Chapter 645 Be a coal boss, it's delicious!

The latest website: There is only one simple dirt road to the mine, but on this simple road, there are dozens of trucks queuing up.

These trucks are all here to pull coal.

Within the scope of the mine, Zhao Jinlong pointed to the mine in front of him, and said, I paid 2 million for this mine back then, and a few days ago, someone had already offered 50 million to buy it!

In the past two years, it has increased by a full 25 times. I bought short and sold short in Southeast Asia before, and I did not have such a high rate of return! Brother Li, I really admire your vision, and it is not too much to say that a stone turns into gold!

Back then when you said that coal mines could make a lot of money, I was still a little guilty. If you were not willing to invest money in it, I would have never dared to make such a big deal! Now it seems that within three years, the money we invested can be recovered!

Three years is still too conservative, and the efficiency is slightly improved. I estimate that within two years, the capital will be returned, and then it will be pure profit. Li Weidong said with a smile.

Brother Li, you said that the price of coal is also strange. I remember that in the early 1990s, the price of coal also rose sharply. At that time, I even fought coal with a few buddies!

Zhao Jinshan went on to say: A few years ago, the price of coal was cheap again, and it couldn't go up no matter how it went up, but this year's price has been rising steadily, and it's almost one price a day. I'm really worried now, 10,000 One day, the price of coal will fall back as before.

It should not fall in the next ten years. Li Weidong went on to explain: This time the coal price increase will be a long-term process, because our country's demand for coal will increase.

At the end of last year, we officially joined the WTO, and the demand for industrial electricity will increase significantly in the future. Therefore, the country canceled the guide price of thermal coal this year, just to ensure energy supply, and now the coal is completely marketized. .

Maybe after a few years, we will not have enough coal produced by ourselves. By then, we will have to import hundreds of millions of tons from foreign markets every year! Brother Zhao, don't worry, the price of coal will not fall!

Importing coal from abroad? It shouldn't be! Our country lacks everything, but there is no shortage of coal. There is so much coal in the Northwest that can be mined, how can it be imported! Zhao Jinshan shook his head and said.

Aren't we also a big oil producing country back then, Daqing and Shengli are also big oil fields, and now we are not counting on imports.

Li Weidong smiled,

Then he said, Brother Zhao, don't be too full with what you said. Maybe ten years from now, we, Dongshan Mining, will have to go overseas to buy coal mines, and then ship them back to China to sell!

Over the years, Dongshan Mining has hoarded a lot of coal mines. Now that the country has cancelled the price guide for thermal coal, the good days of Dongshan Mining have finally come.

Coal has always been China's most important energy source, and as early as the 1980s, Li Weidong had dealt with coal mines.

When Li Weidong was still in the transportation company, he proposed the business strategy of consignment by Yunyun, and the product sold by Yunyun at that time was coal.

The transportation company directly pulls coal from Yankuang to the port. In addition to the normal freight, one ton can earn a price difference of two or three yuan.

At that time, coal mines were either state-run or collective. The large state-run mines had good technology, large output and guaranteed benefits. The small collective mines in rural areas had primitive mining methods and basically depended on Human operation and management are more difficult.

Ordinary village collectives do not have the money to invest in collective coal mines, so they simply contract out, or even subcontract layer by layer, and the profit margin will naturally shrink.

In addition, the triangular debt was rampant at the time, and the coal mining industry was also a hardest hit area. It is not bad to be able to get back two or three of the money from selling coal a year at the end of the year.

The coal bosses at that time were not as beautiful as the future, and even a little pitiful.

Many coal bosses are either asking for accounts or on the way to ask for accounts. Some people don’t do anything at the end of the year, just ask for accounts. They only go home for the New Year in their 30s, and then go out to ask for accounts on the sixth day of the new year.

At that time, the coal miners would also accompany the coal bosses to ask for bills. In name, they were escorts, but in fact they were monitoring. They were afraid that the coal bosses would run away and the money would not be returned.

In 1993, a turnaround in the coal industry appeared. The country opened the price of other coal types except thermal coal, and the coal industry also ushered in the first wave of development.

The years from 1993 to 1997 were the most brutal years for the development of small coal mines in China. In those years, the relevant laws and regulations were not perfect, and the supervision was not strong enough. In the process of the development of the coal industry, it was inevitable that there would be a lot of damage to the environment, damage to cultivated land, and even some serious violations.

For example, Baoqiang's debut work Blind Well, the prototype is a small coal mine in that era.

