Rise of the Argentine Empire

1958 wasn't a good year for the British, but it was a good time for Saint Hérse. This year, the pound fully restored convertibility, and London once again became a large-scale gathering place for foreign banks.

American Sequoia couldn't be directly given away either. The hidden Blackstone was also covertly transferring various assets and profits. Blackstone Sequoia's various accounts held a lot of stocks, bonds, and other assets of well-known American companies.

Taking advantage of the investigation by the CIA and the FBI, Sequoia's international capital flow also mainly went to London, even reducing investment in Blanca and withdrawing funds from it.

The regulatory environment in the UK is relatively relaxed now. London has not introduced regulatory measures similar to the American Glass-Steagall Act, which stipulates that American banks cannot simultaneously engage in commercial banking and investment banking.

As early as a year ago, American Sequoia and Blackstone carried out a transfer. Sequoia secretly acquired a small bank located in the Edinburgh area, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and became a fund pool for Sequoia, Blackstone, and Prari International.

After development, the Royal Bank of Scotland quickly doubled in size and was a completely independent bank. After Sequoia purchased the Royal Bank of Scotland, it immediately turned around and sold the shares to London's Prari International at a low price, retaining only basic cooperation.

In recent years, New York Sequoia has suffered severe damage due to the strict investigation by the CIA, and now the FBI has also come to the door.

Saint Hérse had to divert funds, transfer assets, and avoid risks, establishing branches in several cities such as San Francisco, Houston, Boston, and Los Angeles, befriending local celebrities, and transferring benefits to avoid the FBI's crackdown.

Sequoia's connection with Argentina also began to break, and the capital input also gradually decreased. One of the most important assets, Sequoia's Japanese branch, was independent as Tokyo Redwood Investment Company, which means that he basically lost influence and control over American Sequoia, but it can also be said that he earned enough.

Now, although American Sequoia cannot absorb large amounts of high-quality stocks and earn ultra-high returns as before, it has gradually improved because it has many excellent talents. It's just that the child is all grown up and beyond the mother's control, so Saint Hérse had to let it go.

Even if Sequoia fails, Saint Hérse has already obtained enough benefits.

Fortunately, Saint Hérse still has Blackstone, an American company. Blackstone headquarters moved to Chicago, and at the same time became more hidden and dormant.

Now London already has considerable pound and dollar assets. Taking advantage of the economic crisis, it's buying up British assets and technology, and calling upon a lot of foreign exchange earned through hard work in Argentina.

This time, London Sequoia made a lot of money, and also got in touch with the Soviets because of this, but it is indeed like later generations, the British are all infiltrated by the Soviets into sieves, and Saint Hérse also maintained a low profile.

Blanca City also took this opportunity to carry out a small-scale technological upgrade, taking a counter-foreign investment path. The technical level of the British is still acceptable, and it can be said that it is second only to the American.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has also issued an application to the Argentine financial department, hoping to establish a branch in Blanca City, and has already established a branch in Uruguay.

Blanca City will earn foreign exchange and manage foreign exchange faster and more conveniently in the future.

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Under the arrangement of Saint Hérse, La Pampa has begun to fully popularize primary school compulsory education. The increasingly wealthy La Pampa Province can easily build a large number of primary school buildings and recruit a large number of young teachers using the budget in hand.

The increasingly large-scale university education system has played a role. Not all university graduates can become scientific research elites and business elites. Primary and secondary school teachers with decent salaries are a good place to go for many ordinary university students.

The level of university education in La Pampa Province is not first-class. Except for a few relatively top universities, most of the others are just ordinary higher education wholesale places, with large quantities and guaranteed supply.

First-class universities need the accumulation of time, at least from the current point of view. Saint Hérse's construction of universities with debt is only to screen more talents. There is still some difference between the level of those who have attended university and those who have not.

Therefore, under the high-speed promotion of Saint Hérse, Blanca City has become the second city with the most public universities in Argentina. Now it has a full 22 public universities, basically with enrollment numbers of more than 500 people. Some even enrolled students without the approval of the Ministry of Education.

Among them, Blanca University, the largest in scale, is known as a paradise for poor students. This year, it recruited more than 4,000 students, ranking first in Argentina in terms of enrollment scale. There are also 500 foreign students from neighboring countries such as Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chile. The school offers 22 majors, including various majors that are in short supply in Blanca City.

