On December 1, Saint-Jesse took the mayor of Nice and a team of senior Lata officials to visit the construction projects of Hans Steel's No. 1 blast furnace and No. 2 blast furnace under construction.
The two 1,000-cubic-meter blast furnaces at the Hansi Steel Plant are expected to be capped in January next year and are almost fully repaired.
The sense of oppression brought by the two steel giants is very strong, and the construction site is full of construction workers.
"This is truly a miracle."
Senior Lata officials in their 50s praised him repeatedly.
"Actually, the steel plant in La Plata is larger. There are 22,000 workers in the United Steel Plant alone."
Saint Jose said with emotion.
After the Hansi Steel Plant is put into operation, it will provide employment for at least 10,000 to 15,000 people.
"God, 22,000, that's almost half of the people in Santa Rosa."
The mayor of Nice was also quite surprised. He looked like he had never seen the world before. Even the Argentinian state-owned railway company was scattered across the country.
In fact, this is normal. A large factory covering an area of more than 10 square kilometers requires so many workers. It can be said to be a city within a city.
The three of them visited several large factories. Looking at the hard working people, we can only say that they were very shocked.
There are now many factories in the industrial area, and they are scattered one after another.
Because we often have to meet construction deadlines and the land resources in Blanca City are sufficient, there are not many high-rise buildings in Blanca City. The most are rows of large 3-story factory buildings with an average height of about 5-6 It's about 1,000 feet, and most of the textile factories are one floor.
For example, the floors of dormitory buildings will be built higher, basically 5 or 6 stories high.
Therefore, most buildings in industrial areas are relatively neat and uniform.
And because it was originally wasteland in the suburbs, it was relatively easy to build. After relatively reasonable planning, it still looks good.
The installation of external debugging equipment will be completed as soon as June next year, and it is planned to be completed and put into operation before July 1 next year.
The construction of these two large blast furnaces began in May this year, and the construction period has gone through seven months. As a supporter, La Plata Steel Plant has invested a lot of manpower and material resources, which has accelerated the construction process a lot.
Various supporting facilities have also been prepared, waiting for installation and commissioning after capping.
Unlike the construction period of La Plata Steel, which takes more than two years, the construction period of Hans Steel Plant is expected to be completed in at most one and a half years.
Next year Blanca City's steel production will exceed 900,000 tons, becoming the second largest city in the country, surpassing Rosario City's steel production.
The fully completed Hans Steel Plant next year will have a production capacity of at least 2.2 million tons.
The output of the Hans Steel Plant also exceeded the 850,000 tons of the Belleville Steel Plant in Rosario.
The Belleville Steel Plant is the third largest steel plant in Argentina. It now has two new 550 cubic meter blast furnaces and an old 100 cubic meter blast furnace. It was built by the Austrian United Steel Works and invested and owned by the Rosario Belleville family.
Early next year, the Blanca Steel Plant in the Alta District will begin construction of two new 1,580 cubic meter blast furnaces. It was built 58 years ago and is expected to produce 3 million tons of molten iron per year. This is similar to the first phase of La Plata. The projects are exactly the same and the investment will be much less.
The main reason is that Barron’s Bank’s current loan limit cannot be spent, and it is absorbing more and more deposits. In the past few months, the El Pajun copper mine project has also mined 5 tons of gold, which has increased Barron’s Bank’s gold reserves. It continues to increase, but the money cannot be turned into wealth if it is kept there. It has to be circulated.
For example, the tobacco industry is still generating a steady stream of profits, which are still very considerable. There is no need to use them to repay loans in advance. It is better to continue to build steel plants.
Since losing the profit cow of the arms trade, the lesson of not investing indiscriminately remains profound.
Nowadays, shipbuilding, automobiles, petrochemicals, diesel engines, tractors, and motorcycles no longer require much investment in the short term.
It’s not that San Jose doesn’t want to engage in other industries, but Argentina doesn’t yet have the qualifications to engage in other industries such as electronics, electrical appliances, atomic energy, computers, and bioengineering.
Nowadays, the generating units in hydroelectric power plants and thermal power plants built by Southern Energy are all imported.
After all, it is difficult to develop without a foundation, and if you cannot form an industry, you will still die. For Argentinians, these are completely high-tech industries, and they cannot make things difficult for others.
