Chapter 332: The Struggle for Resources
After Zhao Ye finished speaking, he announced the official opening of the China-Africa Investment Summit, and representatives of African countries can come up with their own projects to find investors.
The African delegation also came prepared, prepared a lot of projects, and when they saw Zhao Ye step down, everyone flocked to promote their own country's projects.
"Mr. Zhao, we in Somalia plan to build a port, and we hope to get your investment!" The representative of Somalia just rushed to the front, looking at Zhao Ye with burning eyes.
When Zhao Ye heard this, his expression suddenly froze.
"I'm Cao, there are so many Somali pirates, is there a problem with repairing the port?" Zhao Ye muttered in his heart.
"Somalia is repairing the port, okay, I will send someone to inspect this project, if the inspection is passed, I think I will invest!" Zhao Ye replied with a smile on his face, Somalia's location is indeed very good, located in the northeast corner of Africa, guarding an important channel for world maritime trade, and more than 20,000 merchant ships pass through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden every year.
Through the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, and the Suez Canal, you can reach the Mediterranean Sea and go to Europe, which is a much shorter distance than bypassing South Africa.
Although Somalia is famous for pirates, no pirate organization would dare to attack the port, at least Zhao Ye had never heard of such a thing in his previous life, after all, the local armed forces that control the port are very powerful, and it is not something that Somali pirates can afford to provoke.
Although Somali pirates are famous, they are weak, and at most they plunder merchant ships, and if they encounter polar bear merchant ships, they may even be killed.
So, if you invest in a port in Somalia, it's actually okay.
Zhao Ye is not afraid of pirates, maybe he can let the Guardians of the Galaxy find an excuse to take the opportunity to strengthen the armed forces.
Zhao Ye is very interested in mastering a powerful armed force!
Returning to the China-Africa Investment Summit, Zhao Ye began to arrange for the company's investment department staff to talk about the project with representatives of African countries.
It is mainly based on the projects proposed by Wujiang Group itself.
Representatives of African countries came to participate in the China-Africa Investment Summit this time, in the spirit of taking advantage, so many projects are simply huge pits, and Wujiang Group is more willing to invest in its own research projects.
Of course, it is not necessary to sign an investment agreement at the China-Africa Investment Summit, and it is good to be able to reach an investment intention on the spot.
The projects proposed by Wujiang Group are relatively reliable, taking into account the interests of African partners and striving for a win-win situation as much as possible, after all, African countries are not stupid, and they are also very shrewd.
The world is bustling, all for profit; The world is crowded, all for profit.
Zhao Ye believes that as long as the other party feels that it is profitable, then the other party will most likely agree to cooperate.
African countries are now poor, so Wujiang Group has come up with several cooperation plans.
In a large meeting room, Wujiang Group took the lead in inviting representatives from the top ten mineral resource countries in Africa, South Africa, Congo, Guinea, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and other countries.
Zhao Ye said bluntly: "Hello everyone, the reason why our Wujiang Group took the lead in inviting representatives from various countries to come over is mainly because your country has rich mineral resources. We are willing to cooperate with other countries to develop mines! For collaborators, we are willing to give priority to low-interest loans to help them build railways, ports, highways, etc......"
Zhao Ye paused, gave everyone more than ten seconds to think, and then said: "Frankly speaking, it is very difficult for African countries to develop, but China is willing to lend a helping hand, and China is fully capable of helping African countries rise rapidly!" ”
"What European and American countries can't do, we can do in China!"
"What European and American countries are not willing to do, we China are willing to do!"
"There is no one in the world who knows how to make a country develop rapidly better than China!! We have an incomparable wealth of experience in China! Unlike Western countries, which became rich by colonizing other countries, plundering the wealth of other countries, and selling black slaves, we have become the largest economy in the world today by relying only on our own development! ”
When Zhao Ye spoke, he couldn't help but stomp on Western countries fiercely.
Many African countries still have a glimmer of hope for Western countries, believing that Western countries often provide them with assistance and that they are "good people" and trustworthy.
Zhao Ye believes that the terrible shadow brought to Africa by the black slave trade will not be completely forgotten to this day.
Sure enough, as Zhao Ye's voice fell, the faces of the representatives of African countries changed.
Zhao Ye knows very well that Western countries will not sit idly by and watch China's large-scale investment in Africa, and will definitely take action to obstruct it.
The West does not want Africa to be good, and at the same time it does not want China to increase its influence in Africa.
If European and American countries oppose the investment projects of the Borderless Group in Africa, then perhaps a few African countries will waver.
Zhao Ye has to make the image of Western countries stink, and he has to let Africa know that only China is sincere in helping Africa develop. Of course, while helping Africa's development, we also want to reap a little reward, that is, Africa's various resources and the African consumer market with great potential for the future.
At this time, the atmosphere in the conference room was slightly heavy.
Suddenly, the representative of Tanzania said loudly: "Mr. Zhao, we in Tanzania are willing to cooperate with Wujiang Group, our country has rich mineral resources, which can be handed over to you to develop!" Our country has a lot of trust in Wujiang Group and China! ”
When Zhao Ye heard this, he was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Thank you to the representatives of Tanzania for their trust in us, I believe that the cooperation between us will definitely bring a happy life to the Tanzanian people!" ”
"Mr. Zhao, Guinea is also willing to cooperate with Wujiang Group!" The representative of Guinea saw that the representative of Tanzania had already expressed his position, so he hurriedly followed.
