lu Donglin spoke eloquently. There are leaders present at today's meeting, so we can't just "release satellites" casually.

So someone asked: Can the "cascade closed-circuit process" work?

Huo Penqi began to explain this process to the participants.

After Huo Penqi finished speaking, the leader said: "

Dear comrades, last month Huaxia News Agency issued an internal reference report, reflecting the chaos in the rare earth industry in southern Jiangxi.

After that, I arranged for two groups of people, one to go to southern Jiangxi to investigate and verify.

Another wave was sent to Lucheng.

After they came back, they reported the results of the investigation to several of us.

Comrades who have heard it say that large areas of cultivated land around the tailings pond cannot grow crops normally and are close to being abandoned. The groundwater cannot be irrigated and cannot be used for drinking by humans and animals. People need to go several miles away to get water. One square meter of water even costs 1.

dollars.

According to statistics, more than 7 villages, more than 4,000 people, and more than 60,000 acres of land have been affected.

Someone told the comrades of the investigation team that pollutants, driven by groundwater, are still approaching the Yellow River at a rate of 20 to 30 meters per year.

Originally, at today's meeting, I wanted to give a briefing on their investigation, and I also wanted to let comrades who have never been there see some of the pictures they took.

Later, the comrades in Mongolia Province did not want to expose the scandal, and Comrade Donglin also assured that strong measures could be taken to control the tailings pond.

Dong Lin just reported six measures. I wonder if you understand them.

The measures he mentioned are all implemented by market economy means and implemented by private enterprises.

One of them is Donghua Group. Before the meeting, comrades from the Rare Earth Office briefly sorted out the information on Donghua Group and sent it to everyone.

Today, the person in charge of Donghua Group is also here, his name is Chen Lidong, right?

Let Xiao Chen tell us about whether he is an investor and an implementer of tailings pond management, whether he has the confidence to do it, whether he can do it, what other concerns he has, and what support is needed.

If it works, it works. If it doesn't, let's think of other ways.

We can’t make a century-old joke, otherwise we, as a group of people, will have no face to answer to the people of Lucheng, Mongolia and even the whole country.”

At this time, everyone looked at Chen Lidong.

Chen Lidong had already stood up when the leader called his name.

He spoke to the crowd and said:
Chapter completed!