"The pollution here is really serious." Ye Kai looked at the turbidity of the air outside and couldn't help but sigh.
In fact, domestic heavy industry projects have always caused serious pollution. Especially in the late 1980s and the first half of the 1990s, the rapid development of heavy industry and private enterprises led to intensified pollution in various places.
However, the local government's eyes are only focused on the figures of economic development. On the one hand, they do not pay enough attention to the problem of environmental pollution, and on the other hand, they do not have the energy to deal with it, which leads to increasingly serious environmental problems.
Today, Linggang is also facing the same problem.
Ye Kai just opened the car window a small crack. Within two minutes, he saw a layer of fine dust-like particles inside the car, so he had to close the car window.
"Secretary Ye, to be honest, the pollution at Linggang is much more serious than that at our Longcheng City Steel Plant." Deputy Secretary Yang Shunxin, who was sitting next to him, said.
This is not because she has a preference for businesses in her hometown, but it is indeed the case.
Whether it is from the air quality or from the various steel slag wastes seen along the way, Linggang has not dealt with it very much. Over time, these will be a big trouble. The piles of steel slag will become
Large mountains that are difficult to digest are more likely to cause secondary pollution when exposed to the outside, bringing great disadvantages to the lives of surrounding residents.
"Oh, I have feelings about this matter." Ye Kai heard this topic and started talking to Yang Shunxin, "Secretary Yang, you are from Old Longcheng. You should know more about the city's steel plants. It is said that their scale is also
It’s not small, and there are many heavy industry companies in Longcheng, so why does the pollution situation seem to be much better?”
In the past, Ye Kai was in it. Without a comparison, he naturally didn't know the specific level of pollution in Longcheng City. Now he came to Lingcheng. With a sharp contrast, he naturally had a very intuitive understanding.
Feel.
It happened that Yang Shunxin mentioned this matter again, so he wanted to ask about it.
"Haha. It's a long story. Secretary Ye is also interested in this?" Yang Shunxin laughed.
Ye Kai nodded and said, "We disciplinary inspection and supervision cadres cannot just focus on the economic or life shortcomings of cadres. It would also be beneficial if we could give them some ideas in terms of construction. Just like environmental pollution.
If this kind of thing reaches a certain level, it will harm everyone's health, so we should also pay attention. And focus on it."
Mentioning this topic, Ye Kai even said, "Actually, I have thought about including environmental issues into the performance evaluation of cadres. If not, they will ignore this issue and sacrifice most people in order to develop the economy.
This is simply a crime. These people still get promoted based on this. This is absolutely unacceptable!"
"I'm afraid Secretary Lin Yuanxing has no idea about this question, right?" Yang Shunxin laughed after hearing this.
"Well, I will make suggestions to the superiors. As for whether others will listen to them, it's hard to say." Ye Kai nodded, "But I believe that after a few years, if this matter is brought up, they will definitely not
It is unfounded to say that I am worried. In fact, similar environmental pollution tragedies have occurred in Europe and Japan during the process of industrial development. Now we are rushing into construction, and it is easy for problems to occur. When the pollution problem becomes serious, we want to clean it up.
, it’s more difficult.”
"I very much support your idea, Secretary Ye. It is impossible to be a disciplinary inspection cadre without conscience and sense of responsibility." Deputy Secretary Yang Shunxin nodded in praise.
"Haha, let's encourage each other." Ye Kai responded with a smile.
After walking along the way, everyone frowned a little when they arrived at the end of the field.
The air quality is indeed not good, but it is bearable. I think it will be much better after returning to the guest house. After all, the difference between indoors and outdoors should be relatively large.
But after getting off the bus, Jing Chunlin, secretary-general of the municipal government, sent a mask.
"Secretary Ye, please everyone wear masks, and safety helmets at all times." Jing Chunlin handed over the safety helmets and masks, and then said to Ye Kai, "There are many unexpected problems in the factory, safety helmets
It can maximize our safety factor. Masks are also very important, as well as these goggles, which are all necessary."
"Okay, everyone, please put it on. This is for the good of all of us." Ye Kai ordered, and everyone armed themselves.
Many comrades have never worn this kind of thing before, so it is a bit novel. Especially after putting down the goggles, you feel that the other person's image becomes much funny.
"In the factory, safety is the most important thing." Jing Chunlin also put on protective equipment, and then said, "One year, I came to the factory to inspect the work. At that time, a comrade didn't take the safety helmet seriously and took it.
He was playing around with his hand, and suddenly a screw that was being processed flew out of a machine tool next to him and hit him on the cheek. He was bleeding at the time. Fortunately, it was not far away from his eyes.
Just a little distance, otherwise, you won’t be able to save that eye!”
