Sail across the sea

Chapter 284 Can't Believe My Eyes

Gao Fan plunged into Maolin Research Institute, but handed a huge trouble to Maolin Provincial Chemical Industry Department.

This troublesome matter is the joint venture between the American Odin Factory and Maolin Chemical Machinery Factory.

Before Gao Fan left the United States, he met with Valance again and learned that the Chemical Industry Department of Maolin Province had established contact with him and was discussing the specific details of the joint venture.

When Gao Fan returned to Beijing, he called Xu Ying to inquire. Xu Ying's reply was that the atmosphere of the remote negotiation between the two parties was quite harmonious, but due to unfamiliarity with each other and the huge cultural differences between China and the United States, It may take several months for this negotiation to be finalized.

In Gao Fan's opinion, he hopes that the two parties can complete the joint venture as soon as possible. He is still waiting to hand over the vitamin C production equipment to this joint venture factory for production.But judging from Xu Ying's words, it didn't seem that easy, so he was wondering whether to make other plans.

It was precisely because of this expectation that Gao Fan stayed in school for a few more days and was not in a hurry to return to Maolin.Then, he was invited to the Maple Forest Research Institute by the "relevant departments".

Things under the sun are so dramatic.Just a few days after Gao Fan entered the Fenglin Research Institute, the negotiations between the Maolin Provincial Department of Chemical Industry and the Aoding Factory made a breakthrough. In principle, the Aoding Factory stated that it would cooperate with the Maolin Provincial Department of Chemical Industry and dispatched A senior executive named Dampier flew to China to conduct an on-site inspection of Maolin Chemical Machinery Factory.

After receiving this news, Xu Ying of course immediately thought of contacting Gao Fan and asking Gao Fan to accompany Dampier on the inspection.Or to be more precise, Gao Fan was one of the people accompanying Dampier on the inspection.After all, when American investors come to Maolin Province, more than one department from the province needs to send people to accompany them.

Xu Ying called Canghai Fertilizer Factory and heard that Gao Fan had gone to participate in a research project involving national defense secrets. He was currently half out of contact. Even Gao Yiping didn't know when he would be back.

Gao Fan is not a formal employee of Maplewood Research Institute, and he participates in the research of defense coatings only as an auxiliary staff, not as the project leader.If the Chemical Industry Department of Maolin Province sends an official letter through the provincial bank requesting Gao Fan to come back temporarily to help, it can be done.

But there is really no strong reason from the Chemical Industry Department, and the opinions of several department leaders are not unanimous. Several people feel that Gao Fan's role in this matter is just to help pull the strings.Now that all the foreign guests have arrived in Maolin, there is little point in bringing Gao Fan over.

The Provincial Foreign Affairs Office and the Department of Foreign Trade all have personnel who are proficient in foreign affairs, and the Department of Chemical Industry has many backbones in the chemical industry. Is there anything else that this little kid cannot get involved in?

If Gao Fan is in Maolin, there's no harm in calling him to join him.But now that he is no longer in the province, and it is said that he is still participating in some important projects, there is no need for the province to mobilize forces to drag him back.

Xu Ying also thought so in her heart.What she thought more about than others was that Gao Fan was the one who contacted her about this matter, so if the joint venture succeeds in the future, Gao Fan's name should be on the credit book.If he does not participate in accompanying Dampier on the inspection now, it will be somewhat disadvantageous to share the credit in the future.

However, this is not an important matter after all, right?
In this way, the provincial government instructed the Department of Chemical Industry to take the lead, with the participation of the Department of Foreign Trade, the Foreign Affairs Office and other departments to form a reception team, with Xu Ying as the team leader and fully responsible for receiving Dampier.

Since there is no airport in Maolin Province that can land international flights, Xu Ying rushed to Beijing with a few people, picked up Dampier, and flew back to Ruizhang.

Just like the treatment Bob received when he first arrived in Ruizhang, Dampier received a warm welcome as soon as he got off the plane. There is no need to elaborate on the red tape such as flowers and banquets.

After three days of drunken "rest" every day, Dampier finally began to inspect the Maohua Machine.As the leader of the reception team, Xu Ying naturally had to accompany the whole process.In addition to her, Dampier was accompanied by Liang Guodong, director of the Mechanical Division of the Department of Chemical Industry, Ji Yulin, engineer of the Chemical Engineering Design Institute, Wu Yawei, a staff member sent by the Provincial Economic Commission, and Ge Zhiliang, a translator sent by the Provincial Foreign Affairs Office.

As for the factory director Guo Jiahua and chief engineer Yang Jinglin of Maohua Machinery, they cannot be regarded as accompanying personnel, but are the people responsible for introducing the situation to Dampier.

"Mr. Dampier, this is our metalworking workshop. There are 26 lathes, 12 milling machines, 4 grinders, and 1 gantry planer in this workshop. Among them, the 12 lathes here were purchased just a few years ago. Yes, look, the paint on it is still brand new.”

Yang Jinglin pointed to the machine tools in the workshop and introduced them to Dampier.

Knowing that foreign guests would come to inspect, Maohua Machinery carried out a thorough cleaning a week in advance. All the debris that had been piled up randomly in the workshop was removed, and the trolleys and tool boxes for transporting workpieces were carefully placed. Appears horizontally and vertically.

All machine tools have been thoroughly wiped, and some old sludge that has accumulated in the gaps for decades has been dug out by workers with knives, making these machines look shiny.

The workers in the workshop were also required to put on new work clothes, and everyone also learned a few foreign words such as "Hello" and "Three grams of oil" so that they could cope with inquiries from foreign guests.

"Cake seller, is this true? I can't believe my eyes!"

Dampier turned a blind eye to the workers standing behind the machine tools, dressed like new sons-in-law, but he showed a strange interest in the machine tools themselves, or he could be said to be somewhat shocked.

He walked forward, touched a CA6140 lathe with his hand, and shouted this with an exaggerated expression.

Translator Ge Zhiliang faithfully translated Dampier's words to everyone. Xu Ying frowned slightly and asked in a low voice: "What does he mean?"

Ge Zhiliang then turned to Dampier and relayed Xu Ying's question tactfully.Dampier smiled slightly and said: "Ms. Xu, I really didn't expect that when I came to China this time, I would be able to see the same type of lathe that my grandfather used. It reminded me... of a lot of things."

After hearing Ge Zhiliang's translation, everyone looked at each other. Everyone felt that this didn't sound right.

The lathe he touched was one of the newly purchased lathes that Yang Jinglin solemnly introduced. In his mouth, it was an old thing that his grandfather had used?
"Oh, these grinders look familiar to me. Our Odin factory used to have several grinders like this. Then... let me think about it, it must have been 15 years ago. We sold them as scrap metal. . Unexpectedly, I can still see them here."

Dampier didn't care what the Chinese people accompanying him thought, he just sighed to himself.

(End of this chapter)