How important is the study of rare earths?
Techniques with rare earths have permeated our everyday life, such as consumer electronics, new energy technique and defense system, though most of the people don’t know what rare earths are. What has been the biggest surprise in your study of the REEs? The biggest surprise is that China enterprises were left far behind those development countries in design and development of end products. Many capitals were invested in resource industries. The Chinese Society of Rare Earths is very important in China. What role does it play in the Chinese Rare Earth industry? It consists of many rare earth experts; they are the most important intellect resources to support the development of the Chinese Rare Earth Industry. CSRE is just an academic organization; it could provide the government with some macroscopic and constructive recommendation on rare earth science and technology, and also rare earth industry, but does not set any policies, has no rights. How many members does the Chinese Society o
