"This is the forest land that our country is planning to allocate to your company, totaling 40,000 square kilometers!
Among them are two coal mines with proven total reserves of more than one billion tons!" Louisa Alcord also handed Wang Hongbo a document.
There is a map in the document, which indicates the location and area of the forestland to be allocated to Huayu International Development Group.
The 40,000 square kilometers of forest land is naturally not one piece, but divided into twelve pieces.
Eight of the forestlands are in the northern plateau, and the other four are in the southern plains. These twelve forestlands are spread across ten provinces and one city in Mozambique.
It can be seen that Mozambique is not a fool, and its calculations are quite shrewd. It has dispersed 40,000 square kilometers of forest land to ten provinces and one city. In this way, if Huayu International Development Group wants to develop these resources, it will inevitably have to overhaul railways and roads in Mozambique.
The railways, highways and other infrastructure built by Hua Yu are naturally not used exclusively by Hua Yu, and Mozambique may use more of them.
"Ms. Olcord, did you get the wrong document? Your country seemed to have promised 50,000 square kilometers of forest land before. How did it become 40,000 square kilometers?
Also, are these woodlands too scattered?
In this case, our company will have to pay billions of dollars more for this!" Wang Hongbo questioned on the spot.
This is also a routine, performed for the Mozambican and Chinese people in front of the TV station.
“Although the area is smaller, the forest land we gave includes two coal mines with proven reserves!
The coal reserves of one billion tons should be worth enough to compensate for the area of 10,000 square kilometers of forest land!"
"Ms. Alcod, please don't get confused. The two coal mines were built as compensation for our agreement to hand over the railways and roads to the Mozambican government!"
Therefore, if your country does not have a reasonable explanation, I can only suspend the negotiations!" Wang Hongbo threatened to suspend the negotiations very forcefully.
"Okay! I'm afraid there is some misunderstanding about this matter. I will go back and report to the President of our country!
Then let’s negotiate another day!” Louisa Alcord also followed Wang Hongbo’s words and ended today’s negotiation.
After all, negotiations were not completed in one day. Even if eight months of long negotiations had gone by, it would still take several days.
"Mr. Wang, I am a reporter from Xinhua News Agency. Can I ask you a few questions?"
"Mr. Wang, I am a CCTV reporter. Can you answer a few questions?"
"Mr. Wang, I am..."
After the negotiation ended, Wang Hongbo was surrounded by a group of reporters as soon as he left the conference room.
"Okay! It's very friendly to meet fellow Chinese people abroad. What do you want to ask?" Wang Hongbo accepted the interview generously.
"Mr. Wang, can you disclose the amount of your company's investment in Mozambique?"
"Mr. Wang, what prompted your company to travel all the way to Mozambique to invest?"
"Mr. Wang..."
"Don't be anxious, everyone. We still have a lot of time. Let's take our time and ask questions one by one. I will answer them one by one!" Wang Hongbo was very talkative and smiled very amiably.
"Let me answer the question from this comrade from Xinhua News Agency first!
Our total investment in Mozambique this time exceeds 20 billion US dollars!
The reason why we came to invest in Mozambique is, firstly, that our company has always attached great importance to the African market!
We are not only investing in Mozambique. As early as two years ago, we have invested US$2 billion in Ajigeria and built a water storage reservoir and hydropower station for Ajigeria with an annual output value of US$1 billion.
The above building materials industrial park!
In addition, our company has three building materials industrial parks in Africa with an annual output value of more than one billion US dollars!
One of them is under construction and two have been put into production!
Secondly, when we came to invest in Mozambique, we went through the matchmaking process between the embassy and the Export-Import Bank of China.
The friendship between my country and Mozambique has a long history. The Mao Zedong Avenue here records the friendship between the two countries...
Our company and the Mozambican government conducted preliminary negotiations for eight months and finally decided it!" Wang Hongbo answered the questions of reporters from Xinhua News Agency and CCTV in one breath.
"Thank you, Mr. Wang. Your company has made such a large-scale investment. Are you confident that you can recover the investment?"
"Since we have invested, we are confident that we will get it back!"
"Mr. Wang, our country is also undergoing urban construction, and funds are in great need across the country!
If these two tens of billions of dollars are invested domestically, China's development can accelerate a lot...
Your country has invested such a huge amount of money in Mozambique. I wonder how your company explains this?"
"Haha! This is the development strategy issue of every company.
We have never given up domestic investment, and the development strategy implemented by our company is a dual-core system.
That is to say, the two cores at home and abroad develop together, and the two cores at home and abroad complement each other.
I'm afraid this comrade still doesn't know that our company's domestic investment is even greater!
The largest sewage treatment plant in Asia that started construction some time ago was invested by our group!
In addition, our group company has invested in the construction of sewage treatment plants with a total daily processing capacity of 30 million tons in China!" Wang Hongbo did not make a fuss. The CCTV reporter's question was already merciful. If it were replaced by some trolls, he would have been
He called Hua Yu a traitor.
Moreover, the CCTV reporter’s question seemed to be making things difficult for Hua Yu, but in fact, he was trying to explain it to Hua Yu in advance.
With today's question and Wang Hongbo's answer, at least Hua Yu will be less scolded.
Wang Hongbo answered some more questions, and staff from the Mozambican government over there came over to invite Wang Hongbo to the banquet.
Although the negotiations have not yet been completed, there should still be a banquet.
It was not until around three o'clock in the afternoon in Mozambique that Wang Hongbo left the presidential palace and returned to the hotel where he lived.
Wang Hongbo called back to China again to report today's negotiations to Yu Qingyang.
Wang Hongbo rose from a coal mine technician to the chairman of the Zao Mining Group step by step. There were many ups and downs in the process, and he had already honed his interpersonal skills.
Ask for more instructions and report more, no matter what unit or position you are in, you will never go wrong.
Wang Hongbo didn't want to return to the labor union and be on the bench, so he had long forgotten the instructions given by Director Huang of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.
Hug Yu Qingyang's thigh tightly. This thigh is thicker and more reliable than Director Huang's.
After listening to Wang Hongbo's report, Yu Qingyang did not give any instructions. He just asked him to negotiate according to the established plan.
On the fourth day, rest, the Mozambican government accompanied Wang Hongbo and his party to conduct an on-the-spot inspection of the forest land allocated to Hua Yu.
The smallest forest area covers 3,000 square kilometers, so it is naturally impossible to make a car.
The only way to conduct inspections from the air was by plane. The Mozambican government sent three armed helicopters to protect the passenger plane on which Wang Hongbo was traveling.