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中国的稀土产业及其战略意义
China's Rare Earth Industry
You're looking at Praseodymium and Neodymium alloys. They may sound technical, but are widely used in your daily life. Melted under high temperatures, together with other metals and elements, they are forged into these thin plates. They are then fed into a huge grinding machine to be made into powder, which is ground into even smaller particles in these pots. Now they are ready to be whipped into permanent magnet products that you likely use.
你现在看到的是镨和钕合金，它们可能听起来属于技术词汇，但在你的日常生活中其实被广泛使用。在高温下熔化，与其他金属和元素一起，它们被锻造成这些薄板。然后将它们送入一台巨大的研磨机制成粉末，在这些罐中研磨成更小的颗粒。现在，它们就准备要添加到你可能会使用的永久磁铁产品中。
Rare earth permanent magnetic products are also widely used in other devices, including speakers, mobile phones, planes, and military equipment to enhance their performance and reduce size. Located in a place abundant with rare earth materials, Ganzhou city alone – according to business insiders – has about 40 companies making rare earth permanent magnet products, and its supply chain is more mature.
稀土永磁产品也广泛用于其他设备，包括扬声器、移动电话、飞机和军事设备等，以提高它们的性能、减小尺寸。根据业内人士的说法，在赣州市这一稀土材料丰富的地方，有大约40家公司生产稀土永磁产品，供应链更为成熟。
Figures show China's rare earth reserves account for nearly 40 percent of the world's total. And China's production of rare earth minerals in 2018 accounted for 70 percent of the world's production. Official figures show China's rare earth exports in the first five months of 2019 were less than 20-thousand tons, dropping by over seven percent compared to the same period last year.
数据显示，中国的稀土储量占世界总量的近40％。而中国2018年的稀土矿产量占全球产量的70％。官方数据显示，中国2019年前五个月的稀土出口量不到2万吨，与去年同期相比下降了7％以上。
Some big importers of China's rare earth minerals include Germany, Japan and the US. Chief among them, 80 percent of the US's imports of these minerals came from China from between 2014 and 2017. Bloomberg earlier quoted an expert as saying China could wreak havoc on American industries if it limits exports of rare earth materials to the US.
中国稀土矿产的一些大进口商包括德国、日本和美国。更为重要的一点，2014年至2017年间，美国80％的这些矿物进口来自中国。彭博社早前援引一位专家的话说，如果中国限制稀土材料出口到美国，可能会对美国工业造成严重的破坏。 | 
发表于 2019-6-28 01:08:55
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