The Feedback Effect of Rare Earth Development Policy on Economy and Society

Jie Ma,Menglian Li,Z Wang,Y Zhang

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202122801014

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Abstract

China is rich in rare earths (RE). However, the exploitation of rare earths not only promoted the social and economic development, but also produced negative environmental externalities, so the relevant departments issued policies and regulations to carry out pollution control work. This paper made a macroanalysis of China firstly. And then this paper took Jiangxi province as the main research area, which compared with Inner Mongolia, Guangdong, Sichuan and Fujian. This paper used the method of non-radial SBM to measure policy execution efficiency. Based on calculating the social and economic development indicator, economic development and social development indicator, this paper explored the feedback correlation of policy execution efficiency and the development of society and economy by grey relational analysis. The results showed that China reduced its dependence on rare earth resources. However, the efficiency of policy implementation needs to be improved. Effective implementation of rare earth industry policy has a feedback effect on social and economic development. From the perspective of case analysis, the implementation efficiency of vegetation destruction policy in Jiangxi province is higher than that of air pollution policy. The overall policy implementation efficiency of Jiangxi province has a strong feedback effect on the overall level of social and economic development, among which the air pollution and water pollution policy implementation efficiency has a relatively obvious feedback effect on social and economic development.

Highlights

Rare earth is known as “industrial gold” and is widely used in many fields such as military and national economy
The cost of socio-economic development is increased at the expense of the environment, which has exerted a negative impact on the environment
Both the water pollution indicator and the air pollution indicator have declined, and the overall socioeconomic development has increased in an continuous way, reflecting that the phenomenon of over-reliance on resources in Jiangxi Province has been alleviated and the utilization rate of rare earth resources has been improved

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Introduction

Rare earth is known as “industrial gold” and is widely used in many fields such as military and national economy. Rare earths have long been regarded as strategic resources because of their interaction with corporate and government interventions[1]. China is the country with the largest reserve of rare earth resources. Rare earth elements (REE) in China account for 85% of the global supply [2]. Jiangxi Province is the main resource source for ionic middle and heavy rare earth in southern China. According to relevant announcements of the Ministry of Land and Resources, there are three exploration rights and 89 mining rights for rare earth in Jiangxi Province. The reserve of rare earth resources in Jiangxi Province accounts for 35% of the total, while the proportion of Guangdong, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangxi, and Fujian Province is 33%, 4%, 2%, 11% and 15% respectively

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