Chapter 690: The Long-Term of Xinguang

With the soaring price of wood pulp and driven by economic interests, local governments are eager to introduce large-scale forest and paper integration projects, especially areas with a large amount of forestry land, including Jiangnan Province.

Forest and paper integration is a capital-intensive project with huge investments. A 100,000-ton wood pulp pulping project requires less than 80 billion yuan of investment. In addition to supporting investments for transportation and storage, the investment scale is even more pampered.

The key is to ensure that enough raw wood is supplied first. The 100,000-ton wood pulp pulping project requires 400,000 cubic meters of wood supply every year. Based on the eight to ten-year production cycle of Sufenglin, 400,000 mu of forest land is required.

It is true that the domestic illegal logging phenomenon is serious, and the local government's ban is not enough, but it does not mean that others are messing around, and everyone can follow the troubled waters to catch up.

Once the investment scale is over one billion or even billions of resource-consuming projects, once proposed, it is destined to attract the attention of the media and the public, and the state will not place the approval authority for these projects to the local area. The forest and paper integration project still wants to obtain sufficient raw wood supply from the few remaining natural forests. Wouldn’t it be that it wants to drown?

Whether it is the central government or local governments, the first step in the forest and paper integration strategy is to build large-scale forests and create fast-growing forests with short growth periods and high economic benefits. On the other hand, the soaring price of wood pulp has also prompted a sharp rise in domestic wood prices.

In the mid-to-late 1990s, domestic papermaking enterprises were still in the early stages of technological upgrading and large-scale development. There were only a handful of papermaking enterprises with assets of more than one billion yuan, and the forest and paper integration projects with assets of tens of billions or tens of billions were a bit unattainable for domestic pulping companies.

The Asian economy and financial situation continue to deteriorate. It is not easy for Asian papermaking companies that have developed rapidly in the past decade to survive the crisis. How could they boldly carry out investment projects that cost billions or tens of billions of dollars?

In this context, Shinkong Paper, which is supported by Kumho, looks shining brightly.

In the past year and a half, Xinguang Paper plans to build three million mu of fast-growing forests in Donghai Province, which has completed nearly half of them so far.

Such a fast camp speed is almost unimaginable without Xu Hongbo's participation.

Song Zhiyou may have rich experience and knowledge in management and professionalism, but how to use the power of local governments, or even gather forces from townships, villages and other parties to requisition wasteland forests for planting fast-growing trees in a major battle, Xu Hongbo played an irreplaceable role for others.

Zhang Yi has been following Xu Hongbo for more than half a year. He is very thin and calm, and no longer as frivolous as he was when he was twenty. If his parents hadn't been trolling Liu Ting this time, he would have been following Xu Hongbo outside; at this time, he had to return to Haizhou to support Liu Ting.

Xu Hongbo disagreed with joining Xinguang Paper. His hard work and his running around were just to agree to end the vegetation in the upper reaches of the river after it was basically improved, and he would not receive any reward. He only required Xinguang Paper to plant mixed-grown forests with little negative impact on the environment as much as possible.

Xu Hongbo is a non-staff member, and Zhang Yi is naturally a non-staff member.

Over the years, after Xinguang Paper has formed a complete forest construction team, the work is progressing faster and faster, and the remaining forest construction tasks can almost be completed before next year's rainy season. At this time, if you are not in a hurry to start pulping projects, you need to start expanding the forest area to other provinces and cities.

According to his original promise, Xu Hongbo would stand by and leave at any time.

Zhou You and Song Zhiyou were so anxious, but Zhang Ke knew that the profits of merchants could not keep Xu Hongbo. Zhang Yi also experienced with Xu Hongbo. Even if Xu Hongbo returned to Haizhou to take care of the care of the emperor, Zhang Yi could still let his uncle arrange it into his company.

Zhang Ke was very at ease with Xu Hongbo's stay and if Xu Hongbo wanted to stay in Haizhou, he would meet him for more questions, but now he should be concerned about the next expansion of Xinguang Paper.

Jiangnan Province and Donghai Province are both in the Xiaojiang River Basin. The water transportation system with Xiaojiang as the main stream extends to almost every corner of the two provinces. Using cheap Xiaojiang water transportation, the forest farm raw wood can be easily transported. The plan is to build a pulping factory in a city downstream of the Xiaojiang River to form a complete industrial chain.

After the forest camping mission in Donghai Province is about to be completed, the best expansion site will naturally be Jiangnan Province.

Jiangnan Province and Donghai Province are generally bounded by Xiaojiang, but Donghai Province occupies a large area in the Xiaojiang River Basin. Among the nine counties along the upper reaches of the Xiaojiang River, Donghai Province occupies seven counties. The rampant deforestation that began in the mid-to-late 1980s is not unique in the East China Sea, and the situation in Jiangnan Province is not better.

