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The addition of Shen Ji completely solved the source of construction funds for the upstream hydropower station group.
This is in line with the social characteristics of Kanem.
The vast majority of people in Kanem lack the awareness of savings, and the upper-class indigenous chief families generally lack the awareness of investment. However, they are accustomed to the additional conditions proposed by Li Qili, and no one even raises objections.
This caused the amount raised by the United Bank of Oman special trust fund to increase rapidly, which made Cao Mo, who had planned all this from beginning to end, a little unbelievable.
In less than a month, all the investment of US$20 million required for the twelve small and medium-sized hydropower stations that were recently launched has been received.
If it weren't for the fact that the construction potential of China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation's branch in Cardiff is limited, and in time for the Spring Festival, a group of China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation's engineering management and technical personnel chose to return to China for vacation, Cao Mo and others would be able to start the second batch of small and medium-sized enterprises after the year A hydropower station was built.
Cao Mo invested funds and did a lot of preparatory work. The construction speed of these small and medium-sized hydropower stations will be very fast. The main bottleneck is the construction power and funds.
Cao Mo's previous plan was to use two years to expand the hydropower station group worth 50 million US dollars, but now it seems that it can be achieved within one year.
Even after the Yeshuixia Hydropower Station is completed, funds can be borrowed from the special trust fund under the United Bank of Oman in the name of Cornero Energy Investment Co., Ltd. to pay the construction fee of China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation.
In other words, future investment and construction of hydropower stations will not occupy his cash flow at all.
So far, the construction funds for the first phase of the new cement plant totaling US$9 million have been fully prepared; while the construction funds for the second phase of the new cement plant will be significantly reduced, with only US$4 million.
Although the price of finished cement in Draculamo has dropped to US$280 at this time, and the average price of domestic finished cement in Kanem has dropped by US$250, the Ibogu Cement Plant will still be able to provide products in the next three months. Extra profits of nearly six million dollars.
The four hydropower stations that have been completed, including the Gray Crow River and the Ibogu River, can provide a large amount of cash flow in the next three months.
If the special trust fund raised by the United Bank of Oman is rich, but due to the limitation of infrastructure construction capacity, the construction speed of hydropower stations cannot keep up for a while, Cao Mo can even acquire the Felician family in the name of Linero Investment Co., Ltd. electricity company.
In this way, the more than three million US dollars previously invested by Felician Family Power Company in the construction of upstream hydropower stations and industrial parks for power transmission and distribution can be cashed out at a certain premium.
In other words, in the next three months, even if the construction funds for the second phase of the new cement plant are deducted, the cash Cao Mo can use will reach 8 million US dollars.
In three months' time, the first phase of the new cement plant with a designed annual production capacity of 300,000 tons will be completed.
Considering that the price of finished cement in Draculamo will fall to the level of the early stage of the cement storm, which is less than 200 US dollars per ton, Felician Building Materials Company will not only triple its production capacity, but also further reduce its production costs. , which ensures that the monthly profit scale can be maintained at around four million US dollars.
This is still an unimaginable huge profit for domestic cement manufacturers.
By that time, the monthly power supply scale of the hydropower station group will also be gradually expanded by 25 million kilowatt hours, including the depreciation of facilities and equipment, which will generate a cash flow of about US$1.5 million per month.
At that point, Cao Mo's cash flow can be said to be completely relaxed.
For now, the operation and management of small hydropower is relatively simple. However, thirty or forty hydropower stations form a cluster, especially when they build a separate transmission network in the name of Felician Family Electric Power Company to supply power to the western region of Lonta.
The allocation of resources between different reservoirs and power stations is also very particular, and the operation team needs to be strengthened next.
Cornero Engineering Co., Ltd., which was registered on the basis of the infrastructure team, has been continuously recruiting and training construction workers. However, it lacks construction management and technical personnel, as well as necessary construction machinery and equipment. At present, it mainly cooperates with China
The Civil Engineering and Construction Corporation's project contracting in Longta is for labor export, and it is not yet qualified to undertake project subcontracting.
Even if Cornero Engineering Co., Ltd. currently has some profits, they are all used in team building and employee skills training.
