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When others come, just like Ye Jianbin , Sun Shangyi and others come to Perth, as long as time permits, they will have a banquet for all the staff and their families stationed in Perth, and they will be lively and cheerful to boost morale; Zhang Ke does not hold a formal position within Kumho, and he can be lazy in other than engaging with top management and boosting the morale of employees. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The first dinner in Perth was held in the slope-top seaview villa where Zhai Danqing and Wei Lan lived, where they had a set of cutlery and a regular cook and nanny. Liang Jun, Sun Li, Fu Jun, Li Mingyu, Tang Jing, Chen Feirong, Wei Lan and three little girls, Zhai Danqing was delayed in the company, and he appeared very late, and after dinner, he said that Zhang Ke and Chen Feirong had taken a day's plane and had a tiring journey to rest early, so let them go back to the villa to rest.

Zhang Ke didn't know how Tang Jing got along with Zhai Danqing in Perth in the past ten days, and he couldn't ask these questions straightforwardly, he didn't go to Perth purely for a vacation, many things, just looking at the report didn't have a too intuitive impression, and he still needed to walk around on the spot.

It rained again at night, dripping on the glass, dripping among the leaves and grass in the courtyard, but also made the room exceptionally clean, the windows were open, the wind blew in, and in the hottest season in Perth, I felt a little cold, Zhang Ke walked out of the study, trying to find a dress to wear.

"What's the matter, I don't have the heart to look at the materials?" Tang Jing and Chen Feirong sat curled up on the sofa in the living room and chatted, watching Zhang Ke push the door and come out, raising his head and asking him.

Zhang Ke sat down with a smile and said, "Just now I was just looking for a piece of clothing to drape, but I really didn't have the heart to look at the materials at this time......

Chen Feirong pulled the hem of her skirt embarrassedly to cover it, stood up and said, "I'm going to sleep, ignore you......" and squeezed her eyes ambiguously at Tang Jing, smiled and hid back in the room.

"I'll sleep with you, you are not allowed to lock the door......" Tang Jing's voice fell, and she listened to the sound of the door lock inside.

Zhang Ke sat over, stretched out his hand to stroke Xiao Jing's long hair like a waterfall, and said with a smile: "Now I don't have the heart to read the material...... You're so beautiful right now. ”

"I know how to deceive little girls," Tang Jing smiled sweetly, leaned over, rested her head on Zhang Ke's shoulder, and looked at the starry night sky outside the north window, "When I first arrived in Perth, Zhai Danqing took us to drive deep into the desert, and we couldn't see any people for a day and a night......"

"Are you worried about throwing her in the desert?" Zhang Ke took Tang Jing's delicate body in his arms and asked jokingly.

"Don't interject," Tang Jing reached out to pinch Zhang Ke's lips and continued, "The scenery is beautiful, but I can't see people, so I really feel that Perth is a lonely city...... Do you feel that life is like a lonely city, you can't see people when you go far away, occasionally pass by other people's cities, or occasionally pass by visitors to your city, you will feel extra cherished, once you miss it, there is no possibility of retaining? With his head against Zhang Ke's chest, he raised his head and looked at his face, and said, "It's not the kind of good girl who doesn't understand anything you think, people are mature enough......" Seeing that Zhang Ke's hand was about to touch her chest, he pinched him, "Can you think about it not to be too sexy, I don't mean it's mature here." ”

"I just think you're more attractive," Zhang Ke said with his face against Tang Jing's long silky hair, "Tomorrow I will go to the Christmas Creek mining area, you will go with you, and then feel the taste of no one in the four fields......

"I'll ignore you tomorrow, we said we want to be on the island," Tang Jing raised her hand and touched Zhang Ke's cheek, "I love you, I don't feel unhappy, I always feel that I should be able to understand you better...... You don't think of me like a little girl. ”

Zhang Ke knew that Tang Jing was giving him the opportunity to be alone with Zhai Danqing.

The Christmas Creek mining area is the farthest exploration area from Perth, and after preliminary exploration, it is likely to be one of the iron ore rich areas in the whole of Western Australia.

"Okay, don't treat you as a little girl," Zhang Ke hugged Tang Jing in his arms and asked softly, "What little girls can't do, should we do it now?" ”

"......" Tang Jing sighed, lying in Zhang Ke's arms with a weak body, and since she agreed, she didn't refuse.

"Zhang Ke, Zhang Ke ......"

