ebookland Chapter 574 Price Adjustment Notice
Chapter 574 Price Adjustment Notice
1949 year 1 month 1 day,
Mulan Special District, Bin County,
Inside a wall covering an area of 100 mu, there are two six-storey buildings, and two railway tracks run directly from Bin County Railway Station into the wall.
This is the Bin County Steel Exchange which was recently completed.
Early in the morning, it was crowded with merchants from all over Northeast China, and even from liberated areas such as Shandong and Hebei!
This is the largest steel exchange in the entire Northeast and currently in the country. Up to 2000 tons of steel are sold here every day!
Private enterprises, including self-employed individuals, have a demand for steel and all come here to purchase! The demand for steel from state-owned enterprises is directly allocated from within the Supply and Marketing Bureau!
Early this morning, a notice was posted at the gate!
《Price adjustment notice! 》
自1949年1月1日起，宾县钢材交易所钢材供应价格由2960元/吨，调整为2860元/吨！
The signature is Mulan Special Zone Supply and Marketing Bureau!
The Supply and Marketing Bureau has great authority. It is not only responsible for purchasing and selling various types of materials, but also responsible for setting the selling prices of the commodities it supplies!
The crowd of onlookers burst into warm applause. Yan Yuming, a businessman from Tangshan, Hebei, could not help but feel delighted. Ever since Tangshan was liberated, all materials have been in short supply. They last heard from someone that they had just arrived in Mulan last night. Steel now costs 6500 yuan per ton in Tangshan, and is often out of stock!
Yan Yuming immediately ran to the No. 2 toll window. At this moment, there was already a long queue with at least 40 people in front of him!
After waiting for a full hour, it was Yan Yuming's turn. He hurriedly took out the certificate issued by the Municipal People's Government!
"Excuse me, I need to buy five tons of steel!"
The salesperson took the certificate, read it carefully from beginning to end, and said,
"You can only buy three tons! There are purchasing regulations on the wall!"
This new procurement regulation is designed to prevent uneven resource allocation. One of the regulations is that the daily purchase limit for merchants at the city level is three tons! According to the scale, the city level is three tons, and the county level merchants are one ton!
What this means is that Tangshan City’s quota today is three tons. Yan Yuming has bought it, and the others can only wait until tomorrow. But fortunately, he is the only merchant coming to Tangshan today!
Yan Yuming was stunned for a moment, and said hurriedly,
"Then three tons! No, I'll come back tomorrow!"
After completing the formalities, he went to the procurement regulations and studied them carefully. It turned out that the procurement quota of local private enterprises in the Special Administrative Region was not restricted by the regulations. Instead, a reporting and application system was implemented. However, inventory in and out registration must be kept for record, and materials must not be resold to other places!
The demand for steel has increased significantly, so the trading rules are constantly being revised! This is mainly because with the popularization of electricity, a large number of raw materials have been put on the market, and machine tools have also begun to be put on the market. The industrialization process has now been greatly accelerated.
There is no way, who can blame the Chinese for being hardworking and smart? As long as they are on the right track, they can run faster than anyone else!
The supply from Bin County Steel Plant is only enough for a few arsenals!
However, Yin Xinjun currently has 8 iron mines in his space, and the daily steel supply reaches 4000 tons. He puts all the steel produced every day plus the previous inventory on the market, which can barely meet the current market demand!
Today's price adjustment notice also happened in crude oil and coal exchanges! These are the three basic raw materials for industrialization! Exactly the same, all prices have been reduced!
Mulan Municipal People's Government,
Mayor’s Office,
On the sofa chair,
Director Chen lit a cigarette and said,
"Commander Yin, I'm about to be transferred. The higher-ups are planning to put me in charge of the national economy!"
"I've heard about it. Congratulations, Director Chen!" Yin Xinjun naturally knew everything about this matter!
"The issuance of RMB this time is thanks to your Mulan Special District. Prices in the liberated areas were soaring and the economic order was in chaos. Fortunately, the Mulan Special District supplied a large number of goods to the market in December. Especially today, it actually posted a price reduction notice, which also boosted the confidence of many people in the liberated areas!"
The RMB had just been listed and there was a shortage of money everywhere, so the issuance volume was naturally not small. However, Yin Xinjun immediately increased the supply of commodities on the market, which directly stabilized prices across the country!
If you have too much money but nowhere to spend it and can’t buy anything, prices will inevitably soar!
