Chapter 827: Unsuccessful Negotiations
But whether it is Mongolian or Russian, they never thought that Jiang Feng could cause trouble so much. He hit six policemen as soon as he came. It was really a bit disrespectful. You should know that in the past few decades, Mongolia has never been a place where Chinese people can sway!
However, nowadays, people are rich and powerful, so they have to endure it.
Although both the Russians and the Mongolians invited Jiang Feng to stay in the hotel, Jiang Feng expressed his attitude that he did not plan to move tonight, and living in a yurt may not be bad.
Jiang Feng stayed in the yurt for one night, and the second day of the year, led a large group of people to Ulaanbaatar City to meet with Mongolian political officials and Russian officials who came to be intermediaries.
Members of the Presidium of Great Hural in Mongolia and the head of the Minerals Department took the initiative in person. In order to facilitate business, Russia specially sent several officials from the Prime Minister's Office to come over, which also indicated that Russia supported Jiang Feng to enter the Mongolian mineral resource development market.
In fact, what Jiang Feng needs is only an attitude problem, because Mongolia has an exclusion from Chinese investors. Although its company is registered overseas, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not make things difficult for them because most of their companies are Chinese, which will affect their work efficiency.
Now that Russia has put pressure on it, and it can also affect China's resource exports to Mongolia, I believe they will become much more honest. Besides, don't you still have a lot of money to pass the level?
Russians basically do not participate in the negotiations between Jiang Feng and the Mongols. They are just recommenders, but the negotiations between Jiang Feng and the Mongols are real.
In order to accelerate the development and utilization of mineral resources and strengthen management and coordination, the current Mongolian government has established a Geological Mineral Resources Policy Coordination Bureau in the Ministry of Industry and Trade, which is mainly responsible for the formulation, supervision and implementation of mineral resource development and utilization policies and regulations, as well as related coordination work. At the same time, the Ministry also has a government executive agency, Mineral Management Bureau, which is responsible for the specific organization and implementation of the exploration, development and utilization of mineral resources in Mongolia. The exploration and development licenses for mineral resource projects are issued by the bureau.
In order to attract domestic and foreign funds to develop and utilize mineral resources as soon as possible, in 1997, the Mongolian State Dahular passed the first Mineral Resources Law, which revised and improved. According to the law, Mongolian citizens, foreign citizens and legal persons have the right to obtain exploration licenses and have the right to transfer the licenses in whole or in part and mortgage them to others.
The validity period of the exploration permit is three years and can be extended twice, each time for two years. The area of exploration site approved by a permit is not less than twenty-five hectares and not more than four hundred thousand hectares.
Legal persons established and carried out business in accordance with Mongolia's laws and regulations have the right to obtain a development license and have the right to transfer the license in whole or in part and mortgage it to others. The development license is valid for sixty years and can be extended forty years at a time.
A license can only be sold to one legal person. When multiple legal persons of the same license submit an application, it will be sold to the first legal person in the order of time when the application is submitted. When the license holder transfers the license to others, he must go to the Mineral Administration to complete the formal transfer procedures.
The exploration permit is charged per hectare of exploration sites, with a charge of five cents for the first year, a ten cent for the second and third years, and a fourth and fifth years of the permit is one dollar for the fourth and fifth years, and a sixth and seventh years of the applicant pays the first year of the exploration permit, and the geological and mine registration authority issues a three-year exploration permit within three working days.
Holding a development license is based on the charging standard per hectare of the mining area to which the development belongs. In the first three years, it will be five US dollars per year, the fourth and fifth years, and seven.5 US dollars per year, starting from the sixth year, it will be ten US dollars per year.
In addition, Mongolian government agencies have regulations on environmental protection for mineral resource developers. Developers must submit environmental impact assessments and environmental protection plans to the central state organs in charge of environmental issues and the chief executives of relevant provinces and counties. Exploration and development activities are prohibited from being initiated before the written approval of the relevant environmental protection departments, and the mined mining areas must be restored to their original landforms.
In order to ensure that the license holder fully fulfills his obligations in environmental protection, it is required that funds equivalent to 50% of the annual budget required to implement environmental protection measures be used as a deposit, which must be transferred to a special account before the project is implemented.
Jiang Feng's subordinates have many professionals who have studied mineral resource development in various countries and immediately had a tit-for-tat discussion on these conditions in Mongolia. The two sides can be said to be verbal and disagree, and often argue over a problem.
As for the various tax and fee collection standards proposed by Mongolia, such as income tax, mineral resource development fees, land use fees, water resource usage fees, and early exploration fees that the state invested, Jiangfeng experts also have great opinions and said that they are big customers and such harsh conditions are too unacceptable. After all, compared with internationally accepted standards, Mongolia's standards are simply blocking their own channels for attracting investment.
"We also have some preferential policies." Officials from the Mongolian Minerals Department rarely come into contact with such a professional team. The last time they deal with Canadians, the last time they came forward to help the negotiations, and they didn't put in much effort.
But this time the Russians stood by and were obviously in the middle-aged position and were not suitable for speaking, which made officials of the Mongolian Ministry of Resources feel a little bit waxed. After all, these things are really too troublesome.
There are indeed many so-called preferential policies in Mongolia, such as mineral resource exploration, machinery and equipment required for development are exempt from import tariffs, and product exports are exempt from value-added tax and export tariffs. For enterprises that develop mineral resources, projects whose investment amount reaches more than US$2 million in the first five years, in order to ensure that taxes and other aspects during the development and operation are not affected by policy changes, they can require a stable operation contract with the Minister of Finance, and exempt from income tax within three to five years after signing.
With the approval of the Mongolian government and axe, the job fees charged to foreign technical and managers can also be exempted. According to the "Export, Import Labor and Expert Law" currently implemented in Mongolia, enterprises hiring foreign technical or managers must pay a job fee of twice the Mongolian minimum wage standard to the Mongolian labor department, which is about 400 yuan per person, and this money can be saved.
Chapter completed!