"By the way, Brother Yang, I don't think you are an ordinary person, and I haven't asked you where to go yet." Tong Haiyang looked at Yang Peiqi, and finally asked the doubts in his heart.

Yang Peiqi smiled and said, "I'm a jobless vagrant now, so how can I talk about it." ”

"Huh? You don't mean it, huh? Although we haven't known each other for long, we are also brothers who have lived and died together, so don't coax me. Tong Haiyang said in disbelief.

"Brother Tong often runs to our Jiangzhou? This Jiangzhou said very smoothly. Yang Peiqi listened to Tong Haiyang's call in Jiangzhou dialect and smiled, "However, I really didn't coax you." I'm the most upright person, and I never mean it. ”

The two looked at each other and laughed.

"By the way, Brother Tong, when I was on the plane just now, I listened to your tone, as if you had the intention of getting out of the current industry?" Yang Peiqi asked with some hesitation.

Tong Haiyang nodded and said, "I do mean that." The line I am doing now has made me miserable for the past two years, and I don't see any hope, in your Jiangzhou dialect, it is John Johnson. I'm worried, I don't know when I'm going to go bankrupt and close down. ”

"Then Brother Tong didn't meet anyone who took over?" Yang Peiqi asked.

Tong Haiyang sighed and said: "The mining industry has been sluggish in the past two years, everyone is not a fool, who will take over." ”

Yang Peiqi said in disbelief: "Not necessarily, although the economic crisis in the past two years has indeed had a great impact on the mining industry, but I think that an industry like mining will always have a market, and it is impossible to continue to be sluggish, right?" Moreover, since last year, the global economy has gradually begun to pick up, and I believe that in the next few years, the world will usher in a peak period of development. In such a situation, the mining industry should be very promising. ”

Tong Haiyang nodded and said: "Indeed, the economic crisis will end soon, the global economic recovery is inevitable, and the mining industry is indeed very promising, but that is for those mining giants." You may not know much about the mining industry, which is becoming more and more monopolistic. Under such a premise, it is difficult for a small shrimp like my company to survive. ”

After a pause, Tong Haiyang continued: "I don't know if you have found it, brother, in the past few years, the country has been intensively adjusting the layout of the steel industry, not only vigorously reducing the excess capacity of the steel industry, but also accelerating the merger and reorganization of the steel industry. With the development of the times, small steel has no room for development. As a result, there is no room for small mining companies like mine. ”

What Tong Haiyang said, Yang Peiqi understands something. Ever since he began to think about where he wanted to go in the future, Yang Peiqi looked up some information about the mining and antiques industry on the Internet.

As the most important basic material for economic development, people's livelihood and national defense construction, steel marks a country's comprehensive national strength, and economically developed countries have all experienced an important stage of development with steel as a pillar industry.

At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the founding leaders of China put steel in the same important position as grain, "one grain, one steel, with these two things, everything can be done." This quote from the founding head of the People's Republic of China shows us that steel is as important as life.

In the 30 years after the establishment of China, although the country's industrial base is very weak, but the steel industry has made great achievements, steel output exceeded 30 million tons, nearly 200 times that of the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, which has a very important role in solving the contradiction that the supply of steel in China is far less than demand.

After the reform and opening up, the steel industry has made a leap forward, ending the embarrassing situation of "hovering at low altitude" for a long time, and ushering in the spring of great development.

A set of data allows the world to clearly see the development trajectory of Huaxia's iron and steel industry: in 1996, Huaxia's iron and steel output exceeded 100 million tons, ranking first in the world, realizing the dream of the Republic for more than 40 years; In 2003, Huaxia's iron and steel output exceeded 200 million tons, reaching 220 million tons, in 2005, Huaxia's iron and steel output exceeded 300 million tons for the first time, reaching 340 million tons, in 2006, Huaxia's iron and steel output exceeded 400 million tons, reaching 418 million tons, in 2007, Huaxia's iron and steel output reached 500 million tons, and in 2008, Huaxia's annual steel output reached 502 million tons.

