Huaimei Group Coke Company carried out large-scale technical transformation, mainly to expand production capacity to meet the coke needs of Xinpu Steel Plant.

The entire technical transformation project is implemented in two stages, and the goal of adding 800,000 tons of coke production capacity will be finally achieved. It will be possible to complete it all after mid-October as soon as possible.

Xinpu Steel Plant began trial production in mid-June. If it goes well, it will be officially put into operation before September, but the capacity load will not quickly reach saturation. As long as the technical transformation task of Huaimei Group is completed before the New Year, the two sides will be almost connected. In addition, Xinpu Steel Plant's demand for coke is only one of the three suppliers.

Meigang has established a complete investigation and assessment procedure for the management of suppliers. In order to ensure the supply capacity and quality of Huaimei Group, Meigang agreed to have the right to track the technical improvement process of Huaimei’s coke company under Huaimei, and also has the power to investigate and evaluate its production, transportation and other aspects.

The first phase of the technical transformation of Huaimei Group's coke project has been achieved, and Meigang will also send someone to participate in the acceptance. Chen Huaimei received an invitation from Huaimei Sun Fujing two days ago.

The county is busy with affairs and can get out of the county. Chen Huai also has to ask his grandfather to sue his grandmother for Xinpu Refining. He originally planned to call before the ceremony to reply to Sun Fujing, saying that he really couldn't take time to refuse.

Now that Li Gu called him to meet him in Huaixi, Chen Huai took a bus to Xucheng first, accompanied by Wang Weicheng and others on the afternoon of June 9, and went to Xucheng with Cheng Yi to have dinner at his sister-in-law Song Wenhui's house. However, after meeting with Qin Dawei, he took a train to Huaixi at night.

Since the establishment of the coal trading market in Xinpu, the province has not only planned to quickly increase the total amount of coal transported through the Xinpu coal trading market to other provinces and cities in East China to a level of 5 million tons per year, but also increased the amount of coal transportation to both sides of the Zhujiang River with the development of cross-strait industries, especially the construction of several thermal power plants of Huaineng Group.

Chen Huai estimated that the amount of coal exported to the east of Huaixi City is likely to exceed 10 million tons this year.

The Zhujiangtan from Xucheng to Huaixi is in a critical situation, and the waterway is in poor condition, and the single-line railway capacity is limited. When the supply of the downstream coal market is less than demand, relatively high-cost road transportation has also become an important supplement.

Especially the highways from Xucheng to Huaixi are filled with coal trucks, and the expressway between Xucheng and Huaixi has just entered the survey and design stage. Chen Huai and his team switched from Xucheng to Huaixi, so it was better to take the train than to take the train.

The carrying capacity of a single-line railway is also limited. A section of the rail can only drive one-way trains at the same time. The trains coming in the opposite direction have to stop at the fork road to wait - less than 200 kilometers of railways from Xucheng to Huaixi, Chen Huai and the others took a nearly six hours before they arrived at Huaixi Railway Station at dawn.

Qin Dawei himself is a member of the Party Leadership Group of Huai Coal Group. After he joined Chen Huai in Xucheng, he came to Huaixi together. Therefore, Huaixi Group no longer had to come forward to receive Chen Huai. After getting off the train station, Qin Dawei had already contacted the group to send pick-up vehicles to wait outside the station. They got on the bus and left Huaixi City directly and drove to the coal area.

The mines under Huaimei Group are mainly concentrated in Fengcheng County, north of Huaixi City.

Fengcheng County, which has proven that coal reserves are as high as 6 billion tons, is a well-deserved coal industry county in Huaihai Province. At this time, it has formed an annual coal mining scale of 13 million tons, accounting for half of Huaixi City's coal production and one-third of Huaihai Province's coal production.

When I took a bus into Fengcheng County, except for the gray sky and gray buildings, trees, the roads and the construction on both sides, the construction of Fengcheng County was better than Huaixi City.

In addition to coal mining, Fengcheng's chemical industry, machinery manufacturing and other industries have certain foundations.

In addition to the main mines belonging to Huai Coal and Huaixi Coal Group, Fengcheng County also has dozens of private mines of all sizes. The active coal economy also brings strong incentives to Fengcheng's business and service industries.

Chen Huai and the others rushed into Fengcheng early. There were no pedestrians on the street, but from the signs hanging on the shops on both sides of the street, you can see how developed the business, catering, hotels and entertainment industries in Fengcheng are.

"I didn't expect that Fengcheng would be much more prosperous than I imagined!" Wang Weicheng came to Fengcheng for the first time. In his impression, Huaixi's economy was even more backward than Donghua. However, when he saw the streets and alleys of Fengcheng, it was much more prosperous than Xiapu Chengguan Town, and he was also a little surprised.

"Huaixi is rich in Fengcheng," Qin Dawei has been to Huaixi almost every two weeks in the past six months. In addition, his previous work in the Provincial Economic and Trade Commission was also mostly related to coal, so he is much more familiar with the situation in Huaixi, saying, "However, after the establishment of the coal trading market, a considerable amount of coal transactions exported from Huaimei and Huaixi coal to the east have been transferred to Xinpu. For Fengcheng, almost one-quarter of the coal trade has been lost, so Fengcheng's catering, hotels, entertainment and other industries have been suppressed in the past few months..."

Chen Huai smiled. Three months after the coal trading market was established, the monthly transit volume quickly increased to 300,000 tons, which led to nearly 100 large and small traders who mainly engage in coal trade in East China to transfer to Xinpu.

