In a conversation with researchers at the La Pampa Petrochemical Institute, Sanjesé said: “Currently our country mainly relies on the introduction of foreign technology to achieve economic development. In the short term, this is a shortcut to accelerate development, but in the long term, relying solely on introduction is No way."
"This will widen the technological gap between us and foreign countries and lock us into the low end of the industrial division of labor for a long time."
"Key core technologies cannot be bought, and we still have to rely on ourselves. This is why I decided to establish the La Pampa Petrochemical Research Institute."
This simple conversation also pointed out the dilemma faced by Argentina. Should Argentina always be a follower or try to break through technologically? The latter is obviously more difficult. The world is now divided into two superpowers, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union. The third world is poor and backward. Only New China has the status of a powerful country and has now begun industrialization. Although Western Europe relies on the Coal and Steel Community, the European Union has to wait for decades and is still in confrontation.
Of course, now that Argentina is thinking about independent research and development, it is almost as difficult as reaching the sky. Not only does it have no foundation, but it also lacks people.
Saint-Jesse also seized the opportunity of the European economy not being fully stable, and began to send some overseas students to Europe, and introduced European technical books on a large scale, enriched the university library, and translated advanced European scientific and technological articles from English and French, taking advantage of its close ties with European immigrants. Thanks to the relationship, a large number of technical books were obtained in Spain and Italy.
In particular, Spain has a lot of basic technologies and crafts that are quite good. Spain under Francisco Franco maintained a close alliance with the United States. Because of the assistance from the United States, Spain's economy is still developing rapidly, but its relations with other countries are not Okay, so for Argentina’s overtures, Franco didn’t have too much trouble with Argentina’s various inspection groups and even provided help.
Starting in the 1950s, many of Spain's technocrats' ideas were approved by Franco and funded by the International Monetary Fund. Spain's economy has developed greatly and has become the second fastest growing economy in the world. The country is slightly lower than Japan, which is quite incredible.
Therefore, San Jose has been cooperating and wooing the technocrats in Spain, and he has sent many elite teams to Spain to obtain help and establish trade links with Spain.
What San Jose values most is establishing ties between Spain and Italy, the two regional powers. Instead, he feels that France and Britain are unreliable. Although Britain and France have hostile relations, they wear the same pants. Spain and Italy are not as powerful as France and Britain, nor are they. The five permanent members will naturally not have any conflict of interest with Argentina.
The economic development of La Pampa Province was extremely successful in the first half of 2058. Just after the second quarter, the GDP in the first half of the year exceeded 1.24 billion U.S. dollars, which was 200 million U.S. dollars short of the level of last year. Although Argentina has The reason why it was relatively active in the first half of the year, but the growth rate has exceeded 90%, which is a terrible growth.
In particular, the centralized production of more than thirty new large projects, including the Ditria Automobile Plant, the Ditelia Petrochemical Refinery Plant, the San Martin Automobile Plant, the New Cohen Heavy Machine Tool Processing Plant, the Blanca Shipyard, and the Maya Chemical Synthetic Ammonia Plant No. 3, Masson Pharmaceutical Joint Pharmaceutical Plant, Blanca Copper Processing Plant, Maya Chemical Synthetic Rubber Plant, Blanca Steel Plant, Hans Steel Plant, Southern Petroleum Phase III, Southern Energy Blanca Thermal Power Plant, Pampas Energy Medanos Natural Gas Thermal Power Plant, San Martin Aluminum Plant, Philip Industrial Motorcycle Factory, Pampas Petroleum Refining and Chemical Plant, Nosbel Chemical Integrated Chemical Plant, Barut Textile and Garment Group Chemical Fiber Plant and other projects , La Pampa’s economic growth rate in the first half of the year has been unmatched by any other province.
The ground piles laid a few years ago have begun to bear fruit. There are large factories in the urban, urban and suburban areas of Blanca City.
