Huaimei Group Coke Company has carried out large-scale technological transformation, mainly to meet the coke demand of Xinpu Steel Plant and expand production capacity.

The entire technical transformation project is implemented in two phases, and the goal of adding 800,000 tons of coke production capacity will eventually be reached, and it will be possible to complete it after mid-October at the earliest.

Xinpu Steel Plant began trial production in mid-June, and if it goes well, it will be officially put into operation before September, but the capacity load will not be saturated soon, as long as the technical transformation task of Huai Coal Group is completed before the year, the two sides can almost be connected. In addition, Huai Coal Group is only one of the three suppliers of coke demand for Xinpu Steel Mill.

In order to ensure the supply capacity and quality of Huai Coal Group, Meigang has the right to track the technical improvement process of Huai Coal's coke company when signing the supply agreement, and also has the right to investigate and evaluate its production and transshipment links.

The first phase of the technical transformation of the coke project of Huai Coal Group has been achieved, and Meigang will also send people to participate in the acceptance, and Shen Huai also received an invitation from Sun Fujing of Huai Coal two days earlier.

The affairs of the county are busy, and if he can get out of the county, Shen Huai still has to beg his grandfather and grandmother everywhere for the matter of Xinpu refining, and he planned to call and reply to Sun Fujing before the ceremony, saying that he really can't take the time to refuse.

Now since Li Gu called him to ask him to meet in Huaixi, Shen Huai also went to Xucheng by car on the afternoon of 9 June, accompanied by Wang Weicheng and others, and went to his sister-in-law Song Wenhui's house with Cheng Yi for dinner.

Since the establishment of the Xinpu Coal Trading Market, the province has planned to rapidly increase the total amount of coal transported to other provinces and cities in East China through the Xinpu Coal Trading Market to the level of 5 million tons per year, and the amount of coal transported to both sides of the Zhujiang River has also increased greatly with the development of industries on both sides of the strait, especially the construction of several thermal power plants of the Huaineng Group.

Shen Huai estimates that the amount of coal exported east by Huaixi is likely to exceed 10 million tons this year.

It is precisely the Zhujiang River beach from Xucheng to Huaixi that the water is in poor condition, and the single-track railway capacity is limited, and the relatively expensive road transportation has become an extremely important supplement when the supply of coal in the downstream market is less than demand.

In particular, the large and small highways between Xucheng and Huaixi are crowded with coal trucks, and the highway between Xucheng and Huaixi has just entered the survey and design stage.

The carrying capacity of the single-track railway is also limited, a section of track can only run trains in one direction at the same time, and the trains coming in the opposite direction have to stop at the fork and wait - the railway from Xucheng to Huaixi is less than 200 kilometers, Shen Huai and they sat for nearly six hours, and only got down at the Huaixi railway station in the morning.

Qin Dawei himself is a member of the party group of Huaimei Group, he came to Huaixi after meeting Shen Huai in Xucheng, so Huaixi Group does not need to make a special trip to receive Shen Huai - from the railway station, Qin Dawei has already contacted the group to send a shuttle vehicle to wait outside the station, they got on the car and left Huaixi City directly, and drove to the coal area.

The mines under the Huai Coal Group are mainly concentrated in Fengcheng County, north of Huaixi City.

Fengcheng County, with proven coal reserves of up to 6 billion tons, is a well-deserved coal industry county in Huaihai Province, and has formed an annual coal mining scale of 13 million tons, accounting for half of Huaixi City's coal output and one-third of Huaihai Province's coal output.

Taking the car into Fengcheng County, in addition to the gray sky and the gray buildings and trees, the road and the building on both sides are neatly built, and the construction of Fengcheng County is better than that of Huaixi City.

In addition to coal mining, Fengcheng's chemical, machinery manufacturing and other industries have a certain foundation.

In addition to the main mines belonging to Huai Coal and Huaixi Coal Group, there are dozens of large and small private mines in Fengcheng County, and the active coal economy has also brought strong incentives to Fengcheng's commercial and service industries.

Shen Huai and the others entered Fengcheng early, and there were no pedestrians on the street, but from the signboards hanging on the storefronts on both sides of the street, you can generally see how developed Fengcheng's commerce, catering, hotels and entertainment industries are.

"I can't imagine that Fengcheng is much more prosperous than I imagined!" Wang Weicheng came to Fengcheng for the first time, and in his impression that Huaixi's economy was even more backward than Donghua, but when he saw the streets and alleys of Fengcheng, it was much more prosperous than Xiapu Chengguan Town, and he was a little surprised at the same time.

"Huaixi is rich in a Fengcheng," Qin Dawei has been coming to Huaixi almost every two weeks in the past six months, plus his previous work in the Provincial Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Commission is also related to coal, so he is much more familiar with the situation in Huaixi, and said, "However, after the establishment of the coal trading market, a considerable part of the coal trading of Huaixi and Huaixi City's coal exported to the east was transferred to Xinpu, and for Fengcheng, almost a quarter of the coal trade was lost. Entertainment and other industries have been suppressed in the past few months......"

Shen Huai smiled, three months after the establishment of the coal trading market, the monthly volume quickly increased to the level of 300,000 tons, which made nearly 100 large and small traders mainly engaged in coal trade in East China move to Xinpu.

