After visiting Xinpu Town, the convoy headed east from the spacious highway sandwiched between wheat fields and headed to the beach.

After crossing the cover of the old seawall, two brick-red blast furnaces suddenly entered their eyes.

Xinpu Steel Plant and the coal-iron wharf with an annual design throughput of 10 million tons are under construction at this time. No one except the construction unit will go here without any trouble.

In addition to laying the foundation once in mid-May, Xie Zhi didn't take a look at this place for half a year. In mid-May, there was still no wasteland in this area...

The construction capability and speed of Meigang under the leadership of Chen Huai were perfectly reflected in the construction of Meigang No. 2. Otherwise, it would not have been so attractive to Siyumins, Feiqi Industrial and Zhongxin Investment.

However, Meigang Factory No. 2 is a short-process electric furnace steel project. The complexity of construction coordination and the scale of project are far less than that of a long-process blast furnace steelmaking project.

The Xinpu Steel Plant project, which has a long process design, has an annual output of 3.5 million tons of iron, 3 million tons of steel, and 2.8 million tons of steel, with annual sales of more than 10 billion yuan. The overall scale is five or six times that of Meigang No. 2. In Xie Zhi's view, no matter how fast the construction speed of Xinpu Steel Plant is, it is impossible to break the record of Meigang No. 2.

What's more, the construction land of Meigang Factory II project was pre-leveled. When the Xinpu Steel Plant project was launched, Xinpu only had 600 acres of industrial land, while the other 2,500 acres of project land were demolished and leveled after mid-May. During this period, the construction of a two-kilometer-long and seven-meter-high breakwater dam...

Facing the situation in front of you, two brick-red blast furnaces are particularly magnificent by the blue sky and white clouds. Next to the blast furnace are lined with steel structure pillars in the factory. The construction site of Xinpu Steel Plant is directly from the sea and sky, and there is no end to see. From the magnificent framework, anyone who has a little understanding of the steel industry can see that the civil engineering part of Xinpu Steel Plant has almost been completed.

Except for the waveproof dam on the east side of the factory area, there is no place with a wider view than the old seawall. Projects such as the water plant were built inside the old seawall. Shenhuai arranged a fleet to go up to the old seawall and introduced the construction of the Xinpu Steel Plant from a high point.

The steel mill construction site is beyond the reach at a glance. A total of twenty-six construction units are responsible for the construction of material yards, sintering, iron smelting, steel shaping, steel rolling and other operating areas. Large construction vehicles shuttle back and forth like beasts. In the late sunset, the shining welding flowers are like hidden sparks.

The well-connected construction road is like the blood of a giant, connecting Xinpu Steel Plant into one, coordinating and promoting it, and laying a scroll of the construction of a powerful steel city in front of everyone.

I do not want to arouse the deeper warning of my second uncle Song Qiaosheng and others, but Chen Huai must make the East China Railway Bureau, Provincial Guotou, Huai Coal Group and accompanying provincial bank officials be confident about the future of Xinpu Port and introduce them to the construction achievements of Xinpu Steel Plant with passion:

The construction of the breakwater dam, three construction units coordinated operations. On roads that are muddy and narrow in the rainy season and are difficult to unfold, they are carried out in sections, interspersed operations, day and night construction, and the machinery is not stopped. In just 50 days, the flood control dam with a length of 2,000 meters and a height of 7 meters...

It only takes seven days for the construction site to build a four-kilometer line for temporary electricity to connect rods to pulling lines; from a 5,000-ton material terminal to the factory area, it will be connected to a coal terminal in the future, a two-kilometer-long port railway, and the roadbed cushion only takes 35 days, from paving roads, rails to opening traffic, it only takes forty days...

The construction of two blast furnace foundations started in early June and was completed by the end of November...

In order to ensure that the project construction does not delay land acquisition, the staff of the two committees of Xinpu Development Zone, various bureaus, Xinpu Town and villages and groups have also drawn personnel from the Xiapu Party and Government System, and nearly 200 people were guarding the land acquisition site day and night to do their work from door to door...

Of course, the construction of resettlement communities in Xinpu Town is also rapid, with 2,400 resettlement housing units in two phases of the six-year period.

Excluding peripheral supporting projects, there are 9,000 builders in total, just the two construction sites of Xinpu Steel Plant and Coal and Iron Code, just like an ant colony. For half a year, they almost never bring a day of food and living at the construction site.

All participating construction units implement two shifts, one shift is 12 hours.

The Party A team and the supervision company led by Zhao Dong also ate and slept on the construction site.

The dismantling of the equipment of the Liverpool Steel Plant was originally scheduled to be the task of the West Oummit Industrial Group. Zhao Zhimin led Meigang's technical team to assist so that Xinpu can seamlessly connect the equipment installation.

However, Liverpool's demolition operations were obviously unable to keep up with the civil engineering speed here, so Siyumins Industrial Group had to recontract the demolition operations to Meigang for the burden; Meigang alone had an additional $4 million in revenue.

As of early December, Meigang has also invested more than 300 core backbones to participate in the construction of the operation area and subsequent equipment installation work. Next, a larger-scale recruitment work will be launched soon.