The investment scale of most of these projects is more than 5 million US dollars, and they are concentrated in the field of heavy and chemical industries. The manufacturing industry based on this has also prospered, and the economic scale of La Pampa Province is getting closer and closer to Buenos Aires. The closer.
In addition, import and export trade is becoming more and more active, and business exchanges with Europe are getting closer and closer. From light industrial products to simple industrial products, active in the Atlantic route, coal ore ships, iron ore ships, and industrial raw material bulk carriers from Australia come from Transported from the Pacific to the Atlantic, Argentinian industrial products also entered the Australian market.
With the help of Spanish National Shipyard, Italian and German shipbuilding technology, Blanca Shipyard has begun to build and produce 100,000-ton super cargo ships, with an annual production of 5-10 ships. Orders from several shipping companies and cargo transportation companies have been Scheduled until next year.
With the support of San Jose, the Argentinian container manufacturing factory was established, and the "standard container" terminals produced by the container factory began to appear in major ports in Blanca City, gradually replacing conventional bulk carriers for import and export trade.
Argentina itself is a country of immigrants, and it still has a certain attraction for European immigrants. As early as 1951, taking advantage of the opportunity before the economy of western Europe had fully recovered, Saint-Jesse set up a recruitment branch by spreading money to Europe, and recruited a large number of outstanding people. Engineering and technical talents successfully established the La Plata Steel Plant, sparking the Argentinian steel industry.
The La Plata Steel Plant has therefore become an important source of steel technology in Argentina, laying the foundation for the success of Hans Steel and Blanca Steel. Even now, almost all the middle and upper-level managers of Argentina's three major steel plants were recruited in the first place. Most of them are Germans and Belgians.
Through the La Plata Steel Plant, San Jose received generous returns. It borrowed 50 million US dollars in debt to become the largest steel plant in Argentina. By mortgaging the steel plant, San Jose continuously mortgaged and raised funds. to a large amount of funds.
Sanjesé was not in a hurry to repay the money. Instead, he speculated on the U.S. stock market and futures market through the well-known Sequoia Investment, successfully gambled in the U.S., established Enco Electric, and connected with Canada, La Plata Steel Plant. The debt was finally settled.
With the support of a large amount of funds from the United States, the money obtained by Sequoia was not transferred back to Argentina. Instead, it was invested in Europe and Japan. After completing the layout, it harvested a large amount of funds, and then slowly returned to Argentina through various channels.
With the blessing of talent, capital, equipment and technology, and the strong help of the city of La Plata, the La Plata Steel Plant was successfully constructed in just two and a half years, becoming the truly largest steel plant in Argentina, with the fastest construction speed. Success is almost Argentina's great miracle.
Even former President Billon helped the La Plata Steel Plant and even believed that the success of the La Plata Steel Plant was a miracle of Argentina's industrialization.
In the later period of his administration, Bilon particularly supported the development of domestic heavy industries such as aviation, metallurgy, automobiles, etc., and Saint Jose received great help from this.
Bilong once said, "We must compete with developed countries in industry, otherwise we will always be a dependent country, and dependent countries have to pay a price."
St. Hesse agreed with this statement, but he always believed that Bilon's various practices were very problematic. This was probably due to the incompleteness of the so-called reforms and the fact that people still like to play.
In the end, La Plata Steel Plant defeated Argentina's domestic and foreign steel plant traders to pieces. The import steel trade volume quickly dropped from hundreds of millions of US dollars per year to less than 5 million US dollars, saving Argentina a lot of foreign exchange and earning foreign exchange. , received commendation from the Argentine Presidential Palace, and with the support of the Province of Buenos Aires, few people dared to touch the steel plant.
Coupled with the rise in international steel prices, in the second half of last year, the accumulated profits of the La Plata Steel Plant alone paid off the debt for the construction of the steel plant. It also helped many companies interested in entering the steel industry by gaining a thorough understanding of advanced technology and made a profit. A lot of money.
Before the success of the La Plata Steel Plant, Sanjesé was already full-fledged and successfully ran for Blanca City Council, far away from the troubles of Buenos Aires.
