Chapter 2802

After visiting the smelter, the two continued to take a carriage to the nearby mining site.

Compared with the last time Baikes came here to inspect, the production environment in the mining area has obviously improved a lot. There are no longer constant streams of freight carriages on the road, and the ore and ore are now transported out of the mine by rail locomotives with stronger load capacity.

District, transportation efficiency is far better than in the initial stage.

Beside the road, there are many miners' dormitories built by the government. Most of them are three-story strip buildings, built with blue bricks and wooden floors. They have a square shape and uniform standards and structures.

This kind of building originated from the collective dormitories where the early builders of Victory Port lived. It has supporting public facilities such as canteens, clinics, bathing areas, etc. Its construction cost and living cost are much lower than ordinary residential buildings, and it is easy to implement collective management.

It is especially suitable for miners, a group composed of a large number of young and strong laborers.

Chen Yixin introduced to Bai Kesi that Fushan Copper Mine is currently divided into eight mining areas, with a total of more than 20 large and small mines. Such miners' dormitories will be built nearby each mine to shorten the miners' commuting time as much as possible.

Most of the rural villages originally located between various mining areas have gradually evolved into small-scale towns due to the influx of foreign population and the growth of trade demand.

In the past, almost all local people made a living through farming, but after the Fushan Mine came into operation, it also provided them with more ways to make a fortune.

In addition to the most basic method of working as a miner in a mine and selling their labor force, smart people will sell their own agricultural products to foreign miners, or simply sell some daily necessities from Dengzhou City and other places. Nowadays,

Seventy-eight out of ten people who open shops and do business in these towns in the mining areas are of local origin.

Some people also saw the opportunity of Fushan County's gradual urbanization and sold the land they owned in the mining area to Haihan officials on long-term leases or buyouts, made a sum of cash, and then went to Majiazhuang and Zhifu Port.

Purchasing land to live in an apartment not only upgraded your assets, but also changed your identity from a rural landowner to a new gentry, completing a class breakthrough.

“The labor demand in the mines has created a large number of job opportunities, allowing us to accommodate the large number of people who poured into Tengzhou during the famine period. According to last year’s census, about one-third of the current permanent population in Tengzhou is in Tengzhou.

They are migrant households. And among these migrant households, about half are engaged in mining-related jobs in places such as Fushan Copper Mine, Zhaoyuan Gold Mine, and Longkou Coal Mine."

Chen Yixin said with pride: "It is no exaggeration to say that mining is one of the pillar industries in the northern region, and it has huge development potential. I think the executive committee should consider gradually moving some heavy industries to the north in the future.

Let these mineral resources be connected with supporting downstream industries nearby."

Bai Kesi nodded and said: "The Ministry of Industry will formulate relevant development plans. Don't be too anxious. Many tasks still have to be done step by step."

Regardless of whether the suggestions put forward by Chen Yixin are based on overall considerations or selfish motives, objectively speaking, they are indeed worthy of serious consideration by the Executive Committee.

The Northern Region is far richer in mineral resources than Hainan Island. In particular, it has the energy and heavy metal minerals necessary for the development of industry. The conditions are unique. Among the areas currently controlled by Haihan, it seems that there is no other place.

There are such complete natural resources.

If it were not too far away from Hainan Island, the Northern Region might have been selected by the Executive Committee as a key area for industrial development. But now as Haihan's control in the north has increased, external pressure has gradually eased, and various mineral deposits have also

After gradually entering the mining state, Chen Yixin believed that the conditions were ripe, so he naturally wanted to seize the opportunity to lobby Bai Kesi again.

Bai Kesi is in charge of industry, so as long as he can nod, the matter is basically half done.

While they were talking, the two of them had already arrived at one of the mines. After getting off the car, the official in charge of the mine was already waiting. When Chen Yixin made a gesture, he quickly stepped forward and began to introduce the production situation of the mine.

This is a mine belonging to the fifth mining area of ​​Fushan Copper Mine. The Northern Region Mining Bureau discovered the underground veins here three years ago. Then, after completing various infrastructure projects last year, formal mining began.

At present, this mine has less than 1,000 miners on staff. They work in two shifts and adopt the open-pit mining method. At full load, about two to three thousand tons of ore can be mined every day. Although this figure seems

It may not seem big, but the per capita output has actually greatly exceeded that of mines mined purely by manpower.

There are at least five or six mines with the same production capacity in Fushan Copper Mine. Of course, it was not for this reason that Chen Yixin brought Bai Letong to see this place.

In fact, this is one of the "new technology demonstration mining areas" set by Fushan Copper Mine. Due to its late start, it has enjoyed higher mine infrastructure standards from the beginning, such as various steam power equipment.

The rail transportation system, as well as the miners' settlements, were all constructed directly as standard configurations.

During the mining process, mines use a large number of steam-powered equipment, bucket wheel excavators, stone crushers, grinders, belt conveyors, and rail transportation systems. At present, almost all mechanical equipment used in mining production is

You can see it all here.

One of the necessary conditions for deploying so much machinery and equipment is that there must be enough engineering and technical personnel. The production supervisor said that about a quarter of the miners working here are skilled workers, and among them

Most people completed the entire training process locally.

These technicians not only know how to use these mechanical equipment, but can also perform basic maintenance and repair operations on them. Some of them have even obtained the title of mechanical engineer certified by the Ministry of Industry.

Of course, corresponding to the technical level is the high labor cost of this mine. The salary benefits enjoyed by these people with professional skills are often several times, dozens of times, or even hundreds of times that of ordinary miners, and all of them are

The living conditions required are also higher.

The miners' dormitories next to the mines certainly cannot meet their needs. Most of these technicians live in towns in the mining areas, and some even live near the more prosperous Majiazhuang.

Although the production level of this mine is quite good, it actually concentrates nearly half of the technical resources of the entire Fushan Copper Mine, and the number of mechanical equipment deployed even exceeds that of several mines with larger production scales. And this arrangement is

The purpose is also very clear, which is to prove to the Ministry of Industry that the Fushan Copper Mine has sufficient technical capabilities and that the Ministry of Industry should invest more mining machinery and equipment here.
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