Donbass coalfield, located in the city of Donetsk. It is the oldest state-owned coal mine in Ukraine with the largest reserves and the longest exploitation.

But unlike Huaguo, it is not a single mine, but is formed by large and small mines according to the topography of the Donbas region.

The smallest annual production is only 200,000 tons, and the largest can reach 9.59 million tons, which is almost 15% of the coal mining reserves in Ukraine!

Of course, Zhongbai's goal was not to drive the first batch of 500 DWX35-180/100X hydraulic struts into the mine, which had the largest annual output, because the chances of success were slim to none.

As with provincialization, the process of purchasing new equipment/accessories for large mining companies is not a hassle, it is long and cumbersome, you can think of it as bureaucratic, but in a sense, it is also necessary.

After all, there are many workers and large output, which is related to all aspects of the interests, and the new product, especially a new product related to safety production, will be handled with an extremely cautious attitude in any large mine.

Yu Dongfeng and Wu Xiaoping quickly obtained the information of more than 20 mines in the Donbas coal mine through investigation, compiled them into a document and handed it to Zhong Bai.

And Zhong Bai has not been idle in the past two days, taking advantage of the investigation of Yu Dongfeng and the others, he and Jiang Xinpeng went to the Donetsk City Library to borrow the local geography and hydrological data of the Donbas coal mine, and carefully studied and pondered.

In order to efficiently find the next home of these DWX35-180/100X hydraulic struts, Zhong Bai directly removed the five largest and highest-producing underground coal mines from the candidate list.

Because Ivan, the old director of the Udier factory, was too enthusiastic, and the first batch of products had already been produced, Zhong Bai was really embarrassed to disturb the other party, so he moved out of the factory guest house, and the group came to the vicinity of some mines in Shinan District, near some mines, and found a small local hotel to live in.

Here I have to mention the concept of Donbass coal mine, its full name should actually be called Ukrainian Carboniferous Coalfield, referred to as Donbass (Донбасс).

This coalfield is located in the east of the Republic of Ukraine, extending from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast to the east, through Donetsk Oblast, Kharkiv Oblast, Voroshilovgrad Oblast, until Rostov Oblast, Russian Federation, 650km long from east to west, 70~170km wide from north to south, with an area of about 60,000 square kilometers, it is the largest and longest coal mining history in Ukraine.

Because the coalfield is located in the industrial center of the western part of the Soviet Union and the coking coal reserves are relatively rich, the degree of development is very high, and the total coal output and anthracite and coking coal production have always ranked first in the Soviet Union.

Therefore, the Donbas coalfield is actually a very broad area, and it is not confined to a certain city as some large coal mines in China imagined.

Its overall shape, projected on the map, resembles a long biscuit lying horizontally, and the city of Donetsk is to the right of this biscuit.

The area chosen by Zhong Bai is the area in the lower right corner of the Donbas coal mine, that is, near the city of Donetsk, where the scale of the mine is small, with a total of four small and medium-sized underground mines.

Obviously, Zhong Bai's purpose is to find one of these four small and medium-sized underground mines as a receiver for the purchase of DWX35-180/100X hydraulic struts.

Brown brought up the steaming coffee, handed it to Zhong Bai, who was still reading on the table with his head down, and said with a smile: "Why do you Chinese people work so hard?" Zhong, I see you haven't moved your ass for three hours, so why don't you take a break and have a cup of coffee? ”

Zhong Bai took the coffee in his hand, looked up and said: "Time waits for no one, every day we live here now, we have to bear the cost of 300 rubles more, and these costs can be reduced by our efforts to shorten the time." By the way, our country is not as rich as your France, and the concept of working hours is not as liberal as that of you French. ”

Of course, this is Zhong Bai's casual complaint, but looking at the whole of Europe, I am afraid that except for the romantic and enthusiastic Italians, the average working hours of the French are the shortest, of course, this is also related to their long long labor movement, workers always like to use strikes to demonstrate to the management, in order to maximize the welfare of the employed.

Brown didn't care about Zhong Bai's complaints, anyway, the French people's favorite thing is self-complaining, he nodded and said: "We have been studying these materials together for half a day yesterday, even if the goal can only be set in the current four small and medium-sized underground mines, then let's go to the door one by one to negotiate with them?" ”

Zhong Bai shook his head, and said in his heart that it is really extremely difficult to explain to this Frenchman who is engaged in technology that research and sales are completely different two jobs, he can only say helplessly: "The environment of each country is different, Brown, you have to be clear, the mines in Ukraine are all state-owned or collectively owned, similar to the situation in our country, but it is completely different from your private mines in France, if we try one by one, as long as the first one refuses, then this news will quickly spread among them, The rest of the work will only be more difficult, so we can only choose one and try to achieve success at the first time with full preparation! ”

This kind of logical explanation is obviously not what the French want to hear, in fact, in addition to being able to patiently listen to Zhong Bai's various opinions on technical and professional issues, whenever he thinks about the problem, he thinks of it one by one, so after these words came out, Brown obediently shut up.

However, Ricky was a little more sensible, he understood what Zhong Bai meant, and also put forward some of his own constructive points: "Then, Zhong, we should send a few people to several mines to actually understand the situation, even if we don't communicate with them, we can get richer and more effective information......"

Zhong Bai obviously felt that the thinking of the two Frenchmen was not on the same plane as his, so he could only shrug his shoulders helplessly, and said: "I can only say that you have a very collectivist spirit for countries like the Soviet Union and Huaguo...... I don't know much. We don't have a lot of cards in our hands right now, and we have to do it with the utmost caution in order to make sure we sell these things first-time, otherwise we ......"

"How else?" Wu Xiaoping, who was on the side, grabbed a piece of Leba and stuffed it into his mouth and asked.

Zhong Bai's expression became serious: "Otherwise...... We will have all 500 DWX35-180/100X hydraulic struts in our hands, and in the future, not a single Ukrainian mine will buy it. Not only in Donetsk, but even in other cities, and in other oblasts! ”