Rebirth of the Wild Age

The issue of rare earths began to ferment in 2002, because from this year, countries with rare earth resources such as the United States and Australia successively closed their rare earth mines, and all the rare earth resources needed were imported from China.

The most direct reason for the closure of mines in these major rare earth resource countries is not from long-term strategic considerations. In a capitalist society, if rare earths are really super profitable, the presidents can’t stop them even if they want to, and capitalists will not think about the problem in 30 to 50 years.

The real reason is that Chinese companies compete to suppress prices and sell rare earths at such a low price that they are insane. Miners in the United States, Australia and other countries can no longer make much money from mining and selling rare earths. Officials and insightful people took the opportunity to propose a motion, so these countries banned their own rare earth mines.

This led to even worse consequences. The whole world came to China for rare earths, which caused the price of rare earths to rise in a short period of time. Seeing that the price of rare earths has risen, domestic enterprises swarmed to mine rare earth mines. After the supply exceeded demand, they then competed with lower prices, resulting in a continuous vicious circle in which the price of rare earths did not rise but fell instead.

Since 2003, Chinese media have reported rare earth news one after another, and successfully attracted the attention of the central government. Therefore, in the past two years, the export of rare earth raw ores has been banned, and the export tax rate of rare earth products has been increased. The total amount of specific minerals and advantageous minerals has been regulated, and new mining rights will not be approved for the time being.

Because the government no longer issues new rare earth mining licenses, it has led to nationwide illegal mining.

Song Weiyang's speech this time pushed the news effect related to rare earths to an unprecedented level. It's good for the richest man to fart, not to mention the fact that the richest man said something seriously this time, which instantly aroused the attention of the whole society. The major media took action upon hearing the news, sending reporters to make unannounced visits if they had the strength, and reprinting the news or asking experts to write commentary articles if they were not.

From the popularity rankings of keywords in search engines such as Sogou, Baidu, and Yisou, we can see how far Song Weiyang has made public opinion. The keyword rare earth ranked 7th, 8th, and 10th in the popularity of the three major search engines in late May.

It was the first time for many Chinese people to know about the existence of rare earth, and they quickly joined the discussion.

There are also media who talk about things from the perspective of environmental protection and unannounced visits to some mines that were illegally dug.

The picture is like this:

Hundreds of acres of hilltops have been cut off, the trees are almost dead, loess is emerging, and the smell of medicine is pungent. The water in the bubble pool at the foot of the mountain is constantly flowing, the white mud is churning, and the motor is humming...

Landslides after heavy rains have occurred in almost every mining site. The mine site that the reporter visited unannounced just experienced a landslide. The mountain road was buried, and the trees were washed up and down by the mudslides, and even uprooted. The silt blocked the The river course, the river water is extremely turbid. Even if there is no landslide, the river below the mountain has been completely polluted, the sewage from the mining pool is directly discharged into the river, and dead fish with belly ups can be seen on the river surface from time to time...

White fiber bags are thrown everywhere, and the pungent smell can be smelled hundreds of meters away. Local villagers reported that since the extensive mining of rare earth mines, they often feel dizzy, tired, and often have diarrhea. In fact, these illegal mining The illegal rare earth mines in China use the most primitive pool immersion mining method, that is, the lunatics are dug out and piled up in the pool, soaked in ammonium bisulfate, and then the mother liquor is released for precipitation. There are layers of washing pools on the mountain. It is like a terraced field. The sewage containing acidic chemicals has caused serious pollution to farmland, rivers, and groundwater. There is no crop, no fish and shrimp, and the health of nearby farmers is seriously threatened...

Some villagers in the xx group of xx village of xx town complained to the reporter that their villages are no longer suitable for living because of the destruction of the mountains and poisoned water sources. Everyone is considering relocation, but the issue of compensation has not been resolved through negotiation...

After the news was reported, it caused an uproar. All illegal mining sites around the unannounced visit site were quickly banned by the local department, and all legal mining sites were also ordered to rectify.

