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v5 Chapter 554: Price hike

The price increase of Baosteel and the price increase of international iron ore have been discussed by domestic experts and scholars for a while.

Many people also think it is reasonable for Baosteel to advance. The reason is that when Baosteel is sensitive to the tendency of international iron ore prices to increase, then in order to digest this unfavorable news in advance, the price increase is imperative, otherwise it will not be enough to offset it. Because of the economic losses caused by rising raw materials.

"As an independent profit and loss enterprise, Baosteel's approach is in line with economic laws." At a seminar of economic experts held by the State Council, someone defended Baosteel in this way.

Boss Zhu listened calmly. He had a long-term experience in Shanghai. From an emotional point of view, he hoped that Baosteel would make such a price increase decision. There were reasonable reasons, but at this time, it came from the atmosphere of the venue. It seems that experts are not unified in this regard.

In particular, Yang Xusheng, a more radical economic expert in China, loudly refuted the other party’s statement, “As a company with independent profit and loss, of course, it has the freedom to decide to raise prices, but we must also take into account our national conditions. After all, our economic system and people are What’s different is that Baosteel still has the majority of state-owned capital no matter how you say it, and it can’t think about how to do alcohol, and it has to take into account the overall situation. He has nothing to do when he raises prices, and the domestic economic situation has undergone great changes as a result. Inflation, which tends to stabilize, is likely to turn back again."

People on both sides express their own opinions, and in short, everyone thinks that their opinions are correct.

Fan Wubing came at the invitation of Boss Zhu. To be honest, it would be interesting to listen to these experts’ debates. If you didn’t understand the matter before, and you are not in the situation. If you feel it, you can never tell who is right.

But if people like Fan Wubing. After listening to some of the details of the front desk, they can easily feel that these experts and scholars are already speaking for certain interest groups. .

This is inevitable. It is like an old saying that the history of science has no borders, but scientists have a motherland, and these experts are the same. Since everyone is not a person living in a vacuum, then firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, etc. All problems need someone to help them solve them. Otherwise, how can a well-known scholar or expert's torii be supported by only relying on their own deadly wages?

Youdao takes people’s short hands and cannibalize people’s mouths. Since they have the benefits of others, they need to speak up for them. Therefore, the ideas of experts are often very weird. In most cases, they cannot represent the public. It’s not surprising that this is also expected.

Boss Zhu had a headache when he heard it. He glanced at Fan Wubing, and now Mr. Fan was sitting there with a big mouth open with a smile. He seemed to be in a good mood. He couldn't help but be a little curious, so he ordered Fan Wubing's. Name, let him talk about his opinion.

Fan Wuyao was joking with the young waitress serving tea and water. Boss Zhu didn't want to call him, but he was a little embarrassed. Boss Zhu showed that he couldn't take this seriousness seriously. Meeting.

However, Fan Wubing’s face has long been thicker. After being named by Boss Zhu, he stood up, smiled and nodded towards the surroundings, and then said, "I heard from the seniors just now, the juniors are still very good. What I have gained, the seniors have a high-sighted vision, a high-level vision, Zhizhu in their hands, and their minds. It is really admirable! After all, experts are experts, and scholars are scholars. This theoretical level is really a high level with a warm pot on an airplane! "

Hearing that Fan Wuyao was talking in the vernacular here, everyone looked at each other a little, everyone basically knew Fan Wuyao, and they knew that this was the **** of stocks when he entered the stock market, and he was the **** of commerce when he entered the market. The **** of business, even if he is in the ring, the young hero Fan Wuyi who is the **** of pk, everyone never dared to underestimate such a character, and many people are even studying Fan Wuyi’s family history and want to figure out him. Why can it be a ***?

But today, Fan Wubing said so much nonsense that everyone was a little puzzled.

After all, this is an economic seminar organized by the Premier of the State Council. It’s not that we, young and old, sit under the big locust tree and chatter when we are all right and bored. It’s too irresponsible to talk so eloquently. .

