The next day, Mozambique did not arrange negotiations. Instead, accompanied by Stefano Morrone and Luisa Olcord, they visited the scenery of Maputo and took a yacht to Inikaya Island.
Go and have fun.
"Dear Mr. Wang, this is Inikaya Island. Once we sign the contract, this island will belong to you Hua Yu. I hope it can be developed more beautifully in your hands!" Stefano Morrone
He introduced Wang Hongbo loudly.
"This island is so beautiful! Mr. Morrone, you have to believe that our company will never develop aggressively and destroy this natural scenery!
Our chairman once said that we want to make this island a business card of Mozambique, a business card island that can let the world know Mozambique again!"
"Yes! Mr. Yu from your company once said that he would make this island a Mozambique folk custom island and a South African tourist destination!" Stefano Morrone thought of the confident young man when he was in China.
What he said to him.
At this time, Inikaya Island was still a pristine scenery, and those who visited here were all self-guided tours.
It's not that Mozambique doesn't want to develop this island, but it has no money and no corresponding tourism resources.
If you invest a lot of money to develop the island, if no one comes to play, you will lose all your money.
Hua Yu is not afraid of this. With China as a huge market, he is not afraid of not having tourism resources.
The unique natural scenery, folk customs, and affordable consumption here can definitely attract a large number of Chinese tourists as long as they are properly promoted.
After spending a day on Inikaya Island, diving, swimming, surfing, walking on the beach, and tasting the unique local food on the island, Wang Hongbo and his party returned home happily.
On the third day, the Mozambican government officially started negotiations.
In fact, the so-called negotiation is just a formality. The terms that need to be negotiated have already been negotiated. This time it is just for the world to see.
The previous negotiations were secret negotiations and were not announced to the public. Now the entire negotiation process is followed and filmed by reporters.
Li Xiangnong, Ambassador of the Chinese Embassy in Mozambique, also personally attended the negotiation and signing ceremony.
"This is our Huayu's specific plan for investing in Mozambique!" Wang Hongbo handed a translated document to Luisa Alcod, the Minister of Commercial Affairs of Mozambique.
“We at Huayu plan to build two railways and corresponding supporting roads in Mozambique!
We will upgrade and transform your country’s seaports, terminals and international airports!
In addition, we will also build a CBD project, China Town, in Maputo!
In addition to residential areas, Chinatown will also have schools, hospitals, five-star hotels, large shopping malls, office buildings, and banks. Speaking of banks, let me explain a little. In addition to the banks in your country, Chinatown will also have banks. , there will also be branches of my country’s five major state-owned banks, as well as the Export-Import Bank of China, HSBC and a total of seven banks!
In addition, we will also build a 33-story Huayu Building as our company's headquarters in Africa!" Wang Hongbo gave a general outline of the contents of the investment plan.
"Dear Mr. Wang, I remember that Mr. Yu from your company also promised to build some factories, but it was not specified in the document!" Louisa Alcod looked at the document and asked a question.
"The types of some factories are not specified in the document. That's because we are not yet sure what resources are on the land your country gave us!
For example, for the steel plant you want, we are still not sure whether your country has iron ore resources, let alone the grade of the iron ore, so we have no way to indicate it on the document.
So only the factories that can be determined are marked above, including wood processing plants, coking plants, power plants, and building materials industrial parks!"
"What about the furniture factory?"
"Ms. Alcord, it seems that the furniture factory rejected us from the beginning!
If furniture is produced in your country and shipped to China for sale, this will greatly increase our freight and customs expenses!
This part of the expenditure will make our furniture lose competitiveness in the country! Therefore, we only promise to invest in and build wood processing plants in your country!
On this point, let alone your country, even from the United States, Canada, and Australia, we only import their oak, walnut and other raw materials!
Speaking of wood, our company promises that for all wood cut down, we will replant it at a one-to-one ratio!
In other words, every time we cut down a tree, we will plant a sapling in its place and ensure its survival rate!"
Here Wang Hongbo or Yu Qingyang was careless and did not say what kind of saplings to replant.
Of course, the permanent use rights of the land belong to Hua Yu. Hua Yu will definitely not replant those cheap saplings. Naturally, he will replant wood with high economic value.
It does not mean that wood is valuable because of its high economic value. There is also a time cost involved.
Huanghuali and small-leaf red sandalwood are extremely precious, but it takes fifty or sixty years for a small-leaf red sandalwood sapling to mature, even if it is artificially cultivated. Moreover, such artificial wood has a relatively low wood density, many brown eyes, and is oily.
It is poor and has obvious growth rings, which is more than one grade worse than wild small-leaf red sandalwood.
Therefore, planting wood does not mean that the wood is precious and has high economic value.
“Also consider that the illegal logging of trees in your country is very serious!
Once an investment contract is signed, this kind of illegal logging is equivalent to sucking blood from our Hua Yu!
Therefore we need forest enforcement powers!
Conduct armed patrols on the forest resources under our company’s name!
Furthermore, your country’s ports and terminals must also carry out strict inspections and do not allow any illegally logged timber to leave Mozambique!” These conditions had actually been negotiated long ago, but they were just repeated in front of the cameras.
This article alone took more than a month of repeated discussions before it was finally settled.
At the beginning, Yu Qingyang not only wanted forest law enforcement powers, but also port law enforcement powers. They could inspect any suspicious timber, as well as maritime search powers to search and arrest ships smuggling illegal timber.
However, Mozambique refused, which is understandable. The forest law enforcement rights are okay. After all, they are on Huayu's own land to protect their own property, which is acceptable.
Once Hua Yu went to the seaport to search for smuggled illegal timber, this would involve an issue of sovereignty.
If the President of Mozambique dares to agree, he will definitely be attacked by the opposition parties and may even step down as a result.
Of course, Yu Qingyang didn't really want those things, he was just asking for high prices and bargaining hard.
The purpose is to get Mozambique to agree to strictly investigate illegal logging and smuggling of timber.
Seventy percent of the timber exported from Mozambique every year is illegally logged and smuggled out of the country.
Yu Qingyang's fundamental purpose is to use the power of the Mozambican government to crack down on illegal logging and smuggling of timber, and then monopolize Mozambique's timber export business.