Beiyang reactionaries

In China in 2017, the orders for large government purchases alone were astonishing.Imported generators with an installed capacity of 15 kilowatts from Japan, [-] sets of various machine tools, two sets of steel plant equipment with an annual output of [-] tons, telegraph and telephone equipment exceeding [-] million yuan, etc.This is only the procurement of the central government, and there are many procurements of local governments, as well as procurements of private factories.

In the past few years, the support of the government, especially the tax incentives, as well as the unification of the domestic market, and the influx of capital from rural landlords into the commercial field have all allowed domestic factories to develop rapidly.Light industries such as some paper mills, flour mills, oil mills, textile mills, garment factories, dye factories, and even match factories developed rapidly.

Although there are also these machine factories in China, which provide them with machinery and equipment, they are far from enough to meet the needs of these domestic light industrial factories.After all, China is too big, there are too many factories, and too many machines are needed.Just paper mills, there are hundreds of paper mills across the country.Therefore, they need a lot of machinery and equipment every year.

Originally, the machinery and equipment of these light industrial factories in China were imported from Japan.It's just that the relationship between China and Japan has become worse and worse in the past few years, and these businessmen dare not wantonly use Japanese machinery and equipment.After all, those students burned Japanese goods and smashed Japanese factories a few years ago.How dare they buy Japanese machines.

But it's fine now.

Sino-Japanese relations have suddenly made a breakthrough, and these businessmen are of course adjusting their strategies.After all, in terms of machinery and equipment, Japanese machinery and equipment are much cheaper than those in Europe and the United States.Although the quality may not be as good as European and American equipment, the price advantage is too great.

These orders for machinery and equipment have greatly boosted the recovery of Japanese industry.The recovery of Japanese industry requires more raw materials.This will stimulate China's mining industry.

Therefore, China's resources exported to Japan will increase rapidly.

"Be specific."

China and Japan have signed a contract, and next year's economic needs will undergo major changes.

Therefore, the cabinet immediately held an economic meeting to discuss next year's economic issues.In fact, it is to adjust the industrial plan for next year to adapt to the Sino-Japanese trade agreement.The current report at the cabinet meeting is Liang Huankui, deputy director of the Economic Development Planning Commission and concurrently Minister of Industry.

Although Wang Yongjiang is the director of the Economic Development Planning Commission, he is also the deputy prime minister in charge of China's economy and finance. Therefore, he is in charge of the overall situation, and it is impossible to handle everything by himself.Liang Huankui, as the Minister of Industry who formulates the industrial plan, is currently in charge of the daily work of the Economic Development Planning Committee.

Liang Huankui is also in charge of this report.

"Prime Minister, according to our trade agreement with Japan, we have done some calculations, including Japan's calculations, and the two sides have exchanged opinions. We don't calculate too dynamic data, but choose static data analysis. Light Next year, Japan's industry needs at least 30 tons more steel than it is now, or import these steels, to meet China's orders. However, Japan hopes to develop its own steel industry, so they prefer to import some pig iron from China I hope to import iron ore and make steel by their steel plants. So next year Japan will import iron ore from China. According to our calculations, Japan will increase at least 120 million tons of iron ore next year compared to this year. This is The most conservative data. The business between us and Japan is not only at the government level, but also at the private level. Therefore, some of us even analyzed that Japan may increase its steel production by more than 40 tons next year. Then the iron ore needed will be even greater. If there are too many, it is possible that China’s iron ore exports to Japan will increase by nearly 200 million tons next year.”

"200 tons?"

"Yes. After the end of the European War, the world's steel prices have dropped a lot, but the current iron ore price is still not low. Although the profit of selling iron ore is not as good as pig iron export, it is still a very good business for our country. At present, our country The price of a ton of iron ore exported to Japan is about 16 yen. Next year, our iron ore contract with Japan is estimated to be at this price, and there will not be much change. Calculated in this way, next year we will The iron ore sold to Japan is estimated to be about 700 million tons, and the price exceeds [-] million."

