As the sun sets, Yang Xing and Ke Youli and others stroll on the streets of Central Star City. Although the twilight is deep, after the discussion just now, the people are still passionate. Fan Wei had previously served as the deputy director of the Management Committee here, leading the other two to a place expected to be left for the high-tech materials industry center. Although there is still a wasteland by the river, in their eyes, scientific research buildings have risen from the ground, and the aviation materials developed inside will bring Jiudu a pair of wings with metallic colors.

Even if Ke Youli doesn't know about technical data, he knows how much investment and talent craze will Yang Xing's ambitions bring to Jiudu. Aviation Industry is a typical technology and capital-intensive industry. If Zhongxing Group can really build this place into an aero engine and material center, then a large number of supporting companies that will come with it will inevitably flock, which is proven by Central Star City with its achievements.

Now, with Central Star City as the core, and with several super-large factory and mining groups relocated in around Jiudu, the workers gathered together to reach about 500,000. With the population serving it, the population of Jiudu Nan'an New District has exceeded one million. You should know that when Jiudu was upgraded to a "large city", the permanent population of the urban area was less than one million. In just a few years, the area and population of Jiudu have increased several times, and it is almost comparable to the provincial capital mall, with a faint trend of development towards Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

All of this, Ke Youli must admit, and it is related to the young man around him who is less than 30 years old. After he became rich in 1998, Jiudu's economy drove onto the fast lane. Later, he almost alone helped the city get rid of the situation of state-owned enterprises' downturn and difficulty in restructuring at that time. Although these were not allowed to be widely publicized for some reasons, Kan Dongtian, the ruling at the time, did not hide the role of Yang Xing. He often instructed to do his best to work at the internal government meetings of Jiudu.

Some people even say that Kan Dongtian can climb up to the top of the sky and reach the high position all depends on Yang Xing's escort. Attacking Kan Dongtian is Yang Xing's puppet. Of course, Ke Youli would not think so. He understood some inside information and felt that both sides were mutually beneficial. However, in China, rule of man is more than rule of law, which can make Kan Dongtian, an official tycoon, obey Yang Xing, a young man who was less than 20 years old at the time. No matter how you look at it, you have to admire the boldness of both parties of the cooperation, and it also proves that the young man in front of you is indeed talented and predictable.

Today, after seeing Yang Xing's ambition for developing cutting-edge technology of independent aviation materials and his efforts to do so, Ke Youli felt that it was meaningless to compete with him. He also understood that Yang Xing was a person who did big things. As long as he cooperated well with him, he would naturally have a bright future waiting for him, and there was no need to fight for the so-called self-esteem. And with the level of politicians Yang Xing is currently dating, even if he can stop him for a while, can he still stop him for a lifetime?

He just said that he was considering investing in Tianjin and Chang'an, but he chose Jiudu for his personal feelings and only for the sake of his fortune. And these were not his sudden whims, but for this, he had made a quiet plan a few years ago. It was just for the need of politeness. In fact, it was almost a fait accompli. Ke Youli realized that Wen Rengui's real intention of asking him to meet Yang Xing before performing his duties was not to let Yang Xing cooperate with him, but to be afraid that he would cooperate with him on the other hand.

Yang Xing and Fan Wei did not notice Ke Youli's psychological changes, but talked about whether Yilin could take this opportunity to take the bus to invest in the aviation industrial park. Yang Xing said that he would certainly take care of his old friends. Fan Wei also quickly explained that although Yilin was a major agricultural farmer in the past few years, through Kan Dongtian's efforts, a number of large industrial and mining enterprises were also built in the local area.

Yilin is located between the mall and Jiudu. The mall-Jiudu-Longcheng Expressway passes around the city. It takes less than an hour to get to Jiudu Airport and the mall airport. It has a very advantageous geographical location. Now that the scope of Central Star City is to be expanded again, Yang Xing proposed to use the mall, and the idea of ​​building a large urban circle between Jiudu and Longcheng will undoubtedly attract attention again, and Yilin located in it will have hope.

Now that the short-distance air transport between the three cities is booming, the high-speed railway connecting the three cities is about to start construction, this idea is becoming a reality. Once Yilin becomes the Jiudu satellite, Yang Xing signaled that Ke Youli could justify the establishment of part of the Central Star City aviation industrial park in Yilin, which will also contribute to Yilin's economic growth.

Of course, when it comes to business, Yang Xing is not going to be a whim and blindly investing in Yilin. Before coming to Jiudu, he learned that Yilin has coal mines and aluminum mines. Several large aluminum production companies built can fully provide aerospace-grade aluminum products. Yang Xing believes that in order to upgrade Yilin's industry, Zhongxing Group can consider setting up the production site of high-temperature nickel-based single crystal alloy for aerospace engines in Yilin. Yang Xing also proposed that Zhongyuan Province can further become a concentrated area for deep processing of non-ferrous metals in China. Now that the world economy is recovering, especially the rapid development of China's economy, the demand for commodity resources will become increasingly greater. The international purchase price of non-ferrous metals such as nickel, molybdenum, and indium can only rise. If Zhongyuan Province can seize the opportunity and vigorously develop metallurgical and deep processing enterprises, it will definitely achieve very good benefits.

