Chapter 1113

When others come to Perth, like Ye Jianbin and sun Shangyi, as long as time permits, they will entertain all the staff and family members stationed in Perth to boost their morale; Zhang Ke does not hold a formal position in Jinhu. In addition to contacting senior managers, he can be lazy in boosting employee morale and other work.

The first dinner in Perth was held in the sloping sea view villa where Zhai Danqing and Wei Lan lived. They had complete sets of tableware and fixed kitchen maids and nannies. Liang Jun, Sun Li, Fu Jun, Li Mingyu, Tang Jing, Chen feirong, Wei Lan and three other little girls. Zhai Danqing was delayed in the company and appeared very late. After dinner, he said that Zhang Ke and Chen feirong had been on a plane all day and had a long journey. They had to rest early and let them go back to the villa to rest.

Zhang Ke doesn't know how Tang Jing got along with Zhai Danqing during her ten days in Perth. He can't just ask these questions. His visit to Perth is not a pure vacation. There are many things. Just looking at the report, she doesn't have a very intuitive impression. She still needs to walk on the spot.

It rained again at night, pattering on the glass and dripping on the leaves and grass in the courtyard, which made the room particularly clean. The window was open and the wind blew in. In the hottest season in Perth, Zhang Ke went out of the study and wanted to find a dress to wear.

"What's the matter? Don't mind reading the materials?" Tang Jing and Chen feirong curled up on the sofa in the living room to chat, watched Zhang Ke push the door out and asked him with his head raised.

Zhang Ke sat down with a smile and said, "just now I was looking for a dress to wear. At this time, I really didn't want to see the materials..."

Chen feirong was embarrassed and pulled her skirt to cover it. She stood up and said, "I'm going to bed. I'll ignore you..." she winked at Tang Jing vaguely and hid in the room with a smile.

"I'll sleep with you. You're not allowed to lock the door..." Tang Jing's voice declined and listened to the sound of the door lock inside.

Zhang Ke sat down, reached out and stroked Xiao Jing's long hair like a waterfall, smiled and said, "now I don't have the mind to read the materials... You're so beautiful now."

"I knew I lied to the little girl," Tang Jing smiled sweetly, leaned over, put her head on Zhang Ke's shoulder, and looked at the bright night sky outside the North window. "When we first arrived in Perth, Zhai Danqing drove us to the depths of the desert. We couldn't see any people all day and night..."

"Are you worried about leaving her in the desert?" Zhang Ke jokingly asked Tang Jingjiao's soft body in his arms.

"Don't interrupt," Tang Jing continued, holding Zhang Ke's lips, "The scenery is very beautiful. Only when you can't see people, you really feel that Perth is a lonely city... Do you think that life is like a lonely city. When you go out far, you can't see people. If you occasionally pass through other people's city, or if there are occasional passers-by passing through your city, you will feel extra treasure. Once you miss it, there is no possibility to retain it?" He raised his head against Zhang Ke's chest, looked at his face, and said, "it's not the kind of good girl you think doesn't understand anything. She's mature enough..." seeing Zhang Ke's hand to touch her chest, he pinched him, "can you not be too mature in your mind? I don't mean to be mature here."

"I just think you are more attractive," said Zhang Ke, with his face close to Tang Jing's long soft hair. "Go to the Christmas Creek mining area tomorrow. You can go with me and feel the taste of no one in the four fields..."

"I'll ignore you tomorrow. We agreed to Shanghai Island," Tang Jing raised her hand and touched Zhang Ke's cheek. "I love you and don't feel unhappy. I always think I should know you better... You can't treat me as a little girl."

Zhang Ke knew that Tang Jing gave him the opportunity to be alone with Zhai Danqing.

Christmas Creek mining area is the farthest exploration area from Perth. After preliminary exploration, it is likely to be one of the iron ore rich areas in Western Australia. It will drive there tomorrow morning. Without two or three days, there will be no end of important drilling points in the whole exploration area.

"Well, don't treat you like a little girl," Zhang Ke whispered, holding Tang Jing in his arms. "What little girls can't do, shall we do it now?"

"...." Tang Jing gave a cry, and she lay soft in Zhang Ke's arms. Since she promised, she would not refuse.

"Zhang Ke, Zhang Ke..."