In 2009, the shadow of the financial crisis loomed over the world, while global steel production fell sharply year-on-year, while Huaxia's crude steel output hit a "record high" of daily output, with an annual output of about 700 million tons, a grim figure in front of people.

From the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China to the realization of the dream of 100 million tons, the Chinese have gone through a long 47 years, from 100 million tons to 200 million tons, and 7 years have been completed; From 200 million tons to 300 million tons, it only took two years.

The leap from 100 million tons to 100 million tons takes less and less time, people turn from euphoria to calm, to worry, and a reality is becoming more and more concerned and worried: steel production capacity is over. According to statistics, China's annual steel demand is only about 500 million tons, but the production capacity is as high as more than 700 million tons, a full 200 million tons of excess capacity, which is a very serious problem.

In such a situation, it is inevitable to reduce production capacity.

In order to achieve this goal, it is the best way to reduce small steel projects and accelerate the restructuring and merger of the industry, because this can not only achieve the purpose of reducing production capacity, but also compress backward production capacity. Because the iron and steel enterprises are very large Cheng dù is a scale advantage, the larger, the higher the management level, the lower the management cost, the higher the technical content, the more marketable products, then it is determined that the enterprise is vigorous, on the contrary, small enterprises from the scale, cost and technical content of the inherently have huge defects, in the management level of the vast majority of it is difficult to reach the level of large and medium-sized enterprises.

In addition, this is also related to the industrial layout of the country's steel industry.

As the world's largest developing country and the world's famous factory, Huaxia is undoubtedly the largest customer of iron ore consumption and the largest customer of the Big Three. In 2010, China imported 618.64 million tons of iron ore, down 1.5% year-on-year, but the top 20 enterprises imported 283.28 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 1.4%, accounting for 44.5% of China's total imports increased from 44.5% in 2009 to 45.8%. Among them, there are 14 iron and steel enterprises, accounting for 76.6%, and 6 trading enterprises, accounting for 23.4%. From January to November 2011, China imported a total of 622.01 million tons of iron ore, a year-on-year increase of 11.0%.

However, because of the early layout, Huaxia was not able to grasp the pricing power of iron ore, which caused huge economic losses to the country. From January to October 2011, the average CIF price of imported iron ore from China was US$166.7/ton, up US$41.8/ton year-on-year, an increase of 34.4%. Affected by rising prices, from January to October, iron ore imports amounted to US$92.99 billion, an increase of 48% over the same period last year. In 2011, the national iron ore output was about 1.15 billion tons, which was converted into a synthetic ore output of about 411 million tons, and the annual iron ore import volume was about 710 million tons.

If the production capacity can be compressed and the steel industry can be optimized, then it will not only be conducive to the price negotiation between the country and foreign iron ore giants, but also reduce the import of iron ore and reduce expenditure.

The adjustment of the industry is a good thing for the whole country, but for people like Tong Haiyang, it is a disaster. Because in such a situation, the living conditions of his company will become extremely poor. After all, those large steel companies all buy iron ore from foreign iron ore giants, who will come to a small mining company like you? The little bit of iron ore you produce a year is not enough for people to stuff their teeth.

In such a situation, unless these mining companies can take down a few large iron ore mines and increase the production of iron ore, there is only a dead end.

But if you want to win a large iron mine, you need real money, and it is hundreds of millions at every turn, can these small mining companies come up with so much money? Obviously not. As a result, small mining companies like Tong Haiyang have reached a dead end.

"Then Brother Tong means that if someone is willing to take over your company, you must be willing to sell it?" Yang Peiqi asked.

Tong Haiyang said without hesitation: "Of course, fools don't sell it...... It's just that where can a fool take over? ”

"Uh......" Yang Peiqi was speechless, and said in her heart, brother, I just want to be this fool.