industrial overlord

Chapter 561 A New Imaginary Enemy

"This is going to wrong our chairman Lin Da." Seeing that Lin Zhenhua understood what he meant, Chen Tian joked with a smile.Chen Tian knew that Lin Zhenhua had always liked to compete with foreign companies, and now it was really aggrieved to let him show weakness to the enemy.

Lin Zhenhua waved his hand and said, "There's nothing wrong with it. It's okay to be a business. It's okay if you don't have the spirit of being able to bend and stretch. In fact, before hearing you talk about these things, I also vaguely felt that I couldn't tear myself apart from American companies so early. Listen to you This way, I'm more clear. Let them do a few rounds first, it doesn't matter."

"Will your Hanhua's overall development plan be affected?" Chen Tian asked.

Lin Zhenhua said: "The impact is not big. We originally had no intention of targeting American companies in the near future. Our number one imaginary enemy is Germany's ALK."

"Haha, I found that your appetite is getting bigger and bigger. ALK is a level bigger than Xihu Company. In my impression, its annual output value can reach hundreds of billions of dollars. Can you eat it? "Chen Tian said that his scope of work was originally related to security issues in the economic field, so he knew a little about the situation of these internationally renowned companies.

Lin Zhenhua said: "ALK's strength is indeed very strong, but it has been going downhill in the past few years. Not only Hanhua Heavy Industries, but also many domestic electromechanical companies compete with ALK. With the development of our national enterprises With the continuous improvement of technology, the market of ALK is gradually being eroded by us. I believe that after a while, ALK will definitely be dragged down by us.”

In the impression of ordinary people, the larger the scale of the enterprise, the harder it is to be defeated. In fact, this is an illusion.Big companies have the difficulties of big companies. First, the larger the company, the greater the fixed costs. This requires sufficient business to ensure the profitability of the company; second, large companies are often more clumsy, and it is very troublesome to make business adjustments. Things, the ability to adapt to the market is far inferior to small businesses.

To bring down a large enterprise, it is not necessary to completely occupy its market, as long as it erodes 30% of its market, its own cost is enough to overwhelm itself.Hanhua also did the same when it crushed Xihu Company before. In fact, Xihu Company still retained some markets until it went bankrupt, but these markets were no longer enough to support the cost of Xihu Company. In this way, Xihu Company It can only go bankrupt.Lin Zhenhua wanted to defeat ALK, and the method he adopted was the same.

ALK is a large-scale equipment manufacturing enterprise. Its products involve machine tools, chemical equipment, power generation equipment, steel rolling equipment, etc. Due to its strong technical strength, its products have strong competitiveness in the international market.In recent years, with the gradual rise of China's equipment manufacturing industry, ALK has encountered the invasion of Chinese products in the international market.That's right, from the perspective of ALK, Chinese products can indeed only attack it, but are far from hitting it.

The equipment provided by Chinese companies is at least 10 years behind ALK in terms of technical level, and the quality is not the same.But a big feature of Chinese products is that they are cheap, and another point is that the requirements for the environment are far lower than similar products of ALK.For example, for the same set of coal-fired boilers, Chinese products have no special requirements on the quality of coal, and they almost take all the hard and soft.The ALK boiler is much more delicate, and the user has to spend extra money to pre-screen and clean the coal.

As the price of hard and soft, the service life of Chinese boilers is only half of that of ALK boilers, and the thermal efficiency is also lower by more than 20%, not to mention the pollution.For rich countries, it is of course more worry-free to choose ALK boilers, but for poor countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, it seems that Chinese boilers are also a good choice.

Facing the invasion of cheap Chinese products, ALK had to give up some low-end markets and eliminated some products that were no longer profitable.This kind of concession has not hurt ALK's muscles so far, so it has not attracted the attention of ALK's top management.From the perspective of ALK's top management, the Chinese can only make small fuss on low-end products. As a giant in the equipment manufacturing industry, what's the point of giving up some low-end products?You know, high-end is the most lucrative place.

ALK doesn't care about the competition from Chinese companies, but Lin Zhenhua regards ALK as his next target.He believes in the principle that water drips through stone, and believes that as long as he continues to snatch the market from ALK, no matter how inconspicuous the share he grabs each time, it will eventually accumulate enough to make ALK die without a place to die.

"I heard that you have been watching this ALK all the time. The enmity between you and it probably didn't just start now?" Chen Tian asked.