This wave of good times for the coal industry lasted until 1997. After the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis, the demand for energy was greatly reduced, and the price of coal also dropped significantly. The first wave of dividends for the coal industry was over.

Although the Asian financial crisis had little impact on China's economy, in 1997, China was still a net exporter of coal, and it mainly exported to East Asia.

East Asia is precisely the hardest hit area of ​​the Asian financial crisis. At that time, the economies of East Asian countries almost collapsed, and a large number of enterprises closed down. Naturally, the demand for coal was also greatly reduced. Therefore, domestic coal prices were affected.

Then in 1998, the coal management system was also reformed, the Ministry of Coal Industry was abolished, and the end-point coal enterprises originally under the management of the Ministry of Coal were also decentralized.

The entire coal industry has also ushered in hard times. Most of the coal mines are operating in debt. The smaller the coal mine, the more serious the debt situation is.

Mining coal is already hard work. If you don't make money, you will naturally be ignored. At that time, most of the people who were still engaged in coal mining were people who really had nowhere to go.

It was also during this period that both coal companies and coal bosses sold coal mines at low prices, and Li Weidong's Dongshan Mining also bought the bottom at that time.

The billion-dollar top-tier large mines like Taifeng Mine and Taisheng Mine are unavoidable. Even coal mines worth hundreds of millions are in the hands of large coal companies.

These large coal companies have the production task of ensuring the national coal supply, or have their own coal chemical companies. Even if coal prices fall, they can rely on coal chemical industry to make profits. So big coal mines are not easily sold.

Therefore, the ones that are really sold at low prices are the coal mines that cost millions or tens of millions.

At the level of the village collective, some coal mines worth hundreds of thousands of dollars are also sold. Of course, small coal mines of this level will be cleaned up and sealed by the state in the future.

Today, the coal mine where Li Weidong is located is not large in scale, but it can meet the standard of medium-sized coal mines, so there is no need to worry about being cleaned up in the future.

For coal mines of similar scale, Dongshan Mining has bought more than 200 bargains.

More than 200 coal mines are not many in the Northwest.

Later, when the small coal mines were renovated, Shanxi province alone could not shut down three or four thousand small coal mines! Later, the small coal mines were almost renovated, and there are still more than 700 900,000-ton coal mines in SX province.

This is just a Shanxi province. In Inner Mongolia, XJ, Shaanxi and other places, the land is wider and the coal reserves are higher.

The hard times for the entire coal industry continued until 2002.

At the end of 2001, when China joined the WTO, the domestic manufacturing industry began to grow rapidly, and at this time, the demand for coal was also increasing.

The first is electricity demand. The manufacturing industry is inseparable from electricity. In the high-end, medium-end and low-end manufacturing industries, there are large consumers of electricity. If nothing else, just one electrolytic aluminum will consume 12,000 kWh of electricity to produce one ton.

China's electricity mainly relies on coal-fired power generation, and the surge in industrial electricity consumption has also led to a substantial increase in coal consumption.

The second is the direct use of coal in industry. At that time, boilers were basically the standard equipment for many enterprises. Even some small workshops with a few people would be equipped with a small boiler, so a large amount of coal was needed.

With the increasing demand for coal in the market, the country also opened the guide price for thermal coal in 2002. At this time, the coal industry was thoroughly marketized, and coal prices rose rapidly.

As a result, the price of coal has become one price a day, and no one knows what the price of coal will be the next day, but it is certain that the price of tomorrow will definitely rise.

Now that you know that the price will increase tomorrow, why don't you buy more today and save it!

For example, if the National Development and Reform Commission announced that the oil price will rise tomorrow, there will definitely be many people going to the gas station today to fill up the gas tank.

However, the output of coal is fixed. Even if there are a lot of stocks, they are all buried underground. It takes time to dig it out. When the coal is dug out of the ground, the price will not be determined.

In various coal mines, those who originally called for debt disappeared instantly, replaced by people with bundles of cash, begging to buy coal, and there were also long queues of trucks pulling coal to the mine.

At that time, many truck drivers were willing to wait a week in the mine in order to pull a carload of coal, because as long as the carload of coal was pulled out, the profit was more than if he worked hard for a week.

In 2000, when coal prices were at rock bottom, a small coal mine in a village begged grandpa to tell grandma, hoping to subcontract the coal mine in the village. The contract cost only 200,000 yuan for 20 years, but no one cared about it.

However, in 2004, a boss asked for 90 million yuan, but the village did not sell it.

Because that year, the net profit per ton of coal was 150 yuan, which was only a small coal mine with backward technology. Large coal mines with higher coal mining technology and larger production scale can earn more than 150 yuan per ton of coal.