By marrying his wife Irina, he got close to the Joseph family behind his wife. Although the Joseph family is not the top family in Buenos Aires, it is still very helpful to San Jose, making him more popular after running for parliament. went smoothly and was successfully recognized by the Radical Party Headquarters.
Especially after successfully running for mayor of Blanca, the Joseph family actually contributed a lot, and San Jose was able to completely change its appearance and become a real local powerhouse in Argentina. It can almost be regarded as a miracle for the Gauchos to engage in the civil service industry.
In addition, with military power in hand, he truly has the right to talk on an equal footing with other local warlords. Instead of just relying on the help and protection of General Thomas Jr. as before, even the Rennes military industry he valued most was taken away. After leaving, the city of San Martin was suppressed, and the conflict with the province of Cordoba also eased.
Although the La Pampa Defense Force is not a warlord, there are no real warlords in Argentina. At most, they are just some quasi-warlord warlords, still within the unified Argentine Republic.
Saint Jose's various reforms to the defense force also gave him a certain understanding of the true combat effectiveness of the army. Although the La Pampa defense force is currently called an army, it actually only has one division and only 10,000 civilian personnel. There are many people, and the rest have been demobilized and become police officers or retired from the army.
Today, the Police Department in Blanca City has more than 10,000 people, because most of them are experienced veterans with high military quality. They are equipped with various light and heavy firepower, including submachine guns, artillery and other heavy firepower, equipped with trucks, pickups, and motorcycles. , which has been expanded even more this year, and can now easily deal with various complex situations, suppress rebellions, and maneuver quickly.
Therefore, apart from sporadic unrest and nationwide general strikes, public security in Blanca City has actually been improving.
The Defense Forces have also become experimental personnel for various new weapons and conduct various military trainings. Their combat effectiveness is not only first-rate in Argentina, but also second-rate.
With the support of a strong military and a naval base, Saint Jose has become a powerful force in the local area.
Therefore, it can be said that the La Plata Steel Plant also enabled the Cohen Consortium to successfully transform into Argentina's First Industrial Consortium, and also laid the foundation for the success of San Jose in Blanca City.
Later, Barron's Bank emerged, New Cohen Heavy Industries was rebuilt, and Sanhai Shipbuilding also had financial backing. It developed rapidly, successfully established cooperation with Spain, and finally completed its transformation.
Then the development and growth of St. Hesse's Leighton Automobile, Southern Petroleum, Mayan Chemicals, and New Cohen Heavy Industry were inseparable from the help of the Italians. Before World War II, Italy itself was a relatively weak link in imperialism. After the war, it had a large population. Unemployment is high, and the Marshall Plan has not yet fully exerted its power. The Italian economy has only returned to pre-station levels.
St. Hese has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Italy alone, which is almost equivalent to one-twelfth of the U.S. Marshall Plan aid. This amount of money must not only buy technology and equipment, but also recruit various high-tech talents to establish economic ties with Italy. , which is also his main purpose.
Argentina itself has a large number of Italian descendants, so communication is easy. San Jose plays the emotional card. Almost all the cooperation teams sent to Italy are Italians, and they have certain connections. The province of La Pampa is also registered at the Italian Presidential Palace. get affirmation.
In 1953, the Italian economy was far less powerful than it was in the 1960s and 1970s, and unemployment was still very serious. With the help of giants such as Fiat, ENI Petroleum, and Italian arms dealers, the three major companies, Southern Petroleum, Leighton Automobile, and Maya Chemicals, were successfully transformed. When the company was established, the chemical industry and automobile industry almost changed the entire industrialization process in Argentina.
Until this year, 80% of the scientific researchers of these three companies were from Italy, and the people in charge were all of Italian descent in Argentina. At that time, St. Jose leased many Greek and Italian cruise ships and transported them one by one. European skilled migration.
