Baiyun Obo Iron and Steel Group, as the earliest and most modern steel group established in Northwest China, has achieved today's results after several years of development, but there are still close to 90 million tons of output, which is still three times the total output of the United States, these are the output contributed by other steel groups, they are not as terrible as Baiyun Obo Steel Group, but it is still a rare large steel group in the world.

Iron and steel industry, Yang Yuanzhao from the establishment of Baiyun Obo, did not think of taking the road of small steel mills, to take the road of large groups, intensive development, small and medium-sized steel-making enterprises, because of energy consumption, pollution, a series of impacts, simply can not withstand price fluctuations, is destined to become the first choice in the northwest, starting from Baiyun Obo, the northwest gradually built one after another steel group.

At present, the five major iron and steel groups in the government work report, three of which are in the absolute control area of the northwest, Taiyuan Special Steel Group, is currently the largest special steel manufacturing plant in the northwest, seamless steel pipes, cemented alloy steel, cannon steel and a series of high value-added steel, is the largest head of his profits, but when the capacity is expanded, Taiyuan Special Steel, also began to build a steelmaking group, is an attached steelmaking, focusing on the development of special alloy steel, still with an output of 27 million tons, It ranks third in the output of the entire steel group.

In the whole northwest, the second place of steel-making enterprises is suddenly less than 3 years old Mongolian Iron and Steel Group, which was developed after 1912, with the help of the prospecting ability of the all-in-one machine, the Mongolian arrogant iron ore to be surveyed, and then a large number of construction, almost to copy the construction of Baiyun Obo. So far, the first phase of technical transformation has been completed. Steel production in 1913 was as high as 37 million tons.

Mongolia is blessed with three major mining areas. It is about 50% of the taste of iron ore, with a total reserve of more than hundreds of millions of tons of iron ore reserves, enough to support a large iron and steel plant with an annual output of more than 60 million tons, from 1912 proven reserves, respectively, three large-scale mineral deposits, and then gradually developed, Mongolia's minerals, combined with the technology mastered in the northwest, a larger steel plant than TISCO. It has risen from the ground in Mongolia, where there is no industry at all. The first phase of the project has been completed, with an annual steel output of a staggering 37 million tons, which is enough to support such production for more than 20 years, and in 20 years, there will be new iron ore to replace Mongolia's iron ore.

It is precisely because of the emergence of Mongolian iron ore that Outer Mongolia has become a dazzling star in the current northwest system. It is relatively easy to build an industrial base, coal, steel, non-ferrous metals. Even the comprehensive utilization of a variety of mineral resources, this once poor and white hinterland, under the full support of the northwest. burst out of unimaginable power and became the northwest territory. New growth points and indispensable parts.

The three major iron and steel groups have completed eighty or ninety percent of the annual steel output. In the Northwest Plan, there is no small steel plant, that waste is too big, with the three leading companies as the core, basically meet the needs, the remaining more than 20 million, respectively in Shanghai Iron and Steel Group and Wuhan Iron and Steel Group, different from the previous three, this is the emerging steel group.

This is the vision, in fact, according to the future development trend, the seaport steelmaking enterprises, more in line with the objective law, the low price of shipping, coupled with Australia, a country sitting on the mines, has iron ore both taste, or quantity, is far from meeting the needs, because of this, the construction of steel mills by the sea has become the mainstream of the future.

The Yangtze River, the golden waterway, will definitely be China's economic center in the future, the industrial belt along the Yangtze River, one east and one west, Shanghai is the leader, Wuhan is the tail, the two places to build steel centers, the future will be based on these steel centers, the construction belongs to the southern industrial base.

Shanghai and Wuhan are both places with deep influence in the northwest, Hubei is too close to the northwest, as long as the northwest crosses Henan, it is Hubei, as for Shanghai, there are Jiangnan shipyards and a part of the northwest troops, it is also as stable as Mount Tai, unless the revolutionary party goes all out to attack, and Qingdao, located in Shandong, the navy and army, can reinforce Shanghai at any time to ensure the safety of Shanghai.

Because it is a new attempt, the purpose of the two major steel groups is also different, Wuhan itself has the foundation of Hanyang Iron Works, and Wuhan's iron ore is also good, producing more than 10 million tons of steel, which is used for civil steel and various machinery steel throughout China. Tentatively entering the field of high-end steel and steel plates, and taking into account yachts and inland waterway vessels.