At this price, a small coal mine of 300,000 tons can earn 45 million yuan a year.

This 300,000-ton-level small coal mine is the kind that can shut down three or four thousand every time Shanxi cleans up a small coal mine. A small coal mine makes a profit of 45 million a year, and for those 4,000 small coal mines, it is 180 billion a year!

This is only the output of small coal mines, including medium and large coal mines, what an astonishing figure for one year.

Seeing this number, everyone should know why those coal bosses were so beautiful back then, and why they spent a lot of money without changing their faces.

It's so easy for coal bosses to get money!

The real estate industry in later generations can be described as a pillar industry, but those real estate bosses are still much inferior to the coal bosses at that time.

Although the output value of real estate is high, the various taxes and fees in the middle are also high, and it takes time for a real estate project to become profitable. During this period, it will take up a lot of money. Therefore, the profits of real estate companies are not as high as they appear on the surface.

Many large real estate companies make tens of billions of dollars in profits every year, but when they check their financial statements, they are still operating in debt.

In contrast, the coal bosses are obviously more nourished. If they dig a ton of coal and sell a ton of coal, they will make money. If they have not finished digging this year, they will continue to dig tomorrow. The price of coal will be higher and the profit will be more. No more taxes and no worries about debt.

The good days of coal bosses reached their peak in 2008, when coal prices once exceeded four digits, and coal profits were several times higher than before.

At that time, the price of coal was no longer one per day, but was calculated on an hourly basis.

Also in this year, China began to become a net importer of coal. The price of imported coal from foreign countries is already much lower than the price of coal produced by ourselves. At this time, it is natural to buy coal from abroad.

It was not until 2012, under the influence of the economic environment and supply and demand, that the coal industry bid farewell to the so-called golden decade, and then came a new round of difficult times.

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Li Weidong and Zhao Jinshan stood at the entrance of the mine and chatted for a long time. At this time, a person rose up from the mine and hurried over after seeing Zhao Jinshan.

Mr. Zhao, don't let me know in advance when you come, I'll go meet you! the man said.

This is Lao Zhang, and his family lives in this village. I bought this mine from my hands. But I don't have so many people in my hands to manage the mine, so I simply hired him to be in charge of the management. The operation of this mine. Zhao Jinshan explained.

Li Weidong nodded suddenly. There are so many coal mines in Dongshan Mining. Naturally, someone needs to manage them, and the person who manages the mine must have experience. After all, this is not only a business, but also involves important Safety production issues.

However, with so many experienced managers, where can I find them all at once?

Zhao Jinshan used a very clever method. After buying the mine, he directly hired the original mine owner as the manager.

These former mine owners are very familiar with the situation of coal mines, and they also have management experience. They can work directly without taking time to break in, which is much more convenient than hiring other people.

With Zhao Jinshan's background, the mine owners in these villages couldn't even try to flatter them, so when Zhao Jinshan sent an invitation, almost all the mine owners agreed.

Some mine owners also felt that to be able to work for Zhao Jinshan and become his maid was to climb a high branch, which was much better than being a mine owner.

From this aspect, Zhao Jinshan is still very smart.

Zhao Jinshan asked with a smile, Old Zhang, the mine is so profitable now, do you regret selling it to me?

I don't regret it. Lao Zhang shook his head and said quickly: Mr. Zhao was willing to buy my mine at that time, that was because I looked down on me, and I was too happy! And now I help you manage the mine, you will definitely not treat me badly. of.

He is a sensible person! Work hard in the future, if I, Zhao Jinlong, eat a mouthful of meat, you will have a mouthful of soup for you! Zhao Jinshan said.

Lao Zhang hurriedly nodded and said yes with an apologetic smile. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com even showed a very grateful expression. For him, a soil mine owner, being able to drink a sip of soup with Zhao Jinshan is already the pinnacle of his life. !

Zhao Jinshan then asked, Isn't there anything wrong with the mine recently?

It's okay, everything is normal! Now the coal price is good, and the coal dug out is not worried about selling at all. Basically, it is taken away as soon as it comes out of the well. Moreover, the coal price is high now, and the wages of coal diggers have also increased, so the mines are not Shortage of manpower.

Lao Zhang paused for a moment, then said, It's this recovery rate, it's really too low. With the current coal price, our recovery rate is like throwing money! I feel distressed when I see it.

How much can the recovery rate be? Li Weidong asked immediately.

About 20% to 25%! Lao Zhang replied.

So low! Li Weidong frowned.

Such a low recovery rate is really throwing money!