The United Steel Base is very lively today. Because the first phase of the project is officially completed. Construction will officially start here today. This moment is worth celebrating for Mauritania.
The leader of Mauritania came here in person, and the moment was broadcast live on television stations across the country.
The electricity used by the entire steel base comes from privately owned nuclear power plants. The entire steel base uses electric furnaces to make iron and steel.
The new overclocking electric furnace has low energy consumption, high output, and very little pollution. It does not need to burn coal, and the reducing agent is also a new reducing agent, which reduces the pollution of the entire steel base to a minimum.
Therefore, the entire steel base looks very clean, and even the smoke emitted is processed through a special treatment system. There are no large smoking chimneys at all in the entire base.
Ironmaking, steelmaking, rolling...
The news officially started, and a large electric furnace was officially started. The level of intelligence is very high, and everyone does not need to stay at the furnace. Only technicians need to stay in the control room.
The control room can detect all data, which is completely different from the steelmaking plants you usually see.
Under everyone's witness, iron ore is slowly changing.
When the first furnace of steel came out, applause broke out in the control room.
Under the witness of everyone, high-quality rails came out of the rolling workshop one by one. Then these rails were carried away by workers using forklifts and stacked in the warehouse.
High-quality steel rails, which are used on the Friendship Railway under construction.
The Friendship Railway is a railway from the private sector to Mauritania. The planning of the entire railway is ambitious, starting from the private sector and then targeting various African countries.
This railway is like a spider web, extending bit by bit, connecting African countries, and then connecting African countries.
The railway technology does not adopt China's high-speed rail technology, but the technology is not bad. It adopts Chinese standards, the track is wide gauge, and the locomotives use the latest locomotives.
The speed of this kind of locomotive can reach 220 kilometers per hour, and even the freight speed can reach 180 kilometers per hour.
Although it is not as good as China's 350 kilometers per hour high-speed rail, the energy consumption is much lower than that of high-speed rail. For Africa, which is economically underdeveloped, this is the most suitable.
Even if this kind of motorcycle is used for 30 to 50 years, it will not be left behind in Africa.
In addition to these, the track construction method is completely based on the high-speed rail construction method. The track is directly assumed to be in the air.
These foundation piles are irrigated with super concrete. In the future, when the economy develops, we can simply replace the tracks and turn them into high-speed rail or even maglev trains without any problems.
But this is a long way off. At present, the main function of this railway is freight. At the same time, it fully mobilizes the resources of African countries to form interconnections and complement each other.
Zhang Fan will build different types of industrial bases around the private sector. Most of the products produced by these industrial bases will be sent to the private sector for further processing and made into high-tech products.
The commissioning of the steel base has attracted the attention of people around the world. Private ownership of this place, which was built with a lot of money, has once again become the focus of everyone's discussion.
The steel base is lively, but there are even more lively places.
The border with Mauritania is very lively during this period. The only thing separated by a wall is a private area. But the two sides are completely different.
However, since the private sector opened, it has welcomed many investors.
Real estate developers from China came here, and their arrival made the Mauritanian government very happy.
Being able to sell land at a very high price is something that any government would be very happy about. What’s more, the scale is quite large.
The land in Mauritania is not valuable, especially the land close to private land. This is a desert area, so how valuable is it?
But now the price of this area has soared. The first person to sell land here was Longteng Group. Longteng Group started selling land here before the private land construction started.
At that time, the price was very cheap, with one acre of land costing only 50,000 yuan. For Chinese real estate developers, this price was like picking it up for free.
But for the Mauritanian government, this price is very expensive. After all, this is a desert and it is not valuable at all.
So in the earliest days, some businessmen led by Longteng Group began to hoard land here.
And the scale of hoarding is quite large. Before the private sector opened, these people had already hoarded nearly 20,000 square kilometers of land here.
After the private sector opened, a large number of Chinese businessmen came here to buy land. Now the entire area, almost 50,000 square kilometers of land, has been taken over by Chinese businessmen.
Most of them are real estate developers, and their purpose here is simple. That is to develop real estate and then sell it.
Nowadays in China, real estate companies are having a hard time. Many companies are trying to develop overseas business. After the private sector opened, they found new business opportunities.
Especially after the private sector built a free trade zone with Mauritania, Chinese businessmen who smelled it flocked to it.
They began to build houses here, but the sales targets of these houses were not residents of Mauritania. The most important ones were foreign residents.
There are no real estate projects in the private sector, and residents living there can only rent houses. This leaves some people who want to buy houses no chance.
But now, Mauritania's free trade zone has an opportunity. Because all the land they purchased is in the free trade zone.
The entire free trade zone is very close to the private area, and it is very convenient to enter the private area. It is only ten kilometers to the main city of the private area.
This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that Mauritania has entrusted the Zhang Group to manage the entire free trade zone.
Therefore, both in terms of management and hardware and software facilities, it is very good. Although it is not as good as private sector, it is not bad at all compared to other countries.
The entire free trade zone covers an area of 100,000 square kilometers. Mauritanian residents who want to enter this free trade zone must have a pass.
This is also for the safety of the free trade zone. After all, the Mauritanian government attaches great importance to the development of the free trade zone. It is like a huge golden mountain, and they also want to build this golden mountain.
Foreigners who buy a house in the free trade zone can apply for a pass and enjoy Mauritania's visa-free policy.
You can also enjoy super long-term visas. You can live here for ten years with one visa, and you can apply for another visa after ten years.
The current housing prices in the free trade zone are very cheap compared to many countries. The permanent property rights and taxes are relatively low, so after the launch of the properties here, they immediately attracted the attention of many people, especially those who want to live in the free trade zone.
For people starting a business in Mauritania, this is their first choice.