Chapter 136 Reform has its own reasons for reform

Difficulty has to be changed. This is the final determination made by those in charge of Shanxi. All reforms have to involve a series of readjustment of the interest structure, and this Shanxi coal reform is of course no exception. The re-nationalization of coal mines, which seems to be against the trend of history, is actually in line with the official will. Some people vividly sum up this reform as "the state advances and the people retreat." In fact, it is not a matter of "the state advancing" and "the people retreating", but a matter of "state ownership" and "people's non-existence".

Of course, reformers have their own reasons for reform, and those who change their jobs have their own motives.According to Wang Dali's unprofessional analysis, the reasons for the reform proposed by Shanxi's upcoming coal reform are not sufficient. First, coal resources should be state-owned. Those in power believe that underground resources should belong to the state, and now they just take back what belongs to the state. This formulation is somewhat retrograde and untenable. Just imagine which thing in socialist China does not belong to the state?Minerals, land, forestry, and oceans are everywhere in the world. Could it be the land of the king, and the shore of the sea is the king's minister.

Following this logical reasoning, the series of reforms carried out by the country’s reform and opening up, including land contracting to households, clear property rights of forestry resources, and paid mining of mineral resources, can all be overthrown and restarted. In this case, wouldn't it negate the achievements of these reforms?Isn't it going against the will of the people? Therefore, the reason for the coal reform is not convincing.At the very least, a coal boss like Wang Dali cannot be convinced. Second, frequent mining accidents must be curbed. But the question is, will there be no mining disasters if the country has a state?In other words, is there an inevitable connection between the mine accident and the state-owned private sector?

The fact that state-owned coal mine disasters continue to prove that the nationalization of coal mines may not necessarily reduce mine disasters. According to the State Administration of Work Safety's statistics on 21 major coal mine accidents in which more than 10 people were killed at a time from January to August 2006, it was found that state-owned coal mines accounted for 43%. It can be seen that mine disasters do not favor private ownership, and Death is not afraid of state ownership. There is no direct equivalence between mine accidents and the scale and ownership of coal mining enterprises, and nationalization cannot necessarily reduce the occurrence of coal mine production accidents.

Many people think that the reason why mining disasters are one after another is not because there are more mining disasters than in the past, but because the media exposes mining disasters more frequently than in the past. In the past, mine accidents could be covered up, but now it is no longer possible. A text message on a mobile phone or a post on a website forum can spread the news quickly, which means that the media's supervision power has been strengthened. Even if it makes sense.Then, can the nationalization of coal mines strengthen the external supervision of the media? On the contrary, in reality large state-owned coal mining companies are more likely to use their influence to suppress media reports, especially when small accidents occur.The consequence of doing so is to give people the impression that small coal mines are prone to mining disasters.

After the coal mines are nationalized, external supervision from the media may worsen. The third is serious pollution. The pollution in Shanxi has been very serious in recent years. If you want to answer what is the most serious consequence of Shanxi's coal development to support GDP, pollution is probably the most appropriate answer. Wang Dali seldom stays in his own mining area, why? It's not that he doesn't want to stay. Whether it's before or after his fortune, he feels that his life is most fulfilling when he is almost in his own coal yard. He didn't know why, but when he saw the pile of coal in the sky and the miners digging for him, he felt very at ease.

After leaving the coal mine, even if he lived in the presidential suite with a beautiful woman in his arms, he still couldn't sleep.For decades, he and those black gold have been integrated into one, inseparable. Without those soot, he, Wang Dali, would not be Wang Dali. But now, especially in the past two years, since there are many pits around the mining area, he doesn't want to stay in the mine for a while. There is coal dust covering the sky and the sun everywhere, and the pollution is too serious. Here, seeing the sun at nine o'clock in the morning is good. Looking around, the sun here is grayish-yellow, like duck eggs that have been accidentally pickled in my hometown in northern Jiangsu, black and yellow, black and yellow.

The area around the mining area is black and gray, and the roofs, railings, cars, and roadsides are all covered with coal ash.After staying in this place for a day, it is dark when you stretch out your hands. To wash your face before going to bed at night, you must fill a basin with boiling water.With less water, it can't be cleaned at all.The used water can even be directly burned as sludge. On the way to the mining area, coal ash could even reach Wang Dali's heels. The crop fields on the side of the road were even more gray and black, and all the crops were covered with a layer of black.