In early 1996, Xu Xueping made a fuss and opened the cover of the forestry system of Donghai Province. Jiangnan Province naturally could not cover it if he wanted to cover it. He was implicated and was criticized by the State Council. In the past two years, Jiangnan Province has done some work on the ban on cutting and logging, and also paid attention to the protection of natural forest resources. However, no enterprises like Xinguang Paper do their own initiative to take the responsibility of forest building. Jiangnan Province's investment in funds is much more pitiful than Xinguang Paper. Not only did the capital investment be less, but the one-size-fits-all ban on cutting and logging was banned from the one-size-fits-all ban on forestry enterprises and forest farms find it extremely difficult to find employment after layoffs, and many problems have been accumulated.

In this regard, Jiangnan Province also needs Xinguang Paper to promote its forestry business plan at this time, which not only improves forestry investment and improves the environment, but also promotes the reemployment of laid-off workers in the former forestry enterprises and forest farms.

Zhang Ke asked Zhou You and Song Zhiyou and the others to start planning this matter. Zhang Ke asked Zhang Yi to take the collected information for him yesterday, but he took the reason for contact with Zhang Yi. Zhang Yi rushed over. Not long after, Zhou You, who was in Haizhou, also ran over.

During this period, Zhang Ke has not focused on Xinguang Paper. It is rare that he wants to care about the development of Xinguang Paper, and he is eager to come over.

"We contacted local officials in Jiangnan, and they seemed to be more interested in the pulping project of Xinguang Paper..." Zhang Yi had almost never had the opportunity to talk to Zhang Ke about work. Zhang Ke's specific business talent no longer needs to be surprised or praised. At this time, the shining Jinhu was just a brilliant halo of his business talent.

"Oh..." Zhang Ke nodded. If it were someone else, he wouldn't explain much. He didn't want Zhang Yi to think he was too cold. He explained a little, "The pulp project proposed in the early last year with the Yinglin Plan has a planned investment scale of 500 million yuan. This is also the key to the conflict between Jinhu and Li Yuanhu at the beginning of this year. However, the conflict has not intensified and has not been made public. It only circulated in a very narrow and controlled range. The officials of the city and county in the south do not know and there is no fuss. From the advantageous perspective of environmental protection, the pulp factory will eventually choose to build the area near the sea, and it is not enough for them to be interested..." He stretched his waist and told Zhou Hao, "We don't need any tricks, right?"

"Indeed." Zhou You said with a smile.

A year ago, in order to promote forest camping, we did not hesitate to hang the pulp project high to attract the place. At this time, Jinhu was considered a climate, and the integration of forest and paper into a bun, so there was no need to continue to use these tricks.

Zhang Ke smiled and talked about the recent changes in officials of the Jiangnan Provincial Party Committee.

Since meeting Yao Wensheng's uncle Chen Xinmin half a month ago, just half a month later, Chen Xinmin, deputy secretary of the Jiangnan Provincial Party Committee, was transferred out of Jiangnan Province. The central government has significantly adjusted the organizational structure of the Jiangnan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government. Zhou Jinyu served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Executive Vice Governor, which has taken a steadily step forward.

But the forestry department of Jiangnan Province became the department under Zhou Jinyu's charge, which made Zhang Ke very depressed. The forestry work was very wide and was slapped by the government departments. He looked through these information and it was all affected by the local regulations of Jiangnan Province and the future forestry work. He found that there was no good cooperative relationship with the government, and the work was really difficult to advance. He held the back of his head with his hands and leaned on the back of the sofa and said, "Have you ever considered bypassing Jiangnan Province first and pushing the forestry work to the southwest forestry resource province first..."

Xu Hongbo is still in Jianye, and Zhang Ke has not had time to take time to have a good chat with him in the past month.

Zhou You said: "Teacher Xu analyzed that the Executive Vice Governor may be Zhou Jinyu's transitional position. After all, Zhou Jinyu has a strong ability in regional economic affairs, and the support behind the Zhou family, and the trends of the Zhengtai Group and its subordinate members are mostly concentrated in Kingsoft City, which is likely to quickly transition to the position of Secretary of the Kingsoft City Party Committee, and the appointment is likely to be implemented before the New Year."

Zhang Ke also had this idea. As the capital city of Jiangnan Province, Kingsoft enjoys administrative treatment at the vice-provincial level. Zhou Jinyu served as the secretary of the Jinshan Municipal Party Committee. His power may be more realistic than the so-called executive vice governor. However, in this way, it will not add much obstacle to Xinguang Paper's forestry plan in Jiangnan Province. At most, it will be impossible to bypass Kingsoft.