The university cafeteria adopts a strategy similar to that of state-owned factories, emphasizing both Chinese food and Argentine local cuisine, but because Chinese food can get subsidies and the price is cheap, it is more popular among poor students.

Although Argentine local cuisine has a lot of meat food, the food of the Argentine lower class in this era is actually not particularly good. Eating meat is not very common. Steak is the food of the middle and upper classes, and beef is not affordable for ordinary lower-class people.

Croissant, spaghetti, bacon quiche, and pizza are all considered luxuries. Not everyone can eat barbecue and steak. Argentines think hamburgers, sandwiches, and hot dogs are not as good as bacon quiche.

Italian cuisine is known as the mother of Western food, but Saint Hérse doesn't like it in the process of industrialization. He prefers efficiency, and he is unwilling to carry out industrial improvement of Italian cuisine. He has no experience, and later generations have proved that only American fast food is popular all over the world. He is not interested in American fast food such as hamburgers, fried chicken, and french fries, and Argentina will have to confront the American in the future, so culturally it is impossible to be too similar to the American.

Therefore, most of the public canteens in Blanca City are mainly Chinese fast food. Like the New Chinese and the Soviets, they are the farthest from Argentina and cannot carry out economic colonization of Argentina like the United States.

Chinese fast food can be recruited from Peru and the turbulent areas of Southeast Asia. Being a chef is a profitable skill, and it is also easy to gain the favor of local residents and integrate into them. Therefore, almost one-third to two-thirds of the new restaurants in Blanca City are now Chinese restaurants, greatly enriching Blanca City's food culture.

Although Argentina is vast and rich in national resources, the gap between the rich and the poor is large, and it often happens that the lower people live in shacks and go hungry for two out of three days. In addition, the industry is single, and although the arable land is fertile, there was a situation where famine was almost caused like in the past few years.

Although that disaster was caused by the United States' foreign wars and merchants hoarding various foods hoping to export and make a lot of money, there was also the reason that the local food production's ability to resist risks was not strong and the average yield was not high.

Only with the acceleration of the industrialization process in Blanca City can so much food and grain be produced, and the reclamation of arable land and the construction of chemical fertilizer and water conservancy facilities have made southern Argentina an important grain-producing province. Corn, rice, and wheat have also put large-scale farm breeding on the right track. The breeding of Blanca Large White Pigs and the large-scale farms of white-feathered chickens allow the locals to eat enough and eat well.

As a former agricultural nation, they know the value of food even more. With food in hand, they are not afraid. Saint Hérse's food reserves can already support La Pampa Province for several years.

Argentina itself is an immigrant country, and it is not repulsive to Chinese restaurants. Moreover, being a chef is a tiring job. Unless they are traditional catering families, Italians are not willing to engage in this industry. In addition, Blanca City is almost drawn from a blank sheet of paper, and there are too many blank areas.

In addition, overseas Chinese are not as good as India, Japan, and South Korea in engaging in political and civil service activities, and they are not easy to form groups, which is a very good target for attracting them.

Chinese businessmen are also the best catfish in business, so Saint Hérse supported several Chinese business families to stimulate local business forces, and the lazy social atmosphere has gradually changed.

The recruitment of Indian immigrants is less, and it is also to prevent them from concentrating.

In addition, foreign technical talents and wealthy immigrants are very welcome to enrich the lack of local resources, and even plan to build several model wealthy immigrant communities in Blanca City, but it ended without success.

However, the most new immigrants in Blanca City are still mainly from surrounding countries. The same language and race are easier to accommodate and integrate into Argentina, and the large number of new universities built also welcome them and can attract and win them over well.

With the support of Saint Hérse, Blanca University now has more than 2,000 university lecturers, and the higher vocational department has been split off to establish Blanca Industrial Higher Vocational School.

Blanca University now has 2 campuses, covering an area of more than 7,000 acres, with a building area of more than 500,000 square meters, and has 1 hospital. All buildings are borne by the two levels of finance in La Pampa Province and Blanca City, and special financial bonds are issued for construction. The same is true for other Blanca public universities.

With the full support of the city of Bahía Blanca and the province of La Pampa, coupled with the vigorous promotion by New A Media under the Cohen Consortium, and with Bahía Blanca's increasing recognition, the reputation of the University of Bahía Blanca has grown throughout Argentina, attracting students from across provinces and surpassing the National University of the South in size.

