In fact, Yang Jing didn't like this kind of enthusiastic hospitality very much. But there was no way to go to other people's places to do business and even have to pick jade from others' heads. If this matter is not supported by the local government, it would definitely not be possible.

Hetian jade is also a resource, and an extremely precious resource. Although both the local government and various jade lovers have not yet begun to pay attention to the resources of Hetian jade, if you come to others to dig up such precious resources, you have to establish good relations with the local government. This is the minimum condition.

Especially Cole Smith, a foreign philanthropist who can be called a sucker, is now well-known in the entire Xinjiang province. Less than a week after he came to Xinjiang province, he threw down 30 million US dollars!

Even after thirty years, 30 million US dollars is a big figure, not to mention in this era, 30 million US dollars in inland provinces like Xinjiang Province is simply an unimaginable amount of astronomical foreign exchange.

This foreign rich man can donate 30 million US dollars in unrelated places. So when he arrives at his destination, he has to invest 10 or 20 million US dollars, right?

This kind of rich man cannot neglect him. If the foreign guests are unhappy, wouldn’t this investment be wasted?

In this era, government departments did not promote the "dgp theory". The top priority of government departments at all levels is to create foreign exchange!

Before 1986, before the promulgation of the Foreign Enterprise Law, all foreign capital introduced by China was joint ventures, and domestic shares must occupy a large part of the joint ventures. Although this ensured the security of state-owned funds, it caused overseas funds to have many concerns about entering China. After all, I invested a large amount of funds in real money, but I could not occupy the controlling stake, which made it difficult for foreign capitalists to accept.

This led to not many foreign capital entering China before 1986.

However, with the promulgation of the Foreign-Funded Enterprise Law, China also allows purely foreign-owned enterprises to be solely owned. In this way, many foreign capitals have dared to enter China boldly. In the past two years, more and more foreign capital has entered China.

However, most of the foreign capital is concentrated in coastal provinces such as the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta. Inland provinces such as Xinjiang Province, which have not yet fully developed resources, let alone foreign capital, even if there is not much domestic capital introduced.

Now suddenly, a foreign rich man who said he would throw away the US dollars in units of "ten millions". Why don't he be happy about this guy?

This is a foreign investment of tens of millions of dollars. Even if it is placed in coastal provinces, it is definitely a large amount of foreign investment.

Therefore, under the warm reception of the Hotan Prefectural Committee and many leaders of the Administrative Affairs Office, Yang Jing was really fainted twice.

However, Yang Jing came to Hotan this time to make a note and wanted to throw away money, so at the dinner table, Yang Jing had promised to invest no less than 50 million US dollars in the Hotan area in the next few years to develop local mineral resources. At the same time, he also purchased top seed materials and mountain materials.

Not to mention the senior officials of Hotan and the commissioner of the Administrative Region, even the leaders of Xinjiang province attached great importance to it and repeatedly asked Hotan to do a good job in reception and to keep the investment in Hotan.

As for people saying they want to mine mineral resources, everyone knows what's going on. Didn't this foreigner come for Hetian jade?

If you want to mine, then just mine, but if you can't mine it, you can't blame me.

Since ancient times, everyone has known that Hetian jade is a good thing and has high value. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, according to surveys, the reserves of Hetian jade in the Kunlun Mountains were also extremely large. A rough estimate is that it only contains at least one million tons of jade resources in the Kunlun Mountains, a 1,500-kilometer-long mining area.

One million tons is not a small number. You should know that the Tatleksu Mine entrance among the four major jade mines in Kunlun Mountain has been mined for 30 years, but only more than 3,000 tons of jade have been mined!

Moreover, this million tons is just a rough estimate. How many undiscovered mines are there in the huge Kunlun Mountains?

Anyway, for the Hotan government of this era, Hetian jade is an inexhaustible mineral resource. But everyone knows that if you want to mine so much jade from the depths of the mountains, it is not something you can do with just talking about it. Even if you invest 50 million US dollars, it would be amazing to mine hundreds or thousands of tons of jade at most.

Going into the mountains to pick jade is not something that can be done with money.

How difficult is it to pick jade in Kunlun Mountain? People who have not experienced it personally cannot imagine it.

There is a record in "Miscellaneous Notes of Bamboo Leaf Pavilion" by Yao Yuanzhi, a Qing Dynasty man: "In the southwest of Yerkang, the mountain is called Mierdai Mountain, whose mountain is stretched and does not know where to end. The mountain produces jade and is chiseled indefinitely. It is a jade mountain. The mountain is always snowy. If you want to pick a big weapon, you must ride a yak, carry a large nail and a giant rope, put a nail and hang a rope, and then chisel the jade. When you are about to fall, tie it with a huge rope, and slowly go down to cover the mountain, and you are afraid that the jade will suddenly fall to the ground and crack."

From this poem about the hardships of mining jade in the Qing Dynasty, we can see how difficult it is to pick jade! Although modern jade-picking tools have made slight progress, the improvement of jade-picking tools has not played much better in the mountains and roads, the air is thin, the environment is harsh, and the continuous snow-capped mountains.

