In the steel plants on the outskirts of Blanca, there are more and more blast furnaces, and the environmental pollution in Blanca Bay is getting more and more serious. This is considered a relatively difficult thing to deal with.
There are a lot of iron foundries and steel foundries near the three major steel plants in Blanca City. The air is full of stench, and the water in the river is black. Fortunately, this is not an urban area, so the impact is not too big.
Environmental pollution is inevitable. The sky in Blanca City is no longer blue. Blanca City can only take the path of pollution first. Otherwise, it will be unprofitable to build a steel industry, even if it acquires and establishes Australia, Colombia, and Uruguay. Mining companies in , South Africa and other places, including coal and steel, which are the most important for steelmaking, can obtain a relatively low price, but the cost of shipping to Prairie is still relatively high.
Because this is not a simple international shipping route, the cost of large-tonnage ore ships is also relatively high. For example, the maximum transportation volume of a coal ship does not exceed 50,000 tons, and the iron ore does not exceed 60,000 tons. Just supplying the La Plata Steel Plant Tens of millions of tons of coal are needed, not to mention several large steel plants in Blanca City, and the transportation volume cannot keep up with the demand.
The South Pacific route and the East Pacific route are not mainstream routes, and transportation costs remain high. Unlike the Japanese steel industry, which can obtain coal and steel from Southeast Asia, India and other regions, and there are a large number of transportation companies in Hong Kong and other places, gold from the Old Continent The routes are completely incomparable with those in the New World. At least the freight is more than half, not to mention the suppression by the United States. Moreover, the market near Argentina’s steel exports is not big. This involves the issue of the export market. The largest market is Brazil, and Only other South American markets have demand.
South Africa, Brazil and even Australia are all future competitors, which also needs to be considered. The United States itself is a steel power. Only Europe has some demand, but it is not large. Western Europe and the Soviet Union are both steel powers.
Therefore, the steel advantages established by St. Hesse are not great. Costs must be reduced, benefits increased, or the country must digest it and carry out deep processing.
The statue of the Harvest Goddess erected in Harvest Square in Akhrich district seems to be a satire on pollution.
The Blanca City Hall, headed by San Jose, used all means to deploy heavy and chemical industries in Blanca City. A steady stream of funds poured into Blanca City from domestic and foreign countries, and a relatively complete set of industries was developed in a very short period of time. industrial system.
There are widespread rumors that the Blanca Steel Plant and the Hans Steel Plant were privately invested by Mayor San Jose Cohen. At that time, anyone who tried to block the construction of the two steel plants would either undergo labor reform or directly After the bankruptcy, the city hall directly established the Steel Office in the Investment Promotion Department, with civilian personnel stationed there, just to speed up the construction of the steel plant.
The steel plant was the most important thing for Blanca City Hall at that time. Blanca City Commercial Bank actually financed the two steel plants at the beginning. 80% of the bank's loans were invested in the two steel plants. Later, they Slowly decreasing, but this bank has also gradually tied up with large enterprises in Blanca City, helping large local state-owned enterprises and private enterprises in Blanca City to expand their territory.
With the large-scale construction of steel plants, chemical plants, power plants, refineries, foundries, smelters, and cement plants, pollution has become inevitable.
The completion of the three major steel plants of Blanca Steel, Hans Steel, and Medanos Steel will allow Blanca City's steel output to easily exceed 10 million tons, and even sprint towards 20 million tons.
Southern Petroleum, under the leadership of President Juan Nelson and Dr. Duke of the Exploration Department, has developed very rapidly.
The oil smelting capacity of Southern Petroleum Company is also targeted at tens of millions of tons. The oil smelting plant includes various products such as ethylene, propylene, gasoline, diesel, aviation fuel/kerosene, fuel oil, liquefied petroleum, etc., with the Boska No. 2 and No. 3 plants The factory industrial park was built, and Southern Petroleum built a total of 17 buildings in the Bosca district of Blanca City, Brigadier General Rivadavia in Patagonia Province, Rosen City, Oto City, and the town of Anegha in Neuquén Province. With the establishment of a medium-to-large-scale factory and the completion of the entire industrial chain from exploration to smelting, Southern Petroleum's total output value will exceed US$250 million, making it the most powerful company under the Cohen Consortium.