Even the National University of the South doesn't receive as much support as the University of Bahía Blanca, which bears the crucial responsibility of upgrading talent cultivation in the city, following a similar model to the other 20 newly established public universities in Bahía Blanca.

Apart from a few located in the relatively bustling city center, most of the new universities are situated in the suburbs where land is cheaper. A piece of land is allocated, a budget is approved, and within a year, the five basic building facilities—teaching buildings, dormitories, sports fields, student cafeterias, and libraries—are all completed. Then, rapid approval is granted, a university management team is assembled, and the recruitment of teachers and students can begin.

You might ask if enough students can be recruited, and the answer is quite a lot. Moreover, San José's centralized schooling, the establishment of a university town, and the sharing of various resources mean that many school teachers are shared, maintaining a basic standard of talent cultivation.

The main reason why Bahía Blanca was able to attract so many migrants at the time was its collaboration with the Argentine National Railway Company to subsidize train tickets.

Taking the train from Orán, the largest city on the northern border of Argentina, to Bahía Blanca is cheaper than taking it from Buenos Aires to La Plata. And the fare from Buenos Aires to Bahía Blanca is also very favorable. The poorer the province, the cheaper the train ticket to Bahía Blanca.

Bahía Blanca also established a large passenger fleet to transport enough migrants.

Furthermore, New A Media has never stopped promoting Bahía Blanca, highlighting the abundance of job opportunities, development prospects, and low cost of living, all of which are suitable for people of various education levels.

For instance, when Bahía Blanca was building the two major steel plants, it needed workers with at least a middle school education. However, Bahía Blanca had a sparse population at the time and was not as populous as La Plata, which is closer to Buenos Aires.

Therefore, San José put a lot of effort into training and recruiting steelworkers before the steel plants officially went into operation, from establishing various middle schools to recruiting nationwide, only barely meeting the needs. It wasn't until later, when the population was sufficient, that recruiting workers for the construction of the Medanos United Steel Plant didn't require too much time.

San José established a junior high school system and a three-year vocational high school system, which could train qualified steelworkers in batches.

Behind this was a series of specialized vocational schools: steel vocational schools, automobile vocational schools, and mechanical vocational schools.

The establishment of Bahía Blanca's third steel plant in Medanos, a southern suburb, also served to disperse the population. A steel plant with an annual output of several million tons requires at least forty to fifty thousand workers, especially since the technology used in the Medanos Steel Plant is relatively mature but also relatively backward, requiring more workers.

Currently, the most technologically advanced factory in Argentina is actually the Bahía Blanca Steel Plant. Its predecessor, the Bahía Blanca Special Steel Plant, produced high-strength steel and stainless steel, employing advanced smelting technology. Later, various advanced technologies from the La Plata Steel Plant were also incorporated into Bahía Blanca's three new 2500-cubic-meter blast furnaces, one of which has already been completed, while the technology for the second and third has been completely localized.

When the first blast furnace was completed, Bahía Blanca's steel production reached 2 million tons. To save limited foreign exchange and reduce costs, a major campaign was launched for the construction of the second and third blast furnaces at the Bahía Blanca Steel Plant, and they are expected to be capped by the end of the year, saving over $30 million in foreign exchange.

The Medanos United Steel Plant was also established with the funds saved. The originally planned La Pampa Steel Plant was ultimately rejected, retaining only the Medanos United Steel Plant. After all, more steel production is not necessarily better. The remaining funds were used to upgrade the La Pampa province's power grid and build more power stations.

San José estimates that within a year, the existing electricity demand will likely be unable to meet the needs, so he prepared early. The four major state-owned power companies—Bahía Blanca Electric Power, Santa Rosa Electric Power, and Colorado Electric Power—received enough financial allocations early on to develop northward, westward, and southward, focusing on developing thermal power plants, natural gas power plants, and hydroelectric power plants. The La Pampa Provincial Electric Power Company was also renamed the La Pampa Power Grid Company, mainly responsible for power grid construction.

Like the state-owned Andes Power Development Company, it cooperates with other provinces and cities to meet the ever-increasing demand for electricity.

There are also some specialized power companies, such as Bahía Blanca Steel Power Company, which specializes in preparing for steel metallurgy, especially converters, and Hans Steel Power Company and Medanos Electric Power are similar.

Moreover, there is an even more promising power company: the Argentine Nuclear Atomic Energy Power Company, established in the Bosca district north of Bahía Blanca, which cooperates with the Argentine National Atomic Energy Commission to research and build nuclear power plants. Some personnel from the Fifth Research Institute have also been assigned there, making a big name for themselves.

