(Tokyo Comprehensive News) Japanese media reported that a Chinese -based employee of Japan and a Chinese -owned enterprise in China and a Chinese -owned enterprise were detained in Beijing in March this year.Leaks rare metal information.
The Kyodo News Agency and Nikkei News Network (October 23) quoted people familiar with the matter to release the above news.Japanese metal commerce has been conducting business in China, operating non -ferrous metals, including rare earth metals, and sells these metals to Japanese electronic component manufacturers and other customers.
Chinese state -owned enterprises involved in metal mines such as rare earth have carried out business from mining to sales, and have trading relationships with Japanese metal trading agencies.
The employees involved in the two companies are almost detained at the same time in Beijing and Shanghai, and the specific reasons are not clear.The analysis believes that the two may be suspected of leaking rare metal -related technical information, and the Chinese government also put pressure on enterprises to release signals to strengthen information security management through this move.
China occupies a dominant position in the global rare earth market, and regards rare earth as national strategic resources. In the context of the continuous heating of the Sino -US scientific and technological war, in recent years, it has continuously strengthened its supervision of the rare earth industry, including prohibiting exports to overseas exports, mining related to overseas exports, mining, mining, mining, and exports to overseas exports.Refine, use related technologies, etc.In August of this year, China implemented export control over 锗 and ，. These two rare metals are key materials for manufacturing semiconductor products.
The rare earth imported from China has gradually decreased in recent years, but it still relies on China.In 2010, when territorial disputes occurred around the Diaoyu Islands (Japanese islands), Japanese media stated that China had restricted to export rare earths to Japan at that time. At that time, more than 90%of Japanese companies rely on China.Rare earth dependence on China.In 2022, about 60%of Japan's rare earth imported from China.
China has paid more attention to economic security in recent years, and has continuously increased the investigation of spy activities and information leakage in the economic field.A Japanese Pharmaceutical Factory Anstela Pharmaceutical was detained in a Japanese -Japanese employee in March this year for suspected violation of the Anti -Spy Law and was officially arrested by relevant Chinese departments in October.