Mr. Fan, can you tell me something meaningful anyway? It's really good to say so! Many people think so.

The person who couldn’t listen first was Boss Zhu. He frowned when he saw that Fan Wubing was still ostentatious. Come to Tianqiao to tell the story!"

Hearing what Boss Zhu said, everyone couldn't help being amused. They thought that this is the close relationship between Boss Zhu and Fan Wuyi, and they were in this informal exchange meeting, otherwise Boss Zhu would definitely not speak like that. Everyone was accustomed to seeing his iron face and ruthlessness. Suddenly, such a small episode was inserted at this time, which made the a little nervous atmosphere relax.

Fan Wubing smiled, scratching his head and said, "I'm sorry, I often go to Tianqiao to read storytellers recently and I have been infected." Then Fan Wubing's expression was righteous, "I just listened to the opinions of several experts, and they said very well. Reason, my personal opinion is that everyone is right."

"What do you mean by this? Everyone is right. Since there are two different opinions, there must be one right or wrong." Many old experts expressed dissatisfaction.

It’s good when there are disputes of interest, but it cannot be ruled out that many experts can stick to the principles a little while speaking for interest groups. Others are wrong, and vice versa.

If there is nothing wrong on both sides, wouldn’t it mean that they both want to make a fortune, but offend the people on both sides? Experts don't rub the sand in their eyes, and they will definitely not have a good impression of you just because you didn't support or oppose him. This is the most taboo thing.

In the eyes of experts, one is one and two is two.

When everyone was roaring around, Fan Wubing continued, "Why do I say this kind of muddy words? The fact is very simple. Everyone has different angles, so they see different problems. There is nothing wrong with each other. If we must find a mistake, it is that our domestic iron ore reserves are too small, the fault is that our domestic iron ore refining technology is too poor, and the fault is that our resource consumption is too high! If we have iron ore as rich as the United States or Australia, and there is iron ore that can be directly mined without being selected, we still need to debate whether we should raise the price? In that case, I think everyone’s mind is the same, that is, what should we do if there is so much iron ore? Export! What if the export price is not good? Raise the price! Unfortunately, we are now being slaughtered. , That’s why I said that everyone is not wrong. What’s wrong is that our resources are too poor!"

The domestic iron ore resources are widely distributed, covering more than 700 counties and banners in 31 provinces, cities and autonomous regions across the country. The country’s identified iron ore reserves are more than 60 billion tons.

However, the domestic iron ore resources are many but not rich. The medium and low-grade mines are the main ones. The rich ore resources only account for less than 2%, while the poor ore reserves account for half. There are many medium and small mines, few large mines, and even fewer extra-large mines. The types of ore are complex, and refractory minerals and multi-component symbiotic associated minerals account for a large proportion.

Some mines are difficult to separate and recover, resulting in a low recovery rate of iron minerals, and a large amount of useful components are lost to the tailings. Some magnetite deposits are mainly medium and low grade but easy to mine and easy to select, which contain a large number of low grade ores with marginal benefits.

Moreover, the level of domestic iron ore technology and equipment is low. Although large and medium-sized iron ore companies have some large-scale advanced mining equipment, but the quantity is very small, most of them are small in size, miscellaneous, in poor condition, incomplete, scheduled for service, and severely aging, resulting in equipment performance. High consumption, low efficiency, and generally face technical transformation and maintenance problems. The beneficiation process equipment is backward and the level of automation is low. Many beneficiation plants are basically operated manually with very low efficiency.

At present, there are still some large-scale iron and polymetallic deposits in the country that have not been exploited. One of the main reasons is that the beneficiation technology is not enough. It is necessary to carry out beneficiation test research on the refractory ore that has not yet been developed, seek effective beneficiation technology, and provide technical support for its development and utilization.

