Chapter 661: A New Challenge

In the officialdom of Liao Province in China in 94 years, almost the end of the cadres at or above the deputy section level in Wuye County is definitely an unforgettable event even after more than ten years!

Due to the high level of attention from the top level in the province, the unprecedented intensity of the crackdown, and the suddenness of the incident, all the people involved in the case simply did not have time to do any work to cover up, let alone unify their voices. Therefore, under the strong blow of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Provincial Police Department, in just three or five days, the black curtain that has been shrouded in Wuye County was forcibly torn apart, and the ** phenomenon in the county was completely violent, which can be described as shocking.

According to the statistics of relevant personages after the incident, among the leading cadres in Wuye County, except for Ma Yingzhuang, secretary of the county party committee, and a deputy county magistrate, who were demoted to the party history research office in Liaoyuan City and were unable to make any further progress in their careers in their lifetime, 17 of the remaining cadres at and above the deputy section level were sentenced to death or suspended death by the Liaoyuan City Court, including county magistrate Sun Defu, police chief Fu Mingsheng, and Zhu Delong's father, Zhu Jun. Eleven others were sentenced to life imprisonment, while the rest were all sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, the shortest of which was three years' imprisonment with a three-year reprieve. Dozens of the functionaries of the organs and villages and towns have been sentenced to criminal responsibility, and many of them have been sentenced to death with a suspended death sentence, and hundreds of them have been given various demerits and warnings......

It can be said that after the incident, the officialdom of Wuye County was like the land after the tsunami -- a mess. In this case, the personnel who were not bō at all were as rare as the giant pandas in the animal kingdom. However, these people became the lucky ones of this incident afterwards, and there were a large number of deputy section-level and section-level positions in the county for them to choose. Those leaders in the province still don't look down on these official positions below the deputy department.

This tsunami of officialdom was not only affected by the cadres and public servants of Wuye County, but also swept the dark side of society in Wuye County. For a while, the dark shili in Wuye County was swept away!

Of course, that's all for later.

Deng Zhong, who has received the support of the provincial party committee and provincial government, is now more concerned about how to truly implement the Fang family's investment intentions than Wuye County's anti-corruption actions.

At this time, Fang Mingyuan was also implementing the jihua in his heart.

For the steelmaking equipment used in the steelmaking plant in Liaoyuan City in the future, domestic equipment is mainly used, and foreign imported equipment is used in some core equipment. Although Fang Mingyuan also has a steelmaking plant in Japan, he does not plan to import Japanese steelmaking equipment. Instead, they turned their attention to the United States or Europe. To be precise, the main ones are the European Albert Steel Company, the Tysen Group and the well-known Krupp Company in the hearts of the Chinese people.

Albert Steel Company, needless to say, Fang Mingyuan has already fought with them a lot, and Fang Mingyuan also used a mine that has not yet been discovered in Europe in exchange for a number of jishu from Albed Steel Company. The two sides are no strangers.

According to the information obtained by Fang Mingyuan in his previous life, although the iron and steel industry has always been a traditional industry in Luxembourg, as the iron ore deposits in Luxembourg and Europe are gradually drying up, Luxembourg has also had to readjust its industrial structure, and the proportion of its iron and steel industry in its GDP has dropped from nearly 30 percent in the past to 2 percent in the new century, and the proportion of steel exports in Luxembourg's exports has also dropped from nearly 70 percent to less than one-third. However, Luxembourg Albert Group is still the third largest steel group in Shijie, and the group's crude steel output is still as high as more than 20 million tons, but Albert Steel Group has gradually shifted to external growth, and the domestic main attention is paid to the development and research of steel patents, and the steel production has been transferred to developing countries such as Latin America, taking the road of external expansion. That is, from now on, this behemoth has already begun to move its steel mills all over Europe to the overseas stage.

And the Tysen Group, maybe the Chinese people do not know, but for the Krupp company, people who know a little about the military history of Shijie will not forget the most famous military industrial enterprise in Germany, the cannon produced by the Krupp company made Bismarck defeat Austria and France in the middle of the 19th century, this is the famous Krupp cannon. After the First Shijie War, the Krupp family continued to develop their family business. The main products of that time were sold mainly to the Soviet Union. Soon, at the request of the German General Staff, the Krupp family secretly took part in the rearmament of Germany and created the first armored vehicles, the production of which resumed two years later. During World War II, artillery, armored vehicles, tanks, submarines and various light weapons were manufactured for the German army.

However, many people only focus on Krupp's achievements in the military, but ignore Krupp's achievements in steel, shipbuilding, trucks and locomotives. The history of modern stainless steel began in the 20th century as an experiment at the Krupp laboratory in Essen, Germany!