Southern Europe was originally not as wealthy as Western Europe. Now Greece, Yugoslavia, and Turkey are also poor. Many people also go to Argentina through these international ships. There are also many Egyptians in North Africa, working in low-level occupations in Blanca City.
During the honeymoon period with Fiat Motors, Leighton Motors finally established a cooperation with not only the Fiat 600 model, but also the final price of the cooperation was not the initial US$22 million, but US$40 million. Fiat Motors also obtained a large amount of funds in advance.
Leighton Motors also acquired a lot of advanced automotive technology and equipment. Although it did not play a role in the era of the great success of Fiat 600, these equipments played a huge role in the hands of Andy Laifan, and Leighton Cars took off directly. Well, in fact, Layton Automobile has a large reserve of automotive industry design talents, and it is involved in industries far beyond automobiles. Layton Automobile is well-known for its mechanical processing and metal smelting plants.
After all, Layton Automobile is a large company with an annual output value of more than 200 million U.S. dollars. It has a large amount of profits every year and does not contribute to the Cohen consortium. Under the instructions of St. Hesse, the salary of Layton Automobile technicians is extremely high, even higher than The wages in Europe are even higher, so the technical level of Layton Automobile is not bad, and it even reaches the level of a second-rate European automobile factory.
It turned out that St. Jose was a little confused and let his lover Natalie Habet manage Leighton Motors. Leighton Motors did not develop very well.
But Natalie is not without her contribution. She is good at spending money and digging out the latest information. She is very successful in carefully executing St. Hesse's strategy and recruiting a large number of engineering talents for Leighton Motors.
There are almost no automotive engineering talents in Argentina. Poaching talents from Europe is a good way. This is also the advantage of Argentina as an immigration country.
During Natalie's period, Leighton Automobile's recruitment departments were all over European automobile cities. It did recruit a lot of talents. Top talents were not available, but there was still no shortage of middle-level ones.
Layton actually developed many models and spent a lot of money. Although it did not develop a successful model, it did absorb a lot of technology in practice.
Because it is willing to spend money, the quality management of Fiat 600 is very good, and several assembly production lines are perfectly executed and reproduced. The cooperation with supporting factories is also very smooth.
The quality control of the cooperative supporting factories is actually very good. From the rubber tire factory to the window glass factory, the product quality is even better than the original Fiat 600. With quality assurance, the Fiat 600 has achieved unprecedented success.
In addition, Natalie is very good at building public opinion and cooperates with the media and newspapers under the Cohen Consortium, giving Layton Automobile an incomparable publicity advantage. Its popularity is far higher than that of any foreign car at the same time, and its own products are excellent, so the Fiat 600 produced Supply exceeds demand, creating a miracle in the development of Argentina's automobile industry.
It's just that Natalie couldn't develop Layton Motors into a large car company like Toyota and Honda. Although Layton Motors has stable profits and cash flow, and a huge scale of talents, it has never been able to produce a car developed by Argentines. Although there was a time reason for the car, Saint-Jesse realized the problem when San Martin Motors developed many potential models in less than two years.
Running a car company not only requires public opinion and advertising, but the ability to develop your own new cars is fundamental. However, even Saint-Jesse himself does not have the certainty and confidence to run a great car company. This is not confident, and it is also an ironclad fact. The three major automobile powers in the world in later generations, the United States, Germany, and Japan, basically all have relatively strong historical foundations. They may be worse than Japan, but Japan is also a major capitalist economic power that has been developed for more than a hundred years.
Running and developing an automobile factory is not like running a chemical plant or a textile factory, it is even more difficult than a steel factory. The automobile industry is a great industry. Auto parts include thousands of different parts, ranging from floors to screws, etc., which can turn Fiat The 600 model has been so successful and a supporting factory has been built, which has proved Natasha's excellence.
It was not until the discovery of Andy Laforn, the general manager of San Martin's aircraft manufacturing department, that San Jose saw the hope of Argentina's independent cars, and Andy did not disappoint him and quickly came up with several potential models. We concentrated our efforts and developed a prototype car in March this year.