Hearing his personal explanation, everyone immediately paid a lot of attention and looked at their companions to see if they had put on all these things properly.
"But don't worry, we are just walking around here to let you know how the steel plant works. We will go to Linggang Hotel in a while, and the working group will stay and work there from now on."
Jing Chunlin said again.
Ye Kai nodded, and then everyone took the battery car and entered the factory area.
The situation here at Linggang is actually not much different from that at the Longcheng City Steel Plant.
Generally speaking, the integration level of domestic steel companies is far from enough. Most steel companies are still under the leadership of local governments and have not formed scale effects. This gap with foreign countries is still relatively large.
In fact, since the mid-1980s, European capitalist countries, led by the United Kingdom, have successively begun to privatize state-owned steel companies whose operating conditions have deteriorated.
In the early 1990s, as the privatization and transformation of state-owned steel companies in Germany, Italy, France and other countries was fully rolled out, the U.S. Department of Commerce was very worried and believed that this would be harmful to the interests of the United States, so it launched the "post-privatization" policy of the European Community.
"Enterprises" began to impose substantial countervailing duties on steel products exported in an attempt to curb their survival space.
"Foreign steel industries have been undergoing structural adjustments through mergers and acquisitions. As a result of the restructuring, the steel industry has emerged as large companies with relatively concentrated geographical locations and larger production scales. This type of restructuring and mergers has become an important step in the steel industry in developed countries to reduce harmful competition and
Means to improve efficiency." Thinking of this, Ye Kai gave some pointers, "Currently, the European steel industry has formed a four-legged situation in which the Asel Group, ThyssenKrupp Group, Corus Group and lmn Group stand side by side.
Japan's six major steel companies have been reorganized into two groups to unify operations and production. Through the current restructuring in the United States, steel production has been mainly concentrated in three companies: International Steel Group Corporation, United States Steel Union and Nucor Steel Corporation."
Ye Kai talked about the merger of international steel companies here. Most people really didn't have much interest in it, but several engineers from Linggang who were in charge of handling them were more interested in this topic.
Although several of them were equally uninterested in this working group from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Du Yuye still had some thoughts on the topic.
"Comrade, the domestic environment is relatively complex. Due to historical reasons, it is difficult for steel plants in various places to be integrated together. Especially for some steel companies belonging to various provinces, if they want to achieve leapfrog mergers and acquisitions, the conditions are not mature.
Ah." One engineer said with emotion.
"Well, this is also some of the shortcomings of the domestic system. There is no separation between government and enterprises, or it is because of some economic disputes. Yes, the steel companies are unable to achieve the purpose of uniting and achieving the purpose of increasing interests and reducing costs. It is really heartbreaking.
"Ye Kai nodded in agreement, "Just like our neighboring country South Korea, their steel industry started later, but their progress is rapid. In some aspects, they are even better than us."
At this time, the country did not have a deep understanding of Koreans, and Koreans were not as annoying as they were later. Therefore, everyone was basically able to view this small neighboring country in a more positive light, especially in domestic textbooks.
I often mention this country among the Four Asian Tigers and quite agree with some of their practices.
Ye Kai mentioned South Korea, naturally for a reason, because they do do some good things.
South Korea's steel industry started late, but it has made rapid progress.
In 1972, South Korea had only a few small steel plants with outdated equipment and backward technology. The annual steel output was 600,000 tons, and the self-sufficiency rate was only 20%.
However, the Koreans realized that to build an industrialized society, they must develop the steel industry in a limited manner. Therefore, they twice requested Western support for funds, technology and equipment to build steel plants with an annual output of 500,000 tons to 1 million tons, but failed for some reason.
When building Pohang Iron and Steel Company in 1969, the Koreans turned to Japan for support. In the end, Japan agreed to a loan of US$120 million and merged it with Yawata Steel and Fuji Steel (the two companies later merged into Shinnippon Steel).
Three companies including China Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. and nkk Company are responsible for providing technology.
With the commissioning of the first phase of Pohang Steel's project, crude steel output reached 1.03 million tons that year, providing much-needed steel for South Korea's rapidly developing automobile, shipbuilding and other industries.
In the 15 years from 1970 to 1985, South Korea's crude steel production increased 26 times. Now it has almost doubled compared with the steel production in 1985. At the same time, the self-sufficiency rate in steel varieties has reached 99
%above.
It can be said that the achievements this small neighboring country has made in the steel industry in the past two decades are indeed amazing.
Originally, several engineers had a strong rebellious mentality towards the people in the working group, but they were shocked to hear that Ye Kai, a "young comrade", actually knew so much about the development of the international steel industry and even knew more about this aspect than they did.
"This little comrade knows our steel industry very well!" the engineer from before said with some surprise.
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