Global 80% energy-saving lamps made 4 times more foreign brands

Rare Earth Industry Value Index Curve

An industry insider of the Hunan rare earth industry said that President Liu is in a hurry and he hopes to promote the development of the rare earth industry in Hunan as soon as possible.

Professor Liu Jiaxiang, dean of the Hunan Institute of Rare Earth Metals, led the Institute of Rare Earths and has now completed restructuring. From the production of military products in the past to the production of civilian products, three-color phosphor energy-saving lamps have been put into production.

On April 11, he confirmed to the China Economic Times reporter on the phone that the General Administration of Customs of Bangladesh had specifically revised the relevant standards for energy-saving lamps and determined that the energy-saving lamps they produced could be imported on a zero-tariff basis. Earlier, these energy-saving lamps received a special display in Bangladesh.

“There was a shock in Bangladesh.” In early March, Liu Jiaxiang and his colleagues told the author excitedly at the factory in Longping High-Tech Park in Changsha.

Bangladesh's government procurement of energy-saving lamps will use the lamps of the Hunan Rare Earth Institute as the standard. The number is expected to be 27 million, and the transaction amount will be at least 270 million yuan.

How many billions of yuan can be made in the industry, Liu Jiaxiang said, every element of rare earth can be a one hundred billion yuan industry. He calculated this: For rare earth alloys used in high-conductor radiators, domestic demand is about 50,000 tons, and the current market price of this material is 300,000 yuan/ton. The output value of this industry can reach 150 billion yuan. The rare earth nano energy-saving coatings applied to civil architectural glass, according to the estimation of the existing housing area, the output value will reach 2.5 trillion yuan, occupying 5% of the market, that is, hundreds of billions of industries.

LED street lights, the national output value is expected to 800 billion / year. Street lamps that use rare earth materials may have better lighting effects.

"A large piece of hydrogen storage material for nails costs less than 20 bucks. The selling price is 1,000 bucks," said Liu Jiaxiang.

On March 19th, Xiong Jiaqi, who was a member of the State Council’s rare earth leading group of experts, was interviewed by the reporter in the building of the rare earth high-tech zone in Baotou. He said that rare earth energy-saving lamps can save energy by 1/3 and use rare earth materials in the “Water Cube”. The LED lights achieve energy savings of nearly 70%.

Xiong Jiaqi said that in fact, "industrial vitamins" or "monosodium glutamate" can no longer summarize the important application value of rare earths.

"It should be leverage." Xiong Jiaqi said that a small, but able to shake high-tech and national economic development industry.

Xiong Jiaqi, who has been engaged in rare earth information research for a long time, has compiled a statistic. In 2009, there were more than 10 articles on rare earths published in the “Reference News”.

An article in the UK’s “Independent” entitled “China’s Concerns over the Control of Rare Earth Resource Exports” said that Toyota’s annual production of Prius hybrid cars will reach 1 million, and that each Prius’s car needs 16 kilograms. Rare earth.

"This figure can be questioned, may not be 16 kg of rare earth, but 16 kg of rare earth new material." Xiong Jiaqi said.

However, he calculated that a Prius may have 10 applications for rare earths. A battery using a rare earth hydrogen storage material, a motor using a rare earth permanent magnet material, a tail gas treatment catalyst using a rare earth catalyst, an oxygen sensor, a rubber tire, and a high-grade ceramic using a rare earth material, which are used to reduce vehicle weight and prevent ultraviolet rays Rare earth alloys and glass, and so on.

Almost no one does not recognize that rare earths play a crucial role in strategic emerging industries such as new energy, energy conservation and environmental protection, electric vehicles, new materials, biotechnology, and information industries.