And Natasha was once again arranged by San Jose to join the Cohen consortium, which was also the second bank acquired by the Cohen consortium - Argentine National Savings Bank, a small bank in the suburbs of Buenos Aires that was about to collapse.
San Jose took a fancy to this bluffing brand and spent less than $500,000 to acquire this bank, a small bank with only 13 branches and less than 200 people.
Barron's banking business has expanded to a large extent and has received too much attention. The Cohen consortium needs to diversify risks and also need to raise more funds.
The development of several local state-owned banks in La Pampa Province also needs a little supplement. San Jose has equipped the National Savings Bank of Argentina with a star team and a capital injection of 5 million US dollars, so that it can use all the publicity resources of Xina Media.
St. Jose designed a new logo and decoration style for the National Savings Bank, which is basically based on the banks of later generations. The escort security company is also equipped with top-notch, taking the road of surrounding the city from the countryside.
It also quickly opened up in remote areas, depositing money one after another, with a bluffing reputation, high interest rates, and enthusiastic staff.
The National Savings Bank also quickly expanded, concentrating the currency on the market, and lending heavily in La Pampa Province. Because of the concentrated development of land, the provincial government and local municipalities can use it to collect taxes in advance by selling land use rights. Plus bank loans.
The land in La Pampa Province in Blanca City was originally not valuable. Several families and ordinary residents had already sold most of their land at low prices under the pressure of Saint Jose, and successfully turned it into La Pampa Province. The largest landowner easily solved these landlords, and the landlords owned a lot of wealth and transformed into industrial and commercial families.
In the past few years of reform in La Pampa Province, the disobedient ones have gone to see God, and the obedient ones have become emerging business aristocrats. In the past few years, farms were not profitable, and the land in La Pampa Province itself is relatively poor, not as good as Pan in the north. Pas Prairie.
Nowadays, San Jose can build infrastructure and industrial plants very cheaply. After the building is completed, it can be rented out, sold, and bank loans can be slowly repaid, and a small profit can be made. Various cities in La Pampa Province have also developed as a result.
Through the cyclical cooperation between the bank and the city hall, San Jose used leverage to easily carry out infrastructure construction. The cheap and complete infrastructure construction attracted factory owners from all over the country, borrowing chickens to lay eggs, and became the most wealthy city in La Pampa Province. A place for money.
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St. Jose has done this five or six times to grab technical talents, almost all over Western European countries, Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, and even North Africa. Many unemployed talents went to Argentina because of this. The important companies of the Cohen Consortium in Blanca City were originally in Europe. Branch offices have been set up in major industrial cities just to recruit people.
San Jose built a higher-end Italian residential community in Blanca than Tongzilou. The environment was much better, and wages were settled in US dollars. Therefore, many Italian engineers came to Blanca to develop, and new immigrants from Italy once occupied the city. An important proportion of Lanka City, with a peak of 40,000 to 50,000 people.
When San Jose was in charge of Blanca City, he provided a lot of preferential treatment to new immigrants from Europe. There were a large number of state-owned factories under the State-owned Assets Commission, and basically 78% of them were new immigrants from Europe. There were also special facilities for new immigrants from Italy. Various schools and very generous remuneration have also allowed these new European immigrants and technical talents to stabilize.
And this policy has persisted until now. At its peak, the number of new European immigrants to Blanca City reached as many as 200,000, making a great contribution to the early industrial development of Blanca City. Federal Germany, Spain There are immigrants from China, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and France, and more than half of these people have obtained Argentine citizenship.
The local talent pool in Argentina has only been gradually updated in the past two years. With the establishment of various newly established professional universities and research institutes, it has attracted talents from Buenos Aires, and the dilemma of talent shortage has been alleviated.
The new district of Blanca City has developed a lot, and many new European immigrants still occupy an important position. Saint-Jesse has thanked the new immigrants for their contributions in public on many occasions, especially the establishment of various consulates, which cannot be separated from the help of these new immigrants, and has opened up European economic corridors.