Southern Petroleum achieved great success in oil exploration in the provinces of Patagonia and Neuquen. It also tied up with the Argentine National Petroleum Company and engaged in unprecedented competition with the Standard Oil Company of California in the United States, carving up Patagonia. Asian oil exploration business, and obtaining technical support from Italian National Petroleum Corporation, has enabled Southern Petroleum to make great progress, and its employees have reached 37,000.
Although a company with a business scale of 250 million US dollars is already very large, it cannot keep up with the investment of Standard Oil of California. The first investment was 500 million US dollars, and it was an investment by one company. For the wealthy American oil giants, Southern Petroleum is still too weak. , the overall turnover of the Cohen Consortium has reached 600 million US dollars, ranking first in Argentina. This group includes Blue Cloud Group, Thunder Mining, La Plata Steel, Prali International, Prali Food, New Cohen Heavy Industry, Brazil It is a corporate consortium of a large number of companies including Bank of London, San Martín Aircraft Factory, Sanhais Shipbuilding, Mayan Chemicals, Andes Tobacco, Southern Petroleum, Southern Electricity, Blanca Steel, etc.
The turnover of 600 million US dollars is not as good as the 30th largest company in the United States, and it is far less than the top ten consortiums in the United States. The assets of the top ten consortiums in the United States are as rich as the country, and they basically all start with tens of billions of dollars.
Even Sequoia Investment Bank and Blackstone Group have a scale of 500 million U.S. dollars. Even though San Jose has been transferring funds and infiltrating Wall Street through some prerequisite investments, it seems to be one of the leading players on Wall Street.
However, Sequoia is slowly breaking away from the control of St. Jose. St. Jose has to support a large number of investment companies such as Blackstone to diversify its investment. Sequoia’s investment in Europe, Japan and the United States is also expanding year by year. , these are the three regions with the fastest economic growth in the post-war world, excluding the Soviet Union, New China, and India.
The most powerful companies in the world now are General Motors, then Ford, Exxon, Texaco, Chevron, Mobil Oil and Gulf Oil. The business scale of these companies is from tens to billions of dollars. .
With the establishment of the Argentine National Stock Exchange, some players different from the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange have gradually appeared in Blanca City. The number of listed companies has also reached 67. The rules formulated by San Jose The listing restriction is that companies with annual turnover exceeding US$3 million can be listed.
Saint Jose hopes to establish a financial market different from the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange through the National Stock Exchange. Although this will weaken the Cohen Consortium, the Cohen Consortium is slowly decentralized by Saint Jose. Some have potential. Some of the young and open families were also absorbed by Saint Jose.
There are many industries within the Cohen Consortium that have huge potential. Even the Lanyun Group, which makes clothing, has seen a rapid increase in sales and is in a stage of rapid development.
Companies under the Cohen Consortium are like unicorns in later generations and must be decentralized. Argentina's domestic market is changing rapidly and is no longer what it was in the early 1950s, and it is impossible to rest on its laurels all the time.
San Jose has also helped them establish an initial competitive advantage, which can help them take the first step, but it is impossible to establish a permanent advantage.
St. Hesse adopts the method of grasping the big and letting go of the small. When necessary, he may give up some companies, sell them to trusted people, and integrate the Cohen consortium.
The Cohen consortium, with Barron's Bank as its core, controls many financial institutions such as Barron's Investment Bank and Barron's Life Insurance Company. Through these financial institutions, it directly or indirectly controls many industrial and mining enterprises, including steel, metallurgy, chemicals, and rubber in Argentina. , automobiles, food and other economic sectors as well as the arms industry. The annual turnover has reached 6% of Argentina. Last year, Argentina’s GDP exceeded 10 billion US dollars for the first time, and La Pampa Province made a huge contribution. .