As for Shanghai, there is only one purpose, marine steel, marine steel for ocean-going cargo ships. In 1913, the cumulative production of 1,390 ships, with an average tonnage of about 4,000 tons, each ship used an average of 800 tons of steel, just this marine steel is more than one million tons, and the steel in the northwest has been used for a long time, which consumes a lot of rain and high freight, and reopened a large steel center near the port of Shanghai.

In this way, just the cost of saving the road, you can reduce the consumption of the shipbuilding industry by a lot, plus the surrounding Ma'anshan, as well as other places by sea transportation, such as Hainan Island, some foreign iron ore production, when the equivalent reaches a certain level, you can ignore the transportation cost of ore, and produce relatively good economic efficiency.

At present, it is just starting out, and the total output is only about half of that of Wuhan Iron and Steel, the reason is very simple, Shanghai is too far away, and it is too close to Nanjing, the hinterland of the revolutionary party, although it is now under the control of the northwest, and the northwest is also capable of holding it, but it is a huge steel group, which is really not suitable, after all, Australia's iron ore has not yet been developed.

This year, China is almost everywhere with construction sites, urban and rural, from south to north, and even the desert no man's land, are construction sites, one by one, on the basis of steel as a skeleton, miraculously all over the whole Baotou.

Steel is just a basis of GDP, the five major steel groups, not only let China in steel production, the world's best, but also greatly support China's heritage, steel is the skeleton of the country, with steel, there is a foundation for continued development.

Steel came to an end slightly, warm applause, resounded throughout the auditorium, everyone was proud of this data, and they also understood that this was the discipline emphasized before, foreigners are doing everything possible to get the real data about the Northwest, and the previous one may be less than one-tenth, once you know that the steel output in the Northwest is close to 200 million tons, what will be the concept, take about 50,000 tons of battleships, this is 2,000 ships, although, the entire country's steel, it is impossible to build all warships, However, the huge steel production, at least there will not be a problem of vacillating between the navy and the army, or even in military and government affairs, as Germany and Japan did, and there will be enough steel.

Liu Shu paused slightly, and continued to hold on to the results, next, is about the construction of the railway in the infrastructure, due to the steel production to the peak, in this year, climbed an unimaginable peak, The total mileage of railway tracks has been built 98,000 kilometers, although two-thirds of them are three-line or double-line, in terms of traffic mileage, to divide by two, divide by three, or even divide by four, the total mileage of the entire railway in China has exceeded 76,000 kilometers for the first time (most of them are 3 lines or even 4 lines, and the total mileage of rails has exceeded 200,000 kilometers, which is an extremely large number).

More than 95% of the counties in the northwest are guaranteed to be connected to the railway, and the counties that do not have the railway are only located in the desert uninhabited area of the northwest, or the high-altitude places in the mountainous areas.

The huge railway, convenient for the travel of the Chinese, so that all parts of China, from a single to a whole, consumed a lot of steel, almost one-fifth of the country's steel is consumed on the railway, and after entering 1914, the railway plan will continue to advance, no longer consider the economy, but consider the future military use, in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Outer Mongolia no man's land and desert areas, build a series of railways, for the future Siberian strategy, only double line, even three lines, the four-line high-grade railway, can allow the rapid mobilization of troops and materials.

Siberia is a big cake, but it is also a big quagmire, a little careless, will be deep in the mud, from the beginning of the spring thaw, to the late autumn ice, in a year, there may be less than 5 months to fight, before the arrival of winter, if it is not possible to cut off the main artery of Russia, and then end the fighting, the whole front will drag on to an unbearable extent, perhaps, will make the mistake of Napoleon in Russia.

The construction of railways, gradually speeding up, the same is true of highways, the use of railways for bulk goods, high-grade highways are still the first choice for logistics and travel, especially in the case of the gradual popularization of automobiles. By the end of 1913, all kinds of highway construction has also set off a climax, as an example in the northwest, in addition to Xinjiang, Mongolia and other provinces, other provinces to ensure that all counties through high-grade highways, even Xinjiang and Mongolia, also guaranteed to pass 80%, each county at least has a secondary or above highway, all kinds of infrastructure, factory construction, so that the development of the northwest is changing with each passing day, most of the steel, are put on the construction, which is equivalent to increasing the heritage of the northwest, it took more than 5 years, The northwest is like a locomotive that has accelerated, running forward quickly and firmly on the wide road. (To be continued......)