The post and telecommunications office of the mining area is a four-story building with a bit of history, but fortunately, its signature dark green color made Zhong Bai find it quickly.

Compared with the post and telecommunications bureaus in other counties, the scale of the post and telecommunications bureau in the mining area is not small - because it is the largest rare earth production base in North China and even the whole of China, there is a lot of purchase and sales information to contact the outside world every day, and there are many telegrams to be processed, so it not only has more telephone lines, but also has more personnel than other county post and telecommunications bureaus.

Zhong Bai hurriedly climbed the stairs to the second floor, and saw a burly middle-aged cadre with a Chinese face standing in the corridor looking at him, this must be Geng Dali, the director of the Office of the Industrial Bureau.

He walked forward quickly and stretched out his right hand: "May I ask if it's Director Geng Dali?" I am Zhong Bai from the Tianhe Provincial Department of Industry. ”

"Ah, hello Section Chief Zhong, I am." Geng Dali stretched out his right hand at the same time, and suddenly a feeling of being pinched by a vise came from Zhong Bai's palm.

"I'm sorry for delaying your working hours, I believe that the comrades of your Autonomous Region Industry Department have already told you about it." Zhong Bai was quite polite to talk to strangers, especially strangers who needed help for him, and he was young and looked very bookish: "Then please trouble Director Geng to coordinate." ”

"You're welcome, they're all comrades from the industrial mouth." Geng vigorously took a step, made a "please" gesture, and then led the way in front.

When I came to an office with a "liaison office" hanging on it, there was a person sitting in it, who should be the person in charge of this office.

Geng Dali seemed to be very familiar with the other party, and said: "Lao Guo, this is Section Chief Zhong of the Tianhe Provincial Department of Industry, I brought him over to do something, and I need your help." ”

"Sit, sit." Lao Guo is obviously very good at receiving guests, and before he officially talked about things, he made two cups of tea very enthusiastically, although the tea is very ordinary, but the attitude is already very good.

After all, your Tianhe Provincial Department of Industry and the Mining Area Post and Telecommunications Bureau have no subordinate relationship, and doing this kind of thing is purely based on personal relationships.

"What is Section Chief Zhong going to do?" After the etiquette, Lao Guo asked slowly.

Zhong Bai looked at Geng Dali, and the other party nodded slightly: "It's okay Section Chief Zhong, just say it directly." ”

"I need to use an international phone that can reach the MD tonight......" Zhong Bai was not pretentious, and explained the purpose of coming here very concisely.

"It's not difficult, is it a business or a private matter? You need to register here. Lao Guo just frowned slightly, then took out a notebook and a pen from the desk and handed them to Zhong Bai.

In these years, it is indeed risky to suddenly go to the unit to let you make a transatlantic phone call at night, and it is not incomprehensible to register and leave your contact information.

So Zhong Bai took the notebook, quickly registered his name, unit, position and other information on the form, and then wrote down the words "private affairs" in the "affairs" column.

When he registered, Geng Dali and Lao Guo were idle, Geng Dali opened a pack of local common "Northland" cigarettes, opened it, and began to habitually smoke for everyone.

This detail made Zhong Bai realize that as soon as he entered the door, he was thinking about doing business, and even forgot about things like scattered cigarettes that brought everyone into the distance.

Zhong Bai has always been relatively well-off when he goes out, so at this time, he waved his hand and politely refused Geng Dali's cigarette, and said with a smile: "I thought neither of you smoked, come on, I have it." ”

After that, Zhong Bai opened his bag, took out two packs of unopened soft China from it, and handed them over to each of them.

There is a saying in these years, soft China jade stream, visiting friends is a good thing. As soon as they saw this serious soft China, the two of them accepted it with a smile after a little excuse, and the atmosphere in the office suddenly changed from the rhythm of business just now to the rhythm of private communication and opening the chatterbox.

"It's better for you to be treated in Tianhe Province." Geng Dali rubbed the plastic packaging on the outer packaging of Soft China with his hand, and seemed to have a lot of experience in cigarette tasting: "This is the original soft China produced in Hujiang, and we smoke Hongtashan at most." ”

Lao Guo took the loose cigarette handed by Zhong Bai again, and said with a smile: "Lao Geng, don't cry poor in your industrial mouth, aren't you going to give a large bonus at the end of this year, and you're afraid that you won't be able to smoke soft China during the New Year?" ”

"It's impossible to say about the bonus every year, where will it be like this year every year? These units in the mining area, isn't the treatment of each other clear? Geng Dali glanced at Lao Guo, lit the loose cigarette handed by Zhong Bai, lit it Meimei took a puff, and sighed: "The vast majority of what our mining area industrial bureau can manage is not those rare earth concentrate factories?" If it weren't for the sudden increase in production some time ago, they paid a lot of taxes to the mining area, not to mention soft China, and the bonus to buy Hongta Mountain during the New Year is not enough! ”

Lao Guo laughed when he heard this, and a smile of "everyone understands" was obviously shown on his face.

This conversation between county-level civil servants (the Post and Telecommunications Bureau has not been separated this year, and it is also in the establishment of the Eight Classics) originally sounded commonplace, but Zhong Bai keenly grasped some of the key information in it!

However, today I originally came to ask someone to do something, and others have already helped, so it would be too much if I deliberately inquired again.

So Zhong Bai pretended to say casually: "It's only a month before the New Year, why do those concentrate factories suddenly increase production?" Who still buys so many raw materials for the Chinese New Year? ”

The three of them were already familiar with each other at this time, so Geng Dali shook his head and said, "Section Chief Zhong, you don't know this." Your Tianhe province does not produce rare earth concentrates, but in our mining area, it is the main industrial raw material for external sales and the largest source of local tax revenue. ”

"We don't have many companies in China to buy this thing. The reason is very simple, it's useless to buy it back! Seeing Zhong Bai's deferential look, Geng Dali felt that it was a very long-faced thing to seize this opportunity to impart knowledge to a section chief in his province, so he continued to say: "The vast majority of the rare earth concentrate produced in our mining area is transported by rail, transported to Jinmen Port, boarded on ships and then sold to foreigners. ”

Of course, Zhong Bai knew all this knowledge, but he still put on a very interested look and asked, "Oh? Does that mean that foreigners have increased the number of purchase orders before the Chinese New Year? ”

"Not really!" Although Geng Dali is only the director of the office of the Industrial Bureau of the mining area, not a business unit, he has heard of this kind of big thing: "The leaders of the mining area recently came to our bureau for a meeting, and emphasized this matter, saying that there are several RB companies that have increased the amount of acquisitions at the end of the year, which involves foreign exchange, and there is no price reduction this month, and the top and bottom attach great importance to it, our Huaguo is not in good relationship with RB, that must be supported!" ”

As soon as he heard the word "RB", Zhong Bai couldn't help but "chuckle" in his heart, realizing that there was probably something that happened that he didn't know!