Hearing Zhitong yelling downstairs, Zhang Ke just followed Tang Jing and separated, and then heard the sound of knocking and climbing the stairs, and after a while, Zhitong and Xirong and Xiyu got in.

"We sleep with Tang Jing every day, and we can't sleep tonight when we are separated," the two sisters, Xirong and Xiyu, tilted their heads to look at Zhang Ke left and right, and asked in unison, "Zhang Ke, what do you say?" ”

"Why don't you play with us?" Zhitong suddenly raised the two decks of pokers pinned behind her, "Whoever loses will go to the gate of the community tomorrow to learn how to bark a puppy!" ”

Of course, Zhang Ke couldn't wait to throw these three little girls out of the window on the second floor, thinking to himself: They shouldn't pinch the time to spoil his good deeds, right?

"We don't take Zhang Ke to play, what if he plays Laipi and we can't see it?" Xirong said to Zhitong thoughtfully, "If you don't call Sister Weilan over, it's really not good, Sister Feirong can too, they are embarrassed to win against our three little girls, right?" ”

Zhang Ke hid back in the study in shame and continued to read the materials, and it was not until eleven o'clock that Li Mingyu came over and tricked the three little girls away.

As soon as the three little girls left, Zhang Ke immediately dragged Tang Jing to his room, lest she be embarrassed to run over and sleep with Chen Feirong again.

"Like the badass or not......"

"I'm a good girl, so I don't like bad guys......" Tang Jing whispered coquettishly......

After the passion, Tang Jing fell asleep peacefully, but Zhang Ke was surprisingly awake, without a trace of sleepiness, wearing pajamas, turning off the bedroom light, walking to the terrace outside, and vaguely saw that there was also a person standing on the terrace next door, and it was not clear whether it was Danqing or Weilan.

Walking to the corner of the terrace, I still couldn't see it clearly, but at this time, the corridor light on the terrace over there was lit, Zhai Danqing was also standing on the terrace with her clothes on, she held her mobile phone in her hand, put the mobile phone to her ear, and motioned for Zhang Ke to use her mobile phone to talk to her. The terraces on both sides were separated by nearly twenty meters, and the voices of the two of them were so low that they couldn't hear what the other was saying, and the voices were louder, and the people in the two villas, including the nanny in the workers' room downstairs, could hear them.

"Can't sleep?" Zhang Ke went back to the house and took out his mobile phone, and talked to Zhai Danqing on the phone twenty meters away.

"Well," Zhai Danqing nodded, and said with a smile, "But don't think that I'm jealous because of Tang Jing, you have the ability to eat the two girls in your house......"

"......" Zhang Ke smiled and asked, "I'm coming to you?" ”

"Don't," Zhai Danqing shook his head, "I'm going to sleep in a while, if you want to come over, I'll be troublesome to you, you should go to bed early, and you have to get up early tomorrow." ”

When she woke up in the morning, Tang Jing was not around, looked at her watch, and thought that she hadn't slept enough, and most likely went to Chen Feirong's room to sleep in the early morning. The wind outside is beautiful, the breeze blows up the pale golden gauze curtain, Zhang Kelai got out of bed after thinking for a while about the content of the exploration area to be visited today, pushed open the door, and saw that the door of Chen Feirong's room was hidden, and the sound of her and Tang Jing was heard inside, and when she pushed open the door, she saw that the two of them were covered with thin quilts, their heads were exposed, and the two black hairs were piled on the snow-white pillow.

The wind was blowing, the rich aroma of coffee wafted from the window, Tang Jing's arms like snow lotus stretched out, yawned, stretched, and said: "Breakfast is ready...... The quilt was lifted, and there was no Zhang Ke expecting, the two Nizi were lying neatly under the quilt in dresses.

"......" Zhang Ke snorted and ran to wash.

After breakfast, Tang Jing and Chen Feirong also asked three little girls to Shanghai Island, Zhang Ke asked Fu Jun to stay and take care of them, and he, Zhai Danqing and Liang Jun, together with Huang Mingsheng, Economic Counselor of the Chinese Consulate General in Perth, Jia Zhiyi, General Manager of Zhongzhi Australia and other officials, took six off-road vehicles to the Christmas Creek exploration area for field investigation.

"When we met last year, it was still late autumn ......in Perth," Jia Zhiyi, general manager of Zhongzhi Australia, sat in the same car with Zhang Ke, and did not have any contempt for such a legendary figure because of the age gap, and said, "What Mr. Zhang said at the consul general's banquet last year was really shocking to everyone......