The Atomic Energy Commission has given up hope of developing an atomic bomb, but it has a lot of talent. San José couldn't recruit them all, so he concocted a "Peaceful Atomic Energy Power Industry Plan," which moved the head of the Atomic Energy Commission, who was short of money and supplies.

Since the "Hydrogen Bomb Light Bulb Tourism Scandal," the Atomic Energy Commission's days have been getting worse and worse. It hasn't been in business for over a year, and its talents have scattered and run away, with many being recruited by the Fifth Research Institute, but the core remains.

To this end, San José also specially had someone compile the "La Pampa Province Higher Education Law Case" to obtain birth certificates for these universities, including three-year vocational universities and four-year standard universities, and these academic qualifications and diplomas were recognized by La Pampa Province from top to bottom.

These schools, which Buenos Aires residents call "cram schools," have large campuses and a very good teaching system.

San José once recruited a large number of political prisoners and persecuted teachers and engineers who had been imprisoned during the Perón era. These people occupy almost one-fifth of the teachers in the Bahía Blanca university system, and they held important positions in the early days of many Bahía Blanca public universities.

Among them are the defeated leaders of the Socialist Party, Republican Party, Progressive Democratic Party, and Democratic Party. Prosecutor Yturraspe was recommended by San José as the director of the Department of Law, Dr. Norberto served as a teacher in the Department of Medicine, and non-partisan female writer María Rosa Oliver served as the director of the Department of Literature at the National University of the South for a short period…

In the months before Perón's downfall, as many as several thousand highly qualified intellectuals fled to Bahía Blanca and received help from San José, who also helped these universities through their earliest founding stages.

At the same time, these new universities were enriched, with Bahía Blanca paying salaries no lower than those of the University of Buenos Aires.

Therefore, the teaching level of these universities is not bad, but except for a limited number of universities such as the National University of the South, there are basically no important scientific laboratories, and they still focus on vocational education and practical majors, cultivating talents and engineers for industrialization.

But with more university students, talents will always emerge, and there are also many students with high talents, but they could not be discovered before.

Bahía Blanca's industrial and scientific research is mainly carried out by more than two hundred large and small scientific laboratories, research institutes, corporate research institutes, and technical research institutes and corporate laboratories, which are responsible for foreign technology introduction and digestion, and help Bahía Blanca's local technology research and development upgrades.

Now, with these newly established universities, these research institutes and scientific laboratories can also usher in a new wave of great development. In the future, the union of industry and universities will be one of the mainstreams, and Silicon Valley in the United States is also led by Stanford University.

As early as four years ago, San José had the idea of forming an Argentine "Little Silicon Valley," that is, with the University of Bahía Blanca as the core, surrounded by industrial parks and scientific research institutes, forming a technology research base. It was not until the end of last year that funds and conditions were available to complete this idea.

As for why it is the University of Bahía Blanca and not the National University of the South, it is because although the National University of the South currently surpasses the University of Bahía Blanca in scientific research and strength, it is located in the city center, and although it has been actively expanding, the base is still not enough, and although the president of the National University of the South has a good relationship with him, he is always closely related to the Ministry of Education.

He cannot pile so much money on a university that he cannot control, and the future of this Little Silicon Valley is also uncertain.

Therefore, in addition to the 1,000-plus-acre main campus of the University of Bahía Blanca on the west side of the port industrial zone, more than 6,000 acres of new campus have been arranged for the University of Bahía Blanca on the edge of the Alta district, and on the periphery of the University of Bahía Blanca, there are also several science and engineering universities and vocational technical universities, forming the Bahía Blanca East University City.

And the new campus of the University of Bahía Blanca will be the location of the graduate school of the University of Bahía Blanca and the location of the six major research centers of the University of Bahía Blanca.

There is an industrial park in the new campus, named Bahía Blanca Science and Technology Industrial Park, which mainly introduces new technology companies, provides lower rents and complete intellectual research support, and mainly attracts technology companies, with very convenient transportation.

Around the periphery of the new campus, there were also a number of important new technology companies, including New Cohen Heavy Industries, New Cohen Electronics, Bono Electronics, Blanca Telephone Equipment Company, Blanca Military Communications Equipment Company, San Martin Aircraft Equipment Company, Blanca Television Factory, Blanca Refrigerator Factory, Blanca Radio Factory, Blanca Electronic Instrument Factory, and Blanca Microelectronic Instrument Factory.

