Age of Dreams

Xiao Qi asked the Gu family to apply for the construction of a port in western Guangdong, naturally he had his own considerations.

Just as Gu Cangen thought, the port in western Guangdong is closer to the mouth of the pocket, which is most suitable for gathering ships from Southeast Asian countries.

Moreover, the daily throughput of the ports in Guangdong Province is too complicated. It would be very efficient if the ports in western Guangdong can be turned into a specialized port mainly focusing on agricultural products.

Of course, this does not mean that it was transferred to western Guangdong because the ports in Guangdong could not accommodate them.

In fact, the port throughput of Guangdong Province is less than 50% of the designed total capacity.

As for why the potential of the Guangdong port is not further developed, but the transportation capacity should be distributed to the eastern coastal ports such as Quanzhou and Lingbo...

That, of course, has something to do with Hong Kong.

In order to ensure the full use of Hong Kong's ports, the country does not hesitate to sacrifice the interests of Guangdong Province to ensure them. Many goods have to be transferred to Hong Kong once before passing through the inland river to Nanwan of Guangdong Province to enter the customs.

In fact, many cargo ships hope to use the port of Guangdong Province directly, so as to avoid so much trouble and turn around, and the cost is so much cheaper.

But Hong Kong's economy is already sluggish enough. If their port transportation industry is robbed again, then Hong Kong will really become a stagnant pool without any vitality at all.

That's why the country can't fully develop the potential of Guangdong Province.

However, some people just don’t know what is good or bad. It is obvious that the country has made so many arrangements, which are not bad for them, but they just want to make trouble, just want to kneel and lick the British father. Life is much easier.

As everyone knows, this is just an illusion, an illusion that everyone can see through at a glance.

They lived well in those years, firstly because it was the only communication window between Huaguo and foreign countries, and secondly because the mainland was very poor at that time.

Now that Huaguo has become more developed, people in the mainland are getting richer day by day, while Hong Kong, which is inherently deficient, is bound to be lonely. This is a very normal thing.

However, many Hong Kong people never think about how to develop other roads and make Hong Kong's future better. They just think about why things are not going well and why they are unhappy... I really want to ask Xiao Qi to say, This is typical moaning and asking for money.

Compared with Hong Kong, Treasure Island is really different.

Although it has been hit many times, such as the financial turmoil, shipping crisis, oil crisis, etc., the businessmen in Baodao can face it positively and actively transform their businesses, so that the economy of Baodao can always develop well. , will not collapse like Hong Kong.

So you can see that the happiness index of Baodao is quite high, and the ordinary people there are quite simple. This is the expression of happiness in life.

It’s different here in Hong Kong. Many people complain like a complaining woman all day long, but they never try to change the status quo. People in the mainland will really see it after watching it for a year, two years, three years or five years. annoying!

Xiao Qi has no way to manage the entanglement between Guangdong Province and Hong Kong, but the port in the west of Guangdong is the key project that the country will build in the past two years.

In fact, the port of Qingzhou in the west of Guangdong has been in use, but the scale is not large enough, the supporting facilities are not sufficient, and the service is not perfect enough, so it has not been able to form a scale.

If you really want to make good use of it, it is easy to handle hundreds of billions of dollars in agricultural products a year.

In this way, Huaguo will have an additional window for importing foreign agricultural products, and the pressure on Huaguo's land will be further reduced.

Japan's land area is only a little larger than Shuchuan, and the arable area is not as good as Shuchuan, and it must be fallow frequently. However, they have a population of 200 million. How do they solve the food they eat on weekdays?

You know, they don't like to import foreign food. Japan's propaganda is that domestic products are the best, and only domestic products are the best.

The solution is simple. Japanese businessmen go abroad to rent land. All the raw materials, fertilizers, management, etc. are done by the Japanese. After such agricultural products are shipped back to China, they can be regarded as domestically produced in Japan.

Xiao Qi felt that this method was very good. He was also inspired by the Japanese to rent land in Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and other countries.

Even in these agricultural bases, there are quite a few Japanese agricultural experts.

Xiao Qi felt that since the Japanese were serious about their work, it was a good thing to use their strengths to serve the Chinese people.

Let your enemies work for you, that is ability.

And these crops, farther away, such as Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia, can be returned to China by sea. The shipping cost is very low, and the timeliness will not be reduced much.

The port of Qingzhou in western Guangdong is the best distribution center.

There is another very important factor. Southeast Asia is actually a cloth pocket. Basically, this is the traditional sphere of influence of Huaguo. Even if something happens in the future, it is far more difficult to transport materials from here to Huaguo than to go through the Strait of Malacca. much easier.

