Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

Chapter 675 Arriving in Australia (two chapters)

After staying in London for three days, Yang Chen made arrangements for everything before leaving for the city of Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Darwin is the capital of northern Australia. It is a relatively famous tourist city in later generations. Its name comes from the British biologist Charles Robert Darwin. He visited here in [-], so the city is named after him. name.

Darwin City was originally the residence of Aboriginal people. In the 70s, people discovered gold mines here and developed rapidly.

Due to its proximity to the seashore, Darwin is often hit by thunderstorms and tornadoes. The most serious one was Christmas in [-], when an unprecedented tornado almost destroyed the entire city.

After the hurricane, 70.00% of the buildings in Darwin were destroyed, tens of thousands of people were evacuated by air, and the large buildings in the urban area were almost destroyed. Only the government office building with a heptagonal roof remained alone.

Over the past few years, although the reconstruction of Darwin has been completed, the population has been decreasing, which has caused the overall economic decline of Darwin.

When Yang Chen arrived at Darwin Airport by plane, he was warmly welcomed by officials from Darwin City.

Australia is divided into six states and two territories. The two territories are the Northern Territory and the Capital Territory. Both territories are directly administered by the federal government. There is no state government, no governor, and no governor.

The power of the Northern Territory to form a government comes from the authorization of the Federation, and the highest administrative person in charge of the Territory is the respective local chief executive.

Therefore, here, the mayor of Darwin is the highest executive in Darwin.

The reason why Yang Chen came here, instead of going directly to the Australian capital, was for the on-the-spot investigation. In addition to the Northern Territory, he would also go to Queensland next door.

The Northern Territory and Queensland together account for more than [-]% of Australia's land area. Yang Chen's Northern Australia plan is carried out around these two places.

Of course, it is mainly the Northern Territory. As for why it is the Northern Territory instead of Queensland, which has a better environment, there is only one reason, and that is the small population here.

Although the population of Australia as a whole is small, the population of the Northern Territory is absolutely rare in the world.

How little?

Leaving a big city with no one for a hundred miles is no joke. If you don't have anything in your hand, you may be picked up by animals when you go out.

Of course, even if you have something to do, you may not be able to run away when you encounter fauna.

The Northern Territory covers an area of ​​about 140 million square kilometers, nearly six times the size of the later United Kingdom.

And in this place, which is more than six times the size of the United Kingdom, the population is less than 20, er, well, according to the current population statistics of the Northern Territory, its population has not even reached 15.

140 million square kilometers, the population is only 15, and the ratio is almost ten square kilometers before one person can be seen.

Faced with this situation, I am afraid that if you find any animal family in the Northern Territory, there will be more of them than there are people here.

The population is too small. Even after independence, the Northern Territory failed to become an autonomous state as it wished, and could only accept the direct administration of the federal government.

Due to the impact of the hurricane in [-], the Northern Territory has been actively looking for investment. Yang Chen's arrival is no less than timely help to the officials of the Northern Territory.

In order to show the importance it attaches to Yang Chen, the Darwin City Government has booked the best hotel in the city for Yang Chen and his party to stay in.

The reception banquet was at night, and all Yang Chen and his party went directly to the hotel to rest.

In the hotel, Yang Chen took the information about the Northern Territory sorted out by Huo Jianning, sat on the sofa, and read it carefully.

Due to the limited population of the Northern Territory, most people's jobs are dependent on the mining industry. The Northern Territory is very rich in resources. The minerals that have been discovered include bauxite, gold, manganese, zinc, lead, silver, bismuth, copper, diamonds, Galena…

The more famous minerals are copper, gold, iron, manganese, uranium and bauxite, as well as rare metal mines such as palladium, platinum, bismuth and molybdenum. Most of the mined ores are exported.

These are the main source of income for the Northern Territory and have always supported the construction and development of the Northern Territory.

Huo Jianchen: "Boss, it is known that the oil and gas reserves in the Northern Territory are also very considerable. Although the Australian government has not disclosed the specific data, it is a recognized fact.

Therefore, in our subsequent negotiations, we will not only obtain the right to develop mineral resources, but also try our best to obtain the right to develop oil and natural gas. "

"Now Asian countries are developing faster and faster, with more and more urbanized populations, and Asian countries are gradually increasing their dependence on oil and natural gas energy.