While San Jose is desperately expanding state-owned companies in La Pampa Province and Blanca, it maintains an attitude of equal development towards private companies with great potential. These private companies are of great benefit to expanding employment and activating the economy.
What followed was huge environmental pollution. Petroleum power plants and thermal power plants were established in the Boska District. Like the secret nuclear physics laboratory, a huge power plant was specially built for the refining and purification of uranium ore.
Although Southern Petroleum is still very small in scale compared to the Seven Sisters of Western Petroleum, it has a fairly complete petrochemical industry investment plan. For this reason, the Cohen Group not only continued to inject blood, but also had to sell several high-potential European and American companies during the most difficult times. Japanese investment to obtain funds for new and expanded factories.
After all, in Saint Hesse's view, even if they sell Prali Foods and Blue Cloud Textile, which have great development potential, it is okay. Fortunately, the situation is not serious enough. Despite restrictions on how much profits it can withdraw, it remains one of Argentina's largest food and textile companies.
After several listed textile companies on the Argentine National Stock Exchange obtained financing, they posed a challenge to the status of Blue Cloud Textile. This is what Saint Jose wants to see. The textile industry can greatly increase employment opportunities, and several surrounding countries Because of the military government, the unemployment rate has soared, which can absorb a lot of the population.
Blanca City now has two pillar industries: steel and petrochemicals. Automobiles, shipbuilding, papermaking, medicine, chemicals, castings, textiles, and machinery factories are also slowly developing, forming upstream and downstream expansion. Bosca District has also built The western port of Blanca Blanca is different from the steel trading port in the north. It is also relatively close to Neuquen Province and is an important transfer station for the southern oil pipeline.
The construction of the deep-water port in Blanca City focuses on three major areas: north, west and south. In the north are Blanca Steel and Hans Steel, in the west are Southern Petroleum and Maya Chemicals, and in the south are newly developed, with Medanos United Steel Mainly, construction of a 100,000-ton deep-water port has begun to import coal and iron ore in large quantities and export steel.
The development of the steel industry in Blanca has completely surpassed that of La Plata, thus attracting more supporting factories.
San Jose's most impressive estimate of Blanca City is a giant city of five million people. With steel plants, large-scale infrastructure construction has accelerated again, and the size and distance of some factory industrial areas can be expanded much.
A series of cement roads connect the remote suburbs of Blanca City to the central city and port. Urban construction in the suburbs can be accelerated, and the laying of bridges has become easier. Reinforced concrete allows Blanca City to build higher buildings. buildings, wider roads, more powerful water supply facilities, larger sewage systems, and larger factories.
With cheap steel and construction demand, New Cohen Heavy Industry's truck project, Rennes Tractor Factory also opened a construction machinery factory and began to introduce various construction machinery such as excavators, forklifts, concrete trucks, etc. This is also important for the development of the machinery industry. A great promotion.
In addition to coastal highways, La Pampa Province is also building inland highways, which can transport various raw materials more conveniently and cheaply. As a result, a large number of new infrastructure bonds have been issued, creating huge infrastructure construction needs in Blanca City.
Some companies in Buenos Aires also benefited from the development of Blanca's economy and carried out radical expansion, forming a group of competitive companies and even forming a chaebol model similar to the Cohen Group. The family and Families have united and expanded, and their competitiveness and scale have been greatly enhanced.
The factories of these companies also have certain competitiveness. On the one hand, they invest in building factories to expand production capacity, and at the same time update and transform old production line equipment to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
On the other hand, they began to develop trade with Europe, Brazil, and the United States. They were much stronger than the mom-and-pop trading company and one-person trading company in Blanca City.
The difference between Argentina's domestic factories and those in Europe is not too big, and there are some very flexible factories that were on par with the Cohen Consortium when they first competed. Now they have rapidly expanded and developed, forming a large scale.
In the export trade, the proportion of industrial manufactured products increased. Blanca's steel was exported to Europe and Brazil in large quantities, earning a large amount of foreign exchange and strongly supporting Frandisi's reforms.