Duan Xun nodded slightly.

Mining is really important to China right now.Just look at iron ore.China's iron ore exports to Japan alone are about 700 million tons a year, and according to the current development speed, it will soon exceed [-] million tons.These iron ore mining industries alone can accommodate as many workers and give them jobs.Moreover, the export of so much iron ore can bring China an income of [-] million yuan a year.

Of course, iron ore will never be as profitable as steelmaking.

After all, iron ore is a raw material, and steelmaking is already an industry.The current world steel price is around 350 yuan per ton.Japan's current annual steel output value is around 4 million yen, but the price of imported iron ore is only around 7000 million yen.

This is the gap between raw materials and industry.

"In addition to iron ore exported to Japan, my country's domestic iron ore consumption has exceeded 30 million tons this year, and will continue to increase next year. That is to say, my country's iron ore supply needs to increase by more than [-]% next year."

"continue."

"Let's talk about coal. In the contract we signed with Japan this time, we have adopted an exclusive contract for coal supply. That is to say, Japan's future coal imports will gradually abandon the Dutch Indochina (Indonesia) and Vietnam. Coal imports should be replaced by Chinese coal. This part is about 400 million tons. And just for the cooperation signed by China and Japan this time, the coal production that will be consumed by sea next year will be 2500 million tons. Not to mention Japan Industrial recovery requires a large amount of coal. Therefore, according to calculations by the Ministry of Commerce, Japan’s coal imports from China will increase by more than [-] million tons next year. And the coal consumption of shipping companies in China and Japan will also increase by more than [-] million tons next year. "

"kindness."

Duan Xun nodded.

Shipping is very coal intensive.A 200-ton cargo ship consumes nearly [-] tons of coal from Shanghai to Hong Kong.If it is a trip to Malaysia, it will be more than [-] tons, nearly [-] tons.And this is still the usual speed. If the freighter speeds up in order to catch up with the time during shipping, the coal consumed will double.

At present, in the Far East, especially the slightly further ocean shipping, including the maritime transportation between China and Southeast Asia, is basically controlled by British shipping companies.Their coal came from their colonies, mainly from India.Now the goal of China and Japan is to expel these British shipping companies, and China and Japan will control the shipping in the Far East.

The coal needed in this way is also provided by China.

"This is coal for export. Let's talk about the domestic situation. In the past few years, the railway construction has developed steadily, and the annual coal consumption of the railway has increased by nearly 90 million tons. Moreover, the current domestic power plants are advancing very fast. In addition to the central government's investment In addition, local governments and private capital are also very fond of building power plants. 10% of domestic power plants are thermal power plants, so the coal consumed by thermal power plants has also increased a lot in recent years. According to the Ministry of Electric Power's new installed capacity of power plants next year With the plan to have a capacity of 15 kilowatts, coupled with the entry of local governments and private capital, it is estimated that the newly installed capacity will exceed [-] kilowatts next year. The coal consumption of these new power plants alone is one million tons. There is also the iron and steel industry The coal needed, the coal needed by the coal chemical industry, and the coal used as fuel by the people are growing rapidly every year."

Liang Huankui was serious.

Because the development of the current situation has exceeded the original forecast. In the industrial plan formulated from the end of 1923 to the beginning of 1924, the plan on coal was that the annual coal output would exceed 1928 million tons in [-].

But only one year later, the Ministry of Industry corrected the data and changed the original plan.Originally, the Ministry of Industry hoped that the Ministry of Industry would lead the construction of China's coal industry and promote the development of China's coal industry.

However, the implementation found that this limitation is too large, and the flexibility is insufficient.In addition, the local government has complained a lot, thinking that the Ministry of Industry has too much power and does not give the local government a little way to survive.Local governments also hope to develop the coal industry and increase fiscal revenue for local governments.The bigger problem is that it is difficult for the Ministry of Industry to stop the development of small private coal mines.This cannot be completely banned.