"I guess I'm surprised, right?" Zhang Ke said with a smile, "This is inevitable, even now, there are still people who doubt our determination to invest in Western Australia's mining industry......"

Jia Zhiyi smiled and said, "I believe in Kumho's determination......"

In the late autumn of last year, at a banquet hosted by the Consul General in Perth for Kumho's high-level visits, Zhang Ke shocked Kumho's iron ore traders in Perth by announcing that Kumho would invest US$1 billion in Western Australia's iron ore industry.

As the general representative of MCC in Australia, the general manager of CCC Australia, and the representative of the joint exploration company established by Kumho and MCC, Jia Zhiyi still has a good understanding of Kumho's situation.

Even so, Jia Zhiyi still can't say that he has a complete understanding of Kumho's decision, as Zhang Ke said, even if he knows Kumho's strength and background more clearly than ordinary people, he is still surprised and skeptical of Kumho's decision.

After a period of rapid development, China's steel industry exceeded 100 million tons in 96 years, but from 96 to the end of 99, affected by the Asian financial crisis, the increase in domestic steel production was extremely limited, and the total increase in output in three years was just over 10%.

The steel industry and downstream manufacturing industry in developed countries and regions around the world, as well as other emerging countries and regions, are somewhat sluggish, and there is no sign of recovery.

The boom and bust of the steel industry directly determines the demand for iron ore.

The world's major iron ore producers have even reduced production in the past two years to keep the benchmark iron ore price above US$26 per tonne.

The iron ore companies in Western Australia, two major miners of Rio Tinto, Bi and Billiton, have even been saving on transportation costs by increasing production in mines close to the port and reducing production in mines far away from the port.

Even though it is expected that although the country will open up to private capital, private capital is pouring into the steel manufacturing industry, but spending a billion dollars to invest in the iron ore industry in Western Australia is still regarded as a big gamble for the industry.

From Perth to the north, all the way is a flat and spacious high-end road, along the way you can see Rio Tinto and Bihp Billiton mining areas and transportation lines, except for the living areas of the mining area, there are few people to live, this piece of about 3 million square kilometers of land, only less than 2 million people, everywhere is a large area of no man's land. Driving away from the mining area of Rio Tinto and Bihp Billiton, the high-end highway immediately becomes a potholed gravel road, bumpy along the way, and the speed cannot be raised.

"The Christmas Creek exploration area is not on the traffic arteries of Western Australia, there are gravel roads to walk here, and after driving for a while, the last section of the road will be driven directly on the desert...... "Jia Zhiyi has been to the exploration area many times, is very familiar with the situation, and is responsible for introducing the local situation to Zhang Ke along the way.

Jia Zhiyi and even the entire senior management of MCC did not understand Kumho's investment decision, but the joint venture exploration company was purely business-oriented, Kumho invested in the purchase of exploration equipment and provided exploration funds, and the actual exploration business was completed by MCC, and the exploration business was completed by charging exploration fees, from which Zhongzhi could obtain millions of dollars in revenue every year.

This is a big deal that MCC has received overseas, and most importantly, Kumho will eventually invest in minerals in Western Australia, which will be in the billions of dollars. Although such a large-scale investment will account for a considerable part of the infrastructure construction such as ports, railways, and highways, the funds directly allocated to the construction and development of mining areas will not be less, which is all fat in the eyes of China Metallurgical Company. If the entire mine construction and development business can be contracted, it will be the largest business received by China Metallurgical Corporation or even a central enterprise overseas.

Don't talk about Jia Zhiyi, even the senior management of China Metallurgical Corporation, which rarely comes to Western Australia, has also come to Perth to inspect during this time, and in the final analysis, they are interested in this huge contract with an amount of hundreds of millions of dollars or even billions of dollars.

In addition to the development and construction of mining areas, the construction of railways, highways and ports is not the current Hongyuan Construction can bear alone, considering the construction cost, it is bound to cooperate with domestic construction enterprises, as well as a large number of imported labor services from China to dilute the construction cost. At present, it is still a large and medium-sized state-owned construction enterprise with rich experience in the construction of railways, highways and large seaports, and large state-owned construction enterprises such as China State Construction, China Railway Construction and China Shipping are actively engaged in obtaining Kumho's business orders, and even actively assist Kumho to enter Western Australia to invest in mining.

