Resource Tycoon Reborn

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

Tangshan is rich in mineral resources, including abundant coal and iron ore reserves, which has created favorable conditions for the development of Tangshan's steel industry. It is also located on the seaside and has an excellent port, which in turn creates favorable conditions for the development of the steel industry.

It has created excellent conditions for import and export. Therefore, it is only natural that Tangshan City has become a domestic steel town.

Since the beginning of the new century, due to the domestic liberalization of 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 30 million tons, accounting for 1% of the total steel production in Yanxing Province.

More than 60%, and the steel output of Yanxing Province ranks first in the country, so some people think that if they control the steel industry of Tangshan, they will control the steel industry of Yanxing Province, and they will control China.

The leader of the steel industry.

However, under the glory of Tangshan City's steel industry, there are many hidden dangers and even crises! And even Ling Haozhong and Li Huafeng can see this!

First of all, the scale of steel companies in Tangshan City is relatively small, and the industrial concentration is low. To put it bluntly, the scale of the industry is relatively small! In the world's steel industry, it is generally believed that the annual steel production must reach at least three million tons, and it is best to

The optimal production scale is more than 8 million to 10 million tons, which can achieve economies of scale. It can be said that there are many large foreign steel group companies with an annual output of more than 10 million tons. In Tangshan City, in addition to

Apart from Tangshan Iron and Steel Group Company, there is no company with an output of 10 million tons, or even one with a production of more than 3 million tons.

Secondly, the level of production equipment and the technical level of products of Tangshan's steel companies are uneven. There are both large state-owned steel group companies like Tangshan Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd., and many small and medium-sized steel companies. Most of these small and medium-sized steel companies have

Small blast furnaces of 300 cubic meters or 400 cubic meters mainly produce rebar and wire rod 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 steel companies lack the support of senior talents and high-end technology, and are simply unable to carry out industrial upgrading.

Secondly, Tangshan’s steel industry is the mainstay of the economy, but it is also a major polluter and energy consumer in the city! According to statistics from Yanxing Province, Tangshan’s GDP only accounts for 20% of the provincial GDP.

Around 10%, but energy consumption accounts for more than one-third of the province's total energy consumption. The pollutants emitted during steel production are also the well-deserved champion in the province.

Although in the past two years, due to the recovery of the domestic economy, steel products have been relatively popular in the country and the profits have been relatively generous, both of them understand that such good times cannot last long. As long as there is a disturbance in the domestic economy, or the world

If there is another economic crisis in the past 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 1997, Tangshan's steel industry faced a period of difficulty.

Even if the economic development is smooth sailing, the country may clean up projects due to overheating of investment. The steel industry is undoubtedly the focus of the cleanup! If there are only three or five steel companies in Tangshan City, they are all large-scale companies like Tangshan Iron and Steel Group Corporation.

State-owned enterprises are better, and their ability to withstand risks is still stronger. But the problem is that the average annual steel output of Tangshan steel companies is only 600,000-700,000 tons. If the country really vigorously cleans up the steel industry, at least one-third

Two companies are likely to be swept away! In addition, the country has paid more and more attention to air and water pollution in recent years. Tangshan City, as a major polluter, is naturally under increasing pressure.

Both Ling Haozhong and Li Huafeng knew that since most of the products produced by the Fang family's Liaoning Iron and Steel Plant and Qinxi Iron and Steel Group Corporation were mid- to high-end products domestically, they not only did not have to worry about sales, they could also export and earn foreign exchange. Therefore, in

Ling Haozhong actively contacted Fang Mingyuan when he learned that Liao Provincial Iron and Steel Plant might be upgraded to Liao Provincial Iron and Steel Group Corporation to merge and integrate domestic steel companies.

It would be best for Fang Mingyuan to integrate all the small and medium-sized steel companies in Tangshan, and then the Beijing Iron and Steel Group Company will successfully settle in Tangshan. In this case, the three-legged structure of Tangshan's steel industry will be formally formed. Even in bad economic years

, or in other words, when the country regulates the industry, with the confidence of the three companies, they will not have the confidence to resist risks like those small and medium-sized steel companies. Of course, if Fang Mingyuan can bring other industries to this kind of city, such as automobiles

industry, that would be even better.

The three of them communicated all the way. Although Fang Mingyuan had done a lot of homework on the situation in Tangshan in advance, some things were still superficial on paper. For example, the pollution in Tangshan City!

Gray, black, and dark red are the colors that appear in front of Fan Mingyuan in the Tangshan Industrial Zone. Gray is the color of the exhaust gas emitted from the chimneys, black is the color of the ubiquitous coal powder, and dark red is

The color of iron powder dropped by the endlessly flowing trailer. Even though Fang Mingyuan was mentally prepared for such "colorful" pollutants, he couldn't help but open his eyes wide when he saw it.

In his previous life, he had not been to Tangshan very often, but he had experienced the smog weather in the capital. Even when the air quality index in the capital exploded, the feeling of being so stuffy that one could hardly breathe was far inferior to here.

Intense. When he first entered Tangshan City, the wisps of sunlight that could still be seen were now completely invisible. In the gray sky, Fang Mingyuan opened his eyes wide and could only rely on the brightness to determine the position of the sun.

.The dirty air not only makes people feel breathless, but also carries a strange smell that makes people feel sick.

They are now standing on the streets of Kairui District, where steel companies are concentrated in Tangshan City. Here, you can see the chimneys of steel plants standing every few dozen meters away. There is a layer of dust on the ground, and you can often see bulk materials on the road.

The coal truck passed by, scattering coal chips and iron powder wherever it passed, and raising dust all over the sky. The middle-aged man with green and red faces standing in front of the three of them was the mayor of Kairui District.

(To be continued...)