Sail across the sea

Chapter 234

Yangcheng, the southern country, the venue of the China Spring Export Commodities Fair.

Gao Fan stood in the booth of the Maolin Provincial Exhibition Group, chatting eloquently with the foreign businessmen with high or short noses in front of the booth. He had a warm smile on his face, but if you look closely, you can see that the smile is clearly With deep helplessness.

After talking with Gu Kunquan, Gao Fan went to the Department of Chemical Industry and reported to Xu Ying that Canghua Technology and Trade Company was preparing to produce vitamin E raw material medicine for export, which was highly praised by Xu Ying.

But when he asked the Ministry of Chemical Industry to guarantee him and help him borrow 200 million yuan from the bank for the construction of vitamin E production equipment, Xu Ying's smiling face immediately turned into a sad face, and she asked him first like Gu Kunquan Have you already received orders from foreign companies?

Xu Ying said that if there was no order, the Department of Chemical Industry would not be able to apply for this loan for him in any case, just relying on his brilliant mind.

Gao Fan made a mistake about one thing, that is, in 1983, a loan of 200 million yuan was a large amount, and it was very difficult to earn foreign exchange through export.

In this era, if a person claims that the products he produces can be exported to earn foreign exchange, any level of management will put a big question mark.And if this person asks the relevant department to provide him with a loan of 200 million yuan in advance because of this, then the question mark will become an ellipsis and will be omitted until you quit.

In the past year, the total investment in fixed assets of the state-owned economy in Maolin Province was only 15 billion yuan.The money is allocated to various industries, and in the chemical industry, it is not even 2000 million yuan.Gao Fan patted his head and asked for a loan of 200 million yuan for investment in fixed assets. Who would accept it?

Gao Fan did have successful experience in exporting cleaning agents to Japan, which made the Department of Chemical Industry and even the Provincial Economic Committee look up to him with admiration.But if you look at it with admiration, everyone thinks that this may just be a blind cat meeting a dead mouse.There is no other reason. If it is so easy to earn foreign exchange through export, is the country so short of foreign exchange?

When it came to the export of vitamin E, Xu Ying had such doubts in her heart, thinking that Gao Fan might still be too young, dazzled by the previous victory, a little whimsical.

If Gao Fan just said to open up a new business direction within the financial resources of Canghua Technology and Trade, and try it out, Xu Ying would of course strongly support it—it wouldn't cost her money anyway, would it?But what Gao Fan had to do was to borrow 200 million yuan from the bank as the initial investment, and he had to work as a guarantee from the Chemical Industry Department.

Seeing that Xu Ying could not be persuaded, Gao Fan dragged Gu Kunquan to the Provincial Foreign Trade Department and the Provincial Economic Commission, but also met with a setback.This also shows Gu Kunquan's foresight, that is, before Gao Fan can't secure foreign orders, it is impossible for everyone to support him.

Gao Fan had already contacted Masanobu Kitajima before, and asked him to help him contact the buyer in Japan.Masanobu Kitajima also seriously approached several pharmaceutical companies and asked them if they were interested in importing vitamin E raw materials from China.But I don’t know if it’s because Masanobu Bei Dao couldn’t tell the whole story, or these pharmaceutical companies really look down on China’s level of fine chemicals. In short, the news from Masanobu Bei Dao is frustrating.

Of course, another way is for Gao Fan to go abroad by himself.With his chemistry skills and the advantage of foresight, it is estimated that he can do better than Masanobu Kitajima.However, the country is very strict about things like going abroad. Gao Fan couldn't give any solid reasons, and the relevant departments couldn't approve his application, so this plan could only be temporarily abandoned.

At this time, Gao Fan heard the news that the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade was organizing provincial enterprises to participate in the Spring Fair in Yangcheng, so he asked Xu Ying again and asked the Department of Chemical Industry to apply for a quota for Canghua Technology and Trade Company.This time, Xu Ying readily agreed.

The number of places to participate in the Spring Fair in the province is also limited, and it is allocated according to the region and system, and each unit only has one or two places.

In previous years, the Provincial Department of Chemical Industry had only one quota for the Spring Fair, and this quota was fixedly assigned to Xingguang Chemical Factory.This is a large-scale chemical enterprise located in the Zhelin area in the north of Maolin Province. It is a backbone enterprise that produces organic silicon products in China. Several of its products can be exported to earn foreign exchange. It is the only enterprise in the system of the Chemical Industry Department that has the ability to export foreign exchange.

In fact, saying this would inevitably lead to the suspicion of putting powder on the face of the Chemical Industry Department, because Xingguang Chemical Factory is actually a subordinate enterprise, and the Maolin Provincial Chemical Industry Department can at best just try to catch its popularity.

Now, Canghua Technology and Trade Co., Ltd. has proposed to participate in the Spring Fair, claiming that it can get export orders, and the Chemical Industry Department is naturally happy to see it.After all, if Canghua Technology and Trade can really sell some products at the Spring Fair, the Department of Chemical Industry will have its own achievements in export earnings.

The Department of Chemical Industry sent a letter to the Department of Foreign Trade, explaining that Canghua Technology and Trade Company had previously earned foreign exchange through export, and this year it still has foreign exchange earnings of no less than 15 billion yen. If Canghua Technology and Trade is allowed to participate in the Spring Fair, maybe It can also open up other markets outside of Japan.

For this application, the Foreign Trade Department flatly rejected it at first.However, the Department of Chemical Industry insisted on holding on, and brought together the Provincial Science and Technology Commission to put pressure on the Department of Foreign Trade. In the end, the Department of Foreign Trade had to give in, and finally squeezed out a quota from other units and gave it to Gao Fan.

After getting the quota, Gao Fan went to the Foreign Trade Department to receive a few days of foreign trade and foreign affairs training, and then followed the Maolin Province Spring Fair delegation to Yangcheng.When he took out a stack of vitamin E promotional materials and asked the secretary of the exhibition group where to put it, the secretary named Huang Qiming, who had many youthful pimples on his face, frowned his eyebrows into a Himalayan mountain.

"Isn't the exhibited product you reported to the Foreign Trade Office a chemical cleaning agent? How did it become a vitamin?" Huang Qiming asked with obvious displeasure.

Gao Fan was stunned: "No, we participated in the Spring Fair to promote vitamin E raw materials. The prospect of this product is much better than cleaning agents."

"How can this work? How can we change the exhibits that have been confirmed? This is an international exhibition. If something goes wrong, who will be responsible?"

"It's just showing a product, what could go wrong?"

"I can't decide this matter, you go and talk to Director Zhu."

Therefore, Gao Fan came to Zhu Nian, the deputy director of the foreign trade department who was the head of the exhibition group, and explained the situation to him.

"You mean, the Department of Chemical Industry sent you to the Spring Fair mainly to sell vitamin E raw materials?" Zhu Nian asked seriously after listening to Gao Fan's narration.

(End of this chapter)