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Supreme Golden Eyes - Chapter 414 New resource crocodile

Ling Shaonan noticed that several Japanese general trading companies, such as Mitsui & Co., took advantage of the low price of mineral resources during the global economic downturn to quietly acquire a lot of upstream resources such as overseas oil, natural gas, coal, and metal minerals, and then hoped to control business opportunities. The goal of the lifeblood of manufacturing production. 【y】

At the same time, Sinochem, COFCO, Minmetals and other Chinese foreign trade companies that originally had the ability to expand overseas lost their financial support and financial capital support, and were required to conduct corporate governance according to the Western corporate model (among them, International investment banks like Morgan Stanley have made a lot of efforts. The oil company restructuring mentioned above is just one of their many small moves, and behind them is the US government, or more precisely, the US government. Super consortium. However, even if he knew this, Ling Shaonan couldn’t say it, and no one would believe it if he said it. In China, there are still some bureaucrats who were bought by those consortiums. Turned to entity management, thus lost the good opportunity to expand the territory, and also caused the embarrassing situation that the import of raw materials will be controlled by others in the future.

In China, mineral resources and finance are absolutely two separate fields, while Japanese general trading companies closely link mineral resources and finance.

In fact, trading companies such as Mitsui & Co., Ltd. are not simple trading companies. They are essentially financial companies. General trading companies have always been known as the second bank. The top ten shareholders of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. are all world-class financial institutions. , including Sumitomo Mitsui Bank, Central Mitsui Trust, Mitsui Life Insurance, etc.

When the Chinese were rushing to buy gold in order to resist inflation, Mitsui & Co. had long ago acquired mineral resources such as oil, natural gas, coal, iron, copper, aluminum, nickel, and tin as real gold and silver.

The reason for this situation is inseparable from the situation in Japan.

Japan is the world's second largest economy, but within its territory, resources are very poor, almost all dependent on imports.As a representative general trading company in Japan, Mitsui & Co., Ltd. is an excellent implementer of Japan's resource strategy.In order to ensure the safe and on-time delivery of resources and energy, Mitsui & Co. began to invest a large amount of capital, technology, and equipment in the Middle East, Indonesia, Australia, Latin America, and China shortly after the war to exploit resources and energy on a large scale. In addition to domestic supply, there is still room to earn foreign exchange through export.Therefore, Mitsui has made great contributions to Japan's development strategy in terms of promoting the national policy of establishing a country through trade and ensuring the supply of energy and resources.

As early as the 50s and [-]s, Mitsui & Co. began to collect information and purchase iron ore extensively overseas. By signing long-term contracts with foreign countries, it further invested in mines and finally became the board of directors of mining companies.Mitsui has accumulated rich experience in iron ore trade, and has formed a community of interests with mining companies through long-term trade contracts, investment, equity participation, establishment of joint ventures, and participation in operations.

Nippon Steel Corporation and Mitsui & Co., both belonging to the Mitsui consortium, are a community of interests. They have a relationship of mutual shareholding and joint investment. Even Brazil's Vale and Australia's Liangtuo have long been firmly bound and become Mitsui's Part of the global layout.

In the period of Japan's economic development, in order to provide a stable source of raw materials for the heavy chemical industry, Mitsui & Co., Ltd. has highly improved raw material supply channels, participated in the development of copper mines in Mexico, Chile, Canada, Australia and other countries, and independently conducted resource exploration, and recommended to mining companies High-quality mineral sources and joint development.Before the oil crisis in the 70s, the supply side was decentralized through the supply of various energy sources such as coal, liquefied natural gas, and pipeline natural gas, and investment in energy development was also made.

Purchasing mines alone, signing long-term contracts, purchasing mines with financing, and finally directly participating in the development of mineral resources, the exploitable reserves of natural gas and crude oil that Mitsui & Co. has mining rights have reached an astonishing scale.On the surface, the largest oil companies in the world are companies such as ExxonMobil, bp, and Shell, but in fact Mitsui & Co. has much more oil resources than them!

In addition, in addition to upstream companies such as energy and resources, Mitsui & Co. also has a great say in the midstream of related industrial chains. Many oil refineries and steel companies in the world are under the control of the Japanese.

For example, Baosteel, the largest iron and steel company in China, has a strong Japanese pedigree. Mitsui & Co., Ltd. created Nippon Steel, Mitsui & Co., Mitsui, Shanghai Baosteel, Brazil's Vale is a community of interests.

Mitsui's penetration of Baosteel can be traced back to the beginning of Baosteel's establishment.As early as 1977, when Baosteel was preparing to build, it imported technical equipment from Nippon Steel, the largest steel company in Japan, and Mitsui & Co. owned 20.00% of Nippon Steel’s shares. At the same time, Toshiba and Ishikawa Harima, the backbone enterprises of the Mitsui consortium Heavy Industries cooperated with Nippon Steel to become Baosteel's equipment supplier.