The scale of urban construction in Deculamo City and even Catero, the capital of Oyo State, is not small. In addition to foreign-funded engineering companies, there are hundreds of local engineering contractors, large and small, but most of them work with indigenous families and
Gang forces have an unclear relationship.
Cao Mo doesn't want to recruit engineering management technicians with complex backgrounds, so he can only recruit fresh graduates from higher colleges in Kanem, such as Oyo State College and the University of Lagos. But it will take a while for these people to grow up.
Time.
Cao Mo's current approach is to send these newly recruited newbies as construction and supervision assistants to various hydropower station construction sites to learn from the people of China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation.
Even if two additional engineering teams have been formed and some construction equipment has been purchased, they are currently only undertaking the construction of simple bridges, low-rise slab buildings and other simple projects, and China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation has also been hired as a supervisor.
Cao Mo also talked to Liang Siqian and asked him to select six to eight experienced construction engineers from China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation to form an operations team to take over the operations of Cornero Engineering Co., Ltd., and he could directly give them 20% of the shares.
However, the scale of Cornero Engineering Co., Ltd. is too small and the technical strength is too weak. It is almost impossible to undertake any large and medium-sized projects with huge profits outside Longta. Liang Siqian is also very hesitant.
He just promised to wait until the expansion tasks of the Yeyangxia medium-sized hydropower station and the hydropower station group on the upper reaches of the Lukaku River River are completed this year before taking the test again.
consider.
Even after the new cement plant and gold refinery are built, the process technology can only barely reach the domestic average level. Not only does it need to cultivate a management and engineer team, but it also needs to establish a corresponding R&D and quality management system. In the next year, it will be very difficult.
It's hard to say whether to plan to build a new factory.
Not involving high-tech industries, there is no shortage of engineers and middle- and low-level research talents in Kanemu. In addition to Oyo State College, the University of Lagos in Draculamo can train more than 5,000 people for society every year.
graduate.
It will take time to constantly absorb fresh blood from the local area, integrate into their currently crude, lower-level team, and then twist it into a force; Cao Mo himself also needs to constantly supplement his learning...
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When he returned to China this time, Cao Mo accompanied him to visit and inspect several cement factories and gold mining companies in the country. These were not top-notch in the world, but it also made Cao Mo feel that there was a huge gap between them.
Many basic things can only be learned and consolidated little by little over time.
Otherwise, once there are no dividends like the cement storm to be reaped, everything he operates in Lonta may fall into a difficult situation.
And now that a management team headed by Wendy Skaff, Kabuga and others has been formed, it is now unrealistic to replace them with highly paid domestic managers.
Even hiring a group of people from China to fill the shortage of middle management and technical personnel at an annual salary that is higher or very different from that of Wendy Skaff and Kabuga will cause big problems.
However, taking advantage of this time when Kabuga, Wendy Scarf and others visited the country for study and study, Cao Mo took advantage of the opportunity of contacting several domestic companies to hire several retired engineers to come to Kanem as technical consultants in the next year, and the price was not high.
, and it will not cause conflict with the already formed team of Kabuga and Wendy Skaff.
Some old engineers who have worked all their lives and have rich technical experience do not have high incomes after retirement. If their families need it, they are still willing to travel across the ocean for an annual salary of more than 10 to 200,000 yuan to enjoy the hard work.
This can be regarded as slightly making up for the current lack of technical strength.
Cao Mo was sitting by the campfire, listening to Song Yuqing talk about his plans for the future development of the Ibogu tribe and the Conero Lake Industrial Park. From a distance, he saw the speedboat sailing into the Lujiao River and docking at the boat they built on the river bank.
On the simple pier.
"Cao Mo, Lu Jianchao just called me. They are on the speedboat and want to come ashore to talk to us..." Xie Sipeng took his mobile phone and appeared out of nowhere and said to Cao Mo.
Song Yuqing quickly stood up from Cao Mo's side, her face feeling a little hot.
She thought it was hidden enough here, and no one else would know that she was sitting here chatting with Cao Mo except for a few bodyguards. She didn't expect Xie Sipeng to come directly.
"We welcome them when they come. Do we have to beat them out with a stick?" Cao Mo said, patting his butt and standing up.