Chapter 2420
After the crude oil extracted from the ground by the oil pumping unit is added to the distillation tower and a series of refining processes, petrochemical products such as lubricating oil, diesel, kerosene, and gasoline will be extracted, and then stored in categories. As for the tall drilling rigs that Liu Shanxia had in mind in the oil field, they had already been dismantled into parts and stacked in a nearby warehouse. He curiously asked Wang Hui about it.
"It's certainly not difficult to drill more oil wells here. The difficulty is that our processing, storage and transportation are all at a bottleneck, and increasing production capacity is not something that can be done in just one sentence." Wang Hui patiently explained to him : "The current situation here is what you see. The crude oil production capacity is very low, but the subsequent processing capacity has become saturated. It is difficult to make a profit in such a production situation. Only state subsidies can maintain operations, but Who would be interested in a project that subsidizes money? So over time, it becomes a vicious cycle.”
In Wang Hui's view, this is a reflection of the executive committee's failure to realize the importance of the petrochemical industry and its lack of long-term development vision. In order to turn Miaoli's petrochemical industry from losses to profits, it must first increase investment in this production chain. carry out technical upgrades in all aspects. But it is conceivable that such investment will be very huge. The Ministry of Industry will also have to wait for petrochemical products to achieve breakthroughs in the application stage and confirm that related industries have sufficient expected returns before increasing capital investment and increasing production capacity through technological upgrades.
Depending on where you are, your views on this matter will naturally be different. Liu Shanxia consoled him: "Now that the executive committee plans to build roads and improve infrastructure here, it is preparing to expand petrochemical production capacity. You still have to eat this meal one bite at a time, and many things are urgent and cannot be rushed."
Wang Hui sighed and said: "That's true, but I haven't made any substantial progress during my term. After all, I still feel a little ashamed of the country. I have compiled several work notes this year. I hope my work report can be helpful to Petrochemical Industrial upgrading will help! ”
Liu Shanxia was not sure whether Wang Hui was sincere or fake. This person obviously wanted to end his term and leave this place as soon as possible, but he seemed to regret that he had not been able to achieve decent work results. But after seeing the environment here, Liu Shanxia can actually understand Wang Hui's feelings a little. After all, he is constrained by the current conditions and there is no room for him to display his professional abilities. Since he can't do anything practical, it is understandable that he wants to leave here as soon as possible. Wang Hui is not suitable for his current position. Perhaps letting him return to Sanya to continue his research can play a greater role.
If Liu Shanxia were asked to evaluate the working conditions in the oil production area, he would probably think that it is only at the level of a small workshop, far from enough to be called a petrochemical industry. There are less than a hundred workers visible in the entire work area, which is even less than the number of workers in Tian Du's production workshop. If he hadn't been very clear about the significance of oil in promoting industrialization, he might have doubted whether it was worth investing a lot of resources in a place like Miaoli.
Of course, the people Liu Shanxia met at this time were far more than those actually working for the local petrochemical industry. According to Wang Hui, the work distribution in the oil production area is three shifts, with a staff establishment of more than 300 people. The number of supporting units and logistics personnel serving the oil production area is even larger. Together with their family members and an army company stationed locally, the total population is about 1,200 people. This population size is certainly not a small place among Haihan's overseas colonies, but this situation is likely to change in the next few months.
For safety reasons, the daily activities of these people are basically within the oil production area. All the institutions that a standard Haihan town should have are here, such as management committees, police stations, schools, collective canteens, clinics, etc. Propaganda agency... Although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs. Liu Shanxia's impression of this place has changed after seeing it. Although the industry here is single, the social order is quite orderly, and it is not as closed-minded as he subconsciously thought when he first arrived here. This reminded him of some state-owned factories and mines in the old time and space, such a self-contained small society.
“The level of social development here is definitely not as good as that of trading port cities like Sanya, but the local people know very well why they are here and who they are working for. The names and deeds of these people will not appear in the Haihan Times. But they also deserve our respect." Wang Hui took Liu Shanxia around the residential area here and explained some of his views to him: "We can leave here after completing the work and return to a place with a better living environment. But they can’t. Many of them may spend their entire lives here. If possible, I still hope to create better living conditions for these people.”
