Chapter 503: The Battle of Resources

At this time, the China Chang Group had already established a long-term office in Perqi, the capital of Western Australia. Knowing that Yang Xing was a distinguished guest of their big boss, he naturally tried his best to receive it. However, the Perqi is far from the rich and colorful ones that were later made by the Iron Ore Dale. The whole city is very green, as if it is in a big garden. However, the city is very small and looks similar to the appearance of many small towns in Western Europe. The pace inside the city is slow, which makes Yang Xing, who is used to living a fast-paced life, is quite unaccustomed to it.

Since Rong Mingyou has a unique vision of the minerals in Western Australia, he will certainly not be affected by the surface of Perth. After receiving Yang Xing at the airport, he drove him directly to the commercial and financial districts not far from the city center. He pointed out that although the area here is not large and can be completed in more than ten minutes, it concentrates the offices of most of the world's top 500 mineral resource companies.

He pointed to several of the inconspicuous gray buildings and said, "Do you know, where I am referring now, the world's largest mineral resource tycoons are working inside, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Mitsui Commercial, Itochu Commercial, British and American Mining, etc., all of them are big shots in the world who will cause earthquakes. The reason why they can attract them here is to value the mineral resources in Western Australia. This resource battle is not easy to fight."

Yang Xing nodded and agreed. Before coming, his subordinates had collected the distribution of resources in Australia. To outsiders, it seemed like a piece of uninhabited central and western Australia wasteland, but it was distributed with the richest mineral resources in human history, and it was easy to mine. Most of them were directly on the surface and just dig directly. It was simply a golden pavement.

After World War II, major capitalist powers in the world gave up their colonial practice of enclosing land everywhere and directly occupying excellent resources in the world. Because nationalism has spread everywhere around the world, the idea of ​​nationalism has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. It is no longer possible to rely on the previous practice of oppressing local people to work hard for their mining. Therefore, old capitalist powers have embarked on supporting domestic multinational mining companies, using their financial and technological advantages, and using relatively hidden methods such as purchasing, cooperation, and leasing to continue to monopolize the mineral resources they control around the world.

Since Britain, France, the United States and Japan were predecessors of colonial powers, even after two world wars, not only did they have a record of high-quality mineral distribution throughout the world, but also supported by huge international financial capital behind them. They were invincible in many third world countries and occupied the best mineral resources. Even Australia, as a companion of capitalist countries, was not spared.

For example, the British-funded BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto have strong control over Australia's iron ore resources. The control method they use is not simply controlling exploration and mining rights. Monopolymen in any industry are not popular. With the efforts of Australian political enterprises, there are actually not many small and medium-sized mining enterprises in Western Australia, and exploration rights and mining rights are also scattered in their hands. In addition, many are in the political enterprises' hands for sale.

The method adopted by BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto is to strictly control the logistics system for mining areas to go overseas. It is precisely because the two major mining groups strictly control the railways and ports in mining areas that other small and medium-sized mining companies have made life very difficult, seriously restricting the development of mineral resources in central and western Australia and South Australia, and creating a de facto monopoly on Australian iron ore exports.

This also led to the public complaining about BHP and Rio Tinto, two major companies. Rong Mingyou introduced that members of the Australian Fairness Committee are now frequently sanctioning the control of the mineral resource logistics system by the two major miners, and are very welcome to introduce foreign investors to eliminate Ertuo's influence. It is time for them to enter the market at this time.

However, at this time, China's steel industry is not as concerned about participating in the development of Western Australia. After all, the domestic steel production exceeded 100 million tons last year, and the international procurement volume accounted for one percent of the international share. Most of them were to purchase iron ore from nearby India and other countries nearby. Domestic believe that the iron ore purchased overseas is enough to meet future requirements, so although the major domestic steel mills also have offices here, most of them only have one or two procurement points. No one would have thought that a few years have passed, Perqi City will step into the most prosperous city in Australia, crowded with Chinese people.

When Yang Xing and Rong Mingyou got off the bus in front of the Perspective Municipal Fu Building and were preparing to visit local officials, staff from the two major groups had been waiting in two rows for a long time. Rong Mingyou's side naturally had all the heroes, and Yang Xing's senior leaders who were mainly Xingwei resources were also here. In addition, Jiao Bailing and his group came from Germany as support.

When Xingwei Resources was listed, Yang Xing personally served as the president. Although many people were skeptical about the company at the beginning, believing that it was just a guise for Yang Xing to make money, after Yang Xing resisted the opposition and insisted on letting it go public, the company took a series of steps to grow from small to large, gradually dispelling doubts from investors and the group.