After all, the localization of auto parts has given San Jose a big headache, and there are still many problems to this day.
Philip, the head of Thunder Shield Auto, has taken US$5 million to go to Germany to see if there is an opportunity to acquire a parts factory.
The development path of the Japanese automobile industry can still be used for reference. Buy technology, buy factories, establish cooperation, and be independent. However, Japan’s technical talents far exceed those of Argentina, and there are enough Japanese people. Last year, Japan’s population was 86 million. Compared with In the next 45 years, the number of people increased by 14 million.
In St. Jose's view, rapid population growth is a powerful advantage, not to mention that Japan's higher education is far more developed than Argentina.
The current population growth in Blanca City does not mean that Argentina's population has grown that much. It is all the existing population. If there is more population in Blanca City, there will be less in other places.
Saint Jose now places its hopes on new immigrants and more fertility. Blanca City has become the provincial capital of La Pampa. At the very least, it can have a profound influence on La Pampa Province. The province of Río Negro has inherited the sentiments of Saint Jose. , or a more aggressive population growth plan could be developed.
New immigrants from neighboring countries are used to replace workers in some labor-intensive industries and infrastructure construction. Domestic immigrants in Blanca City have concentrated on developing industries with higher technical content such as automobiles, petrochemicals, and shipbuilding.
In this way, industrial upgrading plans can be carried out. Recently, the pace of new immigrants has also accelerated. Especially the textile industry and garment industry require a large number of female workers with good wages.
If they can get married and have children in this city, they can automatically obtain Argentine citizenship. Such propaganda can be said to be very tempting.
This also means that you can integrate into Blanca City very well. Argentina is a country of immigrants anyway, so the psychological burden is not that heavy.
Argentina's wealth is still very attractive to Chileans and Peruvians. Perhaps this is the advantage of information asymmetry. Most of their impressions of Argentina remain in the prosperous 10s and 20s, an era that was comparable to the wealth of the United States.
Although Argentina is in decline everywhere, Blanca's prosperity and employment can still capture their hearts.
So when the immigrant ship to Blanca City arrived, they did not hesitate to raise funds and choose to go. Compared to crossing the Andes, taking the ship was faster and more comfortable.
It's just that they don't know that places like Blanca City are a special case in Argentina. It's not easy to get off a pirate ship. When they leave Blanca City, they will find that this is not the Argentina they imagined at all...
So most of them stayed in Blanca City with peace of mind. They comforted themselves that Blanca City is actually Argentina. It is not bad to stay here. The security is good. If you have the opportunity to bring your wife and children here, the future will get better and better. of.
As long as they stay in Blanca City for a month, they will be full of hope for the future. The development here is so fast, as if the air is filled with the smell of money.
This is a city of miracles.
New factories open every day in Blanca City. Maybe yesterday you were working as a worker on the assembly line, but today you opened your own small workshop in Lingang New District and became the boss.
Wealth stories happen here every day.
In particular, here is Argentina's most complete clothing and textile industry and a clothing trade transfer center. Blue Cloud Textile Group employs more than 6,000 people here and has a large amount of new production capacity.
With the official legalization of the Free Trade Port in Blanca City, foreign investment has increased again as the new provincial capital, and hot money has begun to pour into Blanca City, accelerating the development of Blanca City.
There are rumors that the mayor of Blanca City even plans to build a futures exchange here to develop the financial industry. The rumors are getting more and more outrageous. There are more and more scammers about establishing a Blanca City Stock Exchange.
Unlike other Blanca people, Sanjesé remained very calm and did not try to force other projects, such as building a transistor factory. He preferred steel and petrochemical industries.
He doesn't want to end up in a mess. He still focuses on basic industries.
At present, Argentina has some basic foundations for developing the steel industry, and it is relatively easy to get started. The development of other industries should wait until it is truly wealthy, or at least after the National Southern University and the College of Higher Education have been in operation for a few years.
It's so difficult to build an automobile factory with 100,000 vehicles, so don't think too far ahead.
The petrochemical industry is already working hard to make up for the foundation. In terms of atomic energy, it is actually the creation of the atomic bomb. This is actually a breakthrough.