Among aerospace engines, nickel-based high-temperature alloys that can carry high temperatures are essential materials. Since Jiudu Aviation Industrial Park wants to focus on aviation materials, it is naturally not easy to miss the research and development and production of high-temperature nickel alloys. Yang Xing explained to Fan Wei and Ke that China is not a big nickel ore resource country. Before the 1960s, it was considered by the international geological community to be a country with poor nickel resources. At that time, in order to solve the problem of nickel shortage of aero engines, the country had to choose to develop iron-based high-temperature alloys. Although it was a good match, it encountered the major problem of high-temperature alloy materials not being standardized in the development of turbofan engines, which led to a distance between foreign colleagues in the field of aero engines.

After the discovery of super-large nickel ore in Jinchuan, Gansu in 1958, the problem of nickel shortage in China was somewhat alleviated. However, since the Gansu Jinchuan Group controls 84% ​​of the national nickel production, and economic development has led to the increasing demand for nickel in various industries across the country. As the public is difficult to adjust, the domestic market still needs to import a large amount of nickel ore from abroad every year. Jiudu wants to launch a nickel alloy factory, the first thing to solve is the problem of raw material sources.

For this reason, Yang Xing also brought them good news. In order to support domestic mineral resource exploration, he also gave a big gift to the newly appointed Prime Minister Wen Rengui, he specially invested in the establishment of the Central Geological Exploration Fund. This fund that appeared earlier than his previous life represents a major change in domestic geological exploration and marks a new model of private enterprises' mineral exploration and central assistance.

Recently, the fund has achieved major exploration results. In addition to finding extra-large uranium mines in Inner Mongolia, a super-large nickel mine was also discovered in the Lop Nur area of ​​Xinjiang. The preliminary estimate is that the mining volume has reached 1.3 million tons, worth 50 billion yuan! This central geological exploration fund adopts the method of promoting the operation of the mining market economy, supporting private enterprises through financial and technical support, and the mineral exploration results are very significant. The fund also has an exit mechanism to allow social funds to follow up on investment. Now many domestic private enterprises are very interested in this and actively sign up. Yang Xing suggested that Jiu Metropolis take the initiative to invite private capital to join and obtain the nickel ore mining rights, providing a stable ore source for new nickel alloy smelters in the future.

At the same time, Jiudu also needs to be prepared for both hands. At present, the distribution of nickel ore in the world is concentrated in Australia, Canada, Cuba, Russia and South Africa. Zhongxing Group has coal and iron mines in Australia and South Africa. Australia happens to have rich nickel ore reserves, but they are more difficult to mine laterite ore. In the late 1980s, the prices of many nickel ores were sluggish, so many were closed.

After investing in the Western Australia iron ore, Yang Xing did not indulge in the way of mining directly to get rich by dividing the land. Instead, he asked Xingdou Research Institute and other departments to increase research on the survey of various minerals in Australia and improve the processing and refining level. Just like domestic rare earths, sleeping with a golden doll in the mine is always at the lowest end of the value chain. If you want to truly obtain pricing power, you must keep up with the processing and utilization of ores. Only by mastering the terminal market of raw material processing can you truly manipulate market prices. This is the secret of success of Japan's large trading company, and Yang Xing does not want to miss the opportunity.

Now Zhongxing Group has established an aviation materials research and development center and production base in Jiudu, hoping to control every link of the value chain from beginning to end. In the future, the domestic demand for bulk minerals will only increase. Jiudu has to seize the initiative to be invincible in the competition under the geographical disadvantage of deep inland.

"Japan's territory is small and resources are poor, so he attacked from all sides during World War II to plunder other countries' resources, but the facts proved that this path was not working. After the war, they learned from their mistakes and used trade methods to import resources from other countries to process them into their own products and then returned to other countries. As a result, they became the second largest country in the world's economy in just 40 years, and international praises their products. This example proves that it is not enough to just eat old capital, and success depends on their own efforts." Yang Xing used Japan as an example to illustrate.

Yang Xing also kindly reminded them, "Compared with the coastal areas where reform pioneers, Jiudu has certain shortcomings in policies, investment environment, and talents, which requires the government to have advanced awareness and firm determination. I know that basic materials cannot be achieved by just one meeting. Many local governments in China have the idea of ​​quick success and instant benefits, as if the city of Rome can be built overnight. I don't agree with this, you should be careful."

Ke Youli also made a decisive statement, "Since Mr. Yang, you have such great determination, I think as long as you can consolidate the foundation of urban development, we will be prepared to accept any short-term setbacks and failures. I would like to express my opinion here that as long as the investment is in place, the Jiudu government will be green in this way. We should try our best to provide services. The central government regards Jiudu as an aviation experimental zone, which is a kind of trust in Jiudu. I have the confidence to build it into a model!" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!