Nowadays, jade must be transported out of the mountain, but it is still a donkey to carry the back. There is a rumor in the Hotan area, which describes the hardships of the jade picker like Yao Yuanzhi's poem: "A small donkey, two feet away, the short whip of the road, the three troughs are like the cold winter, the four seasons do not know spring and summer, the five seasons are in Kunlun, the six desires and seven emotions are thrown away, the beautiful jade is famous in all directions, and no one knows if it is a lifetime of death."

On the rugged and steep Kunlun Mountain, manpower is the only tool for transporting jade materials. If there is a slight mistake, the jade materials will be broken, and the personal reputation of the jade picker will plummet. The mining of Hetian jade has been very difficult since ancient times, and the manpower and financial resources have been invested. I don’t know how many dollars the jade has been collected over the past few thousand years, but Hetian jade is still extremely rare.

The locals in Hotan are very aware of this.

Therefore, the Hotan government happily agreed to Yang Jing's request. For these leaders, as long as they can keep the foreign capital in Hotan, it will be fine.

As for whether you can pick jade smoothly, how much jade you can pick, it has nothing to do with us.

Of course, the leaders of Hotan also kindly advised Yang Jing not to spend so much effort to go into the mountain to pick jade. It is not only dangerous, but also not cost-effective compared to investment. It is better to honestly purchase the best jade picked by the jade pickers from the mountain in Hotan. As long as you can open up the harvest, we can provide you with a variety of best materials.

In fact, the best jade produced in Hetian jade in the entire Xinjiang province is exported.

In the 1970s and 1980s, in addition to the best big mountain (large ornaments), Hetian jade used for export also had a large number of top-quality seed materials, mountain materials, and especially the big masses in the seed materials, "more popular"!

It is estimated that in thirty years, few people will think that in the 1970s and 1980s, most of the seed materials used to export foreign exchange earnings were "kilogram-level". This is "kilogram-level" seed materials. Thirty years later, a piece of "two-level" seed jade was the best, but in this era, "kilogram-level" seed materials could not be seen everywhere, but the quantity was definitely a lot.

In this era, complete kilogram-level large materials were the darlings that major jade carving factories competed to accept. In this era, the demand and value of seed materials in the domestic market have not been truly discovered and returned. Therefore, after these kilogram-level top-quality seed materials were accepted, jade carving factories generally tend to carve seeds and jade mountain pieces and are mainly used for export.

In this era, we can only say that people are too willful - the seed material is smaller, don't do it; a little incomplete, don't do it; a little blue, don't do it... The requirements for seed material at this time are "extremely harsh". It is conceivable that in this era, how many top seed material are there in the entire Hotan area!

But in the same way, because of the pursuit of export and foreign exchange earnings, a large amount of seed material was scrapped in this era, including many large fine raw stones.

Yang Jing also knew these things. Many materials in later generations mentioned the "stupid things" that jade carving factories did in this era. This kind of picky and picking, which is not the best, is a typical "squandering gift" after thirty years, which will make jade lovers point at the bridge of their noses and scold "slandering things".

Therefore, when the Commissioner Zhu Changhe, the Administrative Office, suggested that Yang Jing acquire finished jade carvings or top-quality seed materials from major jade carving factories in Hotan, Yang Jing agreed very happily, but he still had a small condition.

"Specialist Zhu, I can collect some of the finished jade carvings, but the quantity will not be large. However, I want seed materials, mountain materials, mountain streams or Gobi materials in stock from major jade carving factories. If you offer the price, I will collect them in US dollars. The price will be at the market. How about it?"

In this era, because the true value of Hetian jade has not been developed, the price of Hetian jade is incredibly low. There is a saying in the later Hotan area that can illustrate the low price of Hetian jade in this era. Thirty years ago, Hetian jade was sold on car skins, and now, Hetian jade is sold on Luke!

This is how different the price of Hetian jade will be caused by thirty years.

In this era, the price of Hetian jade is really low. Of course, the carved mountain is a different matter, but the price is far lower than that of later generations. As for the raw stones of this era, the price is really not much higher than that of stones...

That's why Yang Jing made such a request to Commissioner Zhu. Of course, the best ornaments have to be collected. Now, this kind of mountain is extremely rare in future generations. If you take out one, you can be called a national treasure.

Of course, what Yang Jing wants more is the raw stones and seed materials, even if the raw stones and seed materials that are wasted by the jade carving factories now, they will be priceless after thirty years of use.

"It's totally OK! Mr. Smith, if you have any needs, our Hotan Administrative Office will do its best to meet your requirements!" For Commissioner Zhu, whether it is going to go to the mountains to pick jade, purchasing finished jade carvings, or mountain raw stones and seed materials, it is a foreign exchange-making process! As long as you can keep the US dollar in Hotan, you can do whatever you say!

Commissioner Zhu’s words are not nonsense. Foreign exchange creation is the first! Foreign exchange creation is the first! Important things are said three times, and they are still common in this era.
Chapter completed!