Therefore, the Ministry of Industry simply delegated a lot of power to the local government to allow coal mining, including allowing some private capital to enter the coal industry.It's just that these all need the approval of the Ministry of Industry.

As a result, China's large coal bases are currently developed under the leadership of the Ministry of Industry.There are also slightly smaller coal bases developed by local governments, and many of the remaining small and medium coal mines are handed over to private capital.

There is a coal mining boom all over China.

Let China's coal production far exceed the original plan.But it can't meet the current needs at all.It is because coal demand is increasing faster.

As fuel in cities, the development of railways, thermal power plants, steel industry, and shipping development all require massive amounts of coal.In addition, China has focused on the development of the coal chemical industry in recent years, such as plastics, dyes, and explosives. These industries also require large quantities of coal.All of these make China's coal demand keep increasing.

"Therefore, according to the calculations of our Ministry of Industry, next year our country's demand for coal will exceed 40%."

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"It seems that the cooperation with Japan will indeed have a great stimulating effect on my country's mining industry."

Duan Xun nodded repeatedly listening to Liang Huankui's report.

Not bad.

It's a virtuous circle.Although overall, China is in a weak position.Because China is still an agricultural country and a country that exports raw materials.In comparison, Japan is an industrial country and a country that exports industrial products.

In the cooperation between the two sides, the Japanese side has high profits, while the Chinese side has low profits.

But it also has many benefits for China.After all, Japan's increase in imports of raw materials will greatly stimulate the development of China's mining industry.The mining industry is actually very good, how many people can be fed.The number of coal workers in a large coal plant is tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands.For example, Fushun Coal Mine, which currently produces the highest coal in China, employs more than 5 coal workers.

The same goes for steel factories.

And don't underestimate the mining industry.

Many new technologies are perfected in engineering.Just like in China now, with the increase of coal production, many new technologies that did not exist before have emerged.After all, if you dig a lot of coal, you will have a lot of experience.Some smart people, those technicians, sum up these experiences and they will become new technologies.

Such as blasting technology.

In the past, the blasting technology in China's mining industry was learned from abroad.But as China's experience in the mining industry increases, Chinese workers are becoming more familiar with blasting.After some summarization, China's blasting capacity has risen rapidly and can be extended to many other projects.

And China itself is making its own mining machines.At present, many machinery and equipment for coal mining are also imitated in China.But these mining machines, you have to use them in practice to know their advantages and disadvantages, and then modify them.This is also improving China's own manufacturing technology.

Besides, the development of the mining industry will also drive the development of other industries.Not to mention the development of the mining machine manufacturing industry, the minerals of these mining factories need to be transported, which is not a small amount.For example, coal is currently produced at [-] million tons a year, and all of that coal must be transported to where it is used.The transportation of these minerals will promote the development of the transportation industry.The development of the transportation industry requires changes in transportation capacity.It is necessary to develop railway transportation and road transportation.Just to build railways and roads, how much steel and cement will be consumed.

Moreover, road construction will also drive automobile transportation and stimulate the automobile industry.The automobile industry will further stimulate the steel industry, rubber industry, glass industry, and processing industry.

A ring within a ring.

This is economic development.

"Yes."

Liang Huankui nodded.

Continued: "Also, Prime Minister. In the past few years, China's power plants have developed rapidly. In the past three years, the installed capacity of China's new power plants has reached 24 kilowatts, and the power generation has increased by 1930 million kilowatt-hours. The plan of the Ministry of Electric Power is, In the next four years, that is, until 100, the country will increase its installed capacity by [-] million kilowatts. The increase in installed capacity and power generation will increase the demand for electric wires in our country. There will also be construction of urban telephones, and telephone lines will also start popularization. But these all require a large amount of copper. From our future plans for power plant construction and telephone development, we need more copper mine production and copper processing factories. First, copper wires and copper telephones in our country Many wires need to be imported to meet the needs. The cost is too high, and these copper core wires and telephone wires must be localized to reduce a lot of costs.”