Chapter 10 Full implementation of the industrial plan
Although most of Peru's mineral resources have not been explored, the risk is relatively high, but no company will give up this opportunity. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info the shortage of world resources was exaggerated by the major media in the first few years of the new century as if it were the end of the world, and this is also the time when the media of developed countries are in urgent need of various resources in the hinterland, deliberately doing it, the purpose is to make the price of resources rise, so that the development of the hinterland can drive the developed countries to make money together.
The price of refined copper, which was originally $3,000 a ton, has tripled in just a few years, the price of iron ore, which was originally less than $20 a ton, has tripled, the freight has increased by more than two cups, and the price of light crude oil, which was originally less than $40 a barrel, has risen to $70 or 80 a barrel, and the price is still rising.
All this requires the mainland government to come up with more foreign exchange to pay for it, and it is the enterprises of developed countries that are fertilized, while the mainland government can only earn cheap processing fees.
However, in order to enhance the competitiveness of its own country in the industrial field and become a veritable factory of the world, the mainland government must swallow even if it loses a lot.
In order to control more resources, mainland companies are expanding their exploration efforts around the world, expanding their processing capacity, and influencing more national policies.
However, the horror of red capital has made all countries in the world fearful, and all countries in the world have strictly controlled red capital. On the contrary, the traveling capital is more popular with countries around the world because it does not have any political overtones.
In Peru, I spent a week on the road, and soon the Peruvian government agreed on a framework for cooperation. The cooperation with Peru is almost a copy of Colombia's experience, the biggest difference is that many minerals here are not proven, and it is necessary to travel to organize exploration in a unified manner, and the priority development right is also directly given to Zhou You.
Zhou You's obligation to do this is to pay Peru a high amount of exploration gold, and secondly, to invest heavily in Peru's infrastructure. But since Zhou You is copying Colombia's cooperation model, of course, all factors are taken into account.
The development of the mining industry can drive the economic strength of the whole country, and the construction of infrastructure can drive the income of the people of the whole country. Together, these two aspects can carry out follow-up industrial investment, develop comprehensively from the clothing, food, housing and transportation industries, and then enhance the industrial strength of the entire country.
Therefore, when many projects in Ecuador have not yet been negotiated, Peru has taken the lead and started a big move.
First of all, the Peruvian government took back all the exploration licenses previously issued and handed them over directly to Zhouyou's company, which did not subcontract these projects in a scattered manner, but organized a joint exploration team, divided into more than 20 exploration teams, to conduct a detailed survey of Peru's national mineral resources.
The joint exploration team is a combination of more than a dozen mining companies from the mainland and a company from Spain and Singapore, and all expenses are paid for by Zhou You.
If a new deposit is discovered, it will be developed on an auction plus joint development model. Regardless of which company wins the bid, the company will retain a portion of the shares.
Secondly, the mining enterprises in the mainland, the supporting small enterprises in Europe, and the mining enterprises in Peru have cooperated to set up many small enterprises in the chemical industry and machinery, and the overall upgrading of the domestic enterprises in Peru has been carried out.
During this period, mainland banks and Spain's Banco Santander have set aside large amounts of support funds to support the construction and upgrading of these enterprises.
Then it was the traveling company that came up with a large sum of money to start building pre-development infrastructure in Peru. The first step was to build a large hydroelectric power plant in the eastern foothills of the Andes, not far from Cusco, on the upper reaches of the Aine River, at the source of the Amazon River, to increase the country's electricity supply.
A railway from Peru to Bolivia was also the first to start construction under the urging of Zhou You, regardless of whether new minerals would be discovered along the way, at least, the railway artery between Bolivia and Peru should be repaired first.
For this reason, when Zhou Yu arrived in Bolivia, he was welcomed by the people of Bolivia, at least, in the media of their country, Zhou Yu did not see any bad reports.
Bolivia lost its westward access to the sea as a result of a war a century ago, and became a landlocked country after Chile occupied the coastal strip. Since then, the country, known as the "donkey sitting on the gold mine", has collapsed and is now the poorest country in South America.
Chile, which is adjacent to him, is still a quarter smaller in terms of land area, but the country's overall strength ranks third in South America, after Brazil and Argentina, and its per capita income ranks first in South America, making it the richest country in South America.
Coupled with the generational hatred between Bolivia and the United Kingdom, on the world map of Bolivia, there is no map of Britain at all, there is an ocean. And on the map of the world that Britain once had, Bolivia's location was also blank.
Their relations with Britain were so bad that their relations with European countries can be imagined. Even the United States is aiding and restricting.
After Morales came to power in 2005, the first president of color in Bolivia's history completely turned to the left and wing, and is now busy improving relations with South American countries and fighting lawsuits with Western countries.
Zhou You was more impressed with him, not because he had done anything great, but because until Zhou You was reborn, he was still the president of Bolivia, and like the dead Castro and Chavez, he was determined to oppose the United States.
In Bolivia, the tour was warmly welcomed by all sectors of the government, whether it was a meeting with President Evo Morales, a meeting with the Minister of Oil and Gas, or a meeting with the Minister of Mines.
Bolivia is like a girl who is eager to be good, and can accept any conditions, in order to be able to boost the country's economy.
In addition to the geographical location of Bolivia and the lack of access to the sea, the country is also very rich in resources. The country used to be the world's largest producer of silver, the world's largest producer of gold, and countless other minerals.
Oil and gas are also found in the plains on the border with Brazil, but the resources are difficult to transport due to transportation, and they cannot be sold at all, except for some Brazilian companies that buy them cheaply. Because many resources are shipped out, the cost of freight is higher than the actual value.
