Reborn Resource Tycoon

Speaking of Tangshan's steel industry, Ling Haozhong and Li Huafeng are both proud and ashamed of it.

Tangshan is rich in mineral resources, such as coal and iron ore reserves, which inherently create favorable conditions for the development of Tangshan's iron and steel industry. Moreover, it is located by the sea and has an excellent port, which in turn provides support for the development of iron and steel enterprises. Import and export have created excellent conditions.Therefore, it is only natural that Tangshan City has become a major steel town in China.

Since the beginning of the new century, due to the liberalization of domestic restrictions on private capital entering the steel industry, Tangshan's steel industry has developed rapidly, and its production capacity has expanded rapidly. The annual output has approached 3000 million tons, accounting for 60.00% of the total steel output of Yanxing Province. %, and the iron and steel output of Yanxing Province ranks first in the country, so some people think that if they grasp the iron and steel industry in Tangshan, they will control the iron and steel industry in Yanxing Province, and they will also control the leader of Huaxia Iron and Steel Industry .

However, under the brilliance of the iron and steel industry in Tangshan City, there are many hidden dangers, even crises!And this point, even Ling Haozhong and Li Huafeng themselves can see it!

First of all, the iron and steel enterprises in Tangshan City are relatively small in scale and the industry concentration is low.To put it bluntly, the scale of the industry is too small!In the world's steel industry, it is generally believed that the minimum annual production of steel should reach more than 300 million tons, and it is best to reach more than 800 million to 1000 million tons. This is the best production scale and can obtain economies of scale.It can be said that there are many large foreign steel group companies with an annual output exceeding 300 million tons.In Tangshan City, apart from Tangshan Iron and Steel Group Company, there is no enterprise with an output of more than [-] million tons, not even a company with an output of more than [-] million tons.

Secondly, the iron and steel enterprises in Tangshan have uneven levels of production equipment and product technology.There are not only large state-owned iron and steel group companies like Tangshan Iron and Steel Group Corporation, but also many small and medium-sized iron and steel enterprises.Most of these small and medium iron and steel enterprises have small blast furnaces of [-] cubic meters or [-] cubic meters, mainly producing rebar and wire products with low added value and relatively short process flow.When the domestic steel market demand is strong.The investment cost can be recovered in one or two years.Moreover, most of these small and medium-sized iron and steel enterprises lack the support of senior talents and high-end technology, and are simply unable to carry out industrial upgrading.

Secondly, the iron and steel industry in Tangshan is the mainstay of the economy, but it is also a big polluter and energy consumer in the city!According to the statistics of Yanxing Province, Tangshan's GNP only accounts for about 20.00% of the province's GNP, but its energy consumption accounts for more than one-third of the province's total energy consumption.Pollutants discharged from steel production are also well-deserved champions in the province.

Although in the past two years, due to the recovery of the domestic economy, steel products have been relatively popular in China.The profits are also relatively generous, but both of them understand that such a good time cannot last for a long time.As long as there is a disturbance in the domestic economy, or if there is another economic crisis in the world and the steel industry falls into a downturn, Tangshan's economy, which is too dependent on the steel industry, may collapse.After the Southeast Asian financial crisis broke out in [-], Tangshan Iron and Steel Industry once faced a difficult period.

And even if the economy develops smoothly, the country may clean up projects due to overheated investment. The steel industry is undoubtedly the focus of cleanup!If.There are only three or five iron and steel enterprises in Tangshan City, all of which are large state-owned enterprises like Tangshan Iron and Steel Group Corporation. That is better, and the ability to resist risks is stronger.But the problem is that the average annual steel output of the iron and steel enterprises in Tangshan is only 70 million tons. If the country really vigorously cleans up the iron and steel industry, at least two-thirds of the enterprises.It is possible to be swept!Moreover, the country has paid more and more attention to air and water pollution over the years, and Tangshan City is a major polluter.Naturally, the pressure is getting bigger and bigger.

Both Ling Haozhong and Li Huafeng knew that the Fang family's Liao Province Iron and Steel Plant and Qinxi Iron and Steel Group Company produced mostly mid-to-high-end products in China. Not only did they not have to worry about sales, they could also earn foreign exchange through export.That's why Ling Haozhong actively contacted Fang Mingyuan when he learned that the Liao Provincial Iron and Steel Plant might be upgraded to become a Liao Provincial Iron and Steel Group Company to merge and integrate domestic steel companies.

It would be best for Fang Mingyuan to incorporate all the small and medium-sized iron and steel enterprises in Tangshan, and then Jingcheng Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. will land in Tangshan smoothly. In this way, the three-legged pattern of Tangshan's iron and steel industry will be formally formed.Even if the economy is not good, or when the country is rectifying the industry, with the confidence of the three companies, they will not have the confidence to resist risks like those small and medium-sized iron and steel companies.Of course, it would be even better if Fang Mingyuan could bring other industries to this kind of city, such as the automobile industry.

The three of them communicated along the way. Although Fang Mingyuan had done a lot of homework on Tangshan's situation in advance, some things were still superficial after all.For example, the pollution in Dangsan City!
Grey, black, dark red, these are the colors presented to Fang Mingyuan in Tangshan Industrial Zone.Gray is the color of the exhaust gas emitted by the chimneys, black is the color of the ubiquitous coal powder, and dark red is the color of the iron powder dropped by the endlessly flowing trailers.Even though Fang Mingyuan was mentally prepared for such "colorful" pollutants, he couldn't help but widen his eyes when he saw them.

In his previous life, he hadn't been to Tangshan very much, but he had experienced the smoggy weather in the capital, even when the air quality index in the capital was off the charts, the feeling of being so stuffy that you could hardly breathe was far worse than here strong.When I first entered Tangshan City, I could still see the wisps of sunshine, but now I can't see it at all.In the gray sky, Fang Mingyuan's eyes widened, and he could only determine the position of the sun by the brightness.The dirty air not only makes people feel breathless, but also has a strange smell that makes people sick.

They are now standing on the streets of Kairui District, where the iron and steel enterprises under the jurisdiction of Tangshan City are most concentrated. Here, you can see chimneys of iron and steel factories standing every few tens of meters. There is a layer of dust on the ground, and bulk Coal trucks passed by, scattering coal dust and iron powder as they passed, and at the same time raising dust all over the sky.And the middle-aged man with blue and red face standing in front of the three of them was the head of Kairui District. (To be continued..)