Research institutions included the Blanca Academy of Sciences, the Blanca Institute of Physics, the Blanca Postal Research Institute, the Blanca Electronic Information Research Institute, the Blanca Electronic Industry Research Institute, the Blanca Third Research Institute (Semiconductor Research Institute), the Blanca Sixth Research Institute (Radio Research Institute), the Blanca Seventh Research Institute (Electromagnetic Research System Laboratory), and the Blanca Aeronautical Electronics Research Institute.

The Eastern University City concentrated a large number of research institutions and new companies, already fully involved in military industry, electronics, electrical appliances, machinery, semiconductors and other industries. Although a large part of the research institutes were newly established and lacked talent, they had some small achievements.

A large portion of the research institutes were directly modeled after those in the United States. From New York to Chicago, from San Francisco to Seattle, from Houston to Los Angeles, the superpower America was full of research institutes. They used ample funding to engage in various technological competitions with the Soviets, and the Argentinians could also follow suit.

Commercial technology companies were fundamental, and Saint-Hesse saw from Bono Electronics that Argentina was not without the potential to develop a semiconductor industry. Therefore, he successively established several Blanca state-owned factories to participate in industries such as transistors and semiconductors. He purchased technology licenses from the United States, introduced technology, and then produced local Argentine telephones, radios and other electronic equipment, which surprisingly sold well.

So, things slowly began to improve. As long as commercialization could be successful, the technology newly imported at the cost of foreign exchange could be digested. Saint-Hesse was quite clear about the research and development path of commercial chips. Last year, he spent only 3,000 US dollars to participate in the investment of "Fairchild Semiconductor" and hoped to obtain some technology licenses.

Saint-Hesse had an independent venture capital team in San Francisco, independent of Sequoia. It mainly invested in some technology companies that might grow in the future. Fairchild Semiconductor and Texas Instruments were included, as well as a list of some future technology companies. It did not participate in operation and management, but instead obtained high returns and acquired the technology licenses that Argentina would need in the future.

Blanca University now had a sufficient number of high-level scientific research talents, and it was developing relatively quickly through cooperation and exchanges with some universities in London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Madrid.

Saint-Hesse also clearly knew that the mainstream of world science and technology, whether now or in the future, was basically still the United States, that is, English was the mainstream. The translation of various scientific and technological documents also came from the United States and Britain, especially during the Cold War, when the level of technological development in the United States was advancing by leaps and bounds.

Therefore, although Saint-Hesse knew that Argentina had no chance of catching up in terms of technological development, the strategy of following still had to be done. In addition to the secret Fifth Research Institute, the various research institutes in Blanca City were increasing every year.

In addition, Blanca City did not have that much money to invest. The semiconductor industry was not only a talent-intensive industry but also a capital-intensive one, so Saint-Hesse did not try to do too much, but focused on low-end semiconductors, chips, transistors, etc. Moreover, the essence of these research institutes was mainly focused on the military field, to develop and reserve technology for San Martin aircraft, rocket launchers, and future missiles and torpedoes, to carry out ballistic calculations, to achieve precision guidance, and also to provide peripheral technical support for the mysterious Fifth Research Institute.

The Fifth Research Institute was the most mysterious underground research institute, mainly engaged in the research of atomic bombs and missile rockets. It was impossible to complete all technical research and development, and peripheral research institutes were also needed. Therefore, under dazzling circumstances, a large number of aliases were born, engaging in both national defense military technology research and civilian commercial technology.

The Eastern University City, centered on Blanca University, was dominated by companies affiliated with the city of Blanca and the Cohen Consortium. Most of the research institutes were also affiliated with the city of Blanca, but the scale was generally relatively large, with a large number of people.

In the location of the Provincial Government, the Achrich District was a different scene. There was also a "University City" here, centered on La Pampa University of Technology, La Pampa University of Science and Technology, La Pampa Medical College, La Pampa Mining College, La Pampa Petroleum College, and seven or eight other new universities.

Outside the Western University City, important research institutions and companies included Patagonia Mining, La Pampa Chemical Research Institute, La Pampa Petrochemical Research Institute, La Pampa Chemical Materials Research Institute, La Pampa Steel Research Institute, La Pampa Academy of Sciences, La Pampa Metallurgical Materials Research Institute,

Mason Pharmaceuticals, Maya Chemicals, Southern Petroleum, South Atlantic Petroleum, Pampas Chemicals, Blanca Steel Petroleum Pipeline Company, Snow Bell Chemicals, Green Umbrella Chemicals, La Pampa Pharmaceutical Research Institute, La Pampa Chemical Research Institute, etc.

