1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 2802
After visiting the smelter, the two continued to take a carriage to the adjacent mining field.

Compared with the last time Beks came here to inspect, the production environment in the mining area has obviously improved a lot.There is no longer a constant flow of freight wagons on the roads. Ore and ore are now transported out of the mining area by rail locomotives with stronger load capacity, and the transportation efficiency is far better than that of the initial period.

There are many miners' dormitories built by the government along the road, most of which are three-story strip buildings, built with blue bricks and wooden floors, square in shape, and uniform in format and structure.

This kind of building originated from the collective dormitory where the early builders of Shengli Harbor lived. It has supporting public facilities such as canteens, clinics, and baths. Its construction cost and living cost are much lower than ordinary residential buildings, and it is convenient for collective management. It is especially suitable for miners, a group composed of a large number of young and strong laborers.

Chen Yixin introduced to Beks that Fushan Copper Mine is currently divided into eight mining areas, with a total of more than [-] large and small mines. Such miners' dormitories will be built next to each mine to shorten the miners' commuting time as much as possible.

The rural villages that were originally located between various mining areas have gradually evolved into small-scale towns due to the influx of foreign population and the increase in trade demand.

In the past, almost all the local people made a living from farming, but after the Fushan mine came into operation, it also provided them with more ways to make a fortune.

In addition to the most basic way of going to the mine to be a miner to sell their labor force, people with flexible minds will sell their own agricultural products to those outside miners, or simply dump some living materials from Dengzhou City and other places to sell.Today, seven out of ten people who open shops and do business in these towns in the mining area are of local origin.

Some people also saw the opportunity of the gradual urbanization of Fushan County, and sold the land they owned in the mining area to Haihan officials in the form of long-term lease or buyout, made a fortune, and then went to Majiazhuang and Zhifu Port Going to buy land and property as an apartment not only realized the upgrading of assets, but also changed the identity from a rural landlord to a new gentry, completing a class breakthrough.

"The labor demand in the mine has created a large number of employment opportunities, allowing us to accommodate a large number of people who flooded into Dengzhou during the famine. According to last year's census, about one-third of the current permanent population in Dengzhou is They are migrant households. And about half of these migrant households are engaged in mining-related work in Fushan Copper Mine, Zhaoyuan Gold Mine, and Longkou Coal Mine.”

Chen Yixin said proudly: "It is no exaggeration to say that the mining industry is one of the pillar industries in the northern region, and it has great potential for development. I think the executive committee should consider gradually relocating some heavy industries to the north in the future. Let these mineral resources be connected to the nearby supporting downstream industries."

Beks nodded and said, "The Ministry of Industry will formulate relevant development plans. Don't be too anxious. A lot of work still has to be done step by step."

Regardless of whether Chen Yixin's suggestion is out of overall consideration or selfishness, objectively speaking, it is indeed worthy of serious consideration by the Executive Committee.

The richness of mineral resources in the northern region is far greater than that of Hainan Island. In particular, it has the energy and heavy metal deposits necessary for the development of industry. The conditions can be described as unique.Among the areas currently controlled by Hai Han, there seems to be no other place that has such complete natural resources.

If it is not too far away from Hainan Island, the Northern Region may have been selected by the Executive Committee as a key area for industrial development.But now, as Haihan's control in the north has been strengthened, external pressure has gradually resolved, and various mineral deposits have gradually entered the state of mining. Chen Yixin believes that the conditions are ripe, so he naturally wants to seize the opportunity to lobby Beks.

Bex is in charge of the industry, and as long as he can get his nod, the matter is basically half done.

While talking, the two had already arrived at one of the mines. After getting off the car, the officials in charge of the mine had already bowed and waited. Seeing Chen Yixin making a gesture, they hurried forward and began to introduce the production situation of this mine.

This place belongs to a mine in the fifth mining area of ​​Fushan Copper Mine. Three years ago, the Northern Regional Mining Bureau discovered the underground veins here, and after completing various infrastructure projects last year, formal mining began.

At present, there are less than 1000 miners in this mine, which are divided into two shifts and adopt the open-pit mining method.Under full-load working conditions, about two to three thousand tons of ore can be mined every day.Although this figure may not seem large, the per capita output has actually greatly exceeded that of purely manual mining.

There are at least five or six mines at the same level of production capacity in Fushan Copper Mine. Chen Yixin brought Bai Letong to see here, of course not for this reason.

In fact, this is one of the "new technology demonstration mining areas" set by Fushan Copper Mine.Due to the late start, here has enjoyed higher mine infrastructure standards from the very beginning, similar to various steam power equipment and rail transportation systems, as well as miners' settlements, are directly used as standard configurations for construction .

The mine uses a large number of steam power equipment, bucket wheel excavators, rock crushers, grinders, belt conveyors, and rail transportation systems during the mining process.Almost all the mechanical equipment currently used in mining and production can be seen here.

One of the necessary conditions for deploying so many mechanical equipment is to have enough engineering and technical personnel.According to the production supervisor, about a quarter of the miners here belong to technical jobs, and most of them have completed the entire training process locally.

These technicians not only know how to use these mechanical equipment, but also can perform basic maintenance and repair operations on it, and several of them have even obtained the title of mechanical engineer certified by the Ministry of Industry.

Of course, corresponding to the technical level is the high labor cost of this mine.The salaries enjoyed by these professionals with professional skills are often several times, dozens of times, or even hundreds of times that of ordinary miners, and the required living conditions are also higher.

The miners' dormitory next to the mine certainly cannot meet their needs. Most of these technicians live in towns in the mining area, and some even live near the more prosperous Majiazhuang.

Although the production level of this mine is quite good, it actually concentrates nearly half of the technical resources of the entire Fushan Copper Mine, and the number of machinery and equipment deployed even exceeds that of several mines with larger production scales.The purpose of this arrangement is also very clear, that is to prove to the Ministry of Industry that the Fushan Copper Mine has sufficient technical capabilities, and the Ministry of Industry should put more mining machinery and equipment here.

(End of this chapter)