Director Chen was also full of emotion. Peace talks were currently underway in North China, and Jiang Jun's Du Yuming group in northern Jiangsu was surrounded in Chenguanzhuang. The overall situation in northern Jiangsu should have been decided! The national liberation was imminent, and everything was difficult at the beginning. Fortunately, the Mulan Special Zone was there to support it.
“Haha, prices are linked to two things, one is bulk commodities, the other is food. It should take less than a year for the whole country to be liberated. As long as the supply of these two things is stable, prices will naturally stabilize!” Yin Xinjun has been the head of the special zone for so long, so naturally he has some experience in economic management!
"So, in the entire liberated area, only the Mulan Special Zone stands out and its management is thriving. I have suggested to the superiors that you take office with me, but it was rejected directly!" Director Chen said with a smile.
Yin Xinjun was shocked and thought, if I go with you, what will happen to the Korean War?
"Director Chen, don't worry. You are in charge of the national economy. If you need me, just tell me. Mulan Special District will definitely help! How about I come to your office to report once a month?"
"Just your words are enough. For me, the first thing I consider is the food supply. I will never let any of the people of New China go hungry!"
"According to my experience, the key to increasing grain production is fertilizer. Fertilizer alone can increase production by 150-200%. We now have several fertilizer plants in Mulan Special District, but the production capacity is limited. According to my estimate, this year we can probably guarantee the needs of 500 million mu of arable land!
More than half of the fertilizers are made from synthetic ammonia. Therefore, if we want to increase national grain production on a large scale and feed our 4 million compatriots, we must build at least 3000 million tons of synthetic ammonia production capacity! The raw materials for synthetic ammonia are mainly petroleum and coal, both of which we have in abundance now!"
Because one ton of synthetic ammonia can only guarantee the fertilizer usage for 20-25 acres of land, and at least a certain proportion of the synthetic ammonia must be used to make explosives, and the proportion used for fertilizer is limited!
"3000 million tons? My God, how many factories does that require?"
"For major grain-producing provinces like Shandong and Henan, I estimate that each province must build at least 6-7 30-ton synthetic ammonia fertilizer plants!"
Director Chen sighed, feeling that he was facing many difficulties in his heart!
Yin Xinjun comforted him,
"The Northeast Plain has good terrain and abundant arable land, which is suitable for mechanized operations. The land is fertile and less chemical fertilizer is used. However, it also has a drawback: crops are harvested only once a year.
Most of Shandong and Henan are also plains, and most of them have two crops a year, including most of Hebei and northern Anhui. I suggest that this year's agricultural development should focus on these areas first! Later, after liberation, it will be expanded to the south of the Yangtze River!
We in Mulan Special Zone can do this. First, we will take out half of this year's fertilizer production for the state to allocate to these places. Second, I will arrange for Bin County Machinery Factory to start mainly producing synthetic ammonia and fertilizer plant equipment from now on, to ensure that these grain-producing provinces can achieve a fertilizer self-sufficiency rate of more than 50% by the end of this year, and 100% next year! "
Director Chen was delighted.
"My trip was well worth it, Commander Yin. You have helped me solve the first problem, food supply!"
As if he could figure out what was going on, Yin Xinjun continued,
"As for the high unemployment rate, the simplest and most effective way is to build infrastructure on a large scale to stimulate employment. The infrastructure capacity of private enterprises in our Mulan Special District is already in excess, and they will definitely be happy to contribute their own strength!"
Director Chen was so excited that he stood up immediately.
"That's great, Commander Yin. Fortunately, Mulan Special Zone is ahead of the curve! With large-scale infrastructure and fertilizers, New China will surely have a good future!"
Yin Xinjun finally said,
"Another point is that we must vigorously develop education, eliminate illiteracy, ensure that all school-age children can go to school, and open more colleges and universities. As the saying goes, it takes ten years to grow a tree, and a hundred years to cultivate a person. I would like to trouble Director Chen to give some suggestions to the relevant departments on this!"
In the final analysis, people are the most important factor. From the current perspective, due to the overwhelming victory in the Liaoshen Campaign and the Huaihai Campaign, a large number of soldiers survived. As a result, a large number of young people in society do not need to join the army, and the supply of social labor is also greatly enhanced. It is true that one thing leads to another!
With more people, the next step is to develop education and improve the quality of the entire population!