The funds originally invested in Italy, the Federal Republic of Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom have earned back their capital early. Blanca's reputation in Europe has become more and more famous. The Irish and Welsh are also willing to come to Argentina to look for opportunities, although most of them are disappointed. Many people left or went to the United States and stayed.
New immigrants are more valuable than immigrants from neighboring Latin American countries, but integration also takes more time. In contrast, immigrants from neighboring countries and international workers
La Pampa Petrochemical Research Institute is affiliated to La Pampa Petrochemical Company and is engaged in energy technology development, mainly petroleum science and technology research and development, focusing on the more cutting-edge shale oil development in southern Patagonia.
Shale oil is special petroleum. It is a petroleum resource contained in shale formations dominated by shale, including oil in pores and fractures of mud shale, and also includes tight carbonate or clastic rocks in mud shale formations. Petroleum resources in adjacent layers and interlayers.
The main reason is that after many years of exploration, the results of oil exploration in the south are not very satisfactory, and the offshore exploration technology is immature. Therefore, Saint-Jesse also plans to bet on the inferior oil, shale oil, that was later developed in the United States.
Not only is Argentina not rich in coal resources, relying on sea transportation, oil resources have not made much progress. In addition, steel companies also need a large amount of coal, and energy shortages have also begun to restrict the industrialization process of La Pampa Province.
Fortunately, after the introduction of foreign high-voltage 110 kV power grid technology, including a full range of power transformers and distribution transformers, the power network of La Pampa Province was established, and it also began to expand outward, starting with the neighboring provinces of Neuquén and Rio Negro. After all, the two provinces have great support for La Pampa Province.
La Pampa Province's power energy resources can also be imported from other provinces, and San Jose has long invested in the establishment of medium and large hydropower stations in the west and south of La Pampa Province. Now after the network is established, it can supply power to several industrial cities.
Infrastructure construction is very expensive, requires technical skills, and takes a long time to build. It is difficult for many African countries to build thermal power plants and hydropower stations, let alone complete power grids.
In addition to the La Pampa power grid, San Jose has also established Pampas Energy Company to establish cooperation with the provinces of Neuquén and Rio Negro to develop and construct hydropower stations and natural gas power stations.
Power generation equipment was introduced from the five major companies of Sweden's Asia Company, Germany's Siemens, the United States' General Electric, Emerson Electric, and Westinghouse Electric. The already powerful Pampas Electrical Engineering Company replaced Bruno Electronics, and Philip Industries specially established Philip Electric, the largest electrical company. Enke Electric, Blue Harbor Electric Company, and Southern Electric Power Company have cooperated to absorb and introduce power generation equipment and have begun imitation production.
Southern Power has also been deeply involved in the construction of power stations other than thermal power generation, and has joined forces with Pampas Energy to develop the rich water energy resources in southern and western Argentina, especially the upper reaches of the Colorado River.
The core industries of Pampas Energy Company involve coal power, hydropower, natural gas power generation, etc., and the upstream and downstream industries involve coal mines, shipping, ports, etc. It is a newly established large-scale energy group.
The two companies jointly develop hydropower resources mainly in two rivers, the Negro River Basin and the Colorado River Basin, and are responsible for the construction of natural gas power stations in other provinces, especially Neuquen Province, as well as the construction of hydropower stations.
The main ones under construction in the Colorado River Basin are the Rio Grande Hydropower Station and the Salado River Hydropower Station, which are 1.2 million kilowatts and 1 million kilowatts respectively. The Rio Grande Hydropower Station has completed preliminary exploration preparations, and the Salado River Hydropower Station is Construction began before the construction of the Pampas Canal was completed. It is three times larger than the repaired La Pampa Reservoir. The Pampas Canal basically diverts water from the Colorado River Basin.
The Colorado River originates from the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains at the junction of Argentina and Chile, and is the northern boundary of Argentina's Patagonia region.
