Rare earth elements are the Lanthanide elements in the periodic table of chemical elements, including lanthanum (La), cerium (Ce), praseodymium (Pr), neodymium oxide (Nd), samarium (Sm), europium (Eu), gadolinium (Gd), terbium (Tb), dysprosium (Dy), holmium (Ho), erbium (Er), thulium (Tm), Ytterbium(III) oxide (Yb), lutetium (Lu), yttrium (Y) and scandium (Sc). A total of 17 elements are called rare earth elements.

Rare earth elements have been widely used in fields such as electronics, petrochemicals, metallurgy, machinery, energy, light industry, environmental protection, agriculture, etc. Rare earth can be used to produce fluorescent materials, rare earth metal hydride battery materials, Electric light materials, permanent magnetic materials, hydrogen storage materials, catalytic materials, precision ceramic materials, laser materials, superconducting materials, magnetostrictive materials, magneto-optical storage materials, optical fiber materials, etc.