The residential area here is still the collective dormitory planned by Liu Shanxia when he came here. The living conditions are not good. It is a two-story brick building with a wooden floor in the middle. Each family lives in one room and has a bath and toilet. For public facilities and meals, go to the collective canteen. When the Time Travel Group first arrived in Sanya, the first group dormitories built by the time travelers had structures like this. When Liu Shanxia saw these dormitories, he couldn't help but recall the scene more than ten years ago.
In recent years, financial investment in Miaoli has been limited, and there is no excess funds available to improve the living conditions of local people. However, Liu Shanxia noticed that the roads here were very smooth, and almost all the main roads were paved with a layer of asphalt. This was probably one of the few high-end infrastructure facilities in this place.
Roads like this are rare in Haihan's overseas colonies, but Liu Shanxia has actually seen asphalt paving in another place, and that is the Black Earth Port in Beibu Gulf. However, what is used locally is coal tar pitch, a by-product of coal coking, while here in Miaoli is the residual petroleum pitch after crude oil distillation. There are still slight differences between the two. Since the level of chemical industry in Haihan is still relatively primitive, the asphalt produced after local oil refining is not of much use for the time being. If it accumulates, it will cause pollution, and it is used to pave roads.
"In the future, this main road from the oil production area to the seaside port can use local materials to lay asphalt and build a high-grade highway!" Liu Shanxia did not want to discuss social philosophy in depth with Wang Hui, so he decisively changed the topic to his own mission. superior.
Wang Hui responded: "It took two or three years to lay all the roads in the oil production area. If we calculate based on the current production capacity, it would take seven or eight years to lay the dozens of miles of road you mentioned." Time? ”
Liu Shanxia said: "Being optimistic, it shouldn't take that long. As long as the executive committee decides to increase the crude oil production capacity here, the supply of asphalt will also increase. As long as the funds are sufficient and the supply of labor and materials is sufficient, construction can be completed." The speed is actually fast.”
Liu Shanxia was not talking about the situation. After arriving in Miaoli, he only rested for one day. The next day, he and his entourage began to survey the terrain and plan the road construction plan. Wang Hui still sent Gao Cong to follow with a team of people. On the one hand, he could serve as Liu Shanxia's assistant and part-time guide, and on the other hand, he could also protect their safety.
Wang Hui also received the long-awaited news. The Ministry of Industry has confirmed his departure arrangements, and the next official has set off from Sanya to Miaoli and will arrive in the near future. This was a relief for Wang Hui, and he took the initiative to share the good news with Liu Shanxia.
However, the countdown before leaving office was not so easy. Then he received a telegram from the north, asking the Miaoli area to organize the construction of a resettlement site as soon as possible and prepare to receive the first batch of immigrants from Shandong. Considering the staffing situation in Miaoli, it may be difficult to accept and accommodate a large number of immigrants, and there will also be a shortage of living materials. The civil affairs department has made overall arrangements for food, clothing, medicine and other living materials. Recently, will be transported to Miaoli. At the same time, a group of people with experience in resettlement work were organized from Penghu, Zhoushan and other places to come to Miaoli for reinforcements to ensure that the lack of corresponding organizational and management measures will not cause disorder after the immigrants arrive here. .
So Wang Hui had to put aside his excitement and start preparing to receive immigrants. Relevant departments have already made plans for the location of the resettlement sites, and Liu Shanxia happens to be in Miaoli and can help with this.
Since Miaoli does not have a decent shipping industry at all, what is different from other overseas colonies in Haihan is that Miaoli did not organize its own fleet to transport this batch of immigrants. Instead, the executive committee arranged for them to be shipped back. When people went south, they notified Miaoli to prepare for resettlement work. This move also means that the executive committee has made up its mind to develop and construct Miaoli with a large number of immigrants.