There is not even a living thing in the field. There used to be wild rabbits here, but now there is not even a grasshopper. They can no longer survive here. People who live here can smell the pungent smell of soot when they open the windows early in the morning. Even so, the people around the mining area are still very grateful to coal bosses like Wang Dali, "We can make money because of them!" they said. On the road in the mining area, coal-transporting vehicles followed one another, all of which were about to be scrapped and without any license plates.These cars are called black cars by the locals, and it is these black cars that are engaged in coal transportation.

In order to obtain the maximum benefit, coal bosses like Wang Dali are willing to use this kind of truck to transport the excavated coal. Most of these black cars are round-headed liberation trucks that have long been scrapped. These "old" cars, with mottled and peeling paint on the body, "knocked and knocked" slowly on the winding mountain road. Wang Dali sometimes has a whim: If one day he wants to make a movie, these trucks can even be pulled directly to shoot the movie scenes of the War of Liberation. Careful people will also find that in the team of extended heavy-duty coal trailer trucks, many vehicles do not have any license plates, and nearly one-third of the registered vehicles have license plates from other places.

This is obviously to avoid road maintenance fees. Hanging the signboard in other places can save a lot of tolls, and the road maintenance fees in Shanxi are much higher than those in other provinces such as Inner Mongolia. Coal bosses like Wang Dali, who are familiar with the market, all adopt this trick to save money. Another way to save money is overloading, which is almost a very common phenomenon in the coal transportation industry.On the mountain road leading to the mining area, there are long and heavy coal trailer trucks full of coal, moving slowly. In order to load more coal, many trucks have been refitted, usually using special steel plates, and the carriages are much higher.The overloaded weight is often half or double the approved load. When these overloaded heavy vehicles go downhill, the brake pads sometimes fail due to overheating after a certain distance. Many heavy-duty trucks use water pipes to drip water all the way to the brake pads to cool down. Whether it is sunny or rainy, the road down the mountain in the mining area is wet. As soon as the overloaded truck stepped on the brakes, with the "puff puff puff" of the brakes, there would be bursts of water vapor between the tires, and it would quickly spread around. Due to overloading and poor road conditions, a lot of cinders fell on both sides of the road, and many farmers nearby made a living by shoveling cinders on the side of the road. Generally speaking, two people working together can shovel at least three or four tons a day. According to the current cinder market, one ton of cinder can be sold for 60 yuan. For farmers, this day's income is already considerable. That's why the locals are thankful for the coal bosses. Their life logic is simple: they thank whoever brings them the opportunity to earn money, and under the pressure of life, they don't care about pollution. People who have lived in the mining area for a long time have gray-black complexions and thick phlegm that smells like cinders. These people often suffer from some inexplicable and strange diseases, and they are finished when they are finished.This was also one of the reasons why Wang Dali didn't want to stay in the mining area. It is said that a hospital once dissected the corpse of a miner. His heart and lungs were almost black. The blackness was definitely not caused by inferior tobacco leaves, but coal dust. Pollution, of course, is the best argument for reformers, of course. But pollution does not distinguish between state-owned and private-owned. Before the fundamental problem is solved, pollution is an insurmountable chronic disease in mining areas. In Shanxi, it is really difficult to achieve green GDP. But in Wang Dali's view, the most fundamental reasons for the reform are not these.The most fundamental thing is that the reform can shift the responsibility for the mine disaster and keep some officials from the shadows. Since the central government introduced the administrative accountability system for officials, a group of officials in Shanxi must be dismissed whenever there is a mine disaster. Just like what Secretary Wang said when giving Wang Dali an opportunity to face-to-face, when an official who had done a good job leisurely and cheerfully pointed out the country, he suddenly had bad luck and encountered a mine disaster, so he said it and then came down. A little wronged. If this coal reform goes well, the responsibility for the mine accident can be successfully passed on to the state-owned enterprises. It is fine to remove the boss. I will be my official. For these officials, the greater advantage of the coal reform is that while transferring responsibility, it can also maintain a rising GDP. For them, state-owned enterprises have this advantage, state-owned, state-owned, you have what I have. This is really a wise saying. Wang Dali understands that no matter whether this reform is successful or not, no matter when the final reform plan will be introduced, sooner or later his coal mine will be annexed by the "big tree". Wang Dali is determined to implement Secretary Wang's suggestion as soon as possible, and use the period before the document is officially issued to increase coal production as soon as possible, earn the money that should be earned, and make a big fortune for the last black gold.