Zhou You said again: "But there are large areas of lakes suitable for planting around Jinshan Lake..."

"You bullied me and didn't understand the environment, right?" Zhang Ke glared at Zhou You, "Jinshan Lake Beach is a wetland environment. If you really want to transform it into a Sufeng forest, that's a sin. You can follow the previous plan and walk around Kings Mountain..."

Speaking of the original plan, Zhou You discussed with Zhang Ke about cooperation with Guo Yunyuan Group.

After Xinguang Paper spent US$100 million to acquire 30% of the pulp factory under Guo’s Yunyuan Group, the economic situation in Southeast Asia continued to deteriorate. In addition to continuing to raise funds, Guo Songyan also decided to close part of the production capacity of his factory to relieve pressure, including part of the production capacity of the Paper Group under Yunyuan Group.

At this time, Zhou You proposed whether Xinguang Paper had any suggestions to Yunyuan Group for transferring this part of its production capacity to Haizhou to build a joint venture factory. Zhou You said: "Guo's factory in Malaysia is closed, and equipment depreciation will continue. The mainland market and the labor prices that are much cheaper than Malaysia can all tempt Guo Songyan to transfer part of the paper production capacity to Haizhou. Moreover, Yunyuan Group has also begun to cooperate closely with Yuexiu Company, which is a Kumho Holdings, in the fab project..."

When Zhang Ke heard Zhou You tell him about his plan, he gently tapped the glass table with his fingers, occasionally touching his nose with his fingers, and said, "How is that?"

"The Guo family has always been optimistic about the mainland market, and they have also taken the initiative to hint at such an intention..."

"Oh," Zhang Ke knew that due to the impact of the economic crisis, it may take about a year for Malaysia to get out of the trough, and Guo Songyan would not be particularly pessimistic about Malaysia's economic situation. "They have this idea, so they should be more optimistic about the mainland market..." After thinking for a moment, he said, "Okay, you can make contact in this area, don't go through, you need to transfer something with a little technical content over here. We can provide factories and be familiar with workers..."

Papermaking is a capital-intensive industry, with technical requirements that are not strict and far from being compared with consumer electronics, and is not a strictly controlled technology. If it can cooperate with the Paper Group under Guo Shi Yunyuan Group, it will almost meet all technical needs. In the past three years, Xinguang Paper has absorbed almost all the technical forces and skilled workers of Haizhou Paper Industry, so it is not a big problem to adopt comprehensive cooperation with Guo Shi Yunyuan Group.

Zhang Ke also said: "The pulping project will be invested in Haizhou at the right time. If the forestry construction work can be smoothly promoted to Jiangnan Province and the scale of the pulping project is still huge, it will require huge paper production capacity and pulping projects to maximize the scale benefits of forest and paper integration. I plan to finally form a production capacity of more than 20 billion yuan in the Xiaojiang River Basin, including forestry, pulping, papermaking, etc. This production capacity must be mainly released in Haizhou. Of course, Xinguang Paper's goal this year is to achieve output value of 1 billion. After all, the production capacity of the second phase project has just been released. The goal next year is to increase to 2.5 billion. All this is still a distance from this goal..."

"It turns out that the distance is not close..." Zhou You said with a smile.

Zhou Fu and Zhang Yi sat aside, barely interjecting.

Zhou Fu remembered that he first met Zhang Ke three years ago, but because employees of Xinguang Paper Factory blocked the road and blocked the road behind Xinhaitong Building. At that time, he never dreamed that Xinguang would never have the scenery at this time, but at this time, Xinguang was still far from the target in the eyes of this young man under the age of twenty. He could never imagine how big his heart was... From his tone, this was just the investment scale in the Xiaojiang River Basin.

Zhang Yi knew very well that he would not stay in Kumho's system in the future, but being able to participate in such negotiations would undoubtedly be a kind of affirmation. When he remembered all the past, he felt very happy.

Zhang Ke did not go to see Zhou Fu, and Zhang Yi's expression, but only talked to Zhou You: "To achieve this goal, Xinguang Paper still needs to rely on many aspects of strength. I think Xinguang can formulate a five-year or ten-year plan..." He did not say, "As long as this goal is achieved, it will almost eliminate the backward and heavily polluted paper production capacity of the Xiaojiang River Basin." This is not something that Xinguang Paper, as a company itself, needs to consider.

Last night, Zhang Ke made an appointment with Ding Wenxiang, the boss of Xinyuan Electric Appliances, to invite him to have tea in the afternoon, and did not make a specific appointment. He and Zhou You and others exchanged views on the future development of Xinguang Paper Industry, and asked Zhou Fu and Zhang Yi to go back first, stay Zhou You for other things, and did not mention lunch. Zhang Ke himself did not know how to solve the problem of lunch. Wan Qing was in school, so there was no need to drive Zhou You away again. If he drove him away, no one would have had lunch with him. Last night, he deliberately asked Ma Hailong not to come in the morning.

