Chapter 35 Exploring the "Resource Territory" of Interest Groups

Shanxi is a large coal province.Taihang Mountains and Luliang Mountains run through the whole area of ​​Shanxi, meandering from south to north, leading thousands of mountains and ravines of different sizes. Under these mountains, there are coals that envy the people of the country. As the saying goes, "Mountains are coal, and coal is mountains." In the eyes of the coal bosses in Shanxi, the mountains in front of them are not the "big mountains" that outsiders imagine. "Generally, there is a possibility that coal can be dug out from every mountain in this (coal-producing mountain area)."

This is what a local master who specializes in "watching mountains" once said. These mountains, in the eyes of coal bosses, are "golden mountains covered in dust".Because its "belly" is full of "black gold" - coal.Such a rich resource, said a person familiar with the local market, by no means anyone can exploit it. In this world of golden mountains and seas of coal, an "interest group" formed through the influence of their respective strengths is dividing their respective "resource territories" in the coal area. With the generation of interests, there is the possibility of conflicts, and the final outcome of the development of such conflicts is that all parties reach a certain "balance of power" through repeated wrestling and games in the market.This special "equilibrium" state is a critical "state" in which various forces achieve ebb and flow in the game of "equilibrium" and "disequilibrium". state".In the above, the locally formed "resource territory" is a simple example.

In such a "state", some coal bosses began to seek their own "interest protection". Once successful, it means that they have a layer of "secure insurance". Therefore, in real life, these coal bosses are even more unscrupulous and even confident in their private digging and indiscriminate mining, so that some grassroots coal supervision departments have listed such "official coal collusion" type "holes" as "landmine" type coal mines. In some places, with the existence of "mouth guards", there are shadows of "persons related to mouth guards".

I remember that at a meeting, Yu Youjun, the acting governor of Shanxi Province at the time, said another figure: if an illegal coal mine is to survive, it is not surprising that there are seven or eight umbrellas. There are so many illegal mines in the province that may involve tens of thousands of cadres . Some people in the industry pointed out that the figure given by the acting governor may not be the most accurate, because he is based on the number of illegal coal mines registered. Then, no one can tell the exact number of how many "black holes" there are in the local coal-producing areas.