Chapter 719: Settled in Linggang
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"The pollution here is really serious. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ infoββ" Ye Kai looked at the turbidity of the air outside, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
In fact, the pollution of heavy industry projects in China has always been very serious, especially in the late 80s and the first half of the 90s, the rapid development of heavy industry and private enterprises led to the increase of pollution in various places.
The eyes of local governments are only focused on the figures of economic development, and on the one hand, they do not pay enough attention to the problem of environmental pollution, and on the other hand, they do not have the spare energy to deal with it, so the environmental problems are becoming more and more serious.
Today's Ling Gang is also facing such a problem.
Ye Kai just opened the window by a small slit, and within two minutes, he saw that there was an extra layer of fine dust-like particles in the car, and he had to close the window.
"Secretary Ye, to be honest, the pollution of Linggang is much more serious than that of our Longcheng Steel Mill." Deputy Secretary Yang Shunxin, who was sitting on the side, said.
It's not that she has a preference for businesses in her hometown, but it's true.
Whether it is from the point of view of air quality, or from the various steel slag wastes seen along the way, etc., Linggang has not dealt with it much, these times are a big trouble, the piles of steel slag will become difficult to digest the mountains, exposed to the outside is also more likely to cause secondary pollution, to the surrounding residents of the life of great disadvantage. ββ
"Oh, I feel the same thing." When Ye Kai heard this topic, he talked to Yang Shunxin, "Secretary Yang, you are from the old Longcheng, you should know more about the city's steel mills, it is said that their scale is not small, and there are many heavy industry enterprises in Longcheng, why does the pollution situation seem to be much better?" β
In the past, Ye Kai was in it, and without a comparison, he naturally didn't know how polluted the Longcheng side was, but now that he came to Lingcheng, there was a sharp contrast, and he naturally had a very intuitive feeling.
It just so happened that Yang Shunxin mentioned this matter again, so he also had to ask about it.
"Hehe, this is a long story, Secretary Ye is also interested in this?" Yang Shunxin laughed.
Ye Kai nodded and said, "We discipline inspection and supervision cadres can't just focus on the economic or life shortcomings of the cadres, if we can give them some ideas in terms of construction, it will also be beneficial." ββ It's like environmental pollution, if it reaches a certain level, it will damage everyone's health, so we should also pay attention to it, and focus on it. β
Mentioning this topic, Ye Kai even said, "In fact, I thought about including environmental issues in the assessment of cadre performance, if you don't do this, they will ignore this problem, in order to develop the economy, sacrifice the living environment of most people, this is simply a crime, but these people are still promoted by virtue of this, this is absolutely not allowed!" β
"This question, I'm afraid that Secretary Lin Yuanxing doesn't have a problem, right?" Yang Shunxin smiled after hearing this.
"Well, I'll make a suggestion to the above, as for whether people listen to it or not, it's hard to say." Ye Kai nodded and said, "But I believe that after a few years, if this matter is mentioned, they will definitely not say that I am unfounded." In fact, in the past, in the process of industrial development in Europe and Japan, similar environmental pollution tragedies have occurred, and now we are swarming to engage in construction, and it is easy to have problems, and when the pollution problem is serious, it will be more difficult to clean it up. β
"I support Secretary Ye's idea very much, to be a discipline inspection cadre, you can't do it without conscience and responsibility. ββ" Deputy Secretary Yang Shunxin nodded and praised.
"Hehe, let's encourage each other." Ye Kaibao smiled.
Along the way, when everyone reached the ground, they all frowned a little.
The air quality is really bad, but it is bearable, and it will be much better after returning to the guest house, after all, the difference between indoor and outdoor should still be relatively large.
However, after getting out of the car, Jing Chunlin, secretary general of the municipal government, sent masks.
"Secretary Ye, please wear masks, and hard hats should be worn at all times." Jing Chunlin handed over the helmet and mask, and then said to Ye Kai, "There are many unexpected problems in the factory, the helmet can maximize our safety factor, the mask is also very important, and this goggle is a must." β
"Okay, let's all put it on, it's for the good of all of us." Ye Kai commanded, and everyone was armed.
Many comrades have never worn this kind of thing, and they can't help but feel a little fresh, especially after putting down the goggles, they feel that the image of the other party has become much funnier. ββ
"In the factory, safety is the number one priority." Jing Chunlin also put on protective equipment, and then said, "One year, when I came to the factory to inspect the work, there was a comrade who didn't think much of this helmet and dangled it in his hand, but on a machine tool next to it, suddenly a screw that was being processed flew out, and it hit his cheek at once, and blood flowed at that time. Luckily, there is still a little distance from the eye, otherwise, that eye would not have been saved! β
Hearing him say this, everyone immediately paid a lot of attention, and they all saw if their companions had put on these things properly.
