Chen Lidong looked at Lu Jimin: "Leader, tell me, what does Garmu need from Donghua?"

Lu Jimin coughed and said slowly: "The city's intention is that Donghua will invest and support whatever it does.

However, I personally think that since Donghua has a background in steel, it is better to build a steel factory here. The railway from Garmu to Tangfan is about to start construction. If Donghua can produce rails nearby, building the railway will be twice the result with half the effort.

For many years in Garmu, steel had to be transported from Huangzhong, and the production capacity of Huangzhong Special Steel was also limited. We often lacked steel and iron, and it was difficult to build houses."

Chen Lidong said to himself that building railways was secondary, building houses might be more important, but he still nodded and said: "Okay, we will build a steel plant. I don't know if there will be any problem with the power supply."

Wu Shigang's face was as dark as water. I hired him to build a fertilizer plant and a magnesium and lithium plant. If you ask Donghua to engage in steel, isn't this a cut-off?

But Lu Jimin still said: "We are also short of electricity here, but there are some water resources here. Donghua can build a hydropower station here."

Chen Lidong thought for a while and said: "Hydropower steelmaking, I wonder if the power supply here is stable? Is there coal here?"

Lu Jimin said: "There is a Lucaoshan coal mine with reserves of hundreds of millions of tons."

Chen Lidong asked: "Where is the iron ore?"

Lu Jimin replied: "In 1977, iron ore was discovered in Kendekeke. A re-test was conducted in 1986. There is definitely iron. The extent of the reserves and the quality require further investigation."

Chen Lidong said: "Okay, if there are no problems with iron, coal, and electricity, we will come and build a steel plant."

Wu Shigang seized the opportunity and interjected: "There is no road at Kendecock."

Lu Jimin winked at Wu Shigang to prevent him from disturbing the situation.

But Chen Lidong said: "The lack of roads is not a problem. We can build it in Donghua. We can build a railway here. It will not be difficult to demolish the land and demolish it."

Lu Jimin said: "The land is easy to coordinate. I can guarantee that Donghua will not waste money."

Chen Lidong thought for a while and said: "Then I will arrange for the exploration personnel to come over as soon as possible. I suggest that if there is iron ore in the Kendercock you mentioned, the steel plant should be built there.

When it comes to hydropower, the water resources here are unstable... In fact, we can build wind power and photovoltaic power.

Also... the railways need to be repaired and the roads also need to be built.

Leader, how about we make the highway and railway lines parallel and design and arrange them together."

"Okay." Lu Jimin agreed.

Wang Yushun has been playing with his mobile phone, thinking: Are you sick when you come to my place to talk about steel?

He also doubted whether this young man was really the boss of Donghua, and Lao Lu was afraid that he had met a liar.

Mining, building roads, building power stations, and engaging in steel production all together will cost billions.

Looking at this child's boastful talk, is this what Donghua boasted about?

Chen Lidong still said: "Donghua also wants to invest in Yanchi.

Mr. Wang, the scale of your factory is a bit small. If you want to build it, you need to build it on a scale of hundreds of thousands of tons, and you need potassium, magnesium, lithium, and boron all at the same time to squeeze out the wealth in the salt pond.

I suggest that the city approves a salt chemical industrial park for us. Donghua will take the lead and integrate the small businesses, Mr. Wang will run it, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences will provide the technology.

We strive to complete the project and reach production capacity within three to five years. Potassium, magnesium, and lithium are all urgently needed resources for national construction. It will be much easier for us to build the country.

Once potassium fertilizer is applied, grain production will increase, making it easier for 1.2 billion people to eat.

Once magnesium is produced, it can be made into aluminum alloy plates. Donghua is researching new aluminum-magnesium alloys that can be used in electric vehicles, automobile plates, and high-speed rail plates.

When lithium is produced, we will mainly make lithium batteries. We have sent people to Dongzhu for inspection, and we hope to realize the industrialization of lithium batteries within one or two years.

What is boron used for? I remember Teacher Wu said halfway that a boron mining company in the Northeast had just stopped production and boron had become a scarce resource.

In short, there is a lot to be done here to turn the salt pond into a money printing machine."

Having said this, Chen Lidong raised his head and looked at the people in front of him.

He found Lu Jimin staring blankly at him, Wu Shigang was turning his head to look out the window, and Wang Yushun was fiddling with his mobile phone.

Chen Lidong immediately understood what was going on, so he laughed: "Haha, leaders and uncles, let me brag first.

Things have to happen one by one, like that.

Regarding the steel plant, I will immediately implement Mayor Lu's request and have the exploration personnel in place before the end of the month.

Can Donghua be approved for an industrial park in Qalhan Salt Lake?"

Lu Jimin said with some helplessness: "This area along the Salt Lake has been approved. Some are from the city, some from the army, and some from our investment in the past two years.

The price of potassium salt has increased in the past two years, and it will be difficult for everyone to spend their resources."

Chen Lidong said: "It can be arranged elsewhere,"

Lu Jimin said: "There is a salt lake that can be granted to you in Donghua. That place is called Yiliping. Wu Gong also worked there for a while."