Just after twelve o'clock, Zhang Ke and Zhou You interrupted the conversation and planned to go out and find a place to eat. Ding Wenxiang came to the door. This time, his shy and beautiful niece Ding Lihua did not come, but Ding Lihua's boyfriend Zhou Xiaobing followed Ding Wenxiang.

"Haha, I'm here so early, I don't plan to treat you to lunch." Zhang Ke said with a smile.

"I ran away yesterday and found out that I didn't make an appointment with you, Mr. Ke, that's really rude. If I don't disturb you, let me do it..."

“It’s not a bad thing to have a free lunch…”

Ding Wenxiang chose the place where Zhang Ke was invited to Chen Qi. After Zhang Ke got on the bus, he informed Ma Hailong to go directly to Ba Jinzhen in the afternoon so that he would not have a free trip here.

The car parked in the parking lot behind the Futian Building and got off. Ding Wenxiang looked at Danjing Lane, which was undergoing renovation and renovation projects, and said, "There is the predecessor of Sifengqiao Catering Plaza, and many people are waiting for the Century Jinhu to have more amazing works in Danjing Lane..."

"I look forward to it too." Zhang Ke said with a smile.

Ding Wenxiang is from Dongyuan County, a subsidiary of Haizhou City. He developed in Dongyuan County in his early years. As a supporting manufacturer of Aida Electronics, he built a factory in the Electronics Industrial Park in Jinyilong Town, and established a disc machine factory, which then formed Xinyuan Electrical Appliances, which completely dissolved into the upper class of Haizhou City. Due to its close relationship with Kumho, he even knew the connections within the Kumho system that ordinary people in Haizhou were not aware of.

Sifengqiao Catering Plaza was the key to Zhang Ke's revitalization of Xinguang Paper Factory assets at that time. It can be said that Zhang Ke's first commercial operation was amazing to the world. However, few people know that the operator behind Sifengqiao Catering Plaza was a boy who was only sixteen years old at the time, which made Shao Zhigang's reputation in Haizhou.

A section of Danjing Lane near Shatian Qian Street has been repaired long ago as a demonstration project. After more than a year of careful operation, five or six restaurants and bars have become representatives of high-end catering in Haizhou. The overall commercial operation of Danjing Lane is naturally even more exciting.

Zhang Ke looked back at the building complex on the left, and the development of Shatin West Commercial District, the infrastructure part has completely entered the final stage. Ding Wenxiang also knew about the grudges between Kumho and the Zhengtai Group. Although he did not see it very thoroughly, it was because the inner love was too complicated.

Century Kumho has always been silent. After Chintai Group and Hong Kong Gejia's Chiaxin Real Estate and Jianye Jingdian Real Estate took over the Jincheng Real Estate, which once once looked down on Haizhou business district, Century Kumho began to increase publicity for the Danjing Lane renovation project. If this is not aimed at Chintai Group, it is impossible to believe it. Jinteng Real Estate's development strategy for Shatin West Commercial Area was also forced to change to a sale and investment promotion. Before, it only needed to sell and cash out, and it was changed to investment promotion. If it operated itself, it would be difficult to see the results without three to five years.

The relationship is really complicated. Xie Wanqing comes from the Xie family, Sun Shangyi, who has a close relationship with Kumho, and Ge Mingde comes from the Hong Kong Ge family again.

This kind of grudge in wealthy families is enough to be made into a TV series. Ding Wenxiang forgot that he is also a rich man at this time. Perhaps in front of Zhang Ke, he felt that his business achievements were a bit insignificant.

As soon as he walked into Bajinzhen, he saw Chen Feirong helping in the store. Zhang Ke was shocked and asked, "Why are you in Haizhou?"

"Is it strange to go home for the weekend?" Chen Feirong tilted her head slightly and looked at Zhang Ke with her bright and beautiful eyes. She felt that his surprise looked a little exaggerated, and Yanran laughed.

Zhang Ke smiled embarrassedly, and never expected to run into Chen Feirong when he came in. The reaction was indeed a little bigger. For him, there was no concept of weekends or weekends during this period.

"You are very strange. You have disappeared for a long time," Chen Feirong said again, "I finished reading the book you recommended to me last time. I don't know who to answer some questions."

After Ye Xiaotong and Shao Xinwen's wedding, Zhang Ke was busy without time to go to the library to read books, and he had no chance to meet Chen Feirong. In fact, it didn't take long, only half a month. In the past half month, Zhang Ke fell in Beijing for seven or eight days.
Chapter completed!