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Drive to manufacture domestic tools pays off​

By ZHANG XIAOMIN in Dalian, Liaoning | China Daily | Updated: 2022-07-18 09:14

About 100 five-axis computer numerical control machine tools are being produced in the manufacturing shop at the Dalian Guangyang Technology Group in Jinpu New Area in Northeast China's Liaoning province.

"We've applied for some 20 international patents for this processing center, which is capable of processing large structural aircraft parts," Yu Dehai, president of the company, said while standing in front of a large machine tool.

Dalian Guangyang is a leading manufacturer of high-end CNC machine tools in the country.

In the office above the workshop, 71-year-old Yu works with the researchers and developers that account for more than a quarter of the company's 1,200 employees.

"I'm lucky that what I'm working on matches my passions. It is the same with our R&D colleagues. It is easier to achieve good results by combining work with interests," Yu said.

Previously, China's high-end CNC machine tools market was dominated by a couple of major foreign manufacturers. Yu and his colleagues changed that with the cost-effective products they developed.

"This is our main driving force for following a path of independent innovation," Yu said.

"We will produce the world's most advanced five-axis CNC machine tools and make exorbitantly priced imported machine tools a thing of the past."

According to Yu, the five-axis CNC machine tool sector is part of the core competitiveness of the country's manufacturing industry, as it has a decisive influence in a number of industries.

After graduating from college, he worked for a State-owned enterprise.

In 1993, he started his own business, which embarked on its foray into numerical control research and development in 2000.
"The difficulties and failures outnumbered the successes," Yu said.

"A business is the same as a person: both should have a purpose. As long as we set ourselves a goal, we have the determination to overcome the difficulties one by one."

An entrepreneurs' symposium in Beijing in July 2020, which Yu attended as a representative of private business, stressed the need to do everything possible to protect market players, stimulate vitality and build up the country's basic strengths for economic development, and fortified his belief in serving the country.

Last year, Kede Numerical Control Company, a Guangyang subsidiary, was listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board, or STAR Market, to raise funds for high-grade CNC machine capacity.

During a meeting organized by the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce early this month, Yu's son and Kede chairman Yu Benhong said that young entrepreneurs should demonstrate their responsibility to serve the country through industry and commerce.

in the critical raw material restaurant, China is eating its dessert while the rest of the world is reading the menu

escobar said:

in the critical raw material restaurant, China is eating its dessert while the rest of the world is reading the menu

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Critical to the production of high-strength permanent magnets that are indispensable in many energy transition technologies, China accounts for 62% of global rare earth supply and 84% of rare earth processing capacity.

Yes you read that right, 95% Around 95% of high-strength rare earth permanent magnets are manufactured in China. By investing across complex supply chains, Chinese companies have integrated rare earth mining, processing, metal production and magnet manufacturing.

allowing China to then dominate high value-add sectors including drivetrains for electric vehicles and generators for wind turbines.

it is neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium that are really in demand, given their use in permanent magnets for electric vehicles and wind turbine generators. Most other rare earth elements remain in oversupply.

In the production of these four rare earth elements, China is king. China Northern Rare Earth Group’s Bayan Obo operation, for example, is the largest producer of both neodymium and praseodymium, contributing almost half of the global output of these two rare earths.



For China’s leadership, energy independence and decarbonisation are inseparable: state-backed investment in rare earths is just one part of a broader plan to reduce reliance on others while dominating the resources and technologies the world needs to meet its carbon goals.

China is morphing from largest producer/refiner of rare earth elements, to being world’s dominant high value-add manufacturer of clean energy products dependent on these metals. This is China’s ‘dual circulation’ policy in action, and progress has been both swift and decisive.

Long article on domestic nuclear fusion breakthroughs.

It's all smoke and mirrors. China made rare earths cheap. Without China all their costs go up. That alone will hamper their hi-tech industries. If they could do it, they would've already done it. The only way they're going beat China is if they exploit a poor country and have them do all the refining so they suffer from all the poisons and radioactive elements during the process. You know... going back to their imperialist roots. In the West to get their citizens to do it, they would have pay for all the expensive health protections and pay high salaries for hazardous work. I don't see anywhere how they'll beat China except when China has a superior juggernaut economy than they have. Getting raw ore containing rare earths is the easy part. Refining is the harder part and just look to the US where all their anti-China talk over rare earths, they still send all what they dig up to China to refine it for them.

When Muammar Gaddafi was the West's thorn in its side. There was an Italian porn star that offered to have sex with him if he'd stop being bad. That basically sums up the West's psyche today where what they offer they think moves mountains but in reality it's a worthless piece of crap.

I recently saw a TV host on one of those news roundtable shows commenting on how all these countries of the British crown are rebuking the British Royals' role in the slave trade. She had never realized that because her image of them was of fairy tale princesses and romance. And she was of Caribbean descent which many of these rebukes took place. That's what they do where they promote the romantic fairytale lie of the themselves while hiding the bigger ugly part that made them who they are. That's what they're relying on regarding rare earths where their involvement has to be all good and nothing bad. The reality is they're going to be paying a high price or they'll be exploiting someone else to get what they want.

China won't see the offer of having sex with a white woman as the greatest most precious gift of all. China will just see her as a whore. That's why they have to stop China from having the world see the same thing.

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China made rare earths cheap. Without China all their costs go up. That alone will hamper their hi-tech industries. If they could do it, they would've already done it. The only way they're going beat China is if they exploit a poor country and have them do all the refining so they suffer from all the poisons and radioactive elements during the process. You know... going back to their imperialist roots. In the West to get their citizens to do it, they would have pay for all the expensive health protections and pay high salaries for hazardous work. I don't see anywhere how they'll beat China except when China has a superior juggernaut economy than they have. Getting raw ore containing rare earths is the easy part. Refining is the harder part and just look to the US where all their anti-China talk over rare earths, they still send all what they dig up to China to refine it for them.

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Mining is not a problem, you can cheat and steal, But they don't have rare earths refining technology. it will take years for US firms to develop and master refining technology. and what about cost. LAMOO

I wrote something similar about this on EV thread, but this is the kind of nonsense politicians in Washington keep on espousing on a daily basis.


They have no idea how China came to dominate the entire supply chain, but they hate the fact they are not in control of things. And they have no idea how much changes are required to develop viable alternatives to the Chinese supply chain. They keep telling tales of China "coercing" other countries, but really can't find any examples outside of the rare earths ban to Japan many years ago. So, their politician friends in other countries will pay them lip service. But both American business and other western businesses will keep using the Chinese supply chain because it's far and away the cheapest and most efficient option. As long as business is incentivized to make money, it will go for the cheapest reliable option. And that's the Chinese option.

And the Biden admin people want the rest of the world to ignore that as soon as the Republicans take power, whoever is in charge will claim that China is doing nothing about climate change so America shouldn't do anything about it either. After all, they can't even get Joe Manchin to agree to pass the most basic climate action plan. How do they expect Republicans to do something about it?

This is the kind of stupid stuff she will say.

She will say the key to the new approach on trade required countries to properly account for and factor in the costs of overly concentrated supply chains , geopolitical concerns and value - rather than "overly focusing on costs".

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Does she understand businesses make decision, not the gov't or the politicians.