Hearing Zhitong shouting downstairs, Zhang Kegang separated from Tang Jing. Then he heard the sound of climbing the stairs. In a moment, Zhitong, Xirong and Xiyu came in.

"We sleep with Tang Jing every day. We can't sleep when we separate tonight," said Xi Rong and Xi Yu, looking at Zhang Ke with their heads tilted from left to right. Jiao didi asked in unison, "Zhang Ke, what do you say?"

"Why don't you play cards with us?" Zhitong suddenly raised the two pairs of poker pinned behind him. "Who loses will learn to bark at the door of the community tomorrow!"

Zhang Ke, of course, wanted to throw the three little girls out of the second floor window. He thought: they shouldn't pinch the time to spoil his good deeds, right?

"We don't take Zhang Ke to play. What if he plays a cheeky game and we can't see it?" Xi Rong said to Zhi Tong thoughtfully, "it's really not good to call sister Weilan. Sister feirong can also do it. They are always embarrassed to win our three little girls?"

Zhang Ke hid in his study and continued to read the materials. It wasn't until 11 o'clock that Li Mingyu came and cheated the three little girls away.

As soon as the three little girls left, Zhang Ke immediately dragged Tang Jing to his room so that she wouldn't be embarrassed and run to sleep with Chen feirong first.

"Do you like bad guys..."

"I'm a good girl, so I don't like bad guys..." Tang Jing said in a silly way

After the passion, Tang Jing fell asleep peacefully, but Zhang Ke was surprisingly awake without a trace of sleepiness. Wearing pajamas, he turned off the bedroom light and went to the outside terrace. He vaguely saw a person standing on the terrace next door. He couldn't see whether it was Danqing or Weilan.

Walking to the corner of the terrace, I couldn't see clearly when I was close. At this time, the corridor light on the terrace over there was on. Zhai Danqing also stood on the terrace in her clothes. She held her mobile phone in her hand, pasted it to her ear and motioned Zhang Ke to talk to her with her mobile phone. The balconies on both sides are nearly 20 meters away. The voice is low. They can't hear each other clearly. The voice is loud. The people of the two villas, including the nanny in the downstairs workers' room, can hear them.

"Can't sleep?" Zhang Ke went back to the house, took out his mobile phone and talked to Zhai Danqing 20 meters away.

"Well," Zhai Danqing nodded and smiled, "but don't think I'm jealous of Tang Jing. You have the ability to eat both the girls in your house..."

"..." Zhang Ke smiled and asked, "I'll come to you?"

"No," Zhai Danqing shook his head. "I'll go to bed in a while. If you want to come over, I'll think you're in trouble. Go to bed early and get up early tomorrow."

When she woke up in the morning, Tang Jing was not around. She looked at her watch and thought that she had not slept enough. Most of the time, she ran to Chen feirong's room to sleep in the early morning. It was sunny outside, and the light golden gauze curtain was blown by the breeze. Zhang Kelai thought on his bed for a while. He got out of bed about the exploration area to be visited today. When he opened the door, he saw that the door of Chen feirong's room was closed, and there was a voice of her talking with Tang Jing. When he opened the door, he saw that they were covered with thin quilts, their heads exposed, and two black handfuls of hair piled on the snow-white pillows, If not for the two beautiful faces exposed outside, we can't tell who is whose hair.

The wind was smooth, and a strong aroma of coffee floated from the window. Tang Jingxue stretched out her arms like lotus roots, yawned, stretched, and said, "breakfast is ready..." she opened the quilt. Without Zhang Ke's expectation, the two girls were lying under the quilt neatly in their dresses.

"..." Zhang Ke gave a ha ha and ran to wash.

After breakfast, Tang Jing and Chen feirong asked three little girls to Shanghai Island. Zhang Ke asked Fu Jun to stay and take care of them. He, Zhai Danqing and Liang Jun met with Huang Mingsheng, Economic Counselor of the Chinese Consulate General in Perth, Jia Zhiyi, general manager of Zhongzhi Australia and other officials to take six off-road vehicles to the Christmas Creek exploration area for field investigation.

"When we met last year, it was the late autumn in Perth..." Jia Zhiyi, general manager of Zhongzhi Australia, sat in the same car with Zhang Ke. He said to such a legendary figure that he would not feel any contempt because of the age gap. "What Mr. Zhang said at the consul general's banquet last year is really amazing..."

