"This is naturally better!" Xu Zhiye replied with a smile, but he knew that in the original history, Baosteel only began to officially put into operation in 1985, because before the start of construction, the entire Shanghai market was not well prepared, including roads, wharf infrastructure capacity was weak, and even before the start of construction, it was found that the water of the Yangtze River was highly salin, not suitable for steel mills to recycle water, and was forced to build a pipeline from 70 kilometers away to transport water.

However, the Baosteel project also has its success, the third phase of the construction project, the domestic production rate of equipment increased from 12% in the first phase to 21% in the second phase, and then to 80% in the third phase, and then, the country has the ability to produce its own advanced steel equipment, which also lays a good foundation for the mainland to become the world's largest steel manufacturing country after entering the 21st century.

Therefore, as far as the Baosteel project itself is concerned, it is a loss to spend 8 billion US dollars, and it was slaughtered by small Japan, but from the perspective of the country's steel industry layout, it is still cost-effective.

Xu Zhi continued: "As far as I know, Japanese steel mills use high-quality iron ore from Australia and Brazil, and this kind of mine doesn't seem to exist in China, right?"

Qi Lin said with a smile: "I didn't expect Mr. Xu to know so well about the knowledge of the steel industry, in fact, the central government's plan to build Baosteel is to take advantage of the geographical advantages of the coast, and Baosteel will use all imported iron ore in the future!"

"This requires a lot of foreign exchange, right?" asked Xu Zhi.

Qi Lin said with a smile: "At present, the international price of iron ore is not expensive, and imported iron ore is much cheaper than imported steel." ”

"That's just as well. Xu Zhi didn't say anything more, in the 80s, the country's foreign exchange earnings were mainly based on oil exports, but in the era of Baosteel's completion, international oil prices were at a low price for a long time, and iron ore rose a little more, resulting in a serious shortage of domestic foreign exchange.

It is said that in the late 80s, a large amount of foreign exchange earned by relying on Hong Kong capital in eastern Guangdong and Shenhai was transferred by the state to support Baosteel, and Shenhai City was almost forced to issue foreign exchange coupons on its own.

However, the Baosteel project reminded him of one thing, a big business that he almost forgot.

After returning to the hotel from the machinery factory, Xu Zhi welcomed a special guest.

"Sit down!" Xu Zhi smiled and asked, "How about staying in Shanghai during this time?"

Wu Peng said: "It's not bad, you don't know, how cheap the prices here are, just a few dozen yuan, I can use it for half a month." ”

"Of course, the average salary in Shanghai is less than 100, and your dozens of yuan should still be foreign exchange coupons, which is a supreme magic weapon!" Xu Zhi replied with a smile, the person who came was Wu Peng, Xu Zhi arranged for him to join his own toy company two years ago. Later, he was specially arranged to be stationed in the Shanghai office, so that he could collect some information about the Shanghai market and the mainland according to the needs of the company's development, so as to prepare for future investment.

Wu Peng took out a document, handed it to Xu Zhi and said: "This is the result of my investigation in the past six months, the people on the document are all elites of Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio, which is very in line with the needs of our Changxing Comics Company in the future." ”

"There are more than a hundred people here!" Xu Zhi flipped through casually, there were about a dozen pages, and each piece of paper introduced some people's work and family background.

In addition to the studio, I also found some good seedlings in several universities in Shanghai and Jinling, and my comic talents are very good. Wu Peng said with a smile.

Xu Zhi nodded and said, "Yes, with the addition of these people, it is time for our comic company to leave the small city of Xiangjiang!"

Since two years ago, Changxing Comics has been serializing the comics of Sou Shen Ji for a long time, and has achieved good results, and at the same time, using the existing funds to collect comic talents from the local area of Xiangjiang and the Wanwan area, in two years, the comic workers have exceeded 100 people.

Xu Zhi created the manga company with the intention of entering the Japanese manga market in the future, but even if Xu Zhi was able to come up with simple comics for later generations, he could only provide the overall plot.

It is difficult for him to control how to draw the manga, some details of the story, and the style of the characters, and if he asks people from Xiangjiang or other regions to draw these classic comics directly, even if the results are not bad, they may not meet the Japanese market.

For the layout of comics, Xu Zhi even attaches more importance to games, you must know that in the field of games, except for super classic games like Mario, most games have a lifespan, and no matter how high the profit is, it can only make money for a while, and it is possible to maintain market share by constantly developing new games.

But comics are different, a classic comic will not be eliminated for decades, and the timeliness of copyright is extremely long, and Xu Zhi knows a lot of these comics, which are no less expensive than games, and at the same time have a long lifespan, which can become a long-term cash flow.

In the past two years, Xu Zhi has hired many comic book people and even professor-level people from Japan with high salaries, and also sent some employees to Japan to study, just to let these people understand the Japanese market and the needs of comic book lovers.

Some people who have made greater progress have also achieved good results, and they have also begun to understand the characteristics of Japanese animation, and Changxing's first comic book for the Japanese market, Crayon Xiaoxin, became an instant hit in the Japanese market, with sales of up to 600,000 copies per issue.

If the test is successful, it is natural to make persistent efforts, but Xu Zhi can provide too many comics, which also require a large number of cartoonists to draw, not to mention that if he enters the field of animation broadcasting in the future, every second of animation programs on TV is composed of 24 comics, and there are not enough local employees in Xiangjiang.

In order to replenish the sufficient painting staff, the hinterland, with a population of 1 billion, is naturally the preferred place.

Domestic animation has a long history, from the 50s to the mid-70s, not only a wide variety, but also in terms of content and artistry are not inferior to the Japanese and American comics of the same period, and even the early Japanese comics were influenced by mainland animation.

But after entering the late 70s, the country focused on economic development, and everything else, including cultural development, was affected.

If history has no impact, then in the 80s, many domestic comic institutions will be reduced to the foundry of Japanese animation companies, specializing in handling a large number of basic drawings for them, which has seriously hit the improvement of the level of domestic comics.

At present, the institution with the highest level of comics in China is the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio, which is also one of the oldest animation production factories in the mainland, which has produced works including Sheriff Black Cat, Havoc in Heaven, Avanti, Sanmao Wanderings, etc., at its peak, its art film output accounted for 80% of the country's art films, basically monopolizing the domestic art industry.

This film studio is one of the objects of Xu Zhi's attention, and Wu Peng was arranged to come here to find out the real situation and level of its internal staff.

Wu Peng said with a smile: "Although the economic development of Shanghai City has been good in recent years, the life of ordinary people is still not very good, and the employees of Shanghai Art Studio are actually the same, many people even have housing problems, as long as we are willing to pay, it should not be a problem to dig them up." ”

"Digging people, that's too low-level!" Xu Zhi said with a smile.