The smelting methods of domestic special steel are indeed relatively backward, which is of course related to investment in science and technology. If you want to develop a suitable special steel, the investment required is huge. However, domestic investment in scientific research is insufficient, especially in materials science, which requires a long time and large investment, it has always been our weakness.

Some developed countries in the world rely on materials to stumbling our necks, which has prevented us from making breakthroughs in some aspects.

In the world of steel, special steel is the king of this world. Even in the era of the worst economic conditions in the world, this kind of sales just now was not a problem.

Because the application of this kind of steel is really important, special steel is required for many mechanical manufacturing or manufacturing research and development of important projects.

From warships and aircraft to automobile bearings, they all require special steel to be able to play with. In the next ten years, it will be an era of booming development in the domestic real estate and automobile industries.

If you want to get special steel for warships, submarines, or aircraft from the United States or Japan, it may be difficult, but it should not be difficult to get special steel for construction that is slightly worse.

In his previous life, Li Yifan worked as a bodyguard for a boss who was engaged in steel import and export, but he knew the tricks.

The boss happened to be specializing in foreign trade with the Japanese. During that time, he had heard a lot about this special steel trick from the boss.

Japan is also a major manufacturing country, and as a major automobile exporter, their annual demand for iron ore is also huge. But why can people not be controlled when the world's three major iron ore giants join forces to raise prices?

It turns out that the Japanese not only invested in Australia's iron mining giants, but more importantly, they also occupy the upstream industrial chain of the steel industry.

When the price of iron ore increased, they simply imported large-scale crude steel billets from China, transported them back to China, and then carried them deep processing to produce special purpose special steel, and then sold these special steels to us Chinese. Anyway, they would not suffer any losses.

On the one hand, it is to suppress the import price of crude steel here. On the other hand, it also uses its technical advantages to strictly control some industrial chains. The price of exported special steel is about one-third higher than that of domestically produced special steel. Is it performance?

However, it can completely form a rolling advantage for special steel produced in China, which creates a situation where the more expensive the price, the more we have to buy. Anyway, the benefits of both ends are all given to the Japanese.

When the three major iron ore giants work together to control the price of iron ore and raise prices monopoly, they not only are not in a hurry, but they are also driving behind the scenes. Anyway, they are also shareholders of Rio Tinto. When the price of iron ore increases, they also make money as well.

The Chinese were the ones who were cheated the most, and the Chinese people who paid the bill in the end were of course the people who paid the bill.

This is also what makes Li Yifan feel the most powerless and helpless. Thinking about the experts on TV in later generations who were shiny on their faces, they were clamoring for the great powers and shouting about the dream of China all day long. However, fundamentally, we cannot even produce the most basic industrial steel and angle steel for the construction of high-rise buildings, and they have to be imported from the enemy of Japan. Li Yifan couldn't help but feel ashamed for those experts.

And now that he already has capital, he does not intend to let this situation continue.

Li Yifan knows exactly how much the real estate industry in China will expand in the next ten years. In these ten years, in major cities across the country, thousands of landmark high-rise buildings will be built. How many such industrial steel and angle steel will be used in these buildings?

This is a huge market, even a market worth hundreds of billions of yuan. If you don’t make arrangements in advance at this time, then in the next ten years, you will really see the Japanese dominance.

This kind of special steel for construction is not as good as the crown-grade military special steel. Although Japan, the United States and other countries are also at the stage of restricting technology export to China, the control is not so strict after all.

Therefore, it is not that difficult to obtain such a special construction steel smelting technology. And the most important thing is that the relationship between Singapore, Japan and Australia is relatively special.

Although this country is mainly composed of Chinese people, the ideas and educational models with the values ​​of the Western world as the mainstream make Japan and Australia not so hostile to Singaporeans, and even seem particularly friendly.

Singapore's electronics industry was actually established with the support of the Japanese. As for Australia, it goes without saying that the two countries were originally colonies of Britain, so the relationship between these two countries was very subtle.

So it is a suitable candidate to install Li Annie as her chess agent to penetrate these two countries.

Needless to say, Japan is a technological power second only to the United States. They can even be compared with the Germans whom they have always imitated. Needless to say, Australia is, because of the relationship between religion and race, this country has always been a vassal of Western powers.

The United States, Japan and other countries do not have that strong technical restrictions on Australia. The most important thing is that this country itself has its own certain strengths in certain technologies.

This is what Li Yifan values ​​most. Some of these countries may not be considered anything in the eyes of developed countries in Europe and the United States, but as long as these things can be taken back to the country, they can definitely make up for some of their own shortcomings.

"Oh? If I had cooperated with Rio Tinto, I would understand this, but are you so confident in China's steel needs?"

At this time, Annie Lee had already recovered a little. Although China's economy has developed well over the years and has even won the title of a world factory around the world, anyone who has some understanding of finance and economy knows that China's upward space has reached a limit. Technical restrictions will definitely be imposed for top industries in industry, developed countries such as Europe and the United States.

In this way, the future trend of China's economy has always become a concern for many people. Now the next leader of Li Yifan will bet on the real estate market, but Li Annie is a little skeptical about this issue.

After all, in such a country, the impact of any economic policy is huge and you will not be able to draw conclusions easily.

"Annie, you can rest assured about this. You don't go to China many times and don't understand the situation in China. In fact, our demand for special steel has always been huge. We have to import a large amount of special steel from abroad every year."

"But, Yifan, you should also know that Americans have always been very careful about the technical limitations of such special materials..."

Although Annie Li also knew that what Li Yifan said was reasonable, she was a little worried when she thought of the Batumi Agreement led by the Americans. If the Americans knew about it and exported blockade technology to the mainland, it would be bad.

"Haha, don't worry about this. What we are going to do is special steel for construction materials. Strictly speaking, it does not belong to the Batumi Agreement, nor does it have the technology of special steel at the military level. In fact, many countries use such special steel. The Japanese do the best in this regard, so they have a lot of profit margins. If we can get the Japanese technology, then in China, we can make a lot of money. Why not try such a good opportunity?"

Li Yifan's statement this time really made Li Annie excited. When she thought of the huge population size and huge market share of China, no one would be too calm.

The techniques mentioned by Li Yifan actually don’t seem particularly difficult to solve. In fact, there are now a few very good materials science research institutes at Nanyang University of Technology, the most famous in Singapore.

In the past two years, I heard that they have developed a lot of good things, so I can ask someone to inquire and see if they have any research on such building steel.

In fact, Singapore has a very good study of special steels. After all, they are a country that mainly relies on trade to transfer to Hong Kong as the main economic benefit. They need to invest a lot in port construction every year and use a lot of special steels. They often need to import a large amount of these special steels. However, since the new Prime Minister came to power a few years ago and increased his investment in Nanyang University of Technology, their local scientific scholars have also conducted a lot of research on this material.

You should know that the material strength of the special steel used in these ports may not necessarily be worse than that of the special steel used in building tall buildings.

If you can get information directly from the institute of Nanyang University of Technology, why go to Australia or Japan and do it through special means?

When Annie Li told Li Yifan the news, Li Yifan was so happy. He never expected that he could still find such a big advantage, which was definitely an unexpected surprise.

As the saying goes, there is no place to hide when you step on the iron shoes, and you can get it without any effort!
Chapter completed!