"Should be surprised and suspicious?" Zhang Ke said with a smile. "This is inevitable. Even now, some people still doubt our determination to invest in mining in Western Australia..."

Jia Zhiyi smiled and said, "I believe in Jinhu's determination..."

In the late autumn of last year, at a banquet specially held by the Consul General in Perth for the high-level visit of Jinhu, Zhang Ke made a splash and announced that Jinhu would invest US $1 billion in the iron ore industry in Western Australia, which shocked all Chinese iron ore traders in Perth.

The cooperation between Zhongzhi company and Jinhu in the foreign monopoly trade of domestic rare earth industry is quite pleasant. As the general representative of MCC in Australia, the general manager of Zhongzhi Australia company, and the representative of Zhongzhi side of the joint exploration company established by Jinhu and MCC, Jia Zhiyi still knows quite well about Jinhu.

Even so, Jia Zhiyi still can't fully understand the decision-making of Jinhu. As Zhang Ke said, even if he knows the strength and background of Jinhu more clearly than ordinary people, he is surprised and doubtful about the decision of Jinhu.

After a period of rapid development of China's iron and steel industry, the iron and steel output exceeded 100 million tons in 1996. However, from 1996 to the end of 1999, affected by the Asian financial crisis, the growth rate of domestic iron and steel output was extremely limited, and the total growth rate of output in the three years was just over 10%.

The iron and steel industry and downstream manufacturing industry in developed countries and regions and other emerging countries and regions are somewhat depressed, and there is no sign of recovery.

The rise and fall of the iron and steel industry directly determines the demand for iron ore.

The world's major iron ore manufacturers have even continuously reduced their production in the past two years, which has maintained the benchmark price of iron ore above US $26 per ton.

The iron ore companies of Rio Tinto, bito and BHP Billiton in Western Australia even want to save transportation costs by increasing the output of mining areas close to the port and compressing the output of mining areas far away from the port.

Even though it is expected that although domestic private capital is liberalized and private capital is pouring into the steel manufacturing industry, it is still regarded as a gamble for the industry to invest US $1 billion in the iron ore industry in Western Australia.

From Perth to the north, there are flat and spacious high-grade roads. Along the way, you can see the mining area and transportation line of Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. Except for the living area of the mining area, few people live. On this land of about 3 million square kilometers, less than 2 million people live, and there are large no man's land everywhere. Driving away from the mining area of Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, the high-grade highway immediately turned into a pitted gravel road. It was bumpy all the way and the speed could not be raised.

"The Christmas Creek exploration area is not on the traffic trunk line in Western Australia. At present, there are gravel roads to go. After driving for a while, the last section of the road will drive directly on the desert..." Jia Zhiyi has been to the exploration area many times and is very familiar with the situation. Along the way, he is responsible for introducing the local situation to Zhang Ke.

Jia Zhiyi and even the entire senior management of MCC do not understand the investment decision of Jinhu, but the joint venture joint exploration company is purely business-oriented. Jinhu funds purchase exploration equipment and provide exploration funds. The actual exploration business is still completed by MCC, and the exploration fee is charged for completing the exploration business. Zhongzhi company can obtain millions of dollars of income every year.

This is a big deal that MCC has received overseas. The most critical thing is that Jinhu will eventually invest in minerals in Western Australia, with an investment scale of billions of dollars. Although such a large-scale investment will account for a considerable part of the port, railway, highway and other infrastructure construction, the funds directly allocated to the construction and development of the mining area will not be less, which are fat meat in the eyes of MCC. If the whole mine construction and development business can be contracted, it will be the largest business received by MCC or even central enterprises overseas.

Not to mention Jia Zhiyi, MCC executives who rarely come to Western Australia have also visited Perth during this period of time. In the final analysis, they are interested in this huge contract with an amount of hundreds of millions of dollars or even billions of dollars.

In addition to the development and construction of mining areas, the heavy tasks of railway, highway and port construction can not be borne by Hongyuan construction alone. Considering the construction cost, it is bound to cooperate with domestic construction enterprises and import a large number of labor services from China to dilute the construction cost. At present, large and medium-sized state-owned construction enterprises still have rich experience in the construction of railways, roads and large seaports. Large state-owned construction enterprises such as CSCEC, China Railway Construction and China shipping are all active in order to get the business order of Jinhu, and even actively assist Jinhu to invest in mining in Western Australia.