Xingwei Resources started with the development of new energy. After its listing, it acquired many small companies that develop solar, wind, and geothermal heat in Germany, Sweden and other places, making a certain reputation in Europe. With the opportunity of European countries led by Germany to vigorously develop environmentally friendly and pollution-free new energy policies, it has obtained policy preferential treatment and environmental subsidies from many European countries, and has received many orders for new energy equipment. Although it has not made a big profit, it has maintained a balance of revenue and expenditure. In this listing of "all directions are destroyed", with the help of its pre-instance, it has also allowed several of its companies to be successfully listed on the stock markets of Germany and Nordic countries.

Then it cooperated with Hitachi, and with the help of Hitachi, which ranks among the best in the international energy conservation field, it vigorously opened up the domestic power energy conservation market. With the support of Yang Xing's relationship, it caters to the booming environmental protection concept of the people in the country, and the continuous increase in the national efforts to control industrial pollution. Xingwei Resources and many large domestic thermal power plants, coal mines, chemical plants, etc. have signed a large number of environmental protection equipment contracts. Now relying on both domestic and foreign markets, it has finally gained a foothold and is planning to run faster and seek greater development.

Since Xingwei Resources is called a resource company, it is of course very interested in international bulk resource products. After all, half of the top 500 companies in the world are resource companies, and American oil giants Exxon, British-Dutch Shell Petroleum and others are super giants. Although the new energy that Xingwei Resources now focuses on sound good, its real profit is not high. It is recognized internationally that only by obtaining a voice in bulk resource such as oil and steel can we obtain excess profits and have a place in the player seat of the world resource market.

The American Enron Company, which Yang Xing mentioned not long ago, is such a resource player. With the dominant position of the world's natural gas, Enron can still act like a high-profit, high-growth multinational company in front of outsiders, relying on people's confidence in its monopoly on natural gas.

Now Xingwei Resources is still developing super-large molybdenum mines in Zhongyuan Province and cooperating with the Zheng family in the capital to develop rare earth mines, just to enter the mineral resource development industry. However, due to domestic policy constraints, Xingwei Resources wants to obtain a scale like Rio Tinto, and Sinopec will have hope only if it overturns the state-owned PetroChina Petroleum Corporation. Therefore, Xingwei Resources can only turn its attention abroad, and cooperating with China Changchun Group to develop Australia's rich coal and iron resources is a good attempt.

This time, Xingwei Resources Group cooperated with China Chang Group to develop coal and iron ore. The whole country attached great importance to it, thinking that this was a rare opportunity for carp to jump into dragons. Once it jumped, it would turn into a dragon and challenge Billiton and others. But unexpectedly, before he succeeded, he encountered trouble at the beginning, so he had to turn to Yang Xing to solve the problem.

Yang Xing himself attaches great importance to the cooperation between Xingwei Resources and China Changchun Group. However, he knows that in less than ten years, domestic steel production will continue to exceed 600 million and 700 million tons. What follows will inevitably lead to the world's crazy need to find iron ore resources. Among them, Australia alone provides one-third of the global iron ore production. For this place that must be fought for by military strategists, the sooner they prepare, the greater the profit they will get, and they must not be delayed.

Yang Xing, the current elder of Xingwei Resources, was recruited by BASF, the largest chemical group in Germany, named Von Dietrich Brightmann. It is said that his ancestors were still German nobles, but he himself was a complete businessman. He was mainly responsible for oil, natural gas, and coal chemical industries at BASF. Before joining Xingwei Resources, he also served as an official in charge of new energy and environmental protection affairs in the EU. He can be said to be quite experienced in the development of international new energy and mineral resources.

After this period of polishing, Wang Yiren and Guo Ying agreed that they could let her go out and stand on their own. Now the branch of Zhongxing International in Europe has passed the running-in period, and it is no problem to have Guo Ying and others in charge of the overall situation. You just need to wait for the right time to select a master to preside over the overall situation. Yang Xing also felt that Jiao Bailing was smart and calm, and had the style of a general, and could take on major projects. So with the help of developing Australia, Yang Xing transferred her over to focus on cultivating her.

After Yang Xing exchanged greetings with his subordinates, Brightman walked up to him and said unhappily: "We'd better be mentally prepared. The situation is not very optimistic. The Western Australian government is now under great pressure from Rio Tinto and BHP. He said that the mining farm in the Pilbara area had a dispute with their mining area boundaries in terms of geographical division, and asked the Western Australian government to suspend our mining plan."
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