Sail across the sea

Chapter 135 Breaking Their Claws

"Not entirely for that reason."

Zheng Linong said slowly:
"The main reason is that our top leaders did not understand the situation and made the mistake of subjectivism. Our country's polyester technology has always been backward. In the 70s, our relationship with the West improved, and the country proposed to vigorously develop polyester. , to meet the needs of people's lives, so several sets of large-scale polyester plants were directly imported from abroad.

"At that time, we did not have the ability to independently develop large-scale polyester plants. Even a 5000-ton plant was beyond our reach.

"In this way, we had a preconceived idea, thinking that the price of polyester equipment is like this, 1 yuan per ton, and this figure is easy to remember. But we never thought about how much the price would be if we replaced it by ourselves. "

"In fact, the leaders of some places may know about this situation, but..." Wu Zhefu interjected, but stopped when he said "but", and did not continue.

Both Gao Fan and Pan Yue understood the subtext behind this "but".Wu Zhefu clearly said that the introduction of the polyester plant is funded by the state. For the local government, the more the better, the local government will not pay for it anyway.

Wu Zhefu inserted this sentence to excuse Zheng Linong, so that he would not blindly take the responsibility on himself.But what he said later was a bit harsh, and in his capacity, it was not suitable for him to say such things in front of local cadres and outsiders like Gao Fan, so he chose a meaningful "but".

Gao Fan said: "In fact, the unit price of polyester equipment is not that expensive. The unit price of large equipment is higher than that of small equipment, but it is not as high as 1 yuan per ton.

"The reason why foreign manufacturers charge such sky-high prices is that we know that we will not make such devices ourselves. No matter how they quote, we have to hold our noses."

"Then, Xiao Gao, how did you know the price of the polyester device?" Zheng Linong suddenly asked Gao Fan with great interest.

You know what you wear!
Gao Fan answered in his heart.

In the history he knows, China has been making efforts to localize polyester plants, but it was not until the end of the 90s that the first large-scale plant with a capacity of 10 tons was built, and subsequently, That is, the unit price of imported polyester equipment has dropped precipitously, down to 1/5 of the previous one.

Only then did the Chinese know how much profit foreign manufacturers have made from China for a long time, as many as nearly a hundred sets of imported devices, and the money that people cheated was calculated in tens of billions.

The tens of billions in the 90s and [-]s of the last century were the hard-earned money of more than a billion people!
"When I was helping Aunt Zhou to study the ammonium urine improvement program in the factory, I read a lot of materials, including the materials of the polyester plant. I think that the polyester plant and the synthetic ammonia plant are actually similar. From the manufacture of the synthetic ammonia plant The cost can fully estimate the cost of the polyester plant." Gao Fan said.

Pan Yue said: "The difficulty of the polyester plant is higher than that of synthetic ammonia... I mean, compared with our own small synthetic ammonia, if it is compared with the imported 30 tons of synthetic ammonia, the difficulty of the polyester plant is not too high. It is very large.

"Xiao Gao's statement is correct. We compare the prices of our own chemical equipment, and we know that the prices of imported equipment are inflated, and we are simply stealing money."

"Stealing money... That's a good idea." Zheng Linong sighed, "Back then, they used guns to grab money and things, but we beat them away. Now they have changed their method, and they are still trying to rob us in essence. This time, we have to break their claws."

"It will happen sooner or later." Gao Fan said confidently, but then changed the topic and said: "However, our technical level is not as good as others, and we have to learn from their skills. What we can do is to stick to it." Good fence, don’t let them put their hands in. That’s the reason why I asked Director Pan to take the lead in building the 5000-ton device.”

"You mean, in the future, we will use our own 5000-ton device to replace the imported large device?" Zheng Linong asked.

Gao Fan said: "There is nothing wrong. The production capacity of Huanghua is 6 tons. If we build 12 sets of 5000 tons of equipment, it is equivalent to building a new Huanghua."

"There is still a difference." Pan Yue quickly corrected, "Huanghua has a high degree of automation, and the 6-ton factory has less than 1000 cadres and workers. In fact, even 500 people are enough.

“如果我们建12个5000吨级的厂子，每家厂子起码要200人，12家就是2400人。”

"Isn't it good to have too many people?" Gao Fan laughed, "Now there are young people who are unemployed everywhere. If we can recruit more people, won't it also reduce the country's employment pressure?"

"..." Pan Yue was choked, unable to speak for a while.

Gao Fan's words are of course arguing, and it's a very unscrupulous way of bragging.Pan Yue was an honest man, so he couldn't cope with such tricks.

However, Pan Yue also had to admit that Gao Fan's words made some sense.

A very important reason why foreign countries are keen on large-scale installations is that labor costs are too high, and large-scale installations require fewer workers, which can save a lot of personnel wages.

But this problem does not exist in China, because there are too many Chinese people, and the wage level of Chinese people is not even 1/30.

Therefore, the low production efficiency of small devices is something that does not need to be considered at all.Can save hundreds of millions of yuan in investment, enough to pay wages to how many workers, do I still need to care about how many more people?

"There is one more thing." Gao Fan said with a smile, "Minister Zheng, after you return to Beijing, you will issue a document to encourage all regions to use small devices instead of large ones, and also stipulate that there will be no special reason to introduce large devices in the future."

"In this way, those foreign manufacturers will have to lower their prices." Zheng Linong laughed.

This is called a tacit understanding. As soon as Gao Fan made a move, Zheng Linong knew what he meant.

"This is playing hard to get." Wu Zhefu concluded.

Zheng Linong said: "We need to capture, but we also need to control. If foreign manufacturers can greatly reduce the price, we don't need to reduce it to 20%, even if it is reduced to 30%, we can continue to introduce several sets of devices.

"However, we must hold fast to the localization. If you don't have any technology, others will dare to bully you."

Speaking of this, he turned his head to look at Pan Yue, and asked, "Old Pan, just now Xiao Gao suggested that you be the chief engineer of Hua'an Company, and at the same time lead the development of 5000 tons of equipment. This matter will ultimately depend on you If you don't want to go to the company, I can't force you. You see..."

"Minister Zheng, I... I am willing!" Pan Yueteng stood up suddenly, he opened his mouth, and wanted to say something bold, but he hesitated for a moment, not knowing what to say.

(End of this chapter)