bonanza

Chapter 496 Scarcity

In addition, the development of coalbed methane also needs a stable environment, so it is time to plan carefully.

Yang Dongsheng picked up the phone and called Director Hu of the Guazhou Iron and Steel Plant.

"Director Hu, Happy New Year!"

"Mr. Yang? Happy New Year, Happy New Year!" Factory Manager Hu said on the other end of the phone, take something away, and then continued, "Why did you think of calling me today? Listen to what our guy said , you didn’t go back to Guazhou for the Chinese New Year this year!”

"I went to Hong Kong. Didn't our family get pregnant by accident? It's not good to violate the policy, so I had to go to Hong Kong! Let's not talk about this, just ask something, is the city planning to replace gas with natural gas recently?"

Although Director Hu is no longer the leader's secretary, he is still a powerful figure in Guazhou, and he still has close ties with the former leader.

The point is that Yang Dongsheng is more familiar with Director Hu than the new secretary led by Guazhou.

Director Hu smiled and said, "Not only recently, LPG is inconvenient to use. The main component of gas contains carbon monoxide, which is easy to cause poisoning. There are at least a dozen gas poisoning accidents in the city every year. Tar is also easy to block pipelines. The leader has always wanted to replace coal gas with natural gas, but the key is that we have no gas source! Last year, Huajing built a natural gas pipeline from the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Basin, and Shanghai will be able to use the natural gas from the Pinghu Gas Field in the East China Sea next year. It will be our turn!"

"What if I can find a source of energy?" Yang Dongsheng asked.

"Mr. Yang can find the gas source? Where is it, and is it convenient for transportation?" Director Hu immediately changed his tone.

"Does Director Hu know about coal-bed methane?" Yang Dongsheng asked.

"Coal bed gas! Didn't it mean that the license plate was blocked?" Director Hu really knew a lot.

"I heard from Mr. Whistler that he did encounter some obstacles before, but recently he got some help, and the license can be obtained after a year, but he is not planning to develop coalbed methane on a large scale!"

"Why?" Director Hu asked the same question as most people.

"Although the current coalbed methane mining technology has improved a lot compared with previous years, the cost is still higher than the selling price of natural gas. For every cubic meter of coalbed gas extracted, one cubic meter of money has to be filled in."

"So that's the case! Then what is he going to do? That new technology has to be tested, right?"

"During the Chinese New Year, I met with Mr. Whistler in Hong Kong. I heard from him that the places he is considering include Jin Province, Mongolia Province, Anhui Province, Guangdong Province, Yi Province, as well as our Guazhou and Lu Nan, prepare to choose a few partners from them!"

"Is that settled?"

"Originally he was most inclined to Jin Province, which has the most abundant coal, but it is too far away from several big markets! Now he is more inclined to Danxia City in Guangdong Province, Dachengshan City in Yi Province, our Gua Zhouzhou and Lunan, these places have coal and are close to the consumer market!"

"Both us and Lu Nan?"

"According to what he said, it is best to choose only one, after all, I heard that it is a big investment!"

"Then he..." Director Hu's tone suddenly raised.

In this era, only first-tier cities and developed domestic cities can attract foreign investment. Third-tier cities like Guazhou have never been able to attract foreign investment.

Otherwise, last time, a Hongkonger would not be allowed to play around with a set of lame tricks.

"Mr. Whistler prefers Lunan! Lunan has richer coal resources than us, and the potential for coal-bed methane is greater than ours! After I came back, I thought about it and told you about it. We should fight for it in Guazhou. The composition of coalbed methane is the same as that of natural gas. This thing can not only be used for cooking, but also can be used to produce methanol and ammonia, and can be used for blast furnace injection, which can not only save coke, but also increase the output of steel plants. In addition, Japan and South Korea are importing a large amount of natural gas, so as long as the cost of mining coalbed methane can be lowered, it will have a great price advantage compared with other places.”

Only scarce things can cause competition, especially in the current economic crisis.

Those two from Lunan and Guazhou are still not quite dealing with it. After knowing this, it's no wonder they don't fight!
How do they compete?

The easiest way is to win over Yang Dongsheng.

Of course they can also go to James Whistler, to be precise, they will definitely go to find it, but James Whistler will definitely not agree.

Yang Dongsheng had already figured out the reason for him—coal-bed methane mining is losing money now, and he doesn't want to make the scale too big and cooperate with more people!

"Thank you brother!" There was a sound of chairs moving on the other end of the phone, "I'll go see the leader right away!"

Director Hu has to pay attention to it. It was a large investment just now, and now he can earn foreign exchange. If he misses this, the leader will strangle him to death.

As for Lu Nan, Yang Dongsheng didn't call Lu Nan's Secretary Bai.

It would be too naive to provoke them now, as long as they appear in Guazhou and start developing coalbed methane, Lunan will get the news, and then they will give more coal mines by virtue of their resource advantages.

To be honest, it is a bit early to launch natural gas on a large scale at this point in time, but if it is not started now, it will be too late after a few years when gas is exported from west to east.

The next document is about Japanese experts.

"A lot of people have been dug out?" Yang Dongsheng asked with a glance.

There is a labor shortage in Japan, and many employees will be rehired after retirement. However, after being rehired, the wages of these employees will be greatly reduced, which is basically equivalent to about half of what they were before retirement. This is called the "60-year-old cliff" phenomenon in Japan.

At noon, I tried dessert in the company cafeteria, and it felt good, and someone sent dinner to the office for him.

After reading another document, Yang Dongsheng stretched, and the phone rang.

"Are you still in the office?" Zhou Ying's voice came from the phone.

"I'll go back when I'm done with this, you don't need to..." Before he finished speaking, Yang Dongsheng remembered that Zhou Ying was in Hong Kong, and Yang Miao was the only one at home now, so Yang Dongsheng hung up the phone and hurried home.

When Yang Dongsheng pushed open the door, he saw Yuan Rui and Yang Lin standing around the sofa in addition to a few servants.

"Let's go, sleep in the same bed with your brother at night, I promise not to be afraid!" Yuan Rui said.

"Let's go, let's go!" Yang Lin went to pull Yang Miao, and turned around to see Yang Dongsheng, "Master!"

Yang Dongsheng saw his son in pajamas, sitting pitifully on the sofa with a puppy in his arms.

After coaxing Yang Miao to sleep, Yang Dongsheng came to the study and just took out the documents when the phone rang.

James Whistler's voice came from the phone, "Yang, our coalbed methane mining license has been issued!"

(End of this chapter)