If we can obtain the right to develop oil and gas, it will greatly promote the development of North Australia. "

Yang Chen was very excited when he saw that he seemed to be bleeding, so he waved his hand and said, "I'll leave the negotiation to you, I won't interfere casually, I don't care what the process is, I just need to know the final result the result of.

This time, Hang Seng Bank obtained a huge amount of deposits from Saudi Arabia, conservatively estimated at more than [-] billion US dollars.

Use this money as a bargaining chip and use it to pry open the mouth of the Australian government, not only for the development rights of minerals and oil and gas, but also to allow the other party to give the greatest benefits in terms of immigration and reduce immigration requirements. "

"The population of the huge Northern Territory is only 10,000+ people. Tell them that we have the strength to develop the entire Northern Territory, provided we have enough manpower.

If they can't provide it, then we will recruit by ourselves. We have places to recruit hundreds of thousands or millions, provided that they open the immigration gate. "

Huo Jianchen was not surprised by Yang Chen's plan to immigrate hundreds of thousands of people to the Northern Territory, because he had known Yang Chen's idea for a long time, and used the means of immigration to peacefully occupy the Northern Territory and build it into a overseas bases.

This is Yang Chen's only purpose of investing in Australia. If this purpose cannot be achieved, there is no need to talk about it here.

It was only when Yang Chen said that Hang Seng Bank had obtained a huge deposit of tens of billions of dollars in Saudi Arabia.Huo Jianxi was still unavoidably shocked.

Tens of billions of dollars, such a large amount of money invested, as long as there are enough people, the development of the entire North Australia will definitely not take much effort.

The main reason why the Northern Territory is directly administered by the federal government is because the population is too small. Otherwise, the Northern Territory has a land area of ​​more than 140 million square kilometers, coupled with rich mineral resources and oil and gas energy, how can it become an autonomous state.

There is a big difference between autonomous states and territories directly under the central government. Compared with federal territories, autonomous states are more independent.

There is a big difference between the two laws and regulations alone. Everything directly under the territory must be in accordance with the regulations of the federal government, but the autonomous state is different. If you want to legislate or abolish it, you only need to vote and approve it.

The Northern Territory originally belonged to the state of New South Wales. It was designated as part of the state of South Australia in [-] and transferred to the Commonwealth of Australia in [-].

During the Second World War, the Northern Territory was bombed by the Japanese army. Later, the coalition forces used Darwin as a base to counterattack north. In [-], the Northern Territory gained autonomy, but it still did not become a state and was still under the direct administration of the federal government. The federal government has the right to repeal the laws and regulations of the Northern Territory.

This is the status quo of the Northern Territory, the only directly-administered territory other than the Capital Territory.

Darwin is also the only Australian city that has withstood the baptism of war. During World War II, it was an important military base for the Allied forces.

In [-], the island nation bombed Darwin twice. Since then, Darwin Harbor has been bombed dozens of times in World War II.

This is why later generations of Australia, whenever they have a chance, will try their best to attack the island country.

At present, the inland area is still a small and transparent one. Although everyone attaches great importance to it, they don't pay attention to it.

In contrast, the economy of the island country is getting stronger and stronger, which has attracted the attention of many countries, especially Australia, a brat who likes to be jealous of others at every turn.

During this period, not only the United States expressed concern about the economic rise of the island country, but also Australia, a neighbor with which it has great hatred, is also very jealous.

Immigrant investment, even if the islanders are rich, Australia is very tight, while the Chinese, in comparison, are much easier.

What Yang Chen has to do now is to take advantage of the fact that the inland has not yet risen, Australia has no red eye disease, speed up immigration, and increase the number of Chinese to a certain proportion, then the Australian government will not be able to jump up.

Immigration is the fundamental solution to everything.

If the Australian government cannot open this hole, there is no need for him to waste time here.

The northeast of the Northern Territory is the Buckley Plateau, the central and western regions are plain grasslands, the south is mountainous and desert areas, and the southwest is mostly dry salt lakes. About four-fifths of the area is located in the tropics, spanning two distinct climate zones, and generally high temperature.