Zhujiang built two commercial streets developed in the east area of ​​Lingang New City. The total area is as high as 30,000 square meters. They are mainly used for community supporting services. The original plan was to rent and sell them in two to three years to form a certain commercial scale. In fact, these two commercial streets were rented and sold out in a very short time, so the contribution of these coal traders is very great.

Huaimei Group has its own hotel in Fengcheng. Chen Huai and others didn't sleep much on the train, so they took a break from entering the hotel.

It was not until 11 o'clock in the morning that Li Gu arrived by car, and Chen Huai got up and went to the hotel VIP room to meet Li Gu, Sun Fujing and others.

Hu Zhigang and Han Wentao were also in the VIP room. When they saw Chen Huai coming in, they stood up and greeted him. Chen Huai came to participate in the ceremony and met with Li Gu. Hu Zhigang and Han Wentao and others came here to represent Xinpu Steel Plant to participate in the stage completion acceptance.

"I set off from Xucheng at six o'clock," Li Gu looked at Chen Huai coming in, stood up from the sofa, pointed at his watch, and said to him with a smile, "I thought three or four hours were enough to get there, but I didn't expect that there were so many coal trucks on the road, so it was so congested, and the large-load coal trucks passed by, and the road conditions were quite bad..."

"Qin Dawei traveled to Huaixi many times and learned a lesson, so we took the train to come in Xucheng..." Chen Huai pointed at Qin Dawei and smiled and introduced their itinerary to Li Gu.

"I had known that I would have taken the train with you at night," Li Gu sighed. "If this situation continues, even if the east extension of Xudong Railway is completed and opened to traffic by the end of the year, it will not be much relieved..."

Chen Huai smiled and said, "After the East Extension Line is completed, the capacity of which can be supplied by coal will be calculated as 30 million tonnes per year. If it can be alleviated, there is no need for the Xudong Railway to carry out a duplex project. Only when the capacity of this line is getting tighter can the importance of the Xudong duplex..."

Li Gu nodded and said, "Xudong's re-track, the province and Huaineng are actively promoting it. The attitude of the Ministry of Railways is clear, but it was not included in the 95th Plan before. Now the State Council is stuck in large-scale infrastructure projects. It is still hard to say whether there will be substantial progress before the New Year. I am still afraid that the economic situation in Southeast Asia will further deteriorate and will affect the country again..."

The entire Xudong Railway electrification and double-track renovation will be nearly 10 billion yuan, and in recent years it will be considered a super infrastructure project.

Although Huaineng, Huaimei and Provincial Guotou are mainly responsible for the investment, the funds invested will actually come mainly from loans from various banks. The current economic situation in Southeast Asia is tight, and although there are still optimistic voices and opinions in China, the State Council is also a necessary precautionary measure to tighten the monetary policy in financial terms, but anyone who promotes it will definitely be released.

Thinking of the current tight economic situation, Chen Huai sighed and said: "The project approval of Xinpu Refining and Chemical Engineering has not yet been confirmed, and it may take some time to survive - but if there is a crisis in Southeast Asia, it may not necessarily be a disadvantage for the country."

"Oh," Li Gu asked, "what do you say?"

Changqing Group has made emergency adjustments to industrial investment in Thailand and Malaysia to hedge risks. It has entered the final stage in two months and there is no need to keep it strictly confidential.

"..." Chen Huai will adjust the progress of Southeast Asia's investment business during this period. He briefly introduced Li Gu and Sun Fujing, saying, "Changqing Group is still alert, including its recently invested and built large electronic manufacturing base in Xinpu, which is actually transferring their production capacity in Southeast Asia to the mainland to avoid risks. Changqing Group is still an isolated case at present, but there are also many things worth thinking about..."

"..." Li Gu nodded and waited patiently for Chen Huai to continue talking.

"If Southeast Asian regions, including Thailand and Malaysia, suffer a huge impact this time, will inevitably be affected by some domestic impacts, but it is more obvious that the domestic ability to resist shocks and have strong recovery capabilities. Therefore, when the entire Southeast Asian foreign trade industry suffered a heavy blow, if the domestic can withstand the impact and recover as quickly as possible, it can seize this market. This is one of them. When industrial capital, which is saturated in financial turmoil, flees from Southeast Asia, cannot float in the bank's account, and ultimately find a place to take root. Now, except for the signs of electronic information bursting, other industries are in decline. They cannot absorb such a large amount of industrial capital at once. This is another domestic opportunity. If we can be more proactive, we will obviously have more opportunities..."

"Oh, behind the establishment of Changqing Hongji Electronics Group, there are still these twists and turns. I didn't expect that it was to build a plank road openly and cross Chencang secretly..." Li Gu said with a smile.

"In order to prevent the large outflow of foreign exchange capital and cause a greater impact on its domestic economy, the Thai government has temporarily formulated many restrictions. Changqing Group had to think of some roundabout channels," said Chen Huai. "I didn't tell the truth from the province, and I was worried that the leak of the news would cause some unnecessary obstacles to Changqing Group's operations - the circle is really not big now."

Li Gu also deeply felt this and said, "I agree with your views very much; I will also tell Secretary Tian and Secretary Xu Pei to know..."

"I'm just a fool..." Chen Huai said.

"By the way, you mentioned just now that the approval of Xinpu refining and chemical project has not yet made progress. Where has the preparations for Xinpu?" Li Gu asked.
Chapter completed!