In the absence of industrialization, any new technology is a bit like a castle in the air. It is better to invest more in basic industries, such as petrochemicals, steel, and energy, which will naturally attract some capable people to invest.
Just like the Arrow II fighter jet, it has been ten years since World War II and has not been successful. Fortunately, there are some prospects now. Dr. Tan Ke can be retained and there is sufficient funds. The performance of 304 stainless steel is pretty good, and it needs to continue to be used in fighter jets. Improvements, if we can get orders from the Ministry of Defense, then Argentina’s autonomous fighter jets can continue to play.
But I have some money, so let’s build more blast furnaces. Other industries are indeed temporarily unable to develop, and the demand for steel is long-term. Then building more blast furnaces and converters will also be the ballast to ensure the economic stability of Blanca City. stone.
And now the profit per ton of steel is very considerable. At least this golden period can be maintained until the 1980s. Only with the profits created by these steel plants can we really do a lot of things.
The No. 4 and No. 5 blast furnaces in La Plata are also under construction and have the same specifications as the No. 1, 2, and 3 blast furnaces.
Blanca City Special Steel Plant has also begun to build large-scale converters with mature technology. Now the global demand for steel is huge, and all countries are developing their economies. It is said that the number of blast furnaces started in Japan every year is in units of 10, and the level of Argentina's steel industry is still poor. far.
In addition to producing low-quality coal, the largest project in the Sapra Mining Area in Jujuy Province is the production of iron ore. It is expected to produce 5 million tons of iron ore per year after completion, effectively easing the pressure on domestic iron ore supply in Argentina, while Uruguay Iron Ore The normal operation of mining projects has also created huge amounts of wealth.
St. Jose praised the Sapra mining area as a "gift from God", second only to the copper mine project under development in the domestic part of Thunder Mining.
In addition, Argentina imports large amounts of coal from Colombia, Australia and South Africa. Among them, Guang Lei Mining and Dong'ao Energy transported more than 8 million tons of coal in 11 months this year, easing the pressure on the steel industry and allowing UK coal import share fell from 80% to 5%.
Recently, British Coal and York Energy Coal are putting pressure on the Argentine Ministry of Trade, but no one is complaining.
After all, everyone is well aware of the increase in coal prices in the UK in the past few years.
Thunder Mining East Australia Energy employs 37 10,000-ton coal ships to transport large quantities of coal to Argentina every month. 16 of them are affiliated to Prairie International Fleet, as well as Melbourne National Shipping, Australia. A number of shipping companies, including American Onassis Shipping and Xiangjiang Danan Shipping, also accept the transportation business of Thunder Mining.
He already vaguely knew that there were hands hyping up Blanca City, and he couldn't let these small achievements go to his head.
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On the morning of December 22, the two-day spring university entrance examination in Blanca City began.
The joint examination for the five major vocational and technical schools will begin on December 24.
This time, the National University of the South will enroll 2,200 students at one time, and the Blanca Polytechnic will enroll 2,800 students, with a total enrollment of 5,000 students.
The five major vocational schools enroll 6,000 students, all of which serve the talents in short supply in Blanca City.
Both tuition fees are more than half cheaper than other national universities, and the majors offered are relatively attractive.
Moreover, the number of students enrolled this time was large and the scale was large, so it attracted almost 20,000 people across the country to take the exam.
The many schools built in Blanca City have also come in handy. There is no age limit for taking the exam, and anyone can apply before the age of 30, which has also increased the number of people.
Of course, the most important thing is that starting from April, the propaganda machine under Saint Jose began to activate. National Southern University quickly became comparable to the old national universities in public opinion, and it has won the essence of Saint Jose's propaganda.
A large number of famous teachers were molded by St. Jose's newspapers. The perfect teaching environment, beautiful schools, and excellent teaching qualifications made National Southern University popular before the school started.
Ten days ago, candidates from other places came to Blanca City one after another. The local hotels, inns, and small hostels began to be full. Fortunately, the most important thing in Blanca City now is houses. It can easily accommodate 30,000 people. .
These candidates are all valuable talents.
Saint Jose has issued a death order and is fully committed to ensuring the various needs of the candidates.
It was quiet around the two universities, and the St. Martin Aviation Industrial Park was scheduled to have a two-day holiday.
Fortunately, there are actually no big machinery factories nearby.
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