The upstream section (including the Rio Grande) is 920 kilometers long and has a drainage area of 25,000 square kilometers. If counted from the tributary Salado River, the total length of the river is 1,430 kilometers.
The main stream of the Colorado River flows from west to east, flows into Blanca Bay 200 kilometers south of Blanca City, and finally merges into the Atlantic Ocean. After the construction of the La Pampa Reservoir Canal, the runoff volume has been reduced a lot, so a larger canal is needed. Reservoirs increase water storage.
The Negro River hydropower stations are mainly Neuquen Hydropower Station and Limay River Hydropower Station. The power generation scale is 1.4 million kilowatts and 1.2 million kilowatts respectively. They are larger and more complex.
The Negro River Power Station is located on the Limai River, a tributary of the Negro River at the junction of Neuquén and Negro provinces in Argentina. It has a total installed capacity of 1.4 million kilowatts and an annual power generation of 5.5 billion kilowatt hours. It can meet the needs of the development of Neuquén Province. It also transmits electricity externally.
After Neuquén Province reached a large amount of cooperation with Saint-Jesé, Saint-Jesé has mobilized more than 50 large companies to develop Neuquén Province's huge energy and mineral resources.
The Rio Negro is formed by the confluence of the Neuquén and Limay rivers, which originate in the Andes, near Neuquén.
It flows eastward through the Negro Province in the northern part of the Patagonian Plateau, and flows into the Atlantic Ocean more than 30 kilometers southeast of Viedma. It is about 635 kilometers long, including the Neuquen River, which is 1,127 kilometers long.
The construction period of hydropower stations is long, and the main work of Pampas Energy is to build natural gas power stations.
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La Pampa Petrochemical Company is currently mainly engaged in petroleum smelting, petrochemical equipment production, oil transportation, oil exploration, etc. It is the second petrochemical company in La Pampa Province and owns Argentina's largest state-owned petrochemical plant - Blanca Blanca. Petroleum refinery.
This smelter is supported by Southern Petroleum Company, which has introduced technology and steel from Italy. From steel and oil pipelines to various mechanical devices, a large part of the technology has been absorbed by Southern Petroleum.
Southern Petroleum once consumed almost all the foreign exchange of the Cohen Consortium and the City of Blanca, and borrowed heavily just to develop the petrochemical industry. Facts have proved Saint Hesse’s vision. Southern Petroleum quickly paid off all debts and gained unprecedented profits. In terms of profit, it also surpassed Argentina's National Petroleum Company and became Argentina's largest oil company.
Southern Petroleum also brought enough capital to St. Jose to calmly implement his various development plans and ambitions, from the Andes Cigarette Factory, Prairie International, to American Sequoia, to the Royal Bank of Scotland, forming a series of A mysterious and huge international capital empire.
Southern Petroleum's sales reached an unprecedented US$100 million early on, making it the largest company in Argentina. It was later surpassed by Layton Automobile, followed by La Plata Steel Works, Maya Chemical and other companies.
Leighton Automobile Company is still the largest automobile company in Argentina. Relying on the Fiat 600 franchise, it is living comfortably. Last year, it earned US$210 million, accounting for about one-half of the automobile and motorcycle industry in Blanca City. One of the most profitable companies under the Cohen consortium.
More than 60,000 Fiat 600s and various other improved models alone have accounted for US$100 million. The wealthy Leighton Motors has already diversified into producing not only cars, but also motorcycles, tricycles, vans, trucks, and various other products. Mechanical equipment parts processing, business services, and 6 automotive research institutes.
This automobile company has almost grown four to five times more than the original plan, and can set up branch factories. From parts production to automobile assembly, there are more than 100 supporting factories. Most of the standard parts factories are outsourced, which makes Layton Motor Company was different from the beginning.
This automobile company was built by concentrating almost all the efforts of the Cohen Consortium, 90% of Argentina's automobile industry talents, plus thousands of skilled workers recruited from Europe, especially Germany, and with the full support of Fiat Motors and Audi Motors, it was successful. .