Wu Shigang looked at Lu Jimin with an unhappy look on his face, and spoke in a very unfriendly tone: "Old Lu, we have known each other for so many years. Donghua is the investor I brought in, and Xiao Chen is the guest I invited. You can't cheat me.

people."

Lu Jimin blushed and retorted: "Why did I deceive people?"

Wu Shigang said: "We went to Yiliping Salt Lake last year. What did you say at that time?"

Lu Jimin asked: "What did I say?"

Wu Shigang said: "You said that is a place where birds don't poop."

Lu Jimin said: "But you said that the purity of metal element ions in Yiliping Salt Lake is higher. Haven't you been interested in it a long time ago?"

Wu Shigang said: "You don't need to tell me this. I invited Xiao Chen here. If you Garmu don't want him, we will go elsewhere."

Seeing that Wu Shigang was really anxious, Lu Jimin changed his calm attitude before and looked at Chen Lidong and said: "Director Chen, it's not that we don't support Donghua Investment. We were all excited when we heard that you were coming.

But the conditions here are like this. Although Qarhan Salt Lake is large, all the places suitable for building factories are occupied by everyone.

Yushun knows these situations best, come and take a look."

After speaking, Lu Jimin stood in front of the window, and when he saw Chen Lidong following him, he continued: "You can't see the boundary of Yushun's salt pond with a telescope, and he himself doesn't know where the boundary is.

To put it bluntly, there are no boundaries.

A salt pond must be at least two square kilometers, and the Xiqing Potash and Magnesium Plant in Yushun has approved 62 salt ponds.

The salt field on the other side of the railway was formerly run by the army.

It was transferred from the army to an individual last year, but I have never been in it.

Once the door is closed and the road is locked, then the whole area belongs to them.

There are also dozens of small salt farms that we have supported.

The development of Garmu used to rely on oil, but now it relies on salt fields.

Oil cannot be obtained locally, so salt farms are the way to enrich the people. Those who built factories to produce salt have also made great contributions to the development of Garmu.

To tell you the truth, during our meeting the day before yesterday, someone said that the capitalists saw the good potash fertilizer situation and wanted to come over to pick peaches.

Therefore, we welcome businessmen to invest, and we must also take care of local enterprises.

In terms of salt pool resources, we don’t talk about inside and outside, but there is always a first-come, first-served basis.

Xiao Chen, forgive me for saying it so directly, but this is indeed our difficulty.

The two main leaders in the city were embarrassed to say it, so they sent me to accompany them today.

But don’t worry, as long as you don’t squeeze into the same trough with these local enterprises to compete for food, I guarantee on behalf of the government that we, Garmu, will fully support it. As long as it is within the scope of authority, Donghua will be given whatever it needs.”

Wu Shigang turned his head and said, "What else does your city government have?"

Chen Lidong didn't want the two gray-haired old men to continue arguing, so he quickly said: "Oh my leaders, my uncles, you really underestimate Donghua.

We in Donghua didn’t just sit back and enjoy the success, no matter how difficult the conditions are now, can it be more difficult than when you started your business here?”

Wu Shigang quickly stopped what Chen Lidong was saying: "Stop, Xiao Chen, listen to me, Yiliping is really fucked up."

With that said, Wu Shigang stood up and took out a roll of maps from a cabinet in the corner.

As for the things in this reception room, he, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, knows better than the factory director Wang Yushun.

Wu Shigang spread out the map, pointed to a place and said: "This is Yiliping, this area is a salt lake, covering an area of ​​about 360 square kilometers, and there is no human habitation for dozens of miles around.

It’s more than 300 kilometers from Garmu to Yiliping. There are roads in some places, so you can just walk anywhere. And there is no water or electricity.

In terms of conditions, it is really not as good as the construction of Garmu."

Chen Lidong leaned over and looked at the map and asked: "This area is Yiliping, and there are two lakes to the east of it, which should also be salt lakes."

Wu Shigang replied: "That's East and West Taijinai Lake, which has been given to a foreign-funded company by the province."

Chen Lidong asked doubtfully: "Foreign-funded companies? Are they also eyeing Salt Lake?"

Wu Shigang said: "It is a New Zealand company. In 1997, our director participated in the International Salt Lake Development Experience and Technology Exchange Conference and introduced our survey results and industrialization advantages in Dongtai Salt Lake.

The New Zealand Pacific Lithium Company came over and after a round of inspections, offered to form a joint venture with our firm to jointly develop Dongtai Salt Lake and produce lithium salt products.

The two formed a joint venture in October last year and started operations in January this year. I originally worked for this company.

To be honest, Dongtai Salt Lake is closer to Galmu. National Highway 315 has been built to Wuzibao and National Highway 215 has been connected. It is only 60 kilometers away from Dongtai.

There is a natural gas transmission station nearby, which is convenient for producing power.

Moreover, from our technical point of view, it is more suitable to develop the lithium mine in Dongtai.
To be continued...