Fang Mingyuan knew that in a few years, Krupp would merge with Germany's Tysen Group, which was once known as the "King of the Ruhr", the German steel giant, to establish the TysenKrupp Group, and before that, the two companies merged their respective stainless steel flat plate production plants to form a new company, that is, the original Krupp Thyssen-Nirosta Co., Ltd., which was the largest stainless steel flat production plant in Shijie at that time.

And the reason why we are optimistic about the future of TysenKrupp Group, on the one hand, is because they are all old European iron and steel enterprises, advanced and mature equipment, and the Germans are more trustworthy than the Japanese, although when the equipment and jishu transfer negotiations, the Germans are also cunning and greedy, every inch of money must be contested, but once the two sides reach an agreement, the Germans implement the agreement, they are also serious and responsible, and will not be like the Japanese, set up obstacles for you everywhere, and leave a secret everywhere. It also secretly sets a trap for you to pay a bigger price for it in the future.

On the other hand, Fang Mingyuan also knows that the elevator company under Tysen Group, whose main business scope is the manufacturing, installation, remote monitoring, maintenance and transformation of elevators and escalators, has always wanted to enter the Chinese market, but there has never been a suitable opportunity.

You know, in the future, Huaxia's elevator market accounted for one-fifth of the total amount of shijie, and until the first decade of the next century, the growth rate still has no signs of slowing down, it can be said that huaxia has become shijie's largest elevator new market. However, most of the market share in the Chinese market is held by more than 10 large foreign-invested companies such as Otis of the United States, Schindler of Switzerland, KONE of Finland, ThyssenKrupp of Germany, Mitsubishi and Hitachi of Japan. Compared with competitors Otis, Mitsubishi and Hitachi, the world's third largest elevator group Thyssen Elevator is in a backward position in the competition in the Chinese market.

The merger of two old iron and steel companies of such a large size cannot be a one-time whim, and there is nothing strange about the previous negotiations that have been going on for ten years. After the merger, not all of these steel mills under the names of the two parties will be able to merge smoothly, so some of them will definitely be considered for sale.

Combining the two, the elevator company wants to enter the Chinese market, and at the same time, because of the merger of the two companies in the future, it is also necessary to sell some unwanted parts, which is also their own opportunity!

Of course, Fang Mingyuan can also wait, wait until the outbreak of the Southeast Asian financial crisis, and then buy steel mills, at that time, although the impact of European and American countries is relatively Xiǎo, but the economies of South Korea and Japan have been hit hard, and it should not be a problem to acquire a number of steel companies from their hands.

But Fang Mingyuan didn't want to wait any longer, first, the huge amount of money obtained from Russia could not always be kept in the bank, only when it flowed, could the maximum benefit be obtained. And now there is still a long enough time before the Southeast Asian financial crisis, although he has begun to work on the layout, but he still understands the truth that all jī eggs cannot be put in the same basket; Second, without real industrial support, even if there is more cash on hand, it is unknown how much will be left in the face of a future economic crisis and a future depreciation of the dollar. Third, and of course the most important, if he wants to make some achievements in the steel industry and stop the penetration of the Japanese consortium into the Chinese steel industry, his time is already very short!

Fang Mingyuan, who has experienced his previous life and watched "Mitsui Empire in Action", knows very well in his heart that in a few years, Huaxia Haibao Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd., a super-large steel complex with strong Japanese "blood", will be established, and will become the only steel company in Huaxia Iron and Steel Industry to enter the top ten in Shijie Iron and Steel Industry. Its annual output has reached 30 million tons, employing more than 100,000 people, and it has entered the list of the top 500 shijie for many years.

Haibao Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd. produces steel for automobiles, steel for oil and gas mining and transportation, stainless steel, steel for home appliances, steel for transportation equipment, steel for electrical equipment, steel for boilers and pressure vessels, steel for packaging such as food and beverages, steel for metal products, steel for special materials and high-grade construction steel, etc., which can be said to be the largest steel enterprise in China, with the most complete varieties and specifications, high jishu content and the largest proportion of high value-added products. For Huaxia to become the first steelmaking country in Shijie in the future, no one can ignore the promotion of Haibao Iron and Steel Group Company.

However, due to its strong Japanese "blood", this is reflected in the Haibao Iron and Steel Group Company, from the introduction of equipment at the beginning of its establishment, to the later personnel training, logistics services, foreign expansion, financial services and other aspects have been influenced by Japan. It is precisely in this way that Haibao Iron and Steel Group can develop rapidly and open up overseas markets.

But are the Japanese so kind and willing to help China establish a sound and modern steel industry?