Last year, the total output value of La Pampa's automobile and motorcycle industry was US$417 million, of which the automobile industry accounted for US$380 million.
The import and export trade volume is as high as 472 million U.S. dollars, accounting for almost a quarter of the total economic output of La Pampa Province. It is the largest industrial sector in La Pampa Province, surpassing the steel industry and petroleum industry, but the water content is still Quite big.
This is still a quite astonishing number, and behind it is the investment of several large foreign factories. The French Citroën Automobile Company, the British Automobile Company, the Louvre Automobile Company, and the American General Motors Company have all established automobile assembly plants in Blanca to produce cars. This is also the reason for the great leap forward in the automobile industry in La Pampa Province last year. Almost half of the output value came from foreign automobile companies, but it also very appropriately stimulated the economic development of Blanca City.
Blanca City needs high-end, more profitable industries, even car assembly plants.
Foreign automobile companies actually do not invest much in Argentina. They are basically assembly plants that transport automobile parts from abroad. However, they also create some profits. Although there is no tax, there are a number of automobile factories in the Freeport of Blanca.
The reason why Blanca City can develop the automobile industry well is inseparable from the heavy industry and chemical industry that San Jose has been working hard to develop.
The steel industry provides high-quality automotive steel, the three-acid-alkali chemical and petrochemical industries provide automotive rubber and gasoline, diesel, mechanical processing plants produce various parts, bearings, etc., and the electric power industry provides various power sources, slowly creating A relatively complete automobile industry system.
This small industrial system is imperfect and basically relies on the model of introduction and absorption. The Cohen Consortium also plans its layout in the heavy chemical industry, ranging from steel and petroleum to chemical industry, military industry, and shipbuilding.
Developing the heavy and chemical industry is difficult, but three steel plants and more than a dozen chemical plants have paved the way for Blanca City's economy. This heavy and chemical industry, which has been built with a lot of money, has shown its powerful power.
It is far cheaper for foreign automobile companies to export auto parts to Argentina than to export complete vehicles. They only need to set up a few automobile assembly production lines, and the price can be reduced from three to four thousand US dollars to less than 2,000 US dollars.
However, the Fiat 600 still has a huge price advantage, so sales have not declined, but have increased a bit. In order to expand its automobile factory, Layton Automobile did not put all its production capacity in Blanca City, but in San Martin and La A second factory and a third factory were established in Plata, which is why Blanca's car production is not that high.
The Southern Petroleum Company explored and extracted oil in the southern and western regions of Argentina, and launched an unprecedented competition with Standard Oil of California in the Patagonia region.
In such a great era, at least before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Argentina's development can be guaranteed. As long as there is no internal chaos, the Americans will not be able to control Argentina no matter how strong they are.
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Talents in the Fifth Institute are still scarce. To save the country through the St. Hesse Curve, the Argentine Atomic Energy Commission came up with the idea, and established certain cooperation with Canada in the name of peaceful development of nuclear power plants.
Argentina has no shortage of nuclear raw materials, but building an atomic bomb is not a simple matter after all. Saint-Jesse itself also has scarce resources and cannot attract real nuclear physics research geniuses.
Moreover, the level of confidentiality has been reduced recently, so he had to carry out a second disguise to purge traitors. A series of serious leaks even occurred, which made Saint Hesse plan to start seizing power.
The CIA has not penetrated much into Argentina, and Argentina is not the main force. Coupled with Bilon's past farce, the United States does not pay much attention to the Argentines.
This problem was not serious. Saint Jose handed over some of the information he had, and then established a nuclear power plant on the surface, thus escaping the disaster.
As Blanca City's economy expands, Blanca City and even the poor Choic County are full of people, and the safety of the Fifth Institute has become increasingly difficult to guarantee.
San Jose began to focus on subject construction and talent training. This time the core unit is the Department of Physics of the Polytechnic University of La Pampa.
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