In modern times, the country has completely declined, surrounded by the powerful countries of South America, and there is no way out of the South American continent. Therefore, the arrival of Zhou You was seen as a good opportunity by them, and as long as the conditions of Zhou You were not excessive, they all agreed directly.
During the busy period of Zhou You's stay in Bolivia, another incident happened that seemed to have nothing to do with Zhou You, but it was closely related to Zhou You's interests.
In the selection of the Nobel Peace Prize in late October, Ingrid Betancourt won the Nobel Peace Prize together with Colombian President Uribe and the commander-in-chief of the guerrillas, Marulanda.
Their award also brought a glimmer of hope to the difficult Colombian peace talks, because Uribe's attitude was not so hard, and Marulanda was also very pleased that he was recognized by the mainstream European society.
The joint award of the three of them also means that the mainstream European society is concerned about and attaches importance to the situation in Colombia, and European governments have begun to tilt their resources towards this peace talks, hoping to end the nearly 50-year civil war in Colombia.
The U.S. government is quite dissatisfied with this result. However, Europe and the United States are not monolithic, and they each have their own interests.
In particular, Zhou You's now vigorously introducing small European enterprises into the South American market has also won a lot of praise from Europe, and as for the interests of American companies, they can't take care of it.
The time entered November, the signing ceremony between Nanyang Holdings and the Peruvian government, and the signing ceremony of Bolivia were held successively, the signing conditions of the two countries are similar, and the direct benefits that Zhou You can obtain are not much, but as long as this contract is signed, Zhou You's Nanyang Holdings will be at least within 20 years, which can directly affect the economic trend of these two countries.
In less than two months, Nanyang Holdings and mainland enterprises, European enterprises, South American enterprises, European enterprises and South American enterprises, mainland enterprises and South American enterprises, a total of more than 10,000 contracts, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia overall development, officially entered the implementation stage.
In this, the mainland enterprises occupy the most interests, because they occupy almost all of the shares, so the mainland government also strongly supports these cooperation, and the funds of the four major banks have also continued to enter South America.
Since the beginning of the new century, the hinterland's foreign exchange reserves have risen year after year, from hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign exchange reserves to trillions of dollars.
Due to the constraints of unfair agreements such as the Batumi agreement, many advanced technologies, including advanced technological products, have closed their doors to the interior.
So what can the mainland government do with so much foreign exchange? You can only buy basic resource products, you can only buy the national bonds of various countries, and you can only buy those expensive but useless luxury goods. You can't stop buying it yet, because if you don't buy it, the value of these foreign currencies may depreciate.
As a result of the implementation of these plans, in addition to the already listed CCB, Zhouyou obtained 3.8 percent of the shares from Huijin through the over-the-counter commodity trading market, and the other two major banks, Zhou You, each obtained 4.98 percent of the shares. However, Zhou You is also actively communicating with the leadership of CCB, hoping to increase CCB's shareholding to 4.98.
In addition to the four major banks, Zhou You also reached an over-the-counter agreement with Banco Santander of Spain, and through the over-the-counter commodity trading market, he took over the shares of 4.98 from the hands of the Spanish Reinsurance Group, becoming the fourth largest shareholder of Santander.
Santander is a major financial group in Spain and Latin America, it has a history of 150 years, and has more than 10,000 branches in more than 40 countries, it is the number one bank in the eurozone, the most important bank in South America, and one of the top banks in the world by market capitalization.
Zhou You's stake in Santander also added the most powerful tool to his business channels in Europe and the United States, causing an uproar in the European and American markets.
He has invested in the four major banks, including DBS Bank, and the financial circles in Europe and the United States are not worried, after all, the four major banks and DBS Bank have little influence in Europe and the United States, but Santander Bank is different, this is a commercial bank with extensive influence in the world except for North America.
For this reason, the U.S. government has exerted tremendous pressure on the European Union's Business Management Committee to veto this commercial resolution. At the same time, they are also putting pressure on Zhou You from taking out his stakes in Apple and Google as collateral in the United States.
However, Zhou You is now fledgling, and even if he does not mortgage the shares of American companies, the shares of Baidu and Tengxun alone are enough for him to pledge enough money to invest in these banks. What's more, Zhou You still has a golden rooster in his hand, and if he takes out the shares of Tmall as collateral, there will be countless consortia willing to take over.
So, the money is now not at all pressure on the trip.
In December, he flew between South America and Europe until Christmas.
At this time, Yan Fangqing also came to Peru with several children, and Paris also came to Peru from the United States, and they were ready to spend a leisurely Christmas in South America.
But Zhou You and Gracia went to the United States on a special trip, because on December 22, the prequel to Pirate King starring him and Gràcia was officially released in the United States, even if he didn't want to participate in the promotion, he should also attend the premiere.
In order to prevent the U.S. government from finding fault again, Zhou You's trip to the United States was very low-key, in addition to being inseparable from Gracia, there were as many as 16 bodyguards by his side.
In addition, this trip to the United States was under the flashing lights of the media throughout the whole time, and I finally left the United States without danger.
This Christmas, Zhou Yu took his wife and children to visit the famous ancient city of Machu Picchu in Peru, and then traveled all the way south into Lake Titicaca on the border between Peru and Bolivia, and finally arrived at the magical Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia.
The beautiful mountains and rich history of the ancient city of Machu Picchu, the vastness of Lake Titicaca, and the connection between heaven and earth in the Salar de Uyuni make the trip worthwhile for all of them, even the children.
Paris even suggests a trip to the Amazon forest to find primitive tribes who have no contact with the outside world. However, due to a group of children, this plan had to be cancelled.
In 2007, Correa became the new president of Ecuador, President Palacio was swept into the dustbin of history, and all the business plans were approved in less than a month, and the business plans of the South American countries were fully implemented.