There are only a dozen or so local civil affairs workers in Miaoli, and when they were first assigned here, it was already after the oil production area started operating, so most of them have never been engaged in resettlement work. Wang Hui's organizational skills were inherently weak, so Liu Shanxia had to stop what he was doing and take over the preparations for resettlement. He directed these civil affairs officers to organize local labor and go to the selected location to clear the ground and cut down trees to build temporary sheds. Room.
If he had enough time and a sufficient budget, Liu Shanxia could organize and build a dormitory-style immigrant village. However, now that both conditions are not met, Liu Shanxia could only respond first and direct the construction of shacks with simple structures and low construction difficulties. Fortunately, he brought a lot of his subordinates with him this time. These foremen divided the work and cooperated to direct the nearly 300 local workers who were temporarily organized. The work efficiency was not low.
In addition to building shacks, there is also a batch of emergency tents in stock locally, which are usually kept by the garrison. At this time, they were also taken out of the warehouse and used as temporary residences for immigrants. These tents are of the same specifications as the tents used by Haihan in the temporary refugee camp in Fushan County, Shandong Province. One tent can accommodate twenty or thirty people in a squeeze, which is perfect for solving the current problem.
Civil affairs officers transferred from Penghu and other places arrived in Miaoli one after another in the next few days. During this period, two Haihan Army companies from Penghu and Kaohsiung arrived. The superiors were still worried about whether the reception and resettlement work in Miaoli could be smoothly transitioned, so they specially transferred two companies with a total of more than 300 soldiers to Miaoli for reinforcements, and also escorted the living materials provided to the immigrants.
Seeing that reinforcements had arrived and supplies and personnel were in place, Liu Shanxia and Wang Hui were no longer so nervous about the upcoming immigrants. All they needed to do now was to build temporary settlements as soon as possible.
A week later, the first batch of immigrants from south Shandong arrived in Miaoli smoothly. More than 500 Shandong refugees who came here in three boats showed a variety of emotions when they disembarked. Some cried with joy and knelt down, while others looked confused and at a loss. Some even shouted at the sailors on the boat. Thank you, generally speaking, they are still excited. After all, they have been wandering at sea for many days, and now they are finally told that they have arrived at their destination, and their hearts that have been hanging around are finally relieved.
The vast majority of these people did not know where Taiwan Island was. In fact, they were only told that the destination of the trip was somewhere on Taiwan Island a few days after boarding the ship and leaving Shandong. Of course, this destination must also be under the rule of Haihan Kingdom, and their future survival still needs to be arranged by Haihan.
These immigrants had already received corresponding training in the refugee camp. The civil affairs officer used a tin trumpet to give instructions, and they also knew how to arrange themselves into queues according to the teams designated in advance. Occasionally, there were a few guys who were too excited and refused to listen to greetings. Hai Hanbing, who was responsible for maintaining order on the scene, would naturally come forward and kick and curse them to get them back to the team quickly.
When they boarded the ship in Shandong, they had already been divided into teams of fifty and had made a roster. At this time, they only needed to take a roll call according to the team to quickly check the number of people. After counting a group of people, a civil affairs officer and several Haihan soldiers would come forward to lead the group of people and take them to a resettlement site a few miles away. The subsequent allocation of accommodation will also be based on this team. Different teams will be placed in different locations to avoid serious clumping of immigrants arriving here in the same group.
Before leaving the dock, the immigrants will be informed that they are not allowed to leave the team and act without authorization. Anyone who does not obey the instructions and escapes on their own will be treated as a spy.
How to deal with spies? These immigrants had already seen the severe punishment of the Haihan people before leaving Shandong. Anyone who was judged as a spy would be shot in public without exception. If you don’t want to become a dead soul under the gun, it’s better to obey the arrangements honestly. Besides, the environment here is obviously different from home. Even if you want to escape Haihan's control, you don't know where to make a living if you run out.
However, this place seems to be sparsely populated, and there are large areas of uncultivated land around it. It seems that the Haihan people have advertised that they will distribute land to immigrants for farming in the south, which does not seem like they are bragging.
(End of chapter)