Siyumins originally planned to send a management and technical team of 40 people to Xinpu Steel Plant, but at this time it has voluntarily reduced the quota to 15 people. However, Shen Huai still only hopes that Siyumins and Feiqi Industrial can send two or three financial managers to participate in the management of Xinpu Steel Plant. Otherwise, the foreign side will be able to send an employee at any time, and the annual salary will be hundreds of thousands, which is enough to hire more top management and technical personnel in China to strengthen Meigang's team level.

"Our goal is to complete all of them next September. The completion here is the smooth operation of the main project, not just the completion of the main project," Shen Huai told officials from the East China Railway Bureau, Provincial Guotou, and Huai Coal Group. "The coal and iron terminal will be opened at the same time, and at least 120,000 tons of coke and 300,000 tons of iron sand and gravel will be imported through the iron and coal terminal. Of course, we expect that the Xudong Railway East Extension Line Project will take a year and a half. If it can be completed before September next year, then we can buy 120,000 tons of coke every month, and we can directly purchase it from Huai Coal Group..."

Shen Huai's words are still very attractive to the officials of Huai Coal Group.

In 1996, coke prices have reached a peak in recent years, exceeding 700 yuan per ton; after the completion of Xinpu Steel Plant, it will consume 1.5 million tons of coke a year, with a total value of nearly one billion.

For Huaimei Group, this is definitely a huge order that can allow their entire group to immediately reverse the current loss dilemma.

If we can ensure that this large order is supplied by Huaimei Group, the Xudong Railway Monorail East Extension Project with a total investment of only 300 million yuan will be no problem for Huaimei Group to invest and undertake the construction.

Although Huaineng Group is about to enter Huaixi coal development, it will take a long time to form a coke production capacity of one or two million tons.

Even if Huaineng Group is responsible for the coke supply of Xinpu Steel Plant in the future, as long as the Xudong Railway is connected to Xinpu Port, Huaini's electric coal, coking coal, coke, etc. are transported to East China, South China and even exported to Japan and South Korea through Xinpu, it will help Huaini Coal Group get rid of its current operating difficulties and enable its business to develop greatly.

As soon as the concept of Huai Coal East was proposed, Huai Coal Group and Huaixi local coal companies became the most determined persistent, and it was not without reason.

The construction of the East Extension of Xudong Railway is not difficult. The preliminary work has been done well, and the demolition work is also being carried out separately. Just wait for the East China Railway Bureau to release it.

The plan is to be completed in one year to one and a half years, but as long as the East China Railway Bureau provides approval documents before the end of the year, Shenhuai even bids for multiple construction teams to go online at the same time, and paves 30 kilometers of railway tracks in nine months and opens at the same time with the coal-iron wharf. It is not unimaginable.

The East Extension Line Project is a single-track and has limited capacity. However, even if Xinpu Port passes through the Xudong Railway in advance, only two or three million tons of Huai coal output will stimulate all parties to accelerate the promotion of the Xudong Railway renovation project.

Each ton of coal is transferred through Xinpu Coal Terminal. For the port, the income of only a dozen or twenty yuan is better than that of yuan. However, only when large-scale coal resources are transferred through Xinpu Port can Xinpu Port develop coal washing, coking and other related industries.

By then, the annual coal output of three to four million tons will increase by tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars for the port; and the most direct driving force to stimulate capital to enter Xinpu to develop and build more berth terminals is profit and more profits.

Officials from Huaihai Province Guotou, Huaihai Coal Industry and East China Railway Bureau all showed a look of eagerness to try after on-site inspection of the development and construction work in Meixi and Xinpu. Unconsciously, they surrounded Shen Huai among the crowd and listened to his blueprint for describing the future of Xinpu Port. All of these were asked by Song Qiaosheng to see.

Song Qiaosheng knew in his heart that not many people present really knew about the relationship between Chen Huai and the Song family. Even if they knew about the relationship between Chen Huai and the Song family, there was no need for people like Liang Daocheng and others to pretend to be like Chen Huai. At this time, they should be simply attracted to Xinpu or Meixi's development achievements and future development prospects.

Song Qiaosheng's face was the same, and he listened carefully to the introduction of economic development by local officials such as Chen Huai and Chen Baoqi. Sometimes he even asked some details that attracted his attention, which made people unable to see any abnormality, but his worries were aggravating.

In China, in an era where more plans are than markets, the exchange of political interests is undoubtedly the core cohesion that maintains factional existence; in an economic era where more markets are than plans, simple exchange of political interests has already been seriously insufficient, and capital maintenance or exchange and connection of economic interests appears to be more sustainable and resilient.

It is no wonder that the Ji system, which is so strong at the upper level, also worked so hard to promote the Shanxi Coal East Exit South Line Project.

Song Qiaosheng thought about his evaluation of the formation and future development potential of the Meigang Group in Donghua this time, and it was not accidental that Tan Qiping was forced to leave in the end, and that the Meigang Group could compete with Zhao Qiuhua in Donghua at this time.
Chapter completed!