The off-road vehicle first inspected the peripheral exploration points and arrived at the main camp of Christmas Creek exploration area almost at dusk.

The main camp is located in a bush unique to Australia. From there, several blue simple houses are surrounded by white painted iron fences, which are divided into office area and living area.

In the north of the main camp, there is a narrow asphalt road with relatively good road conditions. Zhang Ke read the information and knew that the only small town in the nearby area, Christmas Creek, goes north from that road. Christmas Creek runs through the center of the town and winds into the northwest. After 140 kilometers, it enters the sea. There is the handeland deep-water channel in the phase of Jinhu Lake. There is also a port town nearby. Some residents are engaged in fishing salvage, and the scale of the port is very small.

If the iron ore resources of Christmas Creek are worth developing, Jinhu will build a deep-water harbor wharf in handeland and build a railway line from Christmas Creek to handeland port.

The main exploration areas of Auckland Jee in Western Australia are within 300 kilometers around the Christmas Creek area. If there are important geological discoveries in other areas, after the mining area is developed, it can be connected to this transportation line to go to sea.

The temperature in the desert is very high. It's better to ride on the road in an off-road vehicle, whistling and passing. After getting off the car, I really feel the heat of summer in Western Australia, which is completely different from the feeling of arriving in Perth yesterday.

In more than half a year, Jinhu has really done a lot of work. After applying for an exploration area of nearly 100000 square kilometers in the region in the name of aokeji mining industry company, Jinhu quickly established a joint exploration company with China and Georgia, and mainly brought a group of experienced explorers from China to Western Australia for iron ore resource exploration, Christmas Creek area is a key exploration area.

Hu Muqiao, the leader of the exploration team, is an overseas Chinese in Australia. In 1988, MCC and Rio Tinto jointly developed the Chana iron mine in Western Australia. As an engineer of MCC, Hu Muqiao came to Australia from home. In his own words, he cheated an Australian girl after coming to Australia, but Jia Zhiyi helped a lot by being able to join the Australian nationality and continue to work in the Chana iron mine.

Hu Muqiao now works directly for the United exploration company and is the main technical management backbone.

If Jinhu wants to invest in Western Australia, it can not completely import labor services from China. It also needs to look like solving the local employment problem. It needs to hire a certain proportion of employees from the local area. Zhongzhi Australia has been rooted in Western Australia for more than ten years and has indeed helped a lot in local resources.

Zhang Ke and his party got out of the car together with the officials of the Consulate General in Perth. Hu Muqiao and the backbone members of the Christmas Creek exploration team have been waiting outside in the hot air for a while.

It's hot outside, so I don't have much greeting when I get off the bus. I go directly indoors. Although the conditions in the office are simple, at least I use air conditioning. It's just an exploration camp. Water and electricity have not been connected from Christmas Creek town. Diesel engines are used to generate electricity, and air conditioners are only used in the hottest period of time.

"This month, the exploration work of reverse circulation drill and diamond drill is mainly focused on the layered Brookman deposit. This work has come to an end. From the existing results, the potential iron ore resources of Christmas Creek are much higher than our expected 300-400 million tons. The new resources will take some time to finally calculate. I estimate that it will not be less than one billion tons, In addition to a small part of its own clastic ore, the vast majority of resources are layered iron ore in the formation of Brookman iron ore, with low phosphorus content... "Hu Muqiao reported the exploration results during this period on behalf of the exploration team.

Jia Zhiyi is also worried that Zhang Ke may not be familiar with geological terminology. Seeing his surprisingly dignified look, he doesn't know whether to hurry to explain the meaning of Brookman iron ore to him.

"Don't Rio Tinto, bito and BHP Billiton claim to have taken over all the valuable low phosphorus Brookman mines that can be found in the northern part of Western Australia?" Zhang Ke looked at the geological exploration data and said with a smile. "If we immediately publish the exploration results to the public, the low phosphorus Brookman iron ore with a reserves of 1 billion tons may make the executives of Rio Tinto, bituo and BHP Billiton jump in a hurry."

Jia Zhiyi smiled and said: "it can really make the senior executives of Rio Tinto, bituo and BHP Billiton jump in a hurry. Only the high-quality iron ore reserves in Christmas Creek area are five times that of Chana iron ore. It seems appropriate for Jinhu to set its main mining area in Christmas Creek..."

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