After visiting the small town of Sinpo, the convoy drove east and towards the sea from the wide road sandwiched between wheat fields.

Beyond the shelter of the old sea pond, two brick-red blast furnaces burst into view.

The Xinpu Steel Mill and the coal and iron wharf with a designed annual throughput of 10 million tons are at the climax of construction at this time, and no one will go this way except for the construction unit.

Except for the groundbreaking in mid-May, Xie Zhi didn't look at this side again for half a year, and there was still nothing barren in this area in mid-May......

Under the leadership of Shen Huai, Meigang's ability and speed to build the factory were perfectly reflected in the construction process of Meigang's second plant, otherwise it would not have been so attractive to Xiyoumins, Feiqi Industry and the Chinese business capital behind Zhongxin's investment.

However, Meigang No. 2 Plant is a short-process electric furnace steel project after all, and the complexity of construction coordination and the scale of the project are far less than that of the long-process blast furnace steelmaking project.

The long-process design of the Xinpu Steel Plant project is designed to produce 3.5 million tons of iron, 3 million tons of steel, and 2.8 million tons of steel per year, with annual sales of more than 10 billion, and the overall scale is five or six times that of Meigang No. 2 - in Xie Zhi's view, no matter how fast the construction speed of Xinpu Steel Plant is, it is impossible to break the record of Meigang No. 2 Plant.

What's more, the project construction land of Meigang No. 2 Plant is all leveled in advance, and when the Xinpu Steel Plant project was launched, Xinpu only had 600 acres of industrial land to provide, while the other 2,500 acres of project land were demolished and leveled after mid-May, during which even a two-kilometer-long and seven-meter-high breakwater was constructed......

In front of the situation, two brick-red blast furnaces are set off by the blue sky and white clouds, the blast furnace is lined up like a forest of steel structure pillars, the construction site of Xinpu Steel Plant is directly from the sea and sky, full of endless eyes, from the magnificent frame, people who know a little about the steel industry can see that the civil part of Xinpu Steel Plant has almost been completed.

Except for the wave-proof dam on the east side of the plant, there is no place with a wider view than the old sea pond, and the water plant and other projects are built on the inside of the old sea pond, Shen Huai arranged for the team to go to the old sea pond to introduce the construction of the Xinpu Steel Mill condescendingly.

The steel mill site can not be seen at a glance, a total of 26 construction units are responsible for the construction of the material yard, sintering, ironmaking, steelmaking, rolling and other operation areas, large construction vehicles like a herd of beasts shuttle back and forth, in the evening sunset, the sparkling welding sparks like a faint spark.

The construction road extending in all directions, like the blood of a giant, connects Xinpu Steel Plant as a whole, coordinates and promotes, and lays out a picture of the construction of a steel city like a rainbow in front of everyone.

I don't want to arouse the deeper vigilance of the second uncle, Song Qiaosheng and others, but Shen Huai must let the East China Railway Bureau, the Provincial State Investment Corporation, the Huai Coal Group and the accompanying provincial bank officials be full of confidence in the future of Xinpu Port, and enthusiastically introduce to them the construction achievements of Xinpu Steel Plant:

In the rainy season, the muddy and narrow roads that are difficult for machinery to deploy, the construction is carried out in sections, interspersed with operations, day and night construction, and people rest machinery non-stop, and it only takes 50 days to create a flood control dam with a length of 2,000 meters and a height of 7 meters on the periphery of the steel mill......

It took only seven days to construct a four-kilometer line of temporary electricity at the construction site, connecting the poles to the pull wires, and it took only 35 days to lay the roadbed and rails from the 5,000-ton material wharf to the factory area, which will be connected to the iron and coal wharf and the two-kilometer-long port railway, and only 40 days from laying roads and rails to opening to traffic......

The foundations of the two blast furnaces started in early June and were completed by the end of November......

In order to ensure that the construction of the project will not be delayed by land acquisition, the staff of the two committees and bureaus of the Xinpu Development Zone, Xinpu Town and various village groups, and the staff of the party and government system of Xiapu, nearly 200 people will be at the land acquisition site day and night to do door-to-door work......

Of course, the construction of resettlement communities in Xinpu Town is also rapid, and 2,400 resettlement houses in the two phases of the project have been put into use in half a year.

Excluding peripheral supporting projects, there are a total of 9,000 builders at the Xinpu Steel Plant and the two construction sites of Coal and Iron Yard alone, like ant colonies, for half a year, almost without a day of rest to eat and live on the construction site.

All units involved in the construction are implemented in two shifts, one shift of 12 hours.

Shut down

The team of Party A and the supervision company led by Zhao Dong also ate and slept on the construction site.

The dismantling of the equipment at the Liverpool Steel Plant was originally scheduled to be the task of West Youmins Industrial Group, and Zhao Zhimin led Meigang's technical team to assist in the installation of the equipment so that the installation of the equipment could be seamless on the Xinpu side.

However, the demolition work on the Liverpool side obviously could not keep up with the speed of civil construction here, and the West Omins Industrial Group had to re-subcontract the demolition work to Meigang, which alone generated an additional $4 million in additional income.