Another point is that the comprehensive utilization and harmless treatment of mining waste rock and beneficiation tailings are imminent. At present, iron ore companies strip and excavate 600 million tons of waste rock every year, and discharge about 500 million tons of tailings, which is negative to the ecological environment. The impact is increasing day by day. Although progress has been made in the re-election of tailings, the overall scale is still small and not very common.

There is also insufficient comprehensive recovery and utilization of the associated resources. Comprehensive recovery of beneficial elements associated with iron ore** is an important measure to make full use of mineral resources and improve the economic benefits of the mine.

At present, mines such as Panzhihua, Daye, Chengchao, Jinshandian, Shandong Jinling, and Laigang Mazhuang have comprehensively recycled and utilized the beneficial elements rich in ore. In particular, the titanium in Panzhihua vanadium-titanium magnetite is an extremely important beneficial component, and its economic value is far greater than that of iron itself.

Although some achievements and economic benefits have been achieved in comprehensive utilization at present, the types of recycling and the recycling rate are not ideal. There has been no breakthrough in the key recycling technology, so that some important metal elements cannot be recycled at present. For example, most of the niobium, tantalum and rare earths in the Bayan Obo iron ore have not yet been recycled.

All these have caused the domestic demand for iron ore to always exceed output. With the development of the economy and the continuous increase in infrastructure construction, the demand for steel is increasing day by day, and it is more dependent on the import of overseas iron ore. .

"Steel is a basic project of the country's economic construction, an indispensable and important part, but unfortunately, although our domestic iron ore reserves are quite large, there are very few that can be exploited. This is probably God's right One of our tests does not give us a chance to live easily.” Fan Wubing continued, “But it doesn’t matter. If you don’t have one at home, you can go abroad! Australia or Brazil, they all have high grades. For iron ore, since we have determined that domestic iron ore demand will continue to grow, why not plan ahead and go overseas to open international markets? It’s always better than sitting here and discussing whether or not prices should increase. Bar?"

After Fan Wuyao's words were said, everyone suddenly calmed down, and everyone was lost in thought.

These words of Fan Wubing actually pointed out a common domestic shortcoming, that is, the research on the international market is not thorough enough. The content of many so-called economic experts' research is nothing more than the fact that Americans have long been studying. A little bit of old stuff that was ripped apart is now picked up by them and respected as a god. It seems that if you understand these things, you know the reason for the rise of the Americans.

In fact, Americans’ national conditions are different from ours, so there are many things that cannot be used directly. Many financial derivatives are extremely dangerous projects in the United States, and most people are not allowed to get involved, but After moving to China, he tried his best to sell to ordinary people. This is completely irresponsible.

Boss Zhu also listened carefully to Fan Wu's remarks. He was very sensitive to the theme of Fan Wu's ~lightnovelpub.net~ to open up overseas markets and build mines overseas to reverse it. The unfavorable situation that the price of domestic imported iron ore has increased year after year.

But Boss Zhu is also very clear. When it comes to fighting each other in China, these experts speak very well, but if they want to really go overseas to fight, there are not many who have the courage to take on this task. It is easy to talk on paper. , The battlefield is difficult to fight!

However, opening up overseas markets is indeed a good medicine to solve the serious shortage of domestic iron ore demand. From this aspect, Fan Wubing pointed out the shortcomings of domestic policies, and it is indeed a good medicine.

But if you really want to open up overseas markets, who should be responsible? Boss Zhu thought in his heart that Baosteel would definitely not be able to do it. From these few incidents, it can be seen that the Japanese chaebols are penetrating deeply into all areas of Baosteel. To put it in a pretty vernacular way, they have already lost their power and independence. I can't count on it anymore.

"Does this matter also need to be solved by Fan Wuyi?" Boss Zhu frowned and looked at Fan Wuyi who sat down to drink tea to moisturize his throat, hesitated in his heart.

Fan Wubing didn't expect that he couldn't help but talk about it, and he would go in again.