"But you don't have to worry, we just go around here, let everyone know how the steel mill works, and after a while, we will go to the Linggang Hotel, and the working group will stay and work there in the future." Jing Chunlin said again.
Ye Kai nodded, and then everyone took the battery car and entered the factory.
The situation on Linggang's side is actually not much different from that of Longcheng Steel Mill. ββ
In general, the integration of domestic steel enterprises is far from enough, most steel enterprises are still under the leadership of local governments, and have not formed a scale effect, which is still a relatively large gap with foreign countries.
In fact, since the mid-80s, with the United Kingdom as the lead, European capital. The capitalist state has successively begun to privatize and transform the state-owned iron and steel enterprises whose business conditions have deteriorated.
In the early 90s, with the privatization and transformation of state-owned iron and steel enterprises in Germany, Italy, France, and other countries in an all-round way, the US Department of Commerce was very worried, believing that this would harm the interests of the United States, so it began to impose a large amount of countervailing duties on the steel products exported by the "post-privatized enterprises" of the European Community, with the intention of curbing their living space.
"The foreign steel industry has been restructuring through mergers and acquisitions, and the result of the restructuring has made the steel industry appear relatively geographically concentrated and large companies with larger production scales. This kind of restructuring and merger has become a means for the steel industry of foreign developed countries to reduce harmful competition and improve efficiency. Thinking of this, Ye Kai pointed out, "At present, the European steel industry has formed the Assel Group, Thyssen? The Krup, the Kearns and the LMN Group are in a four-pronged position. Japan's six major steel companies were reorganized into two groups to unify operations and production. In the United States, through the ongoing restructuring, steel production has been concentrated in three major companies: U.S. International Steel Corporation, U.S. Steel Union and Nucor Steel. β
Ye Kai talked about the merger of international iron and steel enterprises here, and ordinary people really have no interest, but several engineers of Linggang who are responsible for receiving them here are more interested in this topic.
A few of them though for this one from the in. Period. The working group of the committee is also not interested, but Du Yuye still has some ideas on the topic.
"This little comrade, the domestic environment is more complex, and it is difficult for steel mills to be integrated together due to historical reasons, especially some steel enterprises belonging to various provinces, if they want to achieve leapfrog mergers and acquisitions, the conditions are not mature." An engineer sighed.
"Well, this is also some drawbacks in the domestic system, the government and enterprises are not separated, or because of some economic disputes, yes, steel companies can not achieve unity, to achieve the purpose of interest growth, cost reduction, it is really heart-wrenching." Ye Kai nodded in agreement, "It's like our neighbor South Korea, their steel industry started later, but the progress is very fast, and in some ways, it is even better than ours." β
At this time, there was no deep understanding of Koreans in China, and Koreans were not as annoying as they were later, so everyone was basically able to look at this small neighbor more positively, especially in domestic textbooks, and often mentioned this country among the four Asian tigers, and agreed with some of their practices.
Ye Kai mentioned South Korea, naturally for a reason, because they did have some good things.
South Korea's steel industry started late, but it has made rapid progress.
In 1972, South Korea still had only a few small steel mills, and the equipment was outdated, the technology was outdated, with an annual output of 600,000 tons of steel and a self-sufficiency rate of only 20%.
However, South Koreans realized that the steel industry must be developed in a limited way to build an industrialized society, so they twice asked the West for funds, technology and equipment to build steel plants with an annual output of 500,000 to 1 million tons, but both failed for some reason.
In 1969, when the POSCO Steel Company was being built, the Koreans turned to Japan for support, and the Japanese agreed to a loan of $120 million, with three companies: Yawata Steel, Fuji Steel (which later merged to form Nippon Steel), and NKK Corporation, to provide the technology.
With the commissioning of the first phase of the POSCO project, the crude steel output reached 1.03 million tons that year, providing much-needed steel for South Korea's fast-growing automobile, shipbuilding and other industries.
In the 15 years from 1970 to 1985, South Korea's crude steel production increased by 26 times, and now it has nearly tripled compared to 1985, and the self-sufficiency rate in steel varieties has reached more than 99%.
It can be said that the achievements of this small neighbor in the steel industry in the past two decades are indeed very amazing.
Originally, several engineers were very rebellious to the people in the working group, but they couldn't help but be surprised to hear that Ye Kai, a "young comrade", actually knew so much about the development of the international steel industry, and even knew this aspect better than them.
"This little comrade knows our steel industry very well!" The engineer said with some surprise.