The off-road vehicles first inspected the outlying exploration sites and arrived at the main camp in the Christmas Creek exploration area around dusk.

The main camp is located in a field of endemic Australian bush, with a white-painted iron fence surrounding several blue bungalows, divided into office and living areas.

To the north of the main camp, there is a narrow asphalt road with relatively good road conditions, and Zhang Ke has read the information and knows that from that road to the north, there is the only town in the nearby area, Christmas Creek Town. Christmas Creek runs through the middle of the town, winds its way to the northwest, and flows 140 kilometers into the sea, where there is the Handland Deep-Water Channel in Kumho Phase, and there is also a port town nearby, and some of the residents are engaged in fishing, and the port is small.

If the iron ore resources of Christmas Creek are worth exploiting, Kumho will build a deep-water seaport terminal in Handland and build a railway line from Christmas Creek to Port Handland.

The main exploration areas in Western Australia are within 300 kilometers of the Christmas Creek area, and if there are important geological discoveries in other areas, the mining area can be connected to this transportation line after development.

The temperature in the desert is very high, and it is better to ride on the road in an off-road vehicle, and it is better to get out of the car to really feel the scorching heat of the Western Australian summer, which is completely different from the feeling of arriving in Perth yesterday.

In more than half a year, Kumho has done a lot of work, in the name of Oakie Mining Industry Company in the area to apply for nearly 100,000 square kilometers of exploration area, quickly set up a joint venture with Zhongzhi joint venture exploration company, mainly from China to pull a group of experienced exploration personnel to Western Australia to carry out iron ore resources exploration work, Christmas Creek area is the key exploration area.

Hu Muqiao, the leader of the exploration team, is an overseas Chinese in Australia, in 88 years MCC and Rio Tinto in Western Australia joint venture development of Chana iron mine, Hu Muqiao as an engineer of MCC from China to Australia, in his own words, after arriving in Australia deceived an Australian girl, but to join the Australian nationality and continue to work in Chana iron mine, it is Jia Zhiyi who has helped a lot.

Hu Muqiao now works directly for United Exploration Company and is the main technical management backbone.

Kumho wants to invest in Western Australia, it is impossible to completely import labor services from China, but also to make the appearance of solving the employment problem for the local area, it is necessary to hire a certain proportion of employees from the local area, Zhongzhi Australia has taken root in Western Australia for more than ten years, and has indeed helped a lot in local resources.

Zhang Ke and his entourage, together with the officials of the Consulate General in Perth, got out of the car, and Hu Muqiao and the key members of the Christmas Creek exploration team had been waiting outside in the heat for a while.

It's hot outside, I didn't have much to say hello when I got out of the car, and I walked directly indoors, although the conditions in the office were simple, but I used the air conditioner. It's just an exploration camp, and the water and electricity haven't been picked up from the town of Christmas Creek yet, and the diesel engine is used to generate electricity, and the air conditioning is only used during the hottest period.

"This month, reverse circulation drilling and diamond drilling exploration work is mainly focused on the layered Brookman deposit, this work has been carried out to the end, from the available results, the potential iron ore resources in Christmas Creek are much higher than our expected 300 million to 400 million tons of resources, and the new resources will take some time to be finally calculated, I estimate that it will not be less than one billion tons of reserves, except for a small part of its own clastic ore, the vast majority of resources are layered iron ore in the formation of Brookman iron ore, with low phosphorus levels......" On behalf of the exploration team, Hu Muqiao reported on the exploration results during this period.

Jia Zhiyi was also worried that Zhang Ke might not be familiar with geological terms, and seeing his surprisingly dignified expression, he didn't know whether to rush to explain the significance of Bruckman's iron ore to him.

"Didn't Rio Tinto and Billiton claim to have all the low-phosphorus Bruckman mines that could be found in the entire northern region of Western Australia?" Zhang Ke looked at the geological exploration data and said with a smile. "If we announce the results of this exploration to the public immediately, the low-phosphorus Brookman iron ore with a reserve scale of one billion tons will probably make the senior management of Rio Tinto, Bihe Billiton jump in a hurry."

Jia Zhiyi laughed and said: "It is true that the high-level management of Rio Tinto, Bihe Billiton is in a hurry, and the reserves of high-quality iron ore in the Christmas Creek area alone are five times that of the Chana Iron Mine, and it seems appropriate for Kumho to locate the main mining area in Christmas Creek at first glance......"