The Western University City mainly brings together a number of important companies and research institutes in mining, petroleum, materials, pharmaceuticals, steel, and chemical industries, and is an important science and technology research center in La Pampa Province.

In addition, the Argentine National Securities Exchange, with the help of Saint-Hesse, has also specifically allocated a new sector called the Science and Technology Venture Board to specifically support the listing and financing of new technology companies.

Saint-Hesse believes that Blanca City has all the conditions to become a technology center, with Saint-Hesse's scientific guidance, sufficient capital support from all walks of life, sufficient scientific research funding, and the interaction between universities, research institutions and enterprises. In the future, if there are research and development results, then it can also be transformed into useful results for the market like the old United States.

Now Blanca City has attracted and gathered a group of great and successful business families, and more small and medium-sized enterprises have also developed.

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With the arrival of the baby boom in Blanca City, Saint-Hesse laid out the plan early, and several state-owned milk factories in Blanca City vaguely became the first winners, unlike meat processing plants.

Blanca City originally did not have many milk production farms. Saint-Hesse established milk farms in the suburbs early and purchased production equipment to develop milk factories.

The food industry system in Blanca City played a role. Prari Foods and Miranda's glass bottle factory can also directly produce milk bottles, while Maya Chemicals also began to produce plastic bottles for pasteurization and other processes, as well as develop Tetra Paks for later generations.

This was unimaginable in the past. It is not easy to produce a qualified plastic bottle. First of all, a strong petrochemical plant is needed. Fortunately, Southern Petroleum has developed. Later, La Pampa Petroleum, South Atlantic Petroleum, major chemical plants, and various industrial equipment introduced from abroad can also be localized from introduction to imitation.

New Cohen Heavy Industries can not only produce various military equipment, but also produce various civilian mechanical equipment to meet the demand.

Saint-Hesse also established Pampas Heavy Industries, specializing in the development of mining machinery. He has already independently established Pachon Copper, headquartered in San Martin.

Thunder Mining has spun off Australian Mining, which is independently established and headquartered in Sydney.

Patagonia Mining Company, headquartered in Blanca.

Among them, Pachon Mining is Argentina's largest copper producer, producing various copper materials from the Pachon Metal Smelting Plant, replacing the old aluminum wires and helping Blanca City upgrade its urban power supply.

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At present, foreign businessmen's investment in Argentina is mainly concentrated in petroleum, natural gas, automobile manufacturing, medicine, chemical industry, finance and other departments.

Every year from July to August is the dry season in Blanca City, and the city's industrial and agricultural water use also becomes somewhat tight. Fortunately, Blanca City has the Pampas Canal to transport water resources.

However, the decrease in precipitation has also made the city's electricity use begin to become somewhat tight, and the scale of thermal power generation has to be increased.

Among them, large water users such as Blanca Steel and Hans Steel have also slowed down their expansion pace. The steel output of Blanca City alone can basically meet the needs of the entire country.

However, the demand for high-grade steel for some newly developed industries such as the automobile industry is still very large, especially the rise of San Martin Automobile and Layton Automobile, which has stimulated the demand for automobile steel.

Blanca Steel Factory itself started with special steel, and with the backing of the Cohen Consortium, which has strong financial resources, it can have enough funds for research and development.

Automobile steel is a special kind of steel, which has high strength and excellent mechanical properties, and is widely used in all aspects of automobile manufacturing, including body, chassis and engine components.

The good profit of automobile steel has made the profit of Blanca Steel directly exceed that of La Plata Steel Factory.

Moreover, Blanca Steel Factory has established cooperation with the newly established Blanca Steel Institute, and has introduced more advanced equipment and process technology through cooperation with European steel laboratories.

It has made great strides in the research and development of special steel. Now it can not only produce automobile steel, marine steel, combat steel, petrochemical machinery steel, but also high-strength stainless steel for high-strength chemical equipment, which has made Maya Chemical's synthetic ammonia project develop rapidly domestically, and fertilizer production can be foreseen to increase.

Patagonia is rich in resources, and the prospects for mineral and oilfield exploration are broad.