In the west of Medanos United Steel Company, a company also emerged, Medanos West Steel Trading Company, referred to as Messi Trading. This is a private trading company that initially only obtained the agency right to export Chilean steel. As a result, the Chilean market was quickly opened, and 17% of the steel produced by the Medanos Steel Plant was consumed in Chile. Before this, the La Plata Steel Plant, the Blanca Steel Plant and the Hans Steel Plant did not open the Chilean market. .
This is a quite remarkable achievement. The demand for Chilean steel has always been huge, but more of it is imported from Morgan Steel Company. Messi Steel Trading completed this initiative and opened up the Chilean market.
Chile's population is growing rapidly, with a population of more than 10 million, which is not too small.
The Argentine treasury also slowly had a slight surplus, which consolidated Frandisi's rule.
For San Jose, the most exciting thing is the growth of Argentina’s population, which is basically stable and sprinting towards 30 million. In less than 10 years, the population has increased by almost 10 million, and nearly 4 million new immigrants have arrived. Due to the population The registered population increased due to the census (approximately 2 million) and the number of new newborns every year.
Although the baby boom in Argentina after World War II was not large, it did increase the population significantly. Argentina did not experience a war. Due to the economic recession, the situation of immigrants abroad has improved. Immigrants from Europe have greatly decreased. New immigrants basically come from neighboring countries, such as Bolivia and Colombia, Brazil, Chile, and Peru contributed many new immigrants.
In recent years, the number of new immigrants has increased rapidly. Nearly 1 million people have arrived in La Pampa Province. Even if they have not yet obtained household registration, many of them have immigrated to Cordoba, San Martín, Oran, Rosario, and La Plata. In these rapidly developing cities, more domestic immigrants go to Buenos Aires.
Management in Buenos Aires is stricter, and the scale of employment is declining. State-owned enterprises and state-owned factories are larger here. Strikes and factory layoffs are greatly restricted. They are not as flexible as the factories in Blanca. The job creation is more for citizens, so the population increase is not as high as that of Blanca City.
The city of Blanca truly welcomes all comers and is extremely friendly. After several crackdowns on crime, public security ranks among the best in Argentina. With the La Pampa Defense Force stationed there, there are very few troublemakers, there are many jobs, and prices and rents are cheap. Like a magnet, the population increases annually at a rate of 300,000 to 400,000. As administrative districts expand and merge, the population even increases by 600,000 in one year.
The houses in Saint-Jesus not only have tube buildings, but now there are also high-rise buildings with more than 6 floors. These newly built high-rise buildings, with simple decoration, the construction period basically does not exceed 3 months, just like growing a house, construction companies, decoration companies It is in full bloom, and houses are being repaired all year round, regardless of whether there are so many people.
Some media bombing campaigns in the past few years have received positive feedback. Intensive publicity in cities such as San Martin, Buenos Aires, Blanca, Oran, and Rosario has resulted in the birth population grew a lot,
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After inflation was basically contained, people became more willing to have children. In the 1950s, the scale of female education in Argentina did not expand much, which was actually a good thing for Argentina's population growth.
In recent years, economic difficulties have led to very slow development of education in Argentina. Only seven or eight new universities have been built in Blanca City. Financial difficulties are actually very common in other provinces and urban areas. This has brought the development of Argentina's national education to a standstill and regression.
Blanca's urbanization process is accelerating, and it may not be long before Blanca's fertility rate drops off a cliff. Saint Jose can only try to slow down this process, including the free-range education and propaganda method, and the establishment of large-scale low-cost Nurseries can free families from having to worry about raising children. Various child care and welfare institutions can be established to strive to raise more children.
Saint Jose hopes that before the 1960s, Argentina's population can grow a little more, attract more immigrants to La Pampa Province and Blanca City, and establish a more convenient immigrant visa system. Anyway, in the surrounding immigration countries, Brazil's population is exploding. , even if the industry develops rapidly, the unemployment rate remains high, which is also an important source of immigrants to Saint Jose.
Blanca City has expanded its administrative area several times to prepare for population growth. House construction has basically continued, so that no matter how many people come, there is no need to live in slums. Wherever the houses are built, industrial zones will be built.