Everyone is now very clear that the premise of cooperating with Wujiang Group is to first take out their own mine development rights, which is actually nothing for many African countries, and they themselves have no ability to develop these mines. Instead of guarding the mine, it is better to cooperate with Wujiang Group to obtain investment assistance from Wujiang Group in infrastructure construction.
"Mr. Zhao, we in Congo are also willing to cooperate!"
"We in Zambia are also willing to cooperate!"
“……”
Everyone scrambled to express their opinions.
"Thank you for your trust in Borderless Group, and you have all made the right decision!" Zhao Ye smiled, walked in front of everyone, and shook hands with everyone one by one!
For the specific details of cooperation, the staff around Zhao Ye will contact them one-on-one and discuss them in detail.
After a while, in the conference room, the delegates of various countries could not help but let out excited shouts.
The representative of Tanzania looked at the list of project cooperation handed to him by the staff of Wujiang Group, and the whole person was excited.
Wujiang Group has formulated a very detailed investment plan for Tanzania, involving dozens of industries such as clothing, food, housing and transportation, with a total investment of no less than 145 billion yuan, once these investments are fully implemented, Tanzania's economy will take off rapidly.
Other countries have similar investment plans.
Everyone found that the total investment of Wujiang Group in their countries alone exceeded one trillion yuan!
The abundant financial resources can't help but make them sigh.
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Next, the China-Africa Investment Summit frequently reported good news that Chinese enterprises and African countries have reached a certain cooperation intention.
It is not difficult to see that Chinese companies are still quite interested in investing in Africa, and the participation of Wujiang Group has brought them great confidence.
Western countries are not happy at this time, claiming that the purpose of the China-Africa Investment Summit is to aggravate Africa's debt crisis, but China is actually uneasy and kind.
The Western media steered public opinion and wantonly slandered in an attempt to sabotage the China-Africa Investment Summit.
However, this seems to be a bit futile.
Isn't China's real investment fragrant?
And by the numbers, Western multilateral and private creditors remain the largest creditors of African countries.
African countries are in fact still well aware of their situation, so they do not believe the nonsense of the Western media at all.
The week-long China-Africa Investment Summit went smoothly, with an intended investment of more than 1.6 trillion yuan.
Eventually, even partially, it will have a significant impact on Africa.
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Two months later.
The cooperation between the BJG and African countries is progressing very quickly, mainly due to the fact that the BJG has made sufficient preparations beforehand, and most of the projects are proposed by itself, and there are complete plans.
China's infrastructure teams have gone to sea one after another, and have begun to help African countries build railways and ports, and take the lead in opening up transportation to facilitate the transportation of minerals.
At this moment, the whole of Africa has started a vigorous construction!
In many places, slogans such as "If you want to get rich, build roads first" appeared.
At this time, Yinhe Mining Group acquired a lot of natural resources, not only iron ore, but also coal, chromium, asbestos, gold, silver, lithium, niobium, lead, zinc, tin, uranium, copper, nickel, diamonds and so on.
At the same time, the introduction of advanced mining machinery, drastic promotion of technological reform.
Such measures have unnerved the entire mining industry.
In particular, the Australian iron ore company is very worried that the rise of the Galaxy Mining Group will seriously threaten the export of Australian iron ore.
However, there is nothing they can do right now to stop Chinese investment in Africa.
Today, African countries are developing rapidly every day, and Chinese investment has brought great changes to them, and this change has given hope to the African people.
Ordinary Africans are very happy to learn on TV or in the newspapers that China is helping them build railways, build ports, build power stations, and invest in factories, and they can't help but look forward to the future.
It should be said that China's investment in Africa has also led to the development of the domestic economy, and many infrastructure-related industries have achieved explosive growth. At the same time, a large number of migrant workers have gone to work at sea and received high salaries, which has greatly increased their household income and consumer power.
It's not that they don't want to hire African workers, but the main reason is that African workers can't work faster than Chinese workers, and if African workers are asked to build roads, they don't know when the project will be delayed, and in the end, the construction cost of the project will greatly exceed the advance.
However, as China has stepped up its investment in Africa, many people in China have expressed incomprehension.
Why aid Africa?
Isn't it good to have so much money to develop China?
In fact, China has developed to the point where it has to compete for resources from the outside.
Whoever gets the resources has everything.
China is not a big wrongdoer, so how can it invest in Africa for no reason, and it is not coveting Africa's natural resources.
Fortunately, in this life, Wujiang Group is very powerful and invests a large amount of money in Africa, which allows Galaxy Mining Group to win a lot of African mineral resources in one fell swoop, including the Simandou iron ore area in Guinea, the largest iron ore mine in Africa. The mine has huge reserves and very high quality iron ore, which contains 67% iron, more than the 48% iron content of Australian iron ore, which means that more steel can be refined per tonne of iron ore.
Guinea handed over the mining rights to the iron ore area to Galaxy Mining Group, which helped Guinea build a 650-kilometer railway line and a modern deep-water port.
If Galaxy Mining Group develops the Simandou iron ore area, then there is no need to look at Australia's face!
(End of chapter)