Let's put aside the issue of rare earth strategy and only talk about environmental protection and public health issues. These rare earth mines that have been reported to be illegally excavated can mine 400 to 500 tons of raw ore a year, and the sales are only 10 to 20 million. How much can they earn after excluding mining and transportation costs? Because such a small profit has destroyed hundreds of acres of mountains and polluted the surrounding farmland, rivers and groundwater, how much money will be needed to restore the environment in the future? Even if the natural environment can be restored, how can the damaged health of local farmers be restored?

Song Weiyang stepped up and ignited public opinion. All major media rushed to follow up and report. There was a lot of heated discussions online and offline, and public opinion was overblown. Subsequently, the relevant departments suddenly issued a document to carry out a half-year comprehensive rectification of rare earth mines across the country. All illegal mines must be banned, legal mines will be self-inspected and corrected, and those that fail to meet environmental protection standards will be closed for rectification.

Song Weiyang offended a lot of people this time, especially those small mine owners, no matter whether it was illegal or legal, they all hated Song Weiyang so much. Some local cadres are also very dissatisfied, because the local economy is underdeveloped, and it is already very good to have mines to mine. How can the economy develop after being severely rectified?

The most speechless thing is that the direct effect of the comprehensive rectification action is actually the technological upgrade that led to illegal mining. Illegal mine owners have adopted more advanced pipeline leaching methods. This method of illegal mining is more concealed. It is difficult to detect the situation from a distance, and someone will report it when they approach it. They also set up mining sites, mining pools and warehouses in different places, mobilizing wisdom and investigators to hide and seek.

This improved illegal mining method can easily lead to large-scale landslides on the mountain, and the drug toxins are hidden deep in the soil layer, which cannot be completely removed in a short period of time. But it's better than before, at least it doesn't damage the surface environment, doesn't discharge waste soil, and doesn't cause water and soil erosion, which can be regarded as a rare contribution made by Song Weiyang.

However, Song Weiyang's reputation has improved rapidly. Many people who used to call him rich and unkind also stand up and praise him this time, and they all agree that this is what the richest man should look like.

Just when netizens were discussing Song Weiyang and Rare Earth, a big incident suddenly broke out in China's IT industry. Sogou and Baidu jointly sued Yahoo's 3721.

Being able to force the enemies of Sogou and Baidu to work together shows how much people hate 3721.

The cause of the incident was that a columnist wrote an article, saying that his friend entered the Sogou website, and suddenly an unfamiliar web page popped up. This webpage also gives two warm reminders, first: this URL does not exist; second, you may be looking for 3721 when you enter the Baidu URL, this will also happen.

To put it bluntly, the DNS of Sogou and Baidu were hijacked, and 3721 is 100% behind the scenes.

Sogou and Baidu conducted their own investigations and launched questionnaires on the Internet. As a result, thousands of netizens said they had encountered this situation.

Then fight a muddle-headed lawsuit.

The leader in red refused to admit it, saying that he was deliberately framed by hackers, and that 3721 had never hijacked the DNS of other websites. This matter is not clear at all, because Sogou and Baidu will never be able to produce evidence, and it is impossible to prove that it was done by hackers sent or hired by 3721.

The starting point for Sogou and Baidu to sue is not to win the lawsuit, but to make things worse and make netizens feel sick when they mention 3721.

With a mischievous mentality, Song Weiyang wrote a sentence on his blog: Dr. Ma is very upset about the dns hijacking incident. Either 3721 shut down the website, or the leader in red will get out!

A week later, the leader in red announced his resignation as the president of Yahoo China and no longer had any relationship with 3721.

Netizens were stunned and responded by leaving messages on their blogs:

Dr. Ma is angry, and the consequences are serious!

66666666 (Call 6 mode created by Song Weiyang)...

The leader in red is almost scared to death by Dr. Ma.

Yahoo is too obedient, and actually fired the leader in red.

I think the leader in red was frightened himself. He was afraid that Mr. Song would retaliate against him, so he quickly resigned to save his life.

Teacher Song's new title is the Godfather of China's Internet!

Dr. Ma's laws and regulations (crow's mouth)...