The first thousand one hundred and ninety-third chapters
The different motives of the Lee Group, the Japanese Group, and the Korean Group do not affect their joy and blessing for the Oriental Port and Dongla Railway to be put into operation.
Several parties are in great demand for iron ore, especially the Japanese consortium and the Korean consortium. They are relatively short of domestic resources. The opening of the Dongfang Port and Dongla Railway can be said to have solved their difficulties for so many years. Now they have enough
Capital negotiates prices with several major iron ore groups, which can reduce their raw material purchase costs.
During the subsequent ribbon-cutting, the ribbon-cutting was performed by the highest officials of Western Australia, Xu Yuntao, Zheng Yutong, Gu Zhenfu, Iwasaki Toshihide, Yasuda Yoshimura, Zheng Zhouyong, and Li Jianxi. Li Guangyu did not participate. After all, Xu Yuntao already represented the Li Group.
After watching a freight train slowly leave the Oriental Port Railway Station, Li Guangyu and his party went to the Jiuhua Hotel in the city to attend the celebration reception of the Xinma Iron Ore Development Company.
At the cocktail party, Fisher Crent, the highest minister of Western Australia, said to Li Guangyu and others: "We in Western Australia are rich in mineral resources. We very much welcome you to continue to increase investment in our Western Australia. At the same time, we also welcome you to others."
Businesses are coming to us to develop in Western Australia.”
This is a rare opportunity to bring together the major capital leaders from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Krent naturally does not want to miss this opportunity to attract investment. The better the economic development of Western Australia, the better for him.
Your future career will be more beneficial.
Western Australia is incomparable to Melbourne and Sydney. Currently, the only thing that makes Western Australia famous is the iron ore in the Pilbara. Apart from mineral mining, Western Australia has no industry at all.
Even the automobile industry is mainly based in Melbourne. Many mining companies in Australia have their headquarters in Melbourne instead of Western Australia. It was better until the Lee Consortium came over.
The Xingyuan Group's Australian headquarters is in Perth, the Western Australia Steel Group is registered and headquartered in Perth, the New Horse Iron Ore Development Company is also headquartered in Perth, and Wheelock Shipping Company's Australian headquarters is in Oriental Port.
But these alone are not enough. Krent also hopes that more global companies' Australian headquarters will be located in Western Australia, and that more companies will come to Western Australia to invest and start business.
In the past few years, the Li Group has developed very well in Western Australia. The Western Australian government is also very supportive of his industry. Li Guangyu is also willing to strengthen cooperation with Western Australia.
You must know that Western Australia is an autonomous state. In addition to being consistent with Australia's defense and diplomacy, it has great autonomy and does not need to pay attention to Australia's policies for many things.
Australia has a prime minister, and Western Australia also has its own prime minister. Fisher Crent is the current prime minister of the Western Australian government.
Li Guangyu said aloud: "Mr. Krent, I am personally very optimistic about the future development of Western Australia. My industries will continue to increase investment in Western Australia. Oriental Port will be an important hub for Bentley Group and Western Australia Steel Group."
As a production base, Perth Airport will also be one of the important route airports of Xiangjiang Air Transport Group, and we are willing to develop together with Western Australia."
Iwasaki Toshihide is not far behind. He hopes to bring their Mitsubishi cars into the Australian market and prevent the Bentley Group from having a monopoly here.
He said aloud: "Mr. Krent, our Mitsubishi Motors Group is willing to deploy in Oriental Port and produce Mitsubishi cars to contribute to the Western Australian economy. At the same time, it will also enhance our friendship and promote our common development."
Zheng Zhouyong, the head of Hyundai Group, is not to be outdone. Since both parties have put their car companies in Dongfang Port, he might as well come. He also established a Hyundai automobile production base in Dongfang Port and also targeted the Australian and Indonesian markets.
Regardless of the competition from several parties, Crent has a huge number of automobile groups stationed in Oriental Port. The future development of Oriental Port is unlimited, and it will become an industrial city in Western Australia, and in the automotive field, it is fully capable of surpassing Melbourne.
The only thing that makes Krent feel helpless is that the population of Western Australia is still too small. Compared with the former capital of Melbourne, whether it is the current Perth or the newly emerging city of Oriental Port, there is a huge gap. If you want to compare with Melbourne
, Sydney and other cities are competing against each other. These cities in Western Australia do not yet have this strength.
Even if he now wants to transfer the capital of Western Australia to Oriental Port City, it is impossible, which makes his plan to fully support the growth of a city unable to be implemented.
Due to the needs of the industry, these Oriental capitals are obviously more willing to invest in Oriental Port City than in Perth.
As for Perth, which is currently the capital of Western Australia, they naturally want to support its development and cannot reduce their investment in Perth. This makes it impossible to have a city on par with Melbourne and Sydney in Western Australia.
Krent said: "Thank you very much for your trust in us in Western Australia. Our Western Australian government will definitely try our best to help you with the construction and development of Dongfang Port City. Our government is planning to build an airport in Dongfang Port City and at the same time build an airport in Oriental Port City.
Hong Kong's railway line connects it with the Western Australia Railway main line.
At the same time, we will strengthen the infrastructure construction in Dongfang Port, especially the construction of public facilities such as hospitals and schools, so that Dongfang Port not only becomes a place to work, but also their families’ life and study can be satisfied.”
It's a pity that Oriental Port City is not the capital of Western Australia. Otherwise, Li Guangyu would really have the idea of investing in this airport and making it the base airport of Xiangjiang Airlines in Australia.
Unfortunately, due to the existence of Perth and the population factor of Western Australia, it is difficult for Oriental Port to develop into a city with a population of one million, and demand is restricted. Oriental Port City is not suitable for Xiangjiang Airlines' base airport.
Let’s take a look here for the time being. If the Japanese consortium and the Korean consortium are willing to deploy more industries in Dongfang Port, Dongfang Port City can still develop. Li Guangyu himself is not willing to develop Dongfang Port City on his own, which would be detrimental to him.
There's not much benefit.
Sumitomo Qiying said: "Mr. Krent, we are very optimistic about the future of Oriental Port. Our shipyard is willing to establish a ship repair yard in Oriental Port to specifically serve the ships of Oriental Port. When the time is right, it can directly transform into
For the shipyard.”
After Dongfang Port is put into operation, there will definitely be a large number of cargo ships here, and it is a good business to establish a ship repair yard.
This luncheon has completely become an investment fair for Western Australia. This time they have gained quite a lot. Three major car companies, Bentley, Mitsubishi and Hyundai, have established production bases in Oriental Port City.
At the same time, shipyards owned by the Sumitomo family came to establish ship repair yards, which allowed the economic development of Oriental Port City to be faster and attracted more people to work and live in Oriental Port City.
Especially because the main capital of Oriental Port City is from East Asia, Oriental Port City has also become the main city in Australia where East Asians live. The future development of Oriental Port City is completely beyond Li Guangyu's current expectations.
The banquet lasted until three o'clock in the afternoon. Sumitomo Qiying and others returned to Perth with Krent. Li Guangyu did not go with them because he wanted to inspect the production base of the Western Australia Steel Group here.