The two commercial streets developed by Zhujiang Construction in the eastern area of Lingang New Town, with a total area of up to 30,000 square meters, are mainly community supporting services, and the original plan was to lease and sell them in two to three years to form a certain commercial scale. In fact, these two commercial streets were sold out in a very short period of time, and the contribution of these coal traders was enormous.

Huaimei Group has its own hotel in Fengcheng, and Shen Huai didn't sleep much on the train, so they made up for sleep when they entered the hotel.

It wasn't until 11 o'clock in the morning, after Li Gu arrived by car, that Shen Huai got up and went to the VIP hall of the hotel to meet Li Gu, Sun Fujing and others.

Hu Zhigang and Han Wentao were also in the VIP room, and when they saw Shen Huai coming in, they hurriedly stood up to say hello. Shen Huai came to participate in the ceremony and meet with Li Gu, and Hu Zhigang and Han Wentao came to participate in the completion and acceptance of the stage on behalf of Xinpu Steel Plant.

"I set off from Xucheng at six o'clock," Li Gu watched Shen Huai come in, got up from the sofa and pointed to his watch, and said to him with a smile, "I thought three or four hours would be enough to arrive, but I didn't expect so many coal trucks on the road, so congested, and the road conditions are quite bad when the large-load coal trucks pass......

"Qin Dawei has traveled back and forth to Huaixi many times and learned a lesson, so we took the train in Xucheng instead......" Shen Huai pointed to Qin Dawei and smiled to Li Gu to introduce their itinerary last night.

"I knew that I would come by train with you at night," Li Gu said with emotion, "If this situation continues, even if the east extension of the Xudong Railway is completed and opened to traffic before the end of the year, it will not be relieved much......

Shen Huai said with a smile: "After the completion of the East Extension Line, the capacity of three or four million tons of coal that can be freed up will be calculated as three or four million tons a year. The capacity of this line is getting tighter and tighter, which can highlight the importance of the Xudong double line......"

Li Gu nodded and said: "Xudong double line, the province and Huaineng are actively promoting, and the attitude of the Ministry of Railways is also clear, but it was not included in the Ninth Five-Year Plan before, and now the State Council is relatively tight on large-scale infrastructure projects. I am also afraid that the economic situation in Southeast Asia will further deteriorate, and there will be further repercussions in the country......"

The electrification and double-track transformation of the entire Xudong Railway will cost nearly 10 billion yuan, which will be regarded as a super infrastructure project in recent years.

Although it is said that Huaineng, Huaimei, and Provincial State Investment are mainly responsible for the investment, in fact, the funds invested will mainly come from bank loans. At present, the economic situation in Southeast Asia is tight, although there are still optimistic voices and views in China, and the State Council's tightening of monetary policy is also a necessary preventive measure, but whoever pushes it will definitely be allowed to go.

Thinking of the current tight economic situation, Shen Huai also sighed lightly and said: "The approval of the Xinpu refining and chemical project has not yet been seen, and it may take a while to survive - but if there is a crisis in Southeast Asia, it may not necessarily be a disadvantage for the country." ”

"Oh," Li Gu asked, "what do you say?"

Evergreen Group has made emergency adjustments to its industrial investments in Thailand and Malaysia to hedge risks, and it has entered the final stage in the past two months, and there is no need for strict confidentiality.

Shen Huai, ......, briefly introduced the progress of the Evergreen Group's investment business in Southeast Asia during this period of time to Li Gu and Sun Fujing, saying, "The Evergreen Group is still aware of its new investment in the construction of a large-scale electronic manufacturing base in Xinpu, which is actually transferring their production capacity in Southeast Asia to the mainland to avoid risks." Evergreen Group is still just an example, but there are many things worth thinking about......"

"......" Li Gu nodded, patiently waiting for Shen Huai to continue.

"Southeast Asia, including Thailand and Malaysia, will inevitably suffer some domestic shocks if they suffer a huge shock this time, but it is more obvious that the domestic ability to resist the impact is stronger and the ability to recover is also stronger. Therefore, when the foreign trade industry in Southeast Asia suffers a heavy setback, if the country can withstand the impact and recover as soon as possible, it will be able to seize this market, which is one of them. And when the industrial capital saturated by the financial turmoil fled Southeast Asia, it was impossible to float in the bank account, and eventually had to find a place to settle. At present, in the whole of Europe and the United States, except for the signs of electronic information bursting out, other industries are in decline, and it is impossible to absorb so much industrial capital at once, which is another domestic opportunity. If we had been more proactive, we would have ...... more opportunities."

"Oh, behind the establishment of Evergreen Hongji Electronics Group, there are still these twists and turns, I didn't expect it in advance, it is obviously the Ming plank road and the secret crossing of Chen Cang...... " Li Gu said with a smile.

"In order to prevent a large outflow of foreign exchange capital and cause a greater impact on its domestic economy, the Thai government has temporarily formulated many restrictive policies, and the Evergreen Group has to think of some roundabout channels," Shen Huai said. ”

Li Gu also felt the same way, and said: "I agree with these opinions of yours, and I will also tell Secretary Tian and Secretary Xu Pei to know ......."

"I'm ......just a nonsense," Shen Huai said.

"By the way, you just mentioned that the approval of the Xinpu refining and chemical project has not progressed yet, what is the progress of the preparations on the Xinpu side?" asked Li Gu.