Ahem, of course, this big pocket needs to be guaranteed, and there is more important strength to guarantee it, so that is not something Xiao Qi should worry about.

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After returning, Xiao Qi called Niu Ruzheng and relayed the Gu family's request and his own thoughts.

Niu Ruzheng has no objection to the Gu family joining the ranks of oil transportation. The Gu family has always maintained a good relationship with the center, and is one of the representatives of the Chinese in Southeast Asia, so their legitimate requests are generally allowed.

Moreover, Huaguo is not just this $100 billion oil order, including the Iranian and Syrian oil purchased in 2009, and after expanding production in the future, the best orders will be continuously exported to Huaguo.

Now Huaguo understands that it is of no benefit to follow the pricing system of the United States and the United Kingdom.

Hua Guo is simply ready to break this rule and directly buy and sell oil with Iran, Syria and even Russia, which is in the best interest of Hua Guo.

This kind of business is the most ideal, but in fact there is no way to do it so smoothly.

Because it is impossible for the United States to sit back and watch this group of countries that are not under its control twisted into a ball, so how to advance and retreat, and how to maximize the interests within the scope of the rules are what China needs to consider.

It is impossible for Xiao Qi to get involved in this, but he knows that the current financial situation in Europe and the United States is not good, they are a little overwhelmed, and coupled with the threat of Hua Guo and Russia joining forces, it is no problem for them to retreat for about a year .

As for whether the purchase of oil in the future will be so smooth, that will be discussed later.

If it doesn't work, Xiao Qi will take advantage of the incident in Ukraine without hesitation to ruthlessly cheat the European Union and Russia, making them overwhelmed, thus buying time for the development of China.

Niu Ruzheng doesn't know that the future environment for Huaguo will be more affluent than it is now, but he also understands what is called military speed.

No matter what happens in the future, the faster you can transport more oil back to China, it will be a victory.

Therefore, he didn't need to say anything, and asked Xiao Qi to tell Gu Cangen, hoping that Mr. Gu could come to the capital soon if his health permits.

With this attitude, there will be no problem with oil transportation. With such a large business in the Gu family, the shipping business will once again usher in a peak of development and bring them enough benefits.

This is exactly what the center wants to see.

If you follow me and have meat to eat, just tell me what's wrong with you!

As for the matter of Qingzhou Port in western Guangdong, Niu Ruzheng was very interested and asked Xiao Qi to send him the information and ideas.

Over the years, many ports in China have actually cooperated with merchants.

For example, Guangdong Port actually has the shares of Li Chaoren, Uncle Li, and Zheng Yoga, and in Dongfang Port, Jinwei Port, Lingbo Port, etc., there are also shares of rich businessmen from Hong Kong or Nanyang.

It is precisely because of their large amount of capital and technology that these ports can be quickly developed and put into commercial operation.

Of course, the country hopes to have a specialized agricultural and sideline product port like Qingzhou Port.

In western Guangdong, due to various geographical and environmental factors, Qingzhou Port has not yet developed on a large scale. It can only be said that there has always been a plan, but the funds and support have not kept up.

According to preliminary estimates, tens of billions of funds are needed here.

However, many resources in Nanyang are very rudimentary and do not have much economic added value. In terms of profit margins, it is not very cost-effective to invest tens of billions.

If it is high-value electronic products, etc., then basically go to Guangdong and Hong Kong, where the transportation is more developed and the industry is more intensive, unlike the remote side of western Guangdong.

Therefore, even if the rich people from Hong Kong and Taiwan were found to investigate in the past few years, there was no result.

Unexpectedly, this time Xiao Qi actually persuaded the Gu family.

The Gu family has a huge wealth of 18 billion U.S. dollars, and the wealth they can drive is more than 50 billion U.S. dollars. As long as they take the lead, the rich Chinese in Southeast Asia will follow, and the funding problem will be solved.

Thinking of this, Niu Ruzheng was also a little moved.

If Huaguo can trade more agricultural and sideline products with Southeast Asia through Qingzhou Port, then the relationship between them will be closer, and it is not impossible to bind them to Huaguo's interests.

After all, from a practical point of view, these countries are based on agriculture, and the industry is still not that important. Once the interests of the farmers are taken care of, these farmers who account for the vast majority of the population in Southeast Asia will not be able to stay close to China.

At that time, Huaguo will have much more leeway to turn around, and it will not be provoked by the United States to confront the region in the slightest trouble, which makes Huaguo feel a little bit bound!

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