Lin Zhenhua said: "That's right, as early as 10 years ago, I had put it on my blacklist. The first time, at the Frankfurt Equipment Exhibition, we planned to order an electric stove from them, but they actually threatened We embargoed. Since then, I have held my breath and planned to clean it up. Later, our country encountered difficulties, and Western countries jointly imposed sanctions on our country. Other Western companies are just going through the motions. Only this company ALK was the most active. At that time, I told Lao He that a company like this must give it some color."

Chen Tian nodded: "Director He really listened to you, and created a blacklist through the State Planning Commission. From that year to now, ALK has never been qualified to enter the Chinese market. Your actions are not enough. poisonous."

Lin Zhenhua smiled slightly. Putting ALK on the blacklist was his suggestion to He Haifeng.Because ALK does have a strong anti-China political tendency, the State Planning Commission really imposed anti-sanctions on it, requiring domestic companies not to import ALK equipment.Of course, such a ban is not publicly released in the form of documents, but forms an unspoken rule.Over the years, ALK has participated in the bidding for projects in mainland China many times, but lost each time due to various reasons. Among them, hints from the Planning Commission are naturally at work.

In the past 20 years, the largest equipment market in the world has been mainland China. ALK has been excluded from this market, and losses can be imagined. This is also one of the reasons for ALK's decline.

"Okay, then I'll just sit and wait to see how ALK is eaten by Chairman Lin." Chen Tian said with a smile.

The purpose of Chen Tian's coming to Jinling was naturally not only to meet Xiao Hei, a young red guest, he also had many other tasks to do.Lin Zhenhua came to Jinling because of something that had been planned more than ten years ago, that is, the relocation of the Jinling Yangtze River Bridge.The purpose of relocating the bridge is to unlock an iron lock on the Yangtze River and let this golden waterway fully function.

The Jinling Yangtze River Bridge was built in 1968. Under the technical conditions at that time, the significance of building such a magnificent bridge is naturally extraordinary.This bridge is the pride of an era. The image of this bridge was used on the front of the 2 cents banknote issued at that time.

However, due to the limitations of the times, there was a hidden defect in the design of this bridge, that is, the clearance from the bottom of the bridge to the water surface was only 24 meters. The development of shipping.

In the past, there was not much material to transport along the Yangtze River, especially not many export commodities, so this defect did not have any obvious impact.With the development of China's export-oriented economy, the inland exports of goods to overseas continue to increase. Since the [-]-ton ship cannot reach the river section above Jinling, the export goods from these places can only be transported to the mouth of the Yangtze River by ship first, and then loaded from there. Ocean shipping.This river-sea transshipment process adds a lot of cost, and also greatly affects the transportation cycle.

In real history, due to the Jinling Yangtze River Bridge as a standard, when new bridges were built on the Yangtze River later, they all took 24 meters as the clearance standard, which made one lock into dozens of locks, strictly This golden waterway was locked.When future generations want to solve this problem again, they have no way to start.

In the world of novels, due to the foresight of a traveler like Lin Zhenhua, this issue has been paid attention to more than ten years ago.That was in 1987. Lin Zhenhua was the first to propose that the governments of the provinces and cities in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River jointly submitted a report to the central government, requiring that the clearance of newly built bridges on the Yangtze River should not be less than 40 meters.This report was approved by the central government, and the 40-meter headroom has since become the norm for newly built bridges in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

It is precisely because of such a rainy day arrangement that today, there is only a 24-meter-clear bridge like the Jinling Yangtze River Bridge left on the Yangtze River.As long as this bridge is demolished, the [-]-ton round can be traced back to Jingchu, and its economic significance is self-evident.

When Lin Zhenhua first proposed this idea, the country's financial resources were still very limited, and it was almost unimaginable to demolish such an important bridge.More than ten years have passed, and the country has become richer. Dozens of new bridges have been built on the Yangtze River. Just upstream and downstream of the original Jinling Yangtze River Bridge, new and more magnificent bridges have been built.The time has come for the demolition of the old bridge.

Lin Zhenhua came to Jinling this time to attend the demolition ceremony of the old bridge.Due to the unique historical significance of the bridge, after some debates, the country finally decided to retain the structure of the bridge and adopt the method of relocation, moving it to the side of the Yangtze River to make way for the waterway.In this way, the bridge loses its function of connecting the two sides of the strait, and only becomes a patriotic education base to commemorate the spirit of self-reliance and hard work.

This result is much milder than Lin Zhenhua's first idea of ​​blowing up the bridge.Of course, the cost paid for this is also very considerable.

In order to preserve some historical relics, it is worth paying such a price.

　Due to some considerations, real place names no longer appear in the novel, and some well-known pronouns are used instead.I know it will affect the fluency of reading, but there is no way... there is really no way.

　　
　
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