At that time, the Mitsui consortium was very friendly, and the equipment sold to Baosteel was the most sophisticated and advanced at that time, and the price was not expensive, and the profit was very meager.For this reason, the Chinese media at that time also highly praised the spirit of internationalism of the Mitsui Foundation, advocating the "China-Japan friendship" argument.As everyone knows, jackals will withdraw their sharp claws, walk lightly, and lower their bodies before preying. Only when they pounce, will they expose their sharp claws and fangs, killing their prey with one blow!

The time when Mitsui Co., Ltd. rushed out was after Baosteel was completed and all equipment from Japan was installed and debugged.

At that time, Baosteel technicians found that although their equipment was very advanced and the quality of the steel produced was very good, there was a big problem: these equipment had too high requirements for the quality of iron ore, while domestic iron ore The taste of stone is generally relatively low, and it cannot meet the needs at all!

Henceforth, Baosteel can only choose to import high-grade iron ore from Australia and Brazil, and Mitsui & Co. and several other major general trading companies in Japan account for a considerable proportion of the iron ore in these two countries.In other words, since the establishment of Baosteel, their source of raw materials has been tightly controlled by the Japanese!

What's more serious is that Baosteel is not an exception. A large part of domestic steel enterprises are restricted by them, especially several major state-owned steel enterprises, which are almost begging for food from the Japanese with their bowls in their hands!

The most annoying thing is that after the Japanese conglomerates controlled the domestic steel enterprises, they not only made the country’s iron ore acquisition subject to others, but even Baosteel has Mitsui’s pedigree in the shipping logistics link. MOL carries more than 1000 million tons for Baosteel every year. of iron ore.

It can be said that since the day Baosteel was born, its dependence on Mitsui's technology, talents and logistics has been deeply rooted and deeply rooted. The main production equipment and core technologies are all from Nippon Steel.

As for the steel processing base jointly operated by Mitsui & Baosteel Group in China, and the production base under construction, although Baosteel has a controlling stake in the joint venture company due to policy restrictions, Mitsui's influence is not limited to this.

In some enterprises, although Baosteel's investment ratio is 51%, the chairman is appointed by Mitsui & Co., and Baosteel Group's guaranteed loan is also guaranteed by a letter of guarantee provided by Mitsui & Co., Ltd.In other words, these enterprises belong to the state in name, but in fact they are completely under the control of Mitsui & Co., and at the same time they can enjoy all the treatment of state-owned enterprises, which is much more cost-effective than Mitsui & Co., Ltd.'s direct holding!

In addition to controlling steel companies such as Baosteel in China, the Mitsui Consortium also controls Pohang Steel in South Korea and the Tata family in India. , information, circulation and other aspects of grafting, and ultimately control the entire industrial chain.

Silently, the Japanese consortium has already had a decisive voice in the oil, iron ore and other resource and energy industries!

However, there is an old saying in Huaxia that if you walk too much at night, you will eventually encounter ghosts. Although the actions of the Rici Consortium are somewhat "moistening things silently", it is not that no one is aware of it, and it is not always possible to take advantage of it. of.At least this time, they stumbled in Indonesia and were brutally slaughtered by Ling Shaonan.

In this riot in Indonesia, the Japanese consortiums have been greatly affected. In addition, the impact of the financial crisis has not yet passed. Ling Shaonan, together with Soros and other international hot money, took care of Japan. The capital chain of these Japanese consortiums There was tension to a certain extent.After the collective accident of Suharto and senior military generals, the Japanese consortium Indonesia, which was not optimistic about Habibi, quickly made an inference that the situation might continue to deteriorate, and then decisively withdrew from Indonesia.

For this, Habibi felt very annoyed, he had just paid a huge price in exchange for Ling Shaonan's promise, and these damned little Japanese followed him with a knife, which made him very aggrieved!And this brought a good opportunity for Ling Shaonan to intervene. With the support and connivance of the Habibie government, Ling Shaonan directed Pacific Petrochemical Group and Huanya Mining Group to take over various mineral resource companies left by the Japanese consortium (of course, on the surface These industries are ownerless, Ling Shaonan also paid a certain amount of funds to the Indonesian government in exchange for their mining rights), dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese consortium, and completely squeezed them out of Indonesia!

Ling Shaonan's actions were not kept secret, at least as long as he was careful, he could easily find out.Many international consortiums coveting Indonesia's domestic resources did not realize until this time that a terrifying energy and resource predator had grown up rapidly without knowing it!

Although the strength of Lingtian Investment Group cannot threaten their status for the time being, it is obvious that as long as this group is given a little time, this is not a difficult task!Because, as long as you are not a fool, you can see that Lingtian Investment Group has obtained the full support of the Indonesian government, and this is undoubtedly very important!

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