As of early December, Meigang has also invested more than 300 core backbones to participate in the construction of the operation area and the subsequent equipment installation, and next, a larger recruitment work is about to begin.

Si Youmins originally planned to send a 40-member management and technical team to Xinpu Steel Plant, but this time it has been voluntarily reduced to 15 people. However, Shen Huai still only hopes that Xi Youmins and Feiqi Industrial can send two or three financial managers to participate in the management of Xinpu Steel Mill. Otherwise, the annual salary of a casual dispatched employee from a foreign party will be hundreds of thousands, which is enough to hire a top management and technical personnel in China to strengthen the team level of Meigang.

"Our goal is to complete the project in September next year, and the completion here is the smooth operation of the main project, not just the completion of the main project," Shen Huai told officials from the East China Railway Bureau, the provincial state investment and the Huai Coal Group. Of course, we expect it to take a year and a half to complete the Xudong Railway East Extension Project, and if it can be completed before September next year, we can directly purchase 120,000 tons of coke per month from Huai Coal Group......

Shen Huai's words were still very tempting to the officials of the Huai Coal Group.

In '96, the price of coke has reached a peak of more than 700 yuan per ton, and after the completion of the Xinpu Steel Mill, it will consume 1.5 million tons of coke a year, with a total value of nearly 1 billion yuan.

For Huaimei Group, this is definitely a very tempting order that can enable their entire group to immediately reverse the current loss predicament.

If we can ensure that this large order is supplied by Huai Coal Group, there is no problem for Huai Coal Group to fund and construct the Xudong Railway Monorail East Extension Project with a total investment of only 300 million yuan.

Although Huaineng Group is also about to enter the development of coal in Huaixi, it will still take a long time to form a coke production capacity of one or two million tons.

Even if Huaineng Group will be responsible for the supply of coke to Xinpu Steel Plant in the future, as long as the Xudong Railway is connected to Xinpu Port, Huaimei's thermal coal, coking coal and coke will be transported to East China and South China through Xinpu and even exported to Japan and South Korea, which will help Huaimei Group get rid of the current business difficulties and enable its business to develop greatly.

As soon as the concept of Huai Coal going east was put forward, Huai Coal Group and local coal enterprises in Huaixi City became the most firm adherents, not for no reason.

There is no difficulty in the construction of the east extension of the Xudong Railway, the preliminary work has been fully done, and the demolition work is also being carried out separately, waiting for the release of the East China Railway Bureau.

The plan is to be completed in one to one and a half years, but as long as the East China Railway Bureau gives approval before the end of the year, Shen Huai even bids for multiple construction teams to go online at the same time, and pave 30 kilometers of rails in nine months, and open it at the same time as the coal and iron wharf, which is not unimaginable.

The East Extension Project is a monorail with limited capacity, but even if only two or three million tons of Huai coal are exported through the Xudong Railway and Xinpu Port in the early stage, it will stimulate all parties to accelerate the Xudong Railway Reconstruction Project.

Each ton of coal is transshipped through Xinpu Coal Terminal, for the port, only 10 or 20 yuan of income, which is better than yuan, but only large-scale coal resources are transferred through Xinpu Port, Xinpu Port will have the possibility of developing coal washing, coking and other related industries.

At that time, the annual output of three or four million tons of coal will increase the revenue of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of yuan for the port, and the most direct driving force to stimulate capital to enter Xinpu to develop and build more berths and terminals is profitability and more profits.

Officials from the Huaihai Provincial State Investment Corporation, Huaihai Coal Industry and the East China Railway Bureau, after inspecting the development and construction work in Meixi and Xinpu and other places, all showed a look of leaping and jumping, and unconsciously, they also surrounded Shen Huai in the middle of the crowd to listen to him describe the blueprint for the future of Xinpu Port, which made Song Qiaosheng look at it.

Song Qiaosheng knew in his heart that there were not many people present who really knew the relationship between Shen Huai and the Song family, even if they knew the relationship between Shen Huai and the Song family, and such as Liang Daocheng and others, there was no need to pretend to be a junior like Shen Huai.

Song Qiaosheng's face was the same, and he listened carefully to the introductions of Shen Huai, Chen Baoqi and other local officials on economic construction, and sometimes even asked about some details that attracted his attention, so that people could not see the slightest abnormality, but in the bottom of his heart, his worries were getting worse.

In China, in the era when there are more plans than the market, the exchange of political interests is undoubtedly the core cohesion that maintains the survival of factions; in the era of the economy when there are more markets than plans, the simple exchange of political interests is already seriously insufficient, and the exchange and connection of capital or economic interests is more sustainable and resilient.

It is no wonder that the Ji system, which is so strong at the upper level, also has to work so hard to push the east and south line of Shanxi coal.

Song Qiaosheng thought carefully about his assessment of the formation and future development potential of the Meigang system in Donghua before his southward trip, and secretly felt that Tan Qiping was finally forced to leave, and it was really no accident that the Meigang department could compete with Zhao Qiuhua's Zhao family in Donghua at this time.

From this